Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
Railroad Disasters.
One Dreadful Ah6ir in New Jersey and
IA Small Accident in Vermont.

IA Small Accident in Vermont.
The year 1894 has bad start in the way
of railroad accidents. During a thick fog
on the meadows just east of Hackensack,
n. j. Monday morning. a South Orange
accommodation train on the Delaware,
Lackawanna IL Western railroad ran into
and telescoped the two rear cars of the
Dover express. Nine passengers of the
latter train were killed instantly, and about
so were injured. OF the injured two have
since died. The accident was due to the
careessness of an engineer, who ran his
train at regular speed through the fog at a
point where he should have slowed up,
and to the fact that the brakeman who had
been sent back to flag approaching trains
lost his head when he heard the second
train approaching, and instead of giving
the signal rushed back to his own car.
Two Killed on the Rutland Il Bemning-
ton Road.
A passenger train going north collided
with a wreck train going south on the
Bennington d Rutland road about 9:45
Tuesday morning, one mile above South
SALISBURY. Both engines, the car attach
ed to the extra, and the express car were
wrecked, and four trainmen were seriously
injured. VIM. Smith, engineer, and +. j.
Mattison, brakeman, of Bennington, of
the wrecked train, were fatally injured.
The morning was foggy, so that neither
engineer saw the impending accident.
1t was almost miraculous that no more
were injured or killed, and not one of the
passengers was injured. This train had
orders to go to SALISBURY, while the
wreck train hands were told to run to
South SALISBURY, and between these sta
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fatal orders is James Archer, a trusted en-
ploye. He noticed his mistake and tele-
graphed both stations, but too late. Each
train had just left and he awaited results
The injured were carried to the Vermont
soldiers home hospital, where they were
cared for
The Brazilian War---the situation of
the Insurgents Critical.
A South American despatch says that the
siege of Badge has been raised. After the
insurgents had resisted for Is days the gov
eminent troops made a final sortie and
routed them. The government loss was 80
killed and 90 wounded The insurgents
lost 400 killed and wounded. The insur-
gents have captured Engenho island. Forty
of the government troops were killed and
60 captured. The government has sent re-
Inducements to NictherOy. The insurgents
are reported to be burning villages in the
state of Rio Grande do Sui, and butchering
the captives they make. The government
forces on Saturday tried to capture the in
surgent cruiser Guanabara. The vessel
poured hot fire into the attacking force at
close quarters and drove them off, after in
flicting heavy loss. It's generally believed
! that the situation of the insurgents is crit
r cal, and that the war, which has been car
5 ried on for many months, will soon end.
A Pension Decision in Favor of Judge
, Long.
Judge Bradley, in Washington, d. c.,
: Saturday, handed down a decision on the
application of Judge Long of Michigan
for a mandamus to restrain the commits
: sioner of pensions from carrying into effect
: his order suspending the payment of the
applicants pension. The judge decided in
, favor of the applicant, on the ground that
= one commissioner has no right under the
, law to reopen a pension case that has once
been legally adiudicated by his predecessor
>. except in cases where fraud is charged
Judge Long is supreme court judge OF
Michigan. His salary is 5000 a year and
he receives a pension of S72 a month fol-
total disability, having lost both arms dur
ing the Civil war
EmbezzIed S17, 900 in 20 Years.
Theodore F. Baker, about A. years old
paying teller of the Consolidation natona
bank of Philadelphia, admits that he has
embezzled about S47, 900 of the bank
funds in small sums during the past q
wears. He was committed to Jail in de
fault of $4,000 bail. Baker explained
& that while the bookkeeper was at dinner N
e would alter and erase the accounts entered
in the individual ledger, and would chang
them back to suit his convenience. TIL,
crime was finally discovered by the indi
vidual bookkeeper. Baker denies that h
gambled, specialized in stocks or visited
the race track. All his stealings went, h
- says, for the living expenses of his owl
household.
AtchisOn Employees Suffering.
A committee of Atchison, Topeka an,
Santa FG railroad employees have complain
ed to Gov. Waite of Colorado, that the EN-
ployes of west of Dodge City, Kansas, hav
received no pay since last October, and tina
many of them are on the verge of starva
|, ton. The matter was brought to the al
tention of Judge Hallett of the Unite
States court.
|. Edward NJ. Field Goes Back 10 jail.
- Edward NJ. Field, who has returned t
Jail in New York from the Buffalo stat
asylum for the insane as cured, agains
lr whom there are five indictments for fOTger
and grand larceny, was held Friday
sums of $4,000 on one charge and SIS
600 on another. AS no bondsman wa
forthcoming Field went back to LudlO'
on street jail
Two Accidents Wednesday.
- A construction train of five cars used on
y temporary railroad at Fairview, N. j., fe
A through a trestle Wednesday morning
killing two Italian laborers and injurin
2S others. The same day the fast ma
n train, New York to Florida, was crashC
JI into on the Richmond and Danville, Va
road. Almost by a miracle no one WI
killed, though five passengers were hurt.
4 Terrible Epidemic Of Grip.
A terrible epidemic of the grip is repor
~ ed from Pittsburg and Stewartstown, n.
Nearly the whole adult population of DO
Dlaces is frustrated with the disease, al