Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-04-28
SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS.


John Hughes of South Poultney. son
of John r. Hughes OF Rutland. was
drowned in "a deserted slate quarry in
that place Apr. %. He fell into the
quarry accidentally and nobody was
near TO help him. He was twenty-five
years OF age, unmarried, and had been
employed In the slate business several
years.
Joseph Gilchrist of Walden was
struck by the through freight at Fos-
ter's crossing, about a mile and q half
east of BOWS, on the lake road, April
Is and was seriously injured. Mr..
Gilchrist. who is very deaf, drove his
team, heavily loaded with grain, upon
the crossing in front OF the approach
ing train. The team was badly de-
molished.
Adam Wood, aged Is years, was run
over and killed by a Central Vermont
/ freight April % in Mortified. In com
pany with two other youths he got on
fiat car OF train moving in the yard
and fell under the wheels. His body
was cut in two. lie was employed in
the Ellis granite sheds learning the
cutters trade. He was a son OF Adam
Wood of Mortified.
John Garrett OF Richford, aged about
40 years, was instantly killed April q
| by being struck by train No. IL, the
| Canadian Pacific air line 10 Boston.
Garrett was walking on the track as he
was returning from the "line house
in an intoxicated condition, and when
| Z. Al. - raflFna1 yard
he stepped aside to let the train
pass, but reeled back against the en-
CINE and, apparently, was struck by
the front of the cylinder and thrown
against the rear of the buffer and then
out TO the side OF the track. The only
marks on his body were on the back
of his head and neck. The train was
running as rate OF % or 80 miles an
hour, and stopped in just its own
length-five cars and the engine.
Don Macia, proprietor of pool
room in st Adams, was accidentally
shot April 2l while on a pickerel shoot
! ING expedition in Lapham's bay
Marcia. in company with Bert Green,
Fred and Louis Spooner and Frank
Herbert. was in a boat on Lapham's
bay shooting pickerel. One Of the
guns Law on the seat of the boat, the
hammers being at full cock. The boat
was pulled under wire fence, and the
wire as it was released from being
lifted 10 allow the passage of the boat
and its occupants, caught the trigger
of the gun, exploding the charge
which entered Macia's thigh, making
an opening six inches long, from which
the muscles protruded in bunch as
large as a mans clenched hands.
Unconscious and bleeding from the
mouth. Harold Schattner, son OF Mr..
and Mrs. W. G.. Schaf'ner, was taken
from under pile of logs on Elm street
in Brattleboro April 20 and was
thought to be in a dying condition. His
playmate, Roy Moore, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. |. l.. Moore, was taken from I'M
der the same pile, bleeding from
wounds in his face and with his left
arm broken above the wrist. The logs
were piled beside the street when the
ground was covered with snow, to be
used by the 5. A. Smith company. The
bows, while returning home from
school, walked on the logs as they had
done before, their weight causing the
logs to roll, the warm weather having
melted the snow gradually and made
the bed OF snow insecure. They were
Knocked down and pinned to the
ground until help came.
William Murray of Keesevllle, N.
Y, formerly employed by the gas COM
many of Burlington, was found in that
city at midnight April 81 in a helpless
and half-frozen condition at the south
end of the Rutland railroad yard some
900 wards from the drawbridge and
about 20 feet from the track. lie Is !
unable TO tell how long be had been
there but he thinks he had lain beside |
the track about an hour and hall
when his cries Tor help brought Ernest
Thornton. an employee OF the railroad, |
To his assistance. Near him was To-
Gated a working car of the Rutland |
road and the injured man says that
when he called to the men in the ear
they laughed and swOre at him.
Thornton also asked them to help him
care for Murray but says that they re-
fnsed to do so and he was obliged 70
leave him there for over an hour while |
ne routed the police. 1t is thought he
fell from car in some way and was
injured.
a peculiarly sad accident occurred
on the evening of the 10th inst. on the
Canada Atlantic railway, when young |
and pretty immigrant girl lost her life
as the train was crossing the st. Johns |
river Just below Lacolle, ?. Q. 1t APP
pears that the girl, who was probably |
of Polish extraction, was en- route from
the old country to some point in Mas
sachusetts and would necessarily have
to change cars at Noyan Junction.