Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-02-11

evidently walking home on the track
and was struck by one OF the evening
traiBs.- The back of the skull was
crushed and death was probably
instantaneous. The body was found
within fifty rods of the place where
Ernest Davis OF Stowe was struck and
killed by an engine January Is of last
year and his companion, Gibbs, seri-
oHsly injured.
A woman who refused to give her
name narrowly escaped death Feb. 2.
while trying to board an electric car in.
front of the Pavilion, Montpelier. She
did not signal the car until it was
nearly opposite the hotel. and the mo-
torman, owing to the slippery condi-
ton of the rails, ran by rod or MORE
He reversed and while the car was
moving backward the woman attempt
track in front of the slowly moving
car. With rare presence of mind she
clung to the fender and kept he's body
away from the wheels, although she
was dragged ten feet. Her clothing
was badly torn but she declared she
was not hurt and finally boarded the
car.
The water train of the Central YER
mont Railway Co. was in a bad wreck
near Swanton Friday morning at 4
O'Clock. The train was going from st.
Adams to Alburg when a wheel broke
on the tender, one car leaving the
track and landing bottom side up in
the ditch. The train was running
backward at the time and the engine
and several cars passed the tender
before they left the track Three of
the cars landed in the ditch pointing
in three different directions. The en-
CINE kept on the track for short dis
lance and then plunged into the ditch,
ploughing through mud and snow,
passing through the ditch and winding
up in the woods beside the track. The
cab was demolished and the engine
laid on its side buried to the boiler in
snow, ice and slush. Engineer Holmes
and his fireman escaped uniniured,
both having been on the engineers
side OF the cab. Had the fireman been
in his own own place he would I'M
doubtedly have been killed as his side
OF the cab was complete wreck.
A railroad wreck occurred at Enos-
burg Falls, Feb. 4, when the morning
train due at As o'clock from st. AT
bans was passing the culvert a little
way below the station. The cause was
a broken wheel on the tender of the
engine The engine and freight cars
were seriously damaged, one of the
latter being turned over twice, but
landing right side up, although smash
ed. Another car landed on its side, |
while others were thrown directly |
across the track. One of the passen- |
ger cars Just balanced on the track and |
a slight movement would have thrown |
il of. The smoker was the only car |
lett on the iron. The rails were badly |
twisted, and the eulvert damaged. |
The ground around the scene OF the |
wreck was covered with splinters ofthe |
broken cars and bent and twisted iron
OF the ten or twelve passengers on the
train. only one, Mrs. Z. +. Bamtorth |
of Waterbury, was injured. She was
in company with her husband, who is
a travelling salesman, and was thrown
violently against the seat in front OF
her. just after the injury was receiv- |
ed she went to the Car door and at
tempted to jump from the train, but
was restrained by her husband. She
was taken 10 the hotel and DR.. +. 5. /
Hutchinson was summoned. Mrs. |
Bamlorth before her marriage was
known as Laura Belle Shepard and
was one of the Shepard family OF Roy
alton, widely known as musical enter /
tanners.