Excerpts from a longer story in the Rutland Daily Herald and Globe, Dec. 11, 1878:
The evening train from Boston, due in Rutland at 9:00 p.m., last evening, ran into a washout about 2 1/2 miles south of Bartonsville, and eight miles from Bellows Falls, near Brockway's mills. The scene of the accident being so far from a telegraph office our reports are meagre. We learn that E.D. Davis, fireman, of Rutland, Mr. Frank A. Kemp, express messenger, of Bellows Falls, and a lady passenger, name unknown, were killed. Mr. Christopher Rice, 2d, baggage master, of Rutland, is seriously injured, and there are several others injured, more or less, whose names we are unable to learn. A wreck train left Rutland last night at 10 o'clock for the scene of the accident with orders to proceed slowly, as the water was very high, and there was a liability of other washouts.
Mr. Edwin D. Davis was a son-in-law of Mr. Robert O. Hewitt; he resided on Elm street, in this village, and leaves an aged mother, wife and two children. He had been a fireman on the Rutland Division for about seven years; was a pleasant, companionable man, and was much respected by the managers of the road and by all who knew him...
The locomotive "J.M. Haven," hauling the train, and the entire train, are in the washout. Mr. Albert Pratt was engineer and Mr. Josiah Bowtell was conductor of the train.
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A dispatch received from Supt. J.W. Hobart, from St. Albans, dated 1:05 this morning, says: "It is reported that Ed. Davis is killed, Kit Rice badly wounded and Engineer Pratt wounded. The roads are in such a condition that they cannot get to the wreck, either by rail or by highway from Bartonsville, which accounts for not being able to give more particulars. Expect to hear more fully from Bellows Falls soon."
Dispatches were sent to every source we thought possible to get full particulars, but it was impossible to get them from any one, or to get a full list of killed or injured. As we go to press it seems sure that three persons were killed, namely E.D. Davis, Frank A. Kemp and an unknown lady passenger. Christopher Rice, it is reported, will probably live. Albert Pratt is wounded. The wrecking train, sent out from Rutland last night, at last accounts was at Chester, unable to get to the wreck.
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The bodies of Davis and Kemp are at a farm house near the washout. Pratt, the engineer, has his collar bone broken. There were none of the passengers injured seriously. The report of a lady passenger being killed is, therefore, untrue.
The evening train from Boston, due in Rutland at 9:00 p.m., last evening, ran into a washout about 2 1/2 miles south of Bartonsville, and eight miles from Bellows Falls, near Brockway's mills. The scene of the accident being so far from a telegraph office our reports are meagre. We learn that E.D. Davis, fireman, of Rutland, Mr. Frank A. Kemp, express messenger, of Bellows Falls, and a lady passenger, name unknown, were killed. Mr. Christopher Rice, 2d, baggage master, of Rutland, is seriously injured, and there are several others injured, more or less, whose names we are unable to learn. A wreck train left Rutland last night at 10 o'clock for the scene of the accident with orders to proceed slowly, as the water was very high, and there was a liability of other washouts.
Mr. Edwin D. Davis was a son-in-law of Mr. Robert O. Hewitt; he resided on Elm street, in this village, and leaves an aged mother, wife and two children. He had been a fireman on the Rutland Division for about seven years; was a pleasant, companionable man, and was much respected by the managers of the road and by all who knew him...
The locomotive "J.M. Haven," hauling the train, and the entire train, are in the washout. Mr. Albert Pratt was engineer and Mr. Josiah Bowtell was conductor of the train.
*****LATEST*****
A dispatch received from Supt. J.W. Hobart, from St. Albans, dated 1:05 this morning, says: "It is reported that Ed. Davis is killed, Kit Rice badly wounded and Engineer Pratt wounded. The roads are in such a condition that they cannot get to the wreck, either by rail or by highway from Bartonsville, which accounts for not being able to give more particulars. Expect to hear more fully from Bellows Falls soon."
Dispatches were sent to every source we thought possible to get full particulars, but it was impossible to get them from any one, or to get a full list of killed or injured. As we go to press it seems sure that three persons were killed, namely E.D. Davis, Frank A. Kemp and an unknown lady passenger. Christopher Rice, it is reported, will probably live. Albert Pratt is wounded. The wrecking train, sent out from Rutland last night, at last accounts was at Chester, unable to get to the wreck.
*****THE VERY LATEST*****
The bodies of Davis and Kemp are at a farm house near the washout. Pratt, the engineer, has his collar bone broken. There were none of the passengers injured seriously. The report of a lady passenger being killed is, therefore, untrue.
