Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — DUMPED INTO THE DITCH. [ARTICLE]

DUMPED INTO THE DITCH.

Big Excursion Train la Wrecked Near Newport, Me. A special excursion train from Dover and Foxcraft, en route for the Spiritualist camp meeting at Etna camp ground, was wrecked midway between Newport, Me., and Etna station. One man was killed, three men and one woman were fatally injured, sixteen persons were seriously hurt and thirty-two others suffered slight scalp wounds and bruises. The train was crowded with happy excursionists and was running at the rate of forty miles an hour, when without any warning the rear car gave a great pitch, bounced down a ten-foot embankment, and after dragging along, several lengths became separated from the remainder of the train. The car landed in soft mud, bottom up. The accident was caused by the breaking of one of the rear trucks of the derailed car on a straight piece of track.