The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-03-17
ODD RAILROAD WRECKS.
Some Curious Accidents Which
Cannot Be Account
ed For.


Office of local company discussing
the vcissitude of railroad and steam
boat operation in the winter, and
swapping "reminiscences as they toas-
ted their shins befofe the big radia-
tor.
The talk gradually worked around
TO the wreck on the Boston and
Maine Railroad at Durham n. H., a
short time ago, and the steamboat
man said that he preferred travelling
by water as the safer means of
transportation.
Well" said the old railroad man,
81 feel just the other way about it.
don't look for broken or spreading
rails near so much when the wealth
err is cold as do along in March
when the frost is coming out of the
ground and the upheavals throw
the rails out of plumb almost any
time. Then look out. I've seen
some mighty bad wrecks. the cause
of which could never be given.
Some mighty queer mishaps &C.
cur on railroads sometimes. ! re-
member once few years ago in
facd il was when Gov. Dingley oceu-
pied the chair at the Statehouse
thai there was queer wreck on the
road from Brunswick to Lewiston.
The train was made up of a baggage
car, a smoker and a passenger car,
and Gov. Dingley was in the passen-
ger car. The train was bowling
along at about twenty miles an hour
when, all at once the passenger car
broke away from the rest of the
train, jumped the iron and 0Tent
skidding along over the ground
alongside the track. The car did
not tip over, and neither passenger
nor car were injured. The rest of
train backed up and the passengers
in the derailed car got aboard the
train and went on to Lewiston. hav-
ing been delayed only Is minutes.
The people didn't know what caused
the car to leave the irons and. to a
person not accustomed to inspect
ing railroad tracks the rail appeared
to be in good condition, but ] saw
where the outside rail ON the curve
should have been little higher than
the inside, it. was lower. and the car
had just jumped the iron and kept
on going on its course.
lone of the strangest things j ev-
er saw happen on a railroad was one
time at junction down near BrVns-
wick. The train was bound up to
Augusta, and was going along al a
good rate of speed when it struck
the switch, where the other Ene
started for Bath. Instead of keep
ing on its course with its fellows, one
of the big drive wheels on the en-
CINE took the rail for Bath and star
ted down that track. breaking clear
from the engine. The train kept
going on its original course. but that
big wheel,was rolling of on a tang
ent towards the shipping city"
well" said the steamboat man.
IL saw a rather queer thing happen
on a railroad once myself. ! was on
the Buellsport branch. and there
was one curve dowp there below
South Orrington, where the track
came pretty near doubling on stself.
Well, we were going down one
morning, going at fair rate of
speed, when all at once | noticed
car wheels alongside the track.
The train was made up of number
of freight cars. an accommodation
car and baggage car. Some of
these freight ears had been cut out
of the middle of train and toppled
over the bank. leaving the engine
and the other cars on the track.
The train was equipped with emer-
gency brakes and of course the cars
were Immediately brought to a
standstill. Then the engine backed
UP and made connections and the
train proceeded to Bucksport."
lone of the strangest mishaps |
ever saw on railroad happened to
a train was riding on, bound from
Augusta to Bath" said the old rail-
roader This WAS a good many |