Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1882 — RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.

A terrible accident to a caboose full of workmen belonging to the North Adorns (Mass.) freight-yard occurred, in which twen-ty-seven men were injured, and several fatally. At about 6:39 a. m. the engineer, Charles Wells, and the firemall, Joseph Bostley, left the North Adams depot on the engine Deerfield, on the State road, pushing a caboose loaded with thirty men to go to work at different places ne-ir Zoar and Carleniont. The party in the car included a section gang, a gang of masons, stone cru hers, track layers and carpenters. The engine and caboose smarted for the tunnel, aud had gone about half way there when the caboose, which was in front, coll ded with a Troy and Boston engine. The caboose was ra’sed from its trucks and carried to the cowcatcher of the en ine Deerfield. The front of the eng'ne was smashed, and steam and hot water flew into the caboose. The men not hurt in the < ollision svere burned badly, and but few escaped without injury. Th- se svho had not been hurt by the collision endeavored to t scape, but were met by the hot water, steam and smoke and nearly smothered before they got out. Blood was spilled all along the track Four men died ivithin a few hours after the accident, and others will probably die from the effects of their injuries. A special freight train on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, north bound, struck a mule in a cow-cap a quarter of a mile north of Shepherdsville, Kv., ditching ten of the cars, and throwing the engine down a steep embankment The engineer, George Minott, was ins.antly killed. D. C. Cainmeron. a brakeman, was perhaps fatally injured, but nobody else was hurt. Fire in the cab of the New Brunsw ck (N. J.) passenger train on the Pennsylvania railroad threatened the travelers with a terrible death, but Engineer Steele, who had made his escape from the blazing spot, returned, reversed the engine and the train'stopped on the Hacken ack bridge. Mr. Steele, in performing his heroic act, was shockingly burned, and may not survive his injuries. A passenger train on the Memphis and Little Rock railroad was thrown from the track only a few miles west of Memphis by a bioken rail The engine and one car were demolished, and two cars were thrown down a small embankment. It is considered certain that eight men injured in the accident cannot live. A dispatch from Bridgeport, Ct., says that eight cars of the Boston through freight, bound East, were badly wrecked near Southport Station, on the New York and and New England railroad. Thomas Martin, a brakeman, was killed. Two brakemen were badly injured.