The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-26
ENGINEER AND FIREMAN
CRAWL OUT UNHURT
Two Cars Also Left Track But
No One is Hurt Train
Was Backing Up From
Montpelier at 6:45 This
Morning.

The local branch passenger train over
the Central Vermont due at the station
in this city at s:45 this morning was
badly wrecked while making the curve
just north of the covered bridge at
Dodge's crossing. The engine and tender
jumped the track and plunged to the
right, went over a ten foot embankment
landing bottom side up in field Of oats.
Two cars also left the track. That not
a person was injured beyond few slight
scratches seems almost beyond reason.
The engineer, Michael Mcmahon, and the
fireman, Edwin Webster, went over tho
bank in the cab of the engine and that
they are alive to tell the story is in all
probability due to the fact that the cab
was not smashed to pieces when it
struck in the sand at the foot of the
bank, nearly on its top side. The win
dows in the cab were open, and the
engineer crawled out through one of
these, while the fireman crawled out
through the opening by the tender. The
engine was backing up and the tender
ahead is thought to have jumped the
rails, thus causing the engine TO 20 with
it. The smoking car was next to the
engine and this was thrown part way
over onto its side There were six or
eight men in the car who were thrown
from their seats but were not in anyway
injured. The next coach also left the
rails, but did not tip over. The baggage
car was at the rear of the train and
stayed on the iron.
4 The passengers in the second coach
were disturbed only by the jar caused
by the quick stop when the emergency
brakes were thrown on.
The passengers say that the train was
going at a good rate of speed and when
the tender and engine jumped from the
rails they followed along on the ties for
nearly the length OF s car and half
before they went over the bank. The
engineer threw on the emergency brakes
the instant he saw the tender jump and
this saved the coaches from coming to-
gether with much force. The ties proved
to be in very decayed condition and
crumbled all to pieces when the wheels
struck them. Conductor James Kanally
was in charge Of the train and he was
taking tickets in the second coach when
the accident happened. An engine from
Montpelier was sent up and pulled the
second coach onto the iron and took it
back to Montpelier with the baggage
car by 10 o'clock.
The tender was quite smashed up, but
it is thought that the engine, which is
numbered 203, is not badly injured. It
lays nearly on its top with the wheels
in the air. The passengers had to walk
the two miles to this city, as the elec-
tries were not running this forenoon.
Among the passengers who reside in
this city was City Judge II. w. Scott,
/. Q. Andrews, manager Of the five and
ten-cent store, Clarence II. Kendrick OF
Hendricks drug store, and H. c. Jones,
clerk at the City hotel Mr.. Jones was
the only one Of the four named who
was in the smoking car. This train is
the one that leaves here at $3.50 for the
Junction to connect with the southbound
train. and there were q number of pas
sengers at the station this morning who
had to wait for the 1855 train, which
was run down over the Wells River
road.