Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-15
TWO CARS DITCHED.
ACCIDENT TO THE NEW YORK
MONTREAL NIGHT EXPRESS.
Seven People Injured, None Seriously
Broken Tire on IA heel Causes all the
Trouble-An Unavoidable Accident,
But Fortunately No Lives Lost.

An accident befell the New York Mon
treal sleeper near Ferrisburgh station We'd
nesday morning about o'clock. Two cars
were ditched and seven Of the passengers
were injured, but none, it Is thought, seri-
ously. They are: Fred Patnaude, West
Swanzea, n H., slightly injured; j. II. Lee,
porter on Wagner car, some bruises, from
which he had largely recovered by
evening, and he returned to New
York on the express; Mat Men
dolwitz, New York city, hurt about
the head, shoulders and back and possibly
internally, but is not considered seriously
injured; Mrs. Mulqueen, 221 st. Paul
street, this city, received a general bruis-
ing and a bad cut under the eye, which re-
quired six stitches to close; Joseph Sanger,
Montreal, bruised some what, but continued
on his journey; NJ. Goldberg, 115 Division
street, New York, scalp wound on left side
of his head and right hand bruised; N.
Prensky, rs Graham avenue, Br ooklyp, bad
cut on the lower jaw and chin,
flesh wound on the right temple
| and left foot squeezed litte he
also complained OF his back. Prensky and
Goldberg came to this city and DR.. Grin
nell dressed their heads. After breakfast
at the Van Ness House they went on the
street to buy some hats. They returned to
the hotel in the evening feeling toerably
well and took the express for home.
| The cause Of the accident, as is the case
| in nearly all railroad disasters, was unavoid
| able. A broken tire on the forward trucks
! of the New York sleeper Alva derailed this
pair OF trucks short distance south of the
| Ferrsburgh station; the wheels ran along
on the ties through the covered bridge at
the station and on to culvert on a small
ravine some 30 feet in depth north Of the
! depot when the other trucks left the rails
and the car slid down the embankrnent, its
great weight pulling the coach forwald of
it down also. The sleeper was not badly
damaged, its ends and platforms being
smashed and the truck being more
or less broken. The coach, which
was practically new, was totally
ruined, only few of the seats remaining
whole. This car stopped finally bottom side
up, and apparently rolled over once and a
half.
Six Of the injured were In the coach and
one, Lee, the porter, in the rear end Of the
sleeper. 1t seems a wonder, after looking
at the coach, crushed as it was, that
any of its occupants escaped death.
There were six cars in the train,
and the two that were wrecked
were fourth and ifth, the breaking of two
couplings alone saving at least two others
the Boston sleeper in the rear of the New
York sleeper, and another coach, in from
of the one that was wrecked, from being
hurled down the bank. The forward END
, of the Boston sleeper was damaged consid
erably, but it dill not leave the track.
Tho distance traversed after the Alva't
, forward truck slid from the ties, was about
one fourth of mile, yet Engineer Ander
! ID ha faIt To- iol. in, ii IA,
supposed, the two cars left the track and the
. coupling between the coaches broke. He
then looked back and saw what had hap
. pened. He was almost the first man tC
reach either ana as he approached th
coach he saw woman emerge from the de
bris and climb up the bank. He afterwarC
looked there and could not understand how
she extricated herself.
The train was running not far from &c
miles an hour at tie time of the accident
A wreck train from st. Adams passe,
through here about 6 o'clock with Genera
Superintendent Baldwin, Trainmaster Nasn
Drs Jenne aud Page and large gang o
men aboard. Dr. Grinnell joined them her
aud Drs. Chipmen and Willard OF Veg
gennes met them Mt the scene of the acci
dent. In few minutes after the arrival o
the special train the four remaining cars @
/, |
train resumed it's journey, arriving here a
|, 7;l2 o'clock. Three of the wounded, Pat
naude Lee and Mendlowitz were taken t.
the hospital, Prensky and Goldberg to tn
Van Ness House, Mrs. Mulquesn to lie
home while Sanger continued on his jour
ney.
In the afternoon DR.. Andrews, superin
tendent Of the hospital, gave a FREE PRES
reporter the following facts, which were re
veaed at the second examination Of the in
jured men:
Fred Patnaude, chest injured and one ri
broken, with possible internal injury
John II. Lee, colored, sleeping car porter
flesh wound below knee and leg brus
from knee to ankle, will be lame io- som
time, but not permanently so; Mat Mend
lowitz, bruises about the head, left sh Guide
a and right hand cut; not serious.
4 A FREE PRESS reporter talked with an
!, other porter of the Alva while he was en-
= deavoring to sweep up the broken crocKor
II belonging to the buffet department. Ii
=. said that he felt no particular sensation t.
warn him Of the impending danger. II
was in the forward end and the first thin,
he know he was thrown violently agains
the side of the car but fortunately be re
ceived only a few scratches The seve
g passengers in his car, he said were all we
shaken up, though no one was really injure
except Lee, the other porter.
Engineer Anderson and Conducto
y Sweeney were in charge of the train. Th
', track was undisturbed by the derailmsnt
=, the cars and traffic was not delayed
One of the passengers on the sleeping ca
:, was John Hurd of Santa Clara, n. y
president of the Northern Adirondack raj
' road, who but short time ago WAS seriou
y injured in a collision on his wn road
Tied Up and Robbed.
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