Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-07-23
SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS.

1855
SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS.
A l~9-year-old boy named Murray
was drowned in the Connecticut river
at Bellows Falls July u while bathing.
Murray was riding on a log and was
carried down stream beyond his depth.
Murray Durkee. aged q, Of Barre,
was killed near Middlesex, July IL.
while at work on j. S. Yiles' electric
plant wires. His neck struck a live
wire, $1,000 volts passing through him.
He died before the doctors arrived.
William A. Patrick. one Of the best
known and oldest residents OF Rutland.
was found July Is In the cellar of his
house unconscious. He had fallen
down the cellar stairs and fractured
his skull. How the accident happened
is not known, but he probably had an
attack OF dizziness.
DIR. G. S. Bidwell of Waterbury met
with a serious accident July rs. He
was making calls in the vicinity of
Wheeler's mill when the bit broke in
his horses mouth and the animal ran
away. DR.. Bidwell was riding in a
road cart and this collided with a lum-
Der team. throwing him onto a pile of
logs, breaking his jaw and cutting sew
eral severe gashes about the head and
face.
An accident occurred Tuesday, July
Z. at the portable sawmill owned by
Counter Bros, East Charleston. The
clothing of Fred Counter caught on a
pulley which drew him around, break
ing both legs and arms and tearing
his clothing and %injuring him severe
ly, from the effects of which he died
in a few hours. A wife and little son
survive him. Mr.. Counter had re-
sided in East Charleston only a few
months. The burial was at Burke,
his former home.
Cecil Mckenzie, who lived on a
farm in Cabot, died Monday morning,
the 18th, from lockjaw, the result of a
bullet wound received on July 4. Mr..
Mckenzie's revolver was on the chair
beside his bed, and in the night he
took hold of it to lower the hammer
and IL was discharged, the ball enter
ing Mr.. McKenzie's leg between the
knee and hip. The accident was not
considered serious until the following
Sunday, when lockjaw set in, and then
he failed rapidly until the end.
A head-on collision occurred July Il
at North Bennington station between
the northbound flyer and a freight
train on the Rutland railroad that was
trying to make a switch. The flyer
running at a fair rate of speed and
passengers claim that the air brakes
were not applied. The accident oc-
Cured on a curve, so that neither en-
gineer could see the other engine un-
til near each other. The engines were
considerably broken up. One wom-
ans wrist was broken. One travelling
man was bruised on the side. and one
mans knee cap was injured. Pas
sengers were making ready to leave
the car when the collision occurred.
A shocking and fatal accident
occurred in the north freight yard OF
the Central Vermont at St. Adams
after ten o'clock Sunday night,
July y. when Maynard RYAN, a
brakeman employed in one OF the
switching gangs, was run over and
instantly killed. Ryan, who had been
in the employ of the road Just a week,
was walking backward between some
moving cars, trying to uncouple them
while they were in motion. He
stumbled and tell backward length
wise directly on the rail and one car
ran over him, almost cutting him
completely in halves. Ryan left a
young wife, to whom he was married
last September.
Mrs. j. I. Potter, aged 20 years,
drowned late July IL by walking
the dock in Burlington into Lake
In the night, while Mr..
was getting a drink of water.
Mrs. Potter lett her bed. A brief
search was made for her, but Mr.. Pot
ter retired without notifying anyone of
her disappearance. The next morn
ing at about 6 O'Clock A. G. Stouohton.
baggagemaster for the Central Yer
mont railway, found a woman's body
while fishing. The police were noti-
fed and while the body was being TAX
to the office Mr.. Potter notified the
department of the disappearance of
his wife. Mrs. Potter had a shock
several weeks ago, but had apparently
recovered from the effects of il. The
1nly cause assigned for her death Is
temporary insanity, resulting from the