The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-05
TEN INJURED IN
RAILROAD ACCIDENT
Two Cars Left Rails at Hoosac Tun-
nel-Only Coupling With Engine
Prevented Catastrophe.

In a railroad accident at Hoosuc |
Tunnel about 'clock Saturday, on |
the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington rail |
road, 10 persons were more or less Sc
riously hurt and only the couplings of
the locomotive prevented "a terrible
catastrophe. Two ears containing
more than 100 people left the rails
about 200 yards from the Hoosac Tun-
mel station and all that saved them
from rolling to the bottom, of 40
foot embankment was the engine
coupling.
The train was running as an extra
and consisted of two coaches and an
engine. The coaches had been de-
! tached from the Boston excursion
| train at Hoosac Tunnel and had gone
| to Wilmington (Ft) as side trip for
| the Boston people, VINO came for a
| day s outing in the Berkshires. The
| trip to Wilmington and return had
| been made in safety until the station
| at Hoosac Tunnel was in sight. For
some unexplained reason the two
| coaches suddenly left the rails and
| started to roll down the embankment
to the Deerfield river. The engineer
quickly applied the emergency brakes
and brought the locomotive to stop.
| The two cars were left hanging down
/ the steep embankment and the engine
held them and they were thus pre-
vented from rolling to the bottom.
The passengers were hurled to the
rear of the ears over the backs of
seats and some Of them through the
windows. A crew of Boston & Maine
| trainmen at Hoosac Tunnel station
saw the accident aud hurried to the
assistance of the passengers. By the
use of axes they broke holes through
the cars and took many of the pas
[ sengers out through the openings.
Word was sent to North Adams and
| several physicians were taken over to
the scene of the wreck in a Boston Il
Maine electric locomotive. 1t was
found that none was seriously injured
! although most of the 100 or more pas
sengers were shaken up and bruised
The more seriously hurt were taken ia
the North Adams hospital, where their
wounds were dressed The list of in
iured follows:
Miss Eta Brady, II, of Lynn, dis
located shoulder
Miss Mary McCloskey, 81, of SIC
Western avenue, Lynn, fractured ell
bow
Miss Bertha Bright, 43. Of 332 MAR
street, WaItham, laceration of tho
scalp.
Linnatus w. Lunn. so. of soutl
Easton, face injured, scalp wounds
Mrs. Fred Cheskey, 81, COS Cabo-
street, Beverly, decorations of the legs
Walter Deans, Is, of Norton. Gu
| over the right eve.
Mrs. Nellie Marshall, A., of Dodg,
street, Beverly, right ear torn an,
body contusions .tar
Miss Alice Measland. 45. Of g.
Wordsworth avenue, Waltham, shocl
and body bruises.
Miss Margaret Ferguson. o6. o
|, Beacon Hill, Lynn, wrist laeerated an
hand cut
Henry Garretson, 81. of Newton III
u per Falls, shock and body bruises.
All of the injured, with the excer
o ton of Mrs. Fred Cheskev. Mrs. Ne
I lie Marshall and Walter Deans, wer
s able to leave the hospital that nj OH
y The others are at the Wellington h,
s tel in North Adams. Two or thre
q passengers who were hurt returned t
q Boston without going to North Adam
. The cNcursionists were part of tn
l,ouo people who had come from Boz
ton and vicinity to North Adams A
: of the passengers, with the exceptio
1 OF those in the coaches wrecked wei
= through to North Adams and many {
t. them returned to their homes tn.
Y night. The wrecked train was runnin
E. directly behind a regular and the onl
explanation advanced by passenge
d and others for the strange accident
p that the rails spread under the loa
:. which was unusually heavy for tn
road, which is but single track lin
=. running from Hoosac Tunnel to Wi
ol mington.
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