Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-01-21
SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS

SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS
Attorney II. C. Shurtlef of NJ.
pelier received a communicates ~
IA from the states attorney al Leu Sa
son, o., that DR.. II. j. Stevens ss.
was prosecuted in Addison county ~" ~
practicing in Benson and Orwell ~, ~
out authority and who was md, =
indictments, one for manslaupbte, /,
Ohio, had committed suicide. Shin
left conducted the prosecution in ~
mont for the Vermont State Fele,s.
society.
Royal EQgleston OF East Burke ma,
with a severe accident while tryins !.
fix some water pipes on the min d,@
near his house. In some wav i
stepped and fell backward over *
dam, a distance OF % feet. striking n
his head and shoulders. He was rep1.
cred unconscious. and It was soms
time before he could make his neiss
bors hear him. He was taken Ia Il.
house and found TO be very badly ~
on the face and head and neck. Hevs.
also badly bruised on his back Ana
shoulders. II was a narrow escape trr
instant death.
Mrs. Frank Kelley, wac was lfyib,
with her son.in-law, Henry Burnett
in Rutland was burned 10 death Js
II. She was alone In the kitchen 4
the time, her daughter being upsiais
IL Is supposed the woman. who va
about 20 years Of age. dropped a ANN
as the pieces of one were found bef
her body. She made no outcry. hos.
ever, and the woman upstairs beard
no disturbance. The body was i
covered by Thomas Casey. who cane
into the house. She evidently ~
dead, as the body was motionless Z
was terribly burned, being unreo..
nizable, and the skin nearly al buusa
of.
Angelo Demoressi. an Italian about
40 years of age, was struck by a
engine on the Clarendon and Piusioh
railway, Jan. 10. and instantly killed
his body being badly mangled. He
an employee OF the Yermosi
Marble company and was walking
home for dinner on the track. He va
accompanied by a companion who
escaped. The engine was backing
car and both passed over the body
cutting of both legs, one twice, l4
arm and mangled the head. He
was supporting the widow and CHI
dren Of a brother. who was killed
about a year ago within 100 feet Of The
spot where he was killed. lie is also
survived by a wire and two childreh-
Levi Persons of Montpelier started
FOR Washington, Jan. IL, after q man
who was Ill. His sleigh caught 10 ls
electric car tracks near the fi0heef,
throwing him out. There was anoihS
nan In the sleigh and he fell out a
Mr.. Persons 50 that the latter lost d.
hold on the reins and the horse vs.
rec 10 run away. IL scotted arOasi
he Consolidated power house ss
back down the tracks within 200 ieea
where IL started and then struck On
he Central Vermont railroad, MAKE
! bee line for the iron bridge Just 3
the Pioneer. II ran out on 2
les OF the iron bridge a distance Oh
Get before il stopped, without oas
down or missing a step. ~
and some of the other men,
Who ran to stop the horse, secli~
ONE plank and got the horse out lfop
Is position without doing much asl'
.ge, except to the sleigh.
A real end collision between wv
trains on the Rutland rallio-a
{ Rouses Point Junction at 2;l0a u
an. IL. was attended with iatai a-
disastrous effects, resulting in me ~
NC of Joseph Wright Of Mora Sor
Iers, n. Y, who was stationed
Point in the employ o.
'overnment as Chinese immigrant =
pector. and James Hodge Of Maloas
!. T., employed as trainman on ~
iutland railroad. Three Others W.
ably injured. One OF the big wv
engines of the Rutland Ioa
riven by a heavy train pio"
trough ten cars OF the other ue
)aded with coal, potatoes ana ~
handise, tearing and splitting the "A
D fragments and scattering them ~
heir contents in all directions. =
ngine forging its way ahead, o"ins
he momentum of the heavy u,rs
ompleted It's course by finally rnns ;os
pom the platform Of the Jsn .am.
alton where il butted into ana om
demolished the baggage -
nd its contents, then it reared Aiys IN
nd fell on its side heading sqlals'
direction from which II calne. h
tender of the engine went g,e', md
.ruck the signal tower squarsem rs
nocked ii nearly 80 feet ~" The
'undation and badly wrecSel
.ructure, while the station anu Sorei
undred feet of platform was The
yer one side for about 80 ieet mont
'ss to the railroad company j
1000.