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Show I A Kttilrond tt'rerb. Bangor, Maine, 15. A special frcrx Carlelon, N. Ii., says New Brunswick railway cars ran off the track neaj Florenceville last night; a passenger car containing twenty piissengers took fire and W:1S burned aiid Mr. Parker, of Fort Faiifitld, kill. J. A child WHS burned and fiftrei, peraocs injured Parker id tuppew. d tn mean Hacker. Other d spa-ebes stato that Nathan Peiry, t;l I'r.aquo ls!e, a former pro prittor ot t:ie Ha'eb heiue, this tit", was killed and hun e-.I. A pastei gt;r gives the f-llowiLg account: ac-count: The train was going nt a moderate rate of epetd wbuu wc reached Peel. Suddenly thero was ft shock. The train h d jumped the track and we found the passenger, car waa rolling down one of the nort embankments on the liue. The car had almost reached the wit?r'a edge whan it waa diacoveic-d it ti..d caught h-e. The llaniea aprtad rapidly, and men took oil their coats and tried to extincimh the fire, but without avail. The flames had complete possession and leappd (rum scat to sot rendering the passengers almost frantic with fear. The clothing of those aboard Boon caught fire, and as tbe people rushed from one part of the car to another, in burning garments, the Bcene ws moat terrible. The little boy who burned to death liaa managed to keep clear of Ihe tire long alter the clothing ot many other I passengers had caught, but in his anxiety for the safely of some of his friends, rushed into the fUmea and perished. |
