The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-08-23
Deliberate Attempt at Brattle.
bOrO to Destroy Train
CROWDED WITH TOURISTS
Result Is Collision with Freight on
siding-No One Killed and No Pas
sengers Seriously Hurt--Second
Attempt at wrecdng.

attempt to wreck the White Mountain
Limited train, which left New York at
o'clock Friday night crowded with pas
sengers bounds for the White mountains
resulted at 3 o'clock Saturday morning
in a head-on collision with Central
Vermont freight.
Fortunately no one was killed and no
passengers were seriously hurt. Chick"
Austin, a fireman on the White Noun
tain express, has crushed hand and,
probably, internal injuries and }. G,
Hawkins Of Manchester, n H., railway
mail clerk, Is in Brattleboro Memorial
hospital with two broken ribs
No more dastardly attempt at train
wreckine Ii on record in New England.
locked switch in the yard here was
thrown open and the signal light at the
switch extinguished The fact that the
express train. which was a double head
er, was running only ten miles an hour
as it entered the yard, prevented a more
serious accident,
The train ran from New York to
Springfield over the New York, New
Haven and Hartford line Springfield
Boston and Maine crew took charge
and an extra locomotive was added
About 1880 o'clock Saturday morning
a Central Vermont freight train passed
ever the switch in safety. This was
followed at 2;25 by the southbonnd
White Mountain express, At which time
the switch light was burning aud the
switch turned correctly. Between 2s25
and 2,4O the light was extiuguished and
The switch opened against the approach.
ing Of the northbound express train.
The White mountain train, Conductor
James Griffin Of Springfield, was made
up Of two engines, with Joseph Tecoy
and W. A. Cassidy both Of Springfield,
engineers, and dozen cars, mostly
sleepers. The extra New London freight,
Conductor John l. Dewey and Engineer
Henry Powers. both 81 New London. was
waiting on the siding for the express 10
pass Nhen the first engine Of the ex-
press took the open switch the engineer
whistled for brakes Engineer Powers
81 the freight heard tie signal. reversed
the engine and put on steam to back
the freight, surmisiug the danger, but
before the freight began to move the
heavy engines Of the express crashed
into It.
The locomotive Of the Central Yer
mont train was badly wrecked, and the
second ear IN the freight, box car load
Cd with lumber, was demolished. The
pilot Of one express engine was broken,
the boiler beams smashed and the head
work demolished. The second express
locomotive was wrecked beyond repair.
The heavily constructed sleeping cars
withstood the shock, butt the passengers
were thrown about in their berths and
considerably bruised
Fireman Austin was caught between
the tender and bis engine as he was inI
the act Of jumping. Postal Clerk Haw.
bins was thrown against a rack on the
side Of SIS ear.
Men in bath robes and women in Iii
monos were soon IN evidence after the
collision, but It was an orderly though
obviously excited crowd Of passengers.
Traffic was blocked two and half
hours
II was learned Saturday afternoon
that IN unsuccessful attempt at train
urecking was made at the same switch
earlier in Che week, and Il i understood
that detectives have since been working
on the case,