| Show FATAL RAILROAD WRECK cars and locomotive demolished by the accident switch failed to work and an express special went ant into the ditch killing three persons person s and wounding many others i canton masa mass aug 8 three men were killed and a number of others severely injured at canton junction on the new york new haven and hartford railway today by an express special from new york to boston jumping the tracks Thede the dead adare are james JamesS beldon engineer G K X knowlton fireman james fedt engineer injured I 1 mail muil clerks joa joe killet hillet peter carroll L E H butterfield F 1 lincoln C A buckland A 31 seymour T TE E denny there were fourteen mail clerks on the train who bras was riding in the cab was the engineer of a gravel train and was on his way to work at macefield Ma defield the accident was caused by a misplaced switch the special was running at high speed on a down grade at the bottom of the dope slope the switch at a siding tailed failed to work and in an instant the cars were off the track toe engine and forward car were turned over on their sides and the other three cars were thrown from their trucks the rho locomotive was completely demolished I 1 and the forward car was telescoped |
