Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-09-06

Tremendous Smdshup continued from Ist
page.
bands death, was boarding at hotel In
Bethel or Royalton.
Engineer Embery was leading men,
Der of st. Luke's Episcopal church, st.
Adams, the chorister and superintendent
of the Sunday-school. He leaves wife.
He had been employed as engineer for
Is years and of late had run excursion
trains. Saturday his Sunday-school was
to go to picnic at Missisquoi park and
his engine was to draw the train. His
funeral was largely attended at st. AL
bans on Sunday and on Monday the re-
mains were taken to Norwich for burial.
There was CONSERVATION in the office of
the train dispatcher in st. Adams when
reports reached there of the leaving here
of the excursion train and of the stock
trains having passed New Haven. The
New Haven operator was asked if he
couldn't telephone to Brooksville. OF
course he couldn't. That was the
first intelligence received at New
Haven of the impending accident. The
sensational report that an Intellectual at
tempt was made to stop the hog train at
New Haven is entirely groundless. The
breaking of the wires to the northward
was the earliest indication of trouble to
the operator here, and nothing was
known definitely about the casualty till
the brakeman from the excursion train
arrived.
The highly-colored tales printed in
some of the newspapers. to the effect that
the bodies of the dead men were attacked
by hogs, had no foundation in fact The
hogs were scared and made great deal
of noise but they were not savage. One
man only was bitten, and he was trying
to drag hog out of a car by the ear,
which treatment the animal naturally re-
sented.
The coolest-headed man after the acct
dent was Mr.. Drew of Burlington. The
train hands were nearly all killed or hurt,
so he took command temporarily, and
sent man each way to give the alarm
assisted by Victor Boulia of Brooksville,
among the earliest to reach the spot, he
put out fire which had started in the
wreckage, and in general he did all that
any one could have done to bring order
out of the confusion
Among the passengers on the wrecked
train, not previously mentioned, were Sec
rotary of State C. w. Porter of Mont
peier, Homer Brewster of st. Johnsbury
and Deputy Sheriff j. A. Caldwell of New
Haven.
In the vest-pocket of Engineer Embery
was found a small thin vial of glycerine
unbroken, and the crystal of his watch
was not even cracked.
The ladies of Brooksville deserve men
ton for their activity in behalf of the in
jured and for their efforts to assist the
survivors. Mrs. Fred White, Mrs. Hick
ey, Mrs. Liberty, Mrs. Cyr and Others
were conspicuously helpful.
The services of pulp teams and thos'
of neghboring farmers were secured
early Saturday morning for the transfe
of baggage, and carriages to convey pas
sengers between the trains were obtained
in the vicinity and in Middlebury. Thu
night express trains each way and tn
forenoon trains had to carry by.
The Hunt boys who were injured ar
the sons of Mr.. William Hunt. Tn
home of the family is near New Hayel
depot. Late reports are that both boy
are doing we'll, the character of their in
juries considered. They were taken t.
their home by train early Saturday morn
ing. Engineer Chilson and Conducto
Button went at the same time to st. A
bans and Fireman Perron to the hosp
} tai at Burlington. Button was craze
= by the collision and was found wander
f ing around the wreck. Later in tn
D night he talked nationally enough and
= now in his right mind.