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Show A Singular Aceldent. A singular and fatal accident occurred occur-red near Pond Eddy, a snmll station on the Delaware division of the Erie railway, resulting in the death of two men, Michael Dully and iliiam Stewart. As the night cxprc-s wa-rounding wa-rounding a curve the engineer ubcov-ercd ubcov-ercd two men walking on the ea-ivard hound track. lie immediately eavc the alarm, when Stewart, who was r. short di-iance behind Duffy, stcppcl fr.'iu 1 1 1 o track, but Dully r. n;ained o:i and in a moment more wa- .-ira.k by the engine and hurled about twenty fe;t to ibe left of the track, and instantly in-stantly kil el; and strantte a- il may appear. Stewar'. who at the time wa-s'.me wa-s'.me di-tance from the traek, apparently appar-ently out of reach of all danger, wast wa-st ruck by Duffy with such force as to Ire thrown against a pile of stones and have his head cru-hed. He was alive when pieked up. but died -oon after hi- arrival at Port Jervi-. |