The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-15
TEN PERSONS KILLED.
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cars and the combination ear. and piling
up about a dozen freight cars.
The freight engine was thrown down
l0-foot embankment toward the river
while the passenger engine was thrown
to the opposite side of the track, both
tangled pieces of wreckage
Cornelius Sullivan of Bellows Falls,
the passenger engineer, is supposed to
be under his engine, but his body had
not been found this noon His fireman,
William Farrell of Rutland, was killed
instantly and was found under the de-
bris. F. j Rafferty, of Rutland, pas
senger brakeman, also met instant death.
Freight Engineer George Cady of Rut-
land was killed at his post and his
body was not found until this morning
about 8 o clock. His fireman, Ralph
Pean of Bellows Falls, jumped into
Williams river when he realized the i'm
pending disaster, and was only slightly
hurt In his wet clothing, which froze.
he returned to the wreck, seized an axe
and did valiant rescue work.
Brakeman A. NJ. Granger of Rutland
one of the freight crew, was missing
last night, but his body was found this
morning in the ruins.
Besides the five trainmen two mas
sengers in the smoker were killed where
they sat and three others in the same
ear were fatally hurt. their deaths oc-
curing later in the Rockingham hos
pital in Bellows Falls Two of them
were sealded by escaping steam from
a locomotive so that large sections of
skin fell off One of the two was
breathing when removed from the car.
but he died in a few minutes. Whether
their deaths would have resulted from
injuries aside from their burns is not
known.
John Lent of Rockingham was one OF
the two instantly killed and the other
was DR.. William G.. Hunter of 50 Derby
avenue, New Haven. Conn, a dentist
supposedly travelling for the BORNE Co
of New York.
The three who died in the hospital
were Frank s. Lent of Rockingham son
of John, Enoch Boulsh of Ludlow and
George A. Smonds of % st. Lawrence
street, Portland, Me-, travelling sales
man, whose death took place about II
o clock last night
Directly following the accident pas
senger whose identity is not known ran
up over hill about three quarters of 4
mile to a farmhouse where there was a
telephone and telephoned to Below
Falls. An engine and ear and all the
physicians and surgeons in Bellows Falls
who could be gotten together were sent
Immediately to the scene, and the
wounded were taken back to the Rock
lngham hospital in Bellows Falls.
There was no fire following the wreck.
and so far as can be learned there are
no injured persons in houses, the hos
pital or elsewhere. I.
A wrecklng crew was sent from Bel
lows Falls and another from Rutland.
and they cleared and repaired the track
this forenoon, hauling the wreckage off
beside the track.
Nell ID. Clawson of BrattlebOro, clerk
OF the Vermont public service commits
sion, rode from Keene to Bellows Falls
on the passenger train, and he was in
Bellows Falls when the report Of the
wreck was received there. He left at
once by team for the scene of the wreck
lie found that orders had been issued
Tor the trains to pass at Bartonsyille
Inc passenger train was due to leave
Bellows Falls at 2.35.
Arrangements are being made for a
nearing before the public service com.
mission to determine the responsibility
| Tor the accident. 1t will be held in
FELLOWS Rails Wednesday at 10 am.