The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-09-09
existing conditions at the local
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PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
Impressions of Some Of the Injured
and How They Escaped from
the Wreckage

EH6lHccT OuuiclI IL 10 Ht6uiy ploudpic
that all the injured will recover with
out any permanent effects.
Harry Roebuck, who was taken to
his rooms in the Y. M. C. A. is under
the care of DR.. A. S. M. Chisholm.
The physician would not permit him
to be interviewed this morning be-
cause of his condition. Every muscle
in his body is sore and he is suffer
ing from confusion of the right thigh
His condition is rendered serious by
the fact that he is suffering severely
from the shock. The critical period
is passing, however, and although his
heart action is irregular, DR.. CHS
holm hopes to have him in a normal
condition within the next several
days, with the exception of the
bruises. A bad scalp wound has
added to the seriousness of his con-
dition.
Yesterday he was visited by his
relatives. His mother, Mrs. Charles
Roebuck of Williamstown, who has
been visiting at Sand Springs came
to Bennington Sunday morning at
9.45 and spent the morning with her
son. Mr.. Roebuck came to Benning-
ton in the afternoon. A brother of
Harry Roebuck in North Adams is
suffering from pleurisy and Mrs. Roe
buck is compelled TO divide her time
between them.
Thomas +. Slattery of South street
was able to sit up this morning. He
is suffering from a bruised shoulder,
his right ear was nearly severed from
his head and he has numerous cuts
and burns. He was very reticent in
! describing his experience and said
that he had been interviewed Satur.
day night while still badly dazed and
been quoted as saying a lot of things.
He said this morning that he was
in the baggage compartment of
the combination car when the
| crash came. He said that
he could not remember any.
thing that happened, that his
memory was not clear and that It was
all mere dazed impression like a
half-remembered dream He could
remember, however, that George H.
Warren had got on the train at Ben.
nington and entered the baggage
car Mr.. Slattery stated that il is
impossible to describe the force OF
the impact. He was thrown the
length of the baggage com
parement and struck on his
head and right shoulder. He
can remember of crawling over
the seats at the front of the car
but does not know why he should
have taken that manner of exit when
the side door of the baggage car was
wide open. He noticed that the lights
of the car, which was tipped on its
side. were smoking badly and remem-
bers OF crawling over the seats and
trying to put them out. They tell
me put them out" said Mr.. Stat
terry, but | don't know whether | did
or not. PROFESSIONALLY the wreck
age would have caught fire had not
the lights been put out, but Mr.. Stat
terry thinks that if he put them out,
II wasn't because he was thinking
that much, but just because they
were smoking. He crawled out, but
can not remember from which end of
thescar he made his exit. He was
completely daZed and. must have
wandered around in the dark for
some time. He has several bad
burns, but is unable to explain them
as there was no steam in the car in
which he was nor in the other pas
senger car. He thinks he may have
been burned by steam when the boil
er exploded. but he has no recol-
lection of that event.
He remembers having met Conduc-
tor Shufelt and asking him what in
Gods name had happened, but re-
ceived no reply from Shufelt who
seemed TO be out of his head and
wandering around in the dark.
Mr.. Slattery does not remember
being placed on the trolley car which
TOOK him to Bennington but
remembers having been on
IT, When he arrived here
he was suffering from choking
sensation in his chest and thinking
he had internal injuries kept NOV
ing about.
He refused to be carried to his
home on South street fearing lest
his wife should be unduly alarmed.
lie was accompanied to his residence
by Francis Greenslet and Peter Nc
CURE. Mrs. Slattery had been noti-
ned OF the accident. The railroad
company had sent a boy to tell her
OF the accident. She was com
ing down town. met the boy. but
thinking that il was an attempt to
break news of a more serious nature
was terribly upset and had to be
aided to her home.
George n. Warren, a former resi-
dent OF Bennington now living in Rut-
land, was one of the three men in
the baggage car of the passenger
Tram MT Warren, who is an express
messenger running out Of Rutland.
has not been in the best OF health re-
Gently and has been on a short vaca-
ton which he has been passing with
his mother, Mrs. John II. Warren of
School street He had been expect-
ing a letter from the express com
pany and was making the trim 10
North Bennington for the purpose of
taking the letter from the messenger
on the south bound train.
The other two men in the baggage
car, said Mr.. Warren, were Thomas
Siattery. the trainman, and a strane.
er Trainman Slattery was sitting
az his desk making out the record OF
the trunks and other checked bag
gage When the two trains came to
gether, Mr.. Warren said that he was
tnroNn from one end Of the car IA
me Other There was a second lurch
ana he was thrown in the other az.
rection- The lights went out with
tne nrst crash and the car was IN