Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
DITCHED.
Fatal Wreck on the Boston 4
Albany Railroad.
A Mining Camp Half Destroyed BY .
Cloudburst-River Steamer Wrecked
Three Men Drowned
Etc,


NEW HAVEN. Conn. July 1.-The limited
express which left Boston at eleven O'Clock
Saturday morning via the Boston &
Albany railroad, was ditched just outside
the city limits in the afternoon and three
persons were killed and several badly in-
jured.
The killed were Miss Mary A. Brigham,
OF Brooklyn, N. z, who was recently ap-
pointed principal of the Mount Holyoke
Seminary at South Hadley, Mass. Clar-
ence May. drawing-room car conductor,
thought TO belong te Stamford. Conn.,. and
E. p. Pfeffer, travelling agent for a New
York Arm.
The injured were: Rodney Beers, con.
ductor. arm broken; Drawiugroom Car
Conductor Ellis, thrown through q win
dow and cut about the head; Brakeman
McKean, thrown through a window with
the porter of the car; George Craig, of
Meriden, badly injured internally.
w. 81. Lockwood. of Hartford, with his
two sons and two daughters, together
with Benjamin F. Fisher, were ON their
shaken up and bruised Lockwood is now
at the hospital with a 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 and were more or less
bruised and cut, but they scattered so
quickly after the accident that it was inn
possible to get their names.
The accident was caused by the spread
ing of the rails where 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 other cars behind
it pushed it into the smoker. One 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.
A RAILROAD STEAMER LOST.
WATERTowN, N. Y, July 1.-The Will
liam Armstrong. of Ogdensburg, went to
the bottom of the river at 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 Ogdensburg and
Prescott. Ont. freight and passenger
ferry for the Rome, Watertovn & Ogdens-
burg and the Ogdensburg & Lake Cham
plain railroads. She wes also used in exc
cursion business At the time of the acci-
dent she was ferrying three cars loaded
with coal, which were at one end of the
boat
TERRIBLE CLoUDBUBsr
LAS CRUCES, N. M, July Ia gentle.
man just in from near the mining camp
of Hermosa reports terrible cloudburst
hat flooded and washed 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 meager reports have yet come in.
The camp is the headquarters of Coloue'
Richard Mansfield White, who recentl
lid such good work in Washington
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New Mexico.
MOTHER AND CHILD DROWNED.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, July 1.-Parties
from the Indian Territory state that Mrs.
N. J. Daney attempted to ford Caney
creek, which is very high, having been
swollen by recent rains. She was on
horseback and carried two-year-old
child in her lap. When half across the
Lorse got into deep water and was carried
down stream and drowned together with
he woman and child Mrs. Daney was
nighly connected
DEADLY KEROSENE
CLEvkLAND, O.. July Mrs. Catherine
Arnold, living at 16 Cobleigh street, at
tempted to start fire yesterday morning
with Kerosene. The oil exploded and was
brown over her clothing, which took fire
md burned furiously. An ambulance was
-a.led and she was removed to the hospi-
tai, dying after four hours or terrible sur.
tering. The house and contents were
damaged to the extent of 81 600.
WAGON FATALITY.
CHICAGO, July Ia locomotive on the
Northwestern road crushed into farmers
wagon at haywood, a small village noar
his city, Saturday night, killing August
Multenhouer instantly and fatally injur-
ng his brother-in-law, Fred Liebenhour.
dilda Raditz, aged thirteen years was
,Iso seriously injured, but may recover.
Two other children in the wagon received
severe bruises.
THREE MEN DROWNED.
ST. LOUIS, July 1.-The st. Louis Boat
ng Cub yesterday dedicated their new
boat, the Chris Won der Abe, but the
pleasure incident to the occesion was
marred by the accidental drowning Of
hree members of the club
(188 EXDloGfou.