Excerpts from a longer story in the Rutland Daily Herald and Globe, Dec. 11, 1878:
The evening train from Boston, due in Rutland at 9:00 p.m., last evening, ran into a washout about 2 1/2 miles south of Bartonsville, and eight miles from Bellows Falls, near Brockway's mills. The scene of the accident being so far from a telegraph office our reports are meagre. We learn that E.D. Davis, fireman, of Rutland, Mr. Frank A. Kemp, express messenger, of Bellows Falls, and a lady passenger, name unknown, were killed. Mr. Christopher Rice, 2d, baggage master, of Rutland, is seriously injured, and there are several others injured, more or less, whose names we are unable to learn. A wreck train left Rutland last night at 10 o'clock for the scene of the accident with orders to proceed slowly, as the water was very high, and there was a liability of other washouts.
Mr. Edwin D. Davis was a son-in-law of Mr. Robert O. Hewitt; he resided on Elm street, in this village, and leaves an aged mother, wife and two children. He had been a fireman on the Rutland Division for about seven years; was a pleasant, companionable man, and was much respected by the managers of the road and by all who knew him...
The locomotive "J.M. Haven," hauling the train, and the entire train, are in the washout. Mr. Albert Pratt was engineer and Mr. Josiah Bowtell was conductor of the train.
*****LATEST*****
A dispatch received from Supt. J.W. Hobart, from St. Albans, dated 1:05 this morning, says: "It is reported that Ed. Davis is killed, Kit Rice badly wounded and Engineer Pratt wounded. The roads are in such a condition that they cannot get to the wreck, either by rail or by highway from Bartonsville, which accounts for not being able to give more particulars. Expect to hear more fully from Bellows Falls soon."
Dispatches were sent to every source we thought possible to get full particulars, but it was impossible to get them from any one, or to get a full list of killed or injured. As we go to press it seems sure that three persons were killed, namely E.D. Davis, Frank A. Kemp and an unknown lady passenger. Christopher Rice, it is reported, will probably live. Albert Pratt is wounded. The wrecking train, sent out from Rutland last night, at last accounts was at Chester, unable to get to the wreck.
*****THE VERY LATEST*****
The bodies of Davis and Kemp are at a farm house near the washout. Pratt, the engineer, has his collar bone broken. There were none of the passengers injured seriously. The report of a lady passenger being killed is, therefore, untrue.
The evening train from Boston, due in Rutland at 9:00 p.m., last evening, ran into a washout about 2 1/2 miles south of Bartonsville, and eight miles from Bellows Falls, near Brockway's mills. The scene of the accident being so far from a telegraph office our reports are meagre. We learn that E.D. Davis, fireman, of Rutland, Mr. Frank A. Kemp, express messenger, of Bellows Falls, and a lady passenger, name unknown, were killed. Mr. Christopher Rice, 2d, baggage master, of Rutland, is seriously injured, and there are several others injured, more or less, whose names we are unable to learn. A wreck train left Rutland last night at 10 o'clock for the scene of the accident with orders to proceed slowly, as the water was very high, and there was a liability of other washouts.
Mr. Edwin D. Davis was a son-in-law of Mr. Robert O. Hewitt; he resided on Elm street, in this village, and leaves an aged mother, wife and two children. He had been a fireman on the Rutland Division for about seven years; was a pleasant, companionable man, and was much respected by the managers of the road and by all who knew him...
The locomotive "J.M. Haven," hauling the train, and the entire train, are in the washout. Mr. Albert Pratt was engineer and Mr. Josiah Bowtell was conductor of the train.
*****LATEST*****
A dispatch received from Supt. J.W. Hobart, from St. Albans, dated 1:05 this morning, says: "It is reported that Ed. Davis is killed, Kit Rice badly wounded and Engineer Pratt wounded. The roads are in such a condition that they cannot get to the wreck, either by rail or by highway from Bartonsville, which accounts for not being able to give more particulars. Expect to hear more fully from Bellows Falls soon."
Dispatches were sent to every source we thought possible to get full particulars, but it was impossible to get them from any one, or to get a full list of killed or injured. As we go to press it seems sure that three persons were killed, namely E.D. Davis, Frank A. Kemp and an unknown lady passenger. Christopher Rice, it is reported, will probably live. Albert Pratt is wounded. The wrecking train, sent out from Rutland last night, at last accounts was at Chester, unable to get to the wreck.
*****THE VERY LATEST*****
The bodies of Davis and Kemp are at a farm house near the washout. Pratt, the engineer, has his collar bone broken. There were none of the passengers injured seriously. The report of a lady passenger being killed is, therefore, untrue.
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