Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-18
TWO BROTHERS KILLED.

Archie Kingsley, "a, and orrin Kings.
ley, "a, Both Of Wilmington, Crushed
Beneath Their Locomotive Near
, Hoosac Tunnel Friday.
Archie Kingsley and Orrin Kings
! ley, brothers, were killed at Hoosac
| Tunnel station at $50 o'clock Friday
morning. They were together in
charge of the engine of the Hoosac
| Tunnel and Wilmington narrow guage
| road train due at Hoosac Tunnel at
$780, Archie being the engineer and
Grin fireman. Spreading rails are
| believed to have been the cause of the
| wreck
The train is a mixed one, with
fl eight and passenger cars, which left
Wilmington at I o'clock. The track,
| as it approaches the Boston & Maine
tracks at Hoosac Tunnel curves
around the foot of the hill sharply.
IL is also on down grade, there being
an up grade to help stop the trains
after the curve is passed 1t was on
this curve that the accident happened.
The train was rounding it at a good
rate of speed, and snow and ice on the
tracks made it hard to check the speed
of the train. On the curve, the en-
glne suddenly left the track taking
with it the tender and one freight car.
The rest of the train did not leave the
track, and none of the passengers
were injured.
The engineer and fireman had no OPP
pOrtunity to jump, and were crushed
under the engine as it turned over.
When found both were dead, it being
I've inc ta 10,
Both bodies were horribly mangled.
DR.. o. J. Brown and DR.. NJ. NJ.
Brown of North Adams were sent for,
and left Immediately for the scene. but
there was no need for their services.
The accident was in Franklin county,
and so Medical Examiner Canedy of
Shelburne Falls was sent for and
viewed the bodies.
There have been several accidents
at about this point on the road.
Both of the men were married and
leave families in Wilmington, their
home. Archie Kingsley was about
"a years old. and had been on the
road since it was opened The
younger brother was "a years old, and
had been on the road only about a
year.
Archie was married to Miss Ger
tlude Plumb of Nottingham, some
years ago, and besides his wife, leaves
boy and girl 9 and IL years old
Orrin leaves a wife and one child
The bodies were taken to Whining
ton by a special train Friday after
noon. The engine and freight car
were badly damaged by the wreck.
The North Adams Sunday Democrat
says The stories of how the acct
dent happened differ. There was a
snow pillow ahead of the train, and
behind the locomotive were several
freight cars and then combination
passenger coach on the end. One
story is that the train being late was
making rapid time to m ke connec-
lions with the Fitchburg II. n, which
at the moment of the accident was
passing close by on its way to the de-
pot. The people on the Fitchburg
train say they saw the narrow guage
train coming, and that wnen it reached
the switch at the first point of the
triangle the engine "bucked,' drove
its nose into the ground, almost
turned a somersault and fell over on
it's side, taking a freight car along
with it. The Fitchburg train was
stopped and the crew and passengers
They found the engineer and fireman
buried beneath the wreckage and both
dead having been killed instantly
The engineer was underneath the en-
CINE and he was very badly cut up.
His legs were cut off and he was dis
emboweled. The fireman was be-
meath the freight car and was not so
badly disfigured. He had jumped
but was caught by the car and buried
beneath it.
The theory of the people on the
Fitchburg train was that the snow
pillow broke the rails at the switch
and thus let the engine down upon the
ground Another theory told by one
of the passengers on the wrecked train
was quite different. This story was
that the engine had been uncoupled
while the train was in motion, and had
gone ahead leaving the train follow
ing; that when the engine reached the
switch it jumped the track, but
stopped within a few feet; that the
rest of the train could not be stopped
by the brakeman at the forward end
of the first freight car, who seeing
that collision was inevitable
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