Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-21
hree Others Seriously Injured in
a Freight Collision at
Rouses Point.
TEN CARS DEMOLISHED
tx Engine Driven by Heavy Trnin
h'lowcd through demonstration mud
signal Tower Badly wrecked
In the Crnsh-victims We're
Terribly MangIcd.

st. Adams, Jan. IA rear end collision
tween two freight trains on the Rutland
ilroad at Rouses Point Junction at 2:10
lock this morning was attended with
tai ana disastrous effects resulting in
e Killing or two men outright the VIC
us being Joseph Wright of MORA Cor
RS, n. v. who was stationed at Rouscs
mt IN the employ of the government as
lnese Immigrant inspector, and James
Pdge of Malone, N. u, employed as
amman on the Rutland railroad.
lares Mitchell. Hiram w. Lawrence of
PnSor, n. Y, members of crews of the
Fecked trains were dangerously wound
1t is feared that their injuries will
suit fatally. Thomas Rivierre employed
section hand on the Grand Trunk
ilway. was run down by a Delaware e.
idson engine while the wreck was being
pared away and received internal injuries
1ich are probably fatal. one of the new
avy freight engines OF the Rutland
ilroad 49,. lies on its side by the track
total wreck after blowing through 10
RS loaded with coal. potatoes and mer-
andise tearing and splitting the cars
fragments and scattering them and
cir contents in all directions. The en-
he forging its way ahead owing to the
pmentum of tho heavy train. completed
course by finally running upon the
itlbilll ~ lIt junction station Wnprc
buttod into and compile tely demolished
e baggage room and its contents. then
reared around and fell on Its side head
sluarely in the direction from which
came. AS the tender of the engine
ent over. ii struck the signal tower
larely and knocked it nearly 50 feet
pm its foundations and badly wreckc
structure while the station and over
hundred feet of platform was showed
Ell one side for about 30 feet.
ne loss to the railroad company could
Pr be accurately fixed to-day but con-
|rVative railroad men place the damages
at least :500Oo
he accident occurred at the junction
here the Delaware & Hudson railroad
osses the Rutland tracks The first
ain in was in charge of Ell cineer Nc
.pnald and he had stopped his engine
st across the diamond of the intcrscct-
3 tracks and was oiling up ana making
nor repairs when his train with with
warming rarmed by the train hauled
engine No 49,. which was following
first train closely and which cane
wn the heavy grade into the station
pretty good speed
Mr.. Wright, the Chinese inspector, who
rs killed. was standing with n party of
lends with whom he had been to
nee. on the station platform, When
CRASH came the Dig engine began 10
Nv It's way through the ears to the
itiorm, where the party stood an they
fled for their lives with the air around
nm ni!rd with Tying timbers and mis-
|cs. They all escaped safely excepting
Irlght, who, as he dashed down the
Itiorm, was struck and knocked down
ii hlg beam torn from a car and hurled
FouSh the air and the next instant he
r. crushed to death underneath a 10 ton
r OF coal Wrights body was not re-
IVcred until eight o'clock, it being known
|at he WAS under the wrcck, but not
|l"re. Finally some one discovered a
|oNed hand sticking out from under
(ath the coal car ana heavy hydraulic
fks were secured and Wright's bod
)ghtfully maugle5 and the head crushed
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