Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-25
80 to 30 Killed in Wreck OF Train by
Powder Explosion.

Twenty-Five charrcd bodies We're taken
sunday from the ruins Of the dccommoda-
tipu passenger train ON the Big Four
railroad, following its destruction Satur-
day night by tho explosion OF "a carload
of EuupoWdor. AS the accommodation
passed freight train at sanford, Ind
five miles west Of Tcrro Hautr. Tho
number OF injured will total az least 3d.
some of whom viii die" The entire train,
including the locomotive, was blown from
the track. and the three coaches were
demolished. Eight freight cars were also
destroyed Big Four officials who di-
rocted the care Of the injured said that
the death list might reach between 30 and
80. \ list OF dead sunday night showed
that the total loss Of life was -. Four
bodies were found in the woods sunday
AT some distance from the track.
Three boys were killed Sunday through
the falling in of r. wall i'm the cellar of
a recently demolished house in South
Boston. Nearly a dozen boys amused
themselves in pryiug some OF the stones
from the walls Of an Old cellar sudden
~ one Of the walls topped over and
three Of the boys We're buried beneath
the debris. Others escaped with slight
bruises
Charles Mccormack. L. son OF Mr. ana
Mrs c. +. Mccormack Of Popperen,
Mass, was killed Saturday by a bullet
fired from a rifle in the hands of his
brother. Allen. 10, in Carriers woods near
their home. Five boys who had been
hunting were building bonfire when the
gun was discharged, The bullet struck
Mccormack in the breast and caused
almost instant death.
The tidal wave which devastated some
Of the Dutch East Indian islands south OF
Achin, as announced on January l, prac-
tically engulfed the island of Smalu.
According to the latest information re-
ceived at The Hague Simalu has almost
disappeared 1t is said that probably 1900
persons lost their lives, Violent earth
shocks continue to be felt daily. The
civil governor of Achin has gone to the
scene of the catastrophe.
Ned l.. Barker, %, physical director
of the Y. NJ. c. A. in Westfeld. Mass,
died Monday afternoon from hydropho-
ba in the Noble hospital in that town.
He did not feel well Thursday and Fri
day, but was about the streets until
Saturday. He grew rapidly worse and
Sunday symptoms Of rabies were very
apparent 1t was not known that he
had ever been bitten by a dog, but a
friend now recalls that Barker was bit
tent by a foY terrier last spring while
he was riding a bicycle The young
mans home was in Kent, Conn,
The most disastrous wind storm in a
decade swept over the eastern end of
Lake Erie Sunday, causing damage in
Buffalo and vicinity estimated at $4,000
| 900. Lake Erie, with the highest level
| known in 20 years gorged Niagara river
! to overlooking and thousands of dollars
worth of property was carried down
stream. Five great steamers, modern
! freighters loaded with grain, were driven
ashore at Buffalo. Many docks and
wharves were wrecked. The damage was
very great in the lumber district at
| North 'Tonawanda. Two lives were lost
| at Dunkirk, where a girl II years old was
! drowned and a woman was killed by
| flying debris from a demolished ice house
Nicholas Sandstone, p, a tanner in
| North Woburn, was burned to death and
Otto MeiTzner' 27, was terribly burned in
a fire which destroyed the boathouse of
the Medford boat club, near Arlington
Mass, Sunday morning. Meitzner was
found unconscious i'm the snow about a
quarter of a mile from the boathouse by
| a policeman who was fastening to the
| burning building, Meitzner was care
taker of the club house and Sandstone was
spending the night with him. Wher
| Meitzner awoke he was surrounded by
flames and escaped with great difficulty
| One hundred canoes, ten dories, three
yachts and valuable trophies won by clut
members in aquatic contests were burned
with the house.