Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-25
FATAL FOR MAIL CLERKS.
Wreck Of . Boston Train Early This Morn
ing-Other Disasters.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., July Sat 1:01
o'clock this morning the first section OF
the mail train from Boston to New York
was wrecked opposite Dodgeville station.
The train consisted Of Old Colony engine
1{7, two United States mail cars. q bag
gage car and several passenger coaches
A freight train from Boston had passed
through Attleboro at midnight and switch
ed Off some Of the cars at Dodgeville. and
one of them was left on the main track in
the way Of the mail train. The train ap-
preached the obstruction at the rate Of
thirty miles an hour and crashed into it
before the engineer could reduce the speed
Of his engine. The engine was demolished
Charles ]. Miller the mail clerk, was
killed He was from Walton Falls. NY.
and was unmarried. Edward c. Murphy,
another mail clerk, of Putnam, Conn., re-
ceived a compound fracture OF the skull and
cannot live. Capt. Robert A. Gray Of Cam
bridge. another mail clerk, received a COM
pound fracture of the skull and a COM
pound fracture of the left forearm Charles
buckingham Of Milford. Mass, who was in
the first mail car. was cut on the forehead
but not badly hurt Royal E. Blake. super
fntendent of the Boston post ONCE, was the
other man in the car, and he was not in
jured.
When the tracks were cleared at 4:45
o'clock the injured men were placed on
the train and brought to this city and taken
to the Rhode Island Hospital The remains
of Miller were taken in charge by a local
undertaken.
Geo. W. Hudgkins OF Salem, Mass, sus-
tanned scalp wound. and Geo. B. johnson
Or Of was hsssons slightly bruised
leg below the knee and was cut in the face
by broken glass Jacob General Of this
glass. David Homer Of CambridgeS S rtyi res
eeived a sprain Of the left knee Miss
Brennan Of this city was slightly bruised.
man. was hit in the left side Of the face ef by
piece of lumber and quite badly cut.
The other passengers were not badly
PITTSBURG, PA, July Sat $50 this
morning West Pennsylvania railroad pas
three coaches. crashed into the rear of a
freight train near Pine creek, three miles
outside OF the city. Three persons are re-
DANVILfE. ILL, July pa wild
freight train ran into the rear end of a
Big Four eleven miles east Of this city lily
yesterday and the force Of the collision
threw IT.. the , rear engine Hd and twenty cars
burning thirteen freight cars, two new pas,
senger Goa coaches so and d. baggage car that
to ndianapoiis. The trainmen rG ali tu snoes
HOUSTON TEX, July ga terrible
Pacific seven miles east of here. An en-
CINE escaped from the yards here without
engineer or fireman, and went dashing
east at terrific rate of sped. 1t crashed
into the rear end of freight train going
in the same direction, smashing up thirty
cars. Conductor Harrison and Brakeman
Watson were both killed.
The Chinese not only inhabit the opposite
side of the earth but most of their habits
are opposed to ours. They shave Off their
hair and let their finger nails grow; they
drink their tea cold and their wine warm
they wear white for mourning, and a pupil
reciting turns his back to his teacher
A French woman may become DOCTOR a
lawyer. a member of the board of educa-
ton; she may even be decorated with the
cross of the Legion Of Honor. But she NAV
not witness legal document. She may oc-
cupy as high a place as possible in art bust
ness or commerce. but she cannot possess
her own earrings If she is married. and she
can neither buy nor sell property without
her husbands consent.
In Chile there are two women doctors and
two women lawyers. A great many women
are employed at the post and telegraph
offices, even in high positions. At the San
tiago University women are admitted on
the same terms as men. and in a number
of schools cOeducat ton preyafla-