Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-02-26
Fast Express Dashes into a Troll
ley Car Loaded With
Children.
EIGHT INSTANTLY KILLED
A Score Of More Injurec-Trolley Be-
came Uncomfortable on Icy Rails
and Bore Children to Horrible
Death Air Filled with Fly
in Z Bodies.


express on the l.ackawanna rail
road cur throush Uoi'oy car crowded
with school children at the Clifton
avenue crossing to-day' Elght oi the chil-
drcn were hllIcu ana II score or more
Of them injured. Tho motormnn of the
car. VINO stuck 10 ms post Will nc ana
the engineer OF the express was 50 hadly
hurt that there is little hope OF ms re-
covery.
Both the cNprcss and the trolley were
on steep grades going Mt right angles.
The express was signalled and the cross
ing gates We're lowered, whilc the trolley
car was yet half way down the hill. The
notorirnn smut OH the power ana applled
the brakes put almost llnmcda''ly 'nc
car began to slip along the icy rails. 1t
gained tremendous monmouth UNI ana at th'
bottom OF the nl'l crashed throush inc
gates, directly in the track of the on
coming tiitln. IN" locomotive pioush'h itS
way through the trolley throwing the
children IN every uirec'loh'
The dead are;
Viola ILL., Il years. IL Sterling street
Maude Baker IT. years, 'h- IllSh street
Ernestinc +. Mueller, 10 years III fair-
mount avenue.
Mabel j.. l\arschhor' IL years. 1ilhh
ONO
Anla l.ochhbcfg, III years, III Litletot'
| avenue.
l'"S'h"l i>'Hl' ~ '"i'''o ~! go
! ELLA Wcrpupp II years l9J South skin
| street.
EVAN J." f-aSlW"oH' Jr' 10 yours ''7
| Clifton avenue.
Injured:
| tctof il'uE' nlnl"l1h"H % ti"H'9 var
| skull crushed. VIII ul''
oscar backlt, engineer OF 'r"ih hcdu
crushed prnpdnlV lalaiI!'
Jennie McCI'l"ud, u vars. Skull lra'-
| tur'd' DINER INJURIES Piop"piN ld'"lI!
Florence Doll % Van "'@7 l1c'' ankle,
| broken and badly hurt ABOUT head ana
shoulders
Mahol "mlth. ~ years H""" In'urou'
Frederick NlIS"p injured ABOUT head
and body.
George smith, coior"d' leg fractured.
Carl Racquet cut about race ana bruised
about body.
Maud Van Nalcn. IL years, bruised about
head ana arms.
Walter Bucrmann, Il yc1rS. ribs broken.
Susan De Camp arm fractured.
Edith Fox. Pauline Rich, Martin l-yttle,
Margaret Commerford Frances MENUS.
Helen MCCord, Alinc CourScn. Nina Bull.
Lillian GcraghtY. Marion Price. Frederick
Lindsey. Emily Knight, Arthur Iuland
and Jacob WallaCk were slightly hurt.
Tine accident happened within three
blocks of the high school building and
in tho car at tn" time We're nearly one
hundred pupils. AS many as thirty others
had managed to throw themselves from
the car before the crash came the trolley
! was one of the specials which every day
bring the children to school. II had more
/ than it's ordinary load to-day OWING to
| the cold. IT contained every child that
could squeeze inside aud others stood on
| the rear platform. Because this ear had
! been So crow led many who were waiting
for it before the hill was reached could
not Get IN although some climbed on the
| front platform with tn" mutorman. A
| score or more children were compelled In
walk. and they followed the ear afoot
| Thcv say that when the car was less thar
| half way down til" hill. the railroad gates
hogan t" drop lelor i1raIE' IN" motor,
onnliod the brakes Tho spccd of the car
was checked. hut it continual to max,
/ slowly down tho incline. There was no
| Thought Of danger. Thcn IL began TO move
! fas,cr and faster The ice covered rails
afforded mo hold for the wheels and. nj.
| tho,1oh Hr,dv damned his brake harden
| and thnn swung ON tho reverse. the
momentum of thc car grew at every ward
| ana tho ear shot down toward the rail-
road When the car was rght at the
rntcs tho EXPRESS thundorcd into view
| Warned lv thc cries of those aroot and
hv th,ir own sense of DANGER those on
,Lo nIatrorms bepnn to throw thomselvc,
| of into the snow and ms the ear snod
| along the few REMAINING. feet toward the
| railroad norbans ouo-third escnnod dcatr
nv iniirv. i'm his way INT there was uC
| limo for those Within Tho car tn do NOR,
,hnu crush toward tho rear door 'rh,
pntns were swort aside like tooth pfcks
ana before tho cracking of these died on,
came The crash. For thirty seconds before