Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-03-18
% DIE IN WRECK
At BELLOWS FALLS
Freight and Passenger Trains
Collide Head.On-Three Train
men and One Passenger Are
Killed Outright

Bellows Falls. March 1.-THE worst
railroad wreck in this section In many
years happened at $3.50 O'Clock this af-
ernoo on the Rutland railroad three
miles north of here. Four people were
killed outright and three were SO badly
injured that they died in the hospital
soon after.
Passenger train No. 165, an hour and a
half late left Bellows Falls for Rutland
and met head-on with an extra freight
No. 100 south-bound. Both engines were
completely wrecked and freight cars were
doubled up and thrown both sides OF the
track. The passenger train consisted or
an engine, two milk cars, a combination
smoker and baggage car, a day coach.
a. diner and a pullman. The engine passed
clear through both milk cars and stuck
in the middle of the smoker.
Engineer George Cady and fireman Will
liam Farrell, both Of Rutland, in charge
OF the freight train, were both Instant
iy killed. Engineer Cornelius sullivan or
Bellows Falls of the passenger train was
killed, but his fireman, Ralph Bean, on
Bellows Falls jumped and landed In the
Connecticut river in water to his waist
and escaped injury.
An hour after the collision an engine
from Bellows Falls took F. s. Lent or
Rockingham. Enoch Bullock of Ludlow
and George A. Simonds OF Portland, Me-
a travelling salesman, to the Rockingham
hospital in Bellows Falls, where Lent
and Bullock died in a short time. Simonds
died shortly before II o'clock tonight.
]. S. Lent of Rockingham. father Of the
man who died in the hospital. was killed
and his body Is still in the wreck. There
were five in the smoker and only one
ESCAPED uninjured. One was killed out
right and three died In the hospital. The
two milk cars saved the passengers In
the day coach who all escaped with minor
injuries.
1t will not he possible to clear the wreck
until day light. It is reported that a
mixing of orders is responsible for the
wreck the freight surprising II had a
clear track to Bellows Falls and the
passenger having orders to meet the
freight at Rartonsville, seven miles north
of Bellows Falls. The accident happened
on a sharp curve.
Bellows Falls, March 1.-THE Rutlan
railroad In A statement issued tonight
said It did not know the cause of the ac-
cident. adding that the freight had no
time card rights over the passenger train.
II ldlltI a was 'dNt, '''
1t was said a misunderstanding OF orders
might have been responsible for the
collision. At the railroad offices tonight
1t was said that the dispatcher had under
stood that the two trains were to pass
at Bartonsville seven miles north Of here,
where there is a siding.
DEATH LIST REACHES EIGHT
Bellows Falls, March flight men
lost their lives as a result of a head-on
collision between g. west hound Boston e.
Montreal express train and a freight train
on the Rutland railroad three miles
north Of here late to-day. Another man
is missing and it is feared that his body
is in the wreckage. Five were killed
outright and three, who were taken to
a hospital, succumbed to their injuries
tonight.
The body Of Francis J. Rafferty,, a train
man, was found in the wreckage late to-
night. Search was continued for A. NJ.
Granger, a brakeman, who was missing.