Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-01-14
SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS.

SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS.
While Thomas Robinson and Walter
Martin were employed Jan. 4 splitting
wood in Sodom, Martins axe came of
the handle and struck Robinson in the
bowels. the corner OF the X cutting a
cash three inches in length, a very
serious injury.
August Anderson, a Swede. had his
left leg badly shattered Jan. 4 while at
work On a lumber job at Sherburne for
a man by the name OF C~ramsbury.
Anderson got his leg caught between
a tree and a sled. fracturing n bone
of the left leg twice below the knee
and the other one nee.
Miss Blanch Smith. an employe of
the True Manufacturing Co. in Water
bury, upon entering the factory at an
early hour Jan. 5, tell to the floor In a
faint. DIR. G. 5. Bidwell was summon
ed and upon arriving found that tire
girls face, hands and feet were frozen.
She was unconscious for nearly half an
hour.
Charles F. Merrill OF Woodstock was
badly burned about the head and face
while working on the gasolene engine
at the Benson woodworking plant. He
took out a screw lie the cylinder head,
when a flame shot out and blinded
him, burning the upper part OF his
face, eyes and hair. 1t is now thought
that be will not lose his sight.
Mrs. Frank NJ. Smoth OF West Ar
lington died in a very singular manner
last Thursday morning. About five
O'Clock her teeth began TO ache severe
ly and she got up and applied some
chloroform to the aching teeth and
went back to bed. About ten o'clock
she was found to have died from the
effects OF the drug. She is survived
by a husband.
The body of William Shum was
found about noon, Jan. 4, in a badly
mangled condition near the railroad
track a short distance north OF Wal
lingford. He LETT home early the
evening before and was evidently re-
turning Don after. when he was over
taken and struck Dy an engine near
the fork shop, where his hat was
found. Mr.. Shum had always been
deaf.
George |Sturtevant of Woodstock
met with a peculiar accident lately.
lie was at work in the woods for
Horace Alexander and In telling a tree
the tree slid upon the stump and struck
him upon one heel and literally tore
the skin and flesh from the bottom and
sides of his foot forward TO his toes. IL
made a flesh and blood slipper that fit
ted the foot to a {. DR.. Millington was
called and he placed the slipper on and
hopes to heal Ii entire.
A large lamp hanging directly over
the counters in w. S. Healey's store
in Waterbury fell from its bracket.
The lamp was lighted and the burning
oil spread over the floor. Mr.. Healey
had Just returned from dinner and at
TEMPTED TO smother the blaze All
available rags were used bat only add
ed to the blaze. Finally it was swept
into the street. where lt burned out.
The interior OF the store was slightly
damaged but to no great extent.
Last Thursday morning the passen-
ger train from Cambridge Junction
at Essex Junction with the
Burlington and Montreal express. The
accident was probably the result OF a
misunderstanding of signals. The
damage was confined principally to
the locomotive on the express, which
was derailed from her forward trucks,
and the pilots of both engines were
stripped. Not one OF the passengers
injured and there was no damage
done % the cars.
Word has been received that Capt.
Barrett. formerly of Middle
bury, but now of Washington, d. c., a
clerk in the pension office, while cross
ing the car tracks in that city Monday