Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-04
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Fatal Wreck on the Boston &
Albany Railroad.
Mining Camp Half Destroyed BY q
lOudburst-Hiver Steamer Wrecked
Three Men Drowned


! NEw HAVEN Conn, July The limited
express which eft Boston a. eleven O'Clock
/ Sa urday morning via the Boston &
! Albany railroad, was ditched just outside
the city limits in the afternoon and three
! per=ons Were killed and several badly in
jured.
! The killed were Miss Nary 4. Brigham,
/ OF Brooklyn, " Y, who was recently ap-
/ pointed principal of the Mount Holyoke
/ Seminary al South H Idley, Mass; Car
ence Nav. drawiug-room car conductor.
/ thought to belong TO Stamford, Conn, aud
! L. ?. Pfeffer, travelling agent for a New
/ York firm.
/ The injured We're: Rodney Beers, con-
/ ductor. arm broken; Drawingroom Car
! Conductor Ellis, thrown through a win
| dow and cut about the head; Braks man
/ Mexican, thrown through a window with
( the porter OF the car; George Craig, of
Meriden, badly injured internally.
/ W. Il. Lockwood. of Hartford, with his
/ two sons and two daughters, together
with Benjamin F. Fisher, were on their
way 10 Short Beach. All were badly
shaken up and bruised. Lockwood is now
at the 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 the train and the majority of them got
a bad shaking up aud were more or less
| bruised and cul, but they scattered so
quickly after the accident that it was i'm
possible to get their names.
The accident was caused by the spread
ing of the rails where a gang OF trackmen
were at work relaYing the track The en-
gine passed over all right, but the track
spread under the baggage car, turning it
acrosS the track and the othe. cars behind
. it pushed it into the smoker. One pas>en-
ger coach and two drawing room cars also
went over on their sides and landed in the
ditch. TIE rear car left the track but did
not turn over.
RAILROAD STEAMER LOST.
WATERTowN, n. Y, July 1.-The Will
liGm Armstrong. of Ogdensturg, went to
the bottom of the river a, eleven O'Clock
yesterday morning while being used in
ferrying railroad cars from Morristown tc
Brockvlle, Ont, but as far as can be
learned no lives We're lost. Her regular
work had teen between Ogdensburg and
Prescott, Ont, as freight and passenger
ferry for the Rome Watertown & Ogdens-
Eurg and the Ogdensburg & Lake Cham
pain railroads. She was also used IN ex-
cursion business. At the TINA of The acci-
dent she was ferrying three cars loaded
with coal, which were at one end of the
boat
TERRIBLE CLOUDBURsT.
LAS CRUCES, n. NJ, July IA gentle-
man just in from near the mining camp
of HermOSa reports terrible cloudburst
that flooded and washei away over half
of that prosperous camp. No lives are
yet known To have been loSt. Hermosa is
located sixty miles from the railroad and
only meage- reports have yet come in.
The camp is the headquarters of Colonel
Richard Mansfield White, who recently
did such good work in Washington
towards protecting the lead interests of
New Mexico.
MOTHER AND CHILD DROWNED.
LITTLE Rock Ark, July 1.-Parties
from the Indian Territory state that Mrs.
N. j. Daney attempted to lord Caney
creek, which is very high, having b,en
swollen BY recent rains. She was on
horseback and carried a two-year- old
child in her lap. When half across the
horse got into deep water and was carried
down stream ARID drowned together with
the woman ana child Mrs. Daaey was
highly connected.
DEADLY KEROSENE.
CLEVELAND, O, July Mrs. Catherine
Arnold. living at l6 Cobieigh 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 remove / 10 the hospi-
tai, dying after four hours of terri be suf-
fering The house and contents were
damaged to the extent of 81 900.
WAGON FATALITY.
CHICAGO, July IA locomotive on the
Northwestern roal crushed into a farmers
wagon at Maywool, a small village near
this city, Satur lay night, killing August
Multenhouer instantly and fatally injur-
ing his brother in law, Fred Liebenhour
Hiida Raditz. aged thirteen years, was
also seriously injured, but may recover.
Two other children in the wagon received
severe bruises.
THREE MEN DROWNED.
ST LOUIS, July 1-Tne St. Louis Boat
ing ub yesterday dedicated their new
boat, the Chris Won der Abe, but the
pleasure incident to the occesion was
marred by tn accidental drowning of
three members of the club