The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-16
STATE NEWS.
A Fatal Railroad Accident.

Fatal Railroad Accident.
Train No. so, the Boston mail anC
express, known as the "morning sleep
err" was wrecked by boulder on the
track at 2;50 o'clock Monday morn
ing, at Browns Mills, in the town o
Berlin, two and one-half miles from
Montpelier. Engineer Patrick G. Nc
Kenney of st Albans was instantly
killed and several other persons injured,
none fatally.
| The train consisted of a locomotive,
mail car, baggage car, two passenger
coaches, and two sleeping ears, three oil
the latter being filled with passengers.
A huge boulder, weighing at least Is
tons, loosened by frost, fell upon the
track in narrow cut on a curve, in
such way that the engineer had prac-
tically no warning. The train was run
ming 80 or 40 miles an hour when it
struck the boulder The boulder was
pushed along the track nearly 60 feet,
the track being torn up badly. The
locomotive was smashed to smithereens
hardly part left together. The bag
gage and mail cars were also derailed
and demolished, mail matter and bag
gagged being scattered or imbedded in
to the mud, from which they were dug
after the accident. Pieces of the smash
ed cars were thrown many feet up the
hillside.
A part of the baggage car and the
remains of the mail car rested on top of
the locomotive. The forward passenger
car was somewhat damaged, but the
others remain practically intact. The
passengers, who were for the most part
emigrants, were badly frightened, but
with the exception of few receiving
slight cuts and bruises they were un-
hurt. The sleepers did not leave the
track and were but slightly damaged.
Engineer McKenney, who was doubt
less killed instantly, was buried in the
mud and water under his engine.
Fireman William R Simpson of St.
| Albans had one shoulder broken and
was somewhat burned by Goals from the
fire box. He was fastened under the
wreck, but crawled out without assis-
tance. He was able to go to his home
in the morning, and his injuries are not
serious.
Postal Clerk w. S. Spaulding of
Roxbury was badly cut about the head
and arms, but not seriously injured.
He was taken to his home in Roxbury.
Mr.. Swart another mail clerk, had
an ear cut and somewhat bruised. The
two mail clerks were in the mail car,
and it is miracle how either escaped
with his life, for the car was completely
demolished.
Postal Clerk Spaulding secured the
registered letter pouch and the remainder
Of the mail has been brought here in
wagons. 1t is practically uninjured.
i In speaking of the wreck the fire.
man says: II was just STOPPING down to
throw on shovelful of coal when the
crash came. We were running, l
should think, about 80 miles an hour,
and the curve is so sharp at this point
that it must have been impossible for
Engineer McKenney to have seen the
rock, till we were right upon them.
heard no sound Or warning cry from
him, and do aot think he had time to
shut off steam or apply the air brake"
| Wrecking trains with doctors arrived
soon after the accident, from st. Albans
and White River Junction.
The exact spot where the accident
happened was the scene of serious
wreck year and half age.
A Bennington press dispatch an
nounces that the man who has recently
been swindling people in northern Yer
mont and New York, claiming to be
] Judge G. H. Mason and a member of
Mount Anthony lodge, F. and A. NJ,
had been arrested in Oswego, N. Y,
where he was trying to play the same,
game, at the request of Judge Mason.
He will be held there until the judge
can 90 there, find out who the swindler
is and arrange for him to be brought
here if he can. He has been heard
from at several places, procuring mo-
ney in each.
A mail train from Sherbrooke, on
the Boston and Name railway, col
lided with an incoming passenger
train at Capelton, P. O., Monday
night.
| The fireman of the outgoing train
+ jumped and was uuinjured, but En-