The Red Cloud chief., 1889-07-05
DITCHEn
Fatal Wreck On the Boston =
Albany Railroad
a Mining Camp Half Destroyed ny .
Cloudburst-River StooDer WRECKED
Three Men Drowned
Ell.

NV HAVEN, Conn. July The limited
express which left Boston at eleven o'cloch
Saturday, morning via the Boston 4
Albany railroad, WAS ditebsd just outside
the city limits In the afternoon and threa
persons were killed and several badly In
jured.
The killed wore Miss Mary A. Brigham,
| Of Brooklyn. N. T, who was recently ap-
pointed principal Of The Mount Holyoke
Seminary at South Hadley, Mass /; Clar-
sncs May. . drawing-room car conductor.
thought to belong to Stamford. Conn.,. and
E p. Pfener. travelling agent for . New
York firm
The injured were: Rodney Beers, con.
ductor. arm brok-n; DrawincrOom Car
Conductor Ellis, thrown through . win.
dow and cut about the head; Brak'ms
NcKean, thrown through . window with
the porter Of the car: George Craig. Of
Meriden, badly injured int .rnally.
w. II. lockwood. Of Hartford, with his
two Sons and two daughters, together
with BENJAMIN F. Fisher, were on their
way to Short Beach. All were badly
shaken up and bruised. Lockwood 10 now
1t tho hospital with . broken ankle. Miss
Bertha Lockwood was quite badly hurt On
the wrist. but has left the hospital
There were several hundred passengers
On tho train and the majority Of them got
. bal shaking up ard wers more or lees
bruised and cut, but they scattered 90
quickly after the accident that it was n
possible to get their namesL
The accident was caused by the spread.
ing Of the rails whore . gang Of trackmen
were at work relayinx the track Tho en-
CINE passed over oil right, but the track
spread under the baggage car, turning il
across b. track and the other cars behind
it pushed it into b smoker. Oae passen.
ger coach and two drawing room cars also
went over on their sides and landed in the
ditch. The rear car left the track but did
not turn over.
RAILROAD STEAMER LOST.
WATERFOWL, N. Y, July 1.-The Will.
liam Armstrong. OF Ogdensburg, went to
tho bottom OF the river al eleven O'Clock
yesterday morning while being used In
ferrying railroad cars from Morristown to
Brockville. Ont, but As far As can be
learned no lives were lost Her regular
work had been between O~sdensburg and
Prescott. Ont.. as . freight and passenger
ferry for the Rome. Watertown & Og IONS
burg and the Oxdensburg & Lake Cham
plain railroads. She was also used in ex-
cursiOn business At the tim, Of the acci.
dent she was ferrying three cars loaded
with coal, which were at one end Of the
boat
TERRIBLE CLOUDDURSI.
LAS CRUCES. N. NJ. July IA gentle.
man Just in from near the mining camp
Of Hermosa reports a terrible ~-loudburst
that flooded and washei away sser half
Of that prosperous camp. No lives are
yet known to have been lost. Hermosa is
located sixty miles from the railroad and
only meager reports have yet come in.
The camp is he headquarters OF Colonel
Richard Mansfield White, who recently
did such gcOl work in Washington
towards protecting the lead interests Of
New Mexico.
MOTHER AND CHILD DROWNED.
LITTLE Rock. Ark, July 1.-Psrties
from the Indian Territory sta,e hat Mrs.
IL. J. Daney attempted to ford Caney
creek, which is very high, having b,en
swollen by recent rains. She was ON
horseback and carried Q two-yesr-old
child in her lap When half across the
horse got into deep water and was carried
down stream and drowned tog,,her with
the woman and child Mra Daney was
highly connected
DEADLY KHROSHNk
CLKvILAND, O. July Mrs. Catherine
Arnold. living at l6 Cobleigh street, at.
tempted to start . fire yesterday morning
with kerosene The OIL exploded and was
thrown over her clothing, which took fire
and burned furiOusly. An ambulance was
called and she was removed to the hospi-
tai, dying after four hours Of terrible suf-
fsrinG. Tho hcuse and contents were
damaged to the extent Of 81. OOQ.
WAGON
CHICAGO July IA locomotive On the
road crushed into farmers
wagon 1t haywood. . small village near |
this city, Satur lay night killing August
instantly and fatally injur. |
ing his brothc--in.law. Fred Liebenhour.
Raditx. aged thirteen years vas
also seriously injured, but may ecover.
Two other children in the wagon received
bruises.
Three MEN DROWNED.
81. LOUIS. July Tho 81. Louis Boat. |
ing C ub yesterday dedicated their now
boat, the Chris Won der Abe, bat the
incident to the occesion was
by tbs accidental drowning Of
three members Of the club
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Gas Explosion.
BOsroN, June M-An explosion Of gas
occurred at noon YESTERDAY in the Boseon |