Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-06-11
CARS GO DOWN
EM8ANK MENT

| Braintree June THE northbound
Montreal express on the Central Vermont
railway was derailed about 215 O'Clock
this morning between this station and
Randolph, on curve Three cars went
| over the bank into the river, they being
the mail, baggage and express cars and
two passenger coaches lay across the
tracks hut did not go over One passen-
| ger coach fell over on it's side and pas
sengers were lifted out through the win
| dows.
SIX passengers and four railway en-
! ployes We're hurt, none fatally The Pull
man cars did not leave the irons, neither
did the engine. The cause of the accident
is not determined, but the opinion is ex-
pressed by passengers and others that 1t
was due to n broken rail
GENERAL MANAGER ON TRAIN.
Among tho passengers on the rain
were Vice-Presdent and General Mana
ger G. C. Jones of st. Adams who di-
rectod the relief of the injured and the
movement of trains after the wreck, and
members Of the University Of Vermont
baseball team returning from New Hav-
en-, where the team played Yale yester-
day. They were in the sleepers which
did not leave the tracks
The wreck train. carrying passenger
coaches, was despatched from St Adams,
and passengers for way stations were
transferred and carried to their destin-
alton. The through coach and sleeping
car passengers were taken to Randolph,
railroad company The Pullmans we're
thnr1 hatt ln1 l,,
ton and taken via the Passumpsic divis-
Ion of the Boston & Maine and the Mont
pelier Wells River railroad to Mont
pelier and from there sent north over
the Central Vermont. At Montpelier the
passengers We're given their dinner at
the Pavilion hotel and Montpelier House
by the company.
RAILROAD ISSUES STATEMENT.
The official statement of the derailment
made by the railroad company was as
follows:
Five forward cars of train No. | left
the rails four miles north of Randolph
Cause not yet determined. Baggage car
mail car and express car turned over and
badly damaged Two coaches derailed,
not damaged. Four employees and six
jured. Train moving at moderate rate
of speed at time of derailment Pas
sengers transferred to Pullman sleepers.
and taken to Randolph and taken care of
by the railroad company, and then taken
back to White River Junction and de
toured via the Boston & Maine and
Montpelier X Wells River railroads. with
delay of about eight and one half
hours The injured: Mrs Harmsdos
foue, Manchester. y. H., side sprained;
f. j. Rohar, Brattleboro. finger cut and
leg bruised: Helen Brown, Marlboro.
Mass, head cut slightly; Fred Dysone.
address not known, wrist sprained: W
W. H"2gic, Maiden. Mass. KIN" wrench
ed; Joe Deruel, address not KIN wn, wris4
spralned; w. u. Dodge mail clerk,
Nashua, n. H. back sprained George r.
Estee. Windsor Hills. Mass. mail clerk.
slightly bruised F. L. Whitcomb. brake
man. White River Junction, ankle sprain-
ed; j. l.. Council, express messenger.
st. Adams, severe bruises and sprains
Engine and sleepers not derailed Con-
ductor ]. A. Connor, Engineer George w.
Allen"
PINNED UNDER CASTING.
The employees injured were on the for
ward cars, the mall, baggage and express
cars, which went over the embankment
and pointed head down into the river, |
which runs along side the railroad right !
OF way. The injured mail clerks and !
orakemen went back to White River juno !
ton and from there to their homes ]. L. |
Connell. the express messenger, came |
north with the train to his home in st. !
nj
IN iron casting weighing $50 pounds. He
was rescued from his predcament by his
assistant Mr. Tierney Of Barre, who was
not hurt. and who was left behind to
guard the express matter
The newspaper train was sent north
BY way of Wells River and Montpelier
The New England States Limited was
sent south Sunday noon by way of the
wreck, it being expected that the trouble
would be cleared so that the delay would
lot he over an hour or tuo