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Show I mm TRAfNJSDlTCHED Harrison-On-The-Sound, N. Y., April 12. Two hundred and fifty passengers passen-gers on the Green Mountain express, the "hoodoo train" of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, had :i miraculous escape from death or serious injury today when the two electric motors pulling the train jumped the track, followed by two steel mail cars and a combination smoker and baggage car, and carried away the steel towers supporting the electric feed wires, which fell on the track and cars, sending 11.000 volts of electricity sputtering and flashing in all directions. Not one of the passengers was Injured In-jured in any way, but the motorman and three other members of the crew suffered slight cuts and bruises. The motors and three cars after leaving the rails crashed against the stone coping of the Sterling lane bridge, tossing tons of stone aside, burrowed through a stretch of sand, demolished the steel supports of a caternary bridge carrying the electric elec-tric feed wires and finally came to a stop after tearing another steel pillar from its concrete foundations. One of the cars was half buried in a pile of sand. It was discovered later that the pony trucks of one of the motors had jumped the rails half a mile south of the point where the remainder remaind-er of the train left the track. The bolts were shorn off for this distance. The train left the Grand Central station sta-tion for Montreal at S:05 a. m., and was running about fifty miles an hour. |