Show A FRIGHTFUL CALAMITY 1lt IUlod u1 111 ljurl1 oil I lie i rllunit Central Itonil SpniNoriHB AIiss leb h5ftie nuht express trill for Montreal which left hero at SIr clock last night ran off tho bridge at Woodstock Vermont two miles north of White lItter Junction and the Bleeping VI rc n l dId pissenei cars and bridge wore entirely burned J is icported that there arent large iiumbei of persons injured and tho number killed and burned is also reported to bn large Conductor Sturtonnt was fatally injured Iho accident occurred probably between I and 2 clock this morning on tho Central crnjont road IIIOY New York Feb iIt is itpoited hero that sixteen persons were killed tj tho accident last niehton tho eruiont Central Hallway near White River Junction Sreinurtriign Hums Feb thThe accIdent to the Montreal express at Woodstock bridge VSSUMIH intOUTHJL 1RO1O1TIONS As furthci particulais are learned the trim was lbs 1I0 toll A Montreal I xpress on tho crmont Central Itailroid with connections con-nections at White lliver Junction with tho Montieil express from bprmglleld rank Wesson a son of D 1 Wesson of this city of tho firm of Smith t Wesson tho t pistol manufactuicis was Idled 1 mil it is reported that tho loss of life is large rite train 1 consisted ofb otto sleeping g und pissongei coach from here one Chic f Chi-c ipo Bleeping car connected nt White lliver junction ono Boston sleeping oar ono mail cir from Boston and another passenger coach one baggage nnd ono express oar There tire rumors that fifty lives were lost IlninronD Vt Feb 15rhe night i express which l left White Itivor junction bound for Ir tU Montreal semi filletS with passongern dj > v unit coaches timid two sleeplue earn rLUNai oven JL BIUDOE SIXTY JCL man Into tho river Before the engmeei 01 inn ono could get to lie wreck tho cars had caught lire and burned Iho bridge also was burned amid insUIo of twenty minute all were destroyed I is estimated that fifty persons score killed Honry luxbury of West Stan l g Ylest dolph crmont n well known lectur I cr is among those killed dward P Dillon of Springfield Vt was killed Ho was a member of thin Sophomore class at Dartmouth and pitcher for tho University nine nineIrm oFIELD Mass Feb TtFruumlk Aos son who was killed was about tljears old and leaves a wife and four children Ho was n brother in law of John W Lowell tho Now York publisher The latest reports received here Mate that tho number killed reaches twenty and that about as miny moro wero injured Tilt ECLNL OF Tllh ISA8TU CONCOIIU Nl lob ISThe express tram that I f liostonat 7 last night met with n terrible accident near Woodstocl on the Central Vermont Itailroad nt about 230 clock this morning Iho tram started from this city in time but was detained at Whlp Sliver Juncton so that it was about an hour and n half late when it loft theme I consisted of n locomotive Imgga0e en postal cor two pissengcr coaches nnd two sleeping cars and was running at the usual rato of speed AV hen about TO jards south of tho end of n deck bridge near Old Windsor station a broken rail was struck The locomotive baggage car and postal car broko away from the rest of the rnlri t1c train passing ovor hue I bridge ri safety The rest of tho train was thrown from tho II rails and continued on Ibo road bod until it camo near tho end of the bridge but there it ran over an abutment and all of tho cars nn INTO WIIITI iiiVLii faomo fifty feet bolow Iho forgo at this point is I irigbtful and when tho cars wont ocr thoro was n terrible crash As soon as possible the eletiohcd part of thin train was Btopp d nnd ran back to the scene of tho disaster dis-aster rime shrieks of tho injured wero hcirtrondhiR Assistance also came from people living in the vicinity vicin-ity and ever thing was done to rescue and relievo tho injured Soon after help arrived it wasdiscovered that n tiro had started in tho first passongar colon and soon OI entire trim was ablaze thus adding add-ing n now honor to tho already frightful catastrophe those present woro powerless to stop tho fro nnd devoted them solves entirely to attempting to rescue those impiisoned in tlio fearful wreck Site reaonor met with another andunox ptcted obstacle in tho heat which haul become be-come BO Intense that thoy woro obliged i to relinquish their elTorts to save the sutler I I era imutut were compelled to retreat to n place I II r ofsafot for tin mselves and to become I nn willing and horror stricken UTN1HSLS or Till AWfUl 1IOIOCAUBT In addition to this nnd to add to the horror and suffering of lie passengers tho weather wn Intensely cold amid the heroic rescuers nero hindered thereby in their work No rh Yt hl i hfdh water could bo obtained with which to check or extinguish the flames Ihoico was several inches thick on the river and there woro no appliances at hand to raise it Iwenty six portions BO far as known woro taken out alivo from tho cars which were burned Iwo of these nro understood to ho Mr Wesson this pistol mnnnfao tnror of hprlngurld and Ed llrooklo 1 II I 3 0om haul I u lirakeman but they t died soon after Iho two pis3cnetr coaches snore well filled Slid over berth in both Bleeping cars was occupied nnd twelve in tho I ono j from Springfield making tha total t nuiubei of pi soiicr > i in the wrecked oars about eight I lliis will pmh tbl > make thn Nusimtu or IIBAII IIKTWIEN XIFTY AND SIXTY Iho bridge was between thirty and fortv fiol nlumi time water which wax loured with thick nit making it probihlo that di nth resulted from crushing and burning rather than from I Several 1 drowning wcro 1tl tl hro penned in l Jcr wreck vhomleht I hays been bouid nllvo but for the Ilium llrnkpnmn Ink r who was on the forward end of tho first paflsen i i car felt tho jar and snvi d his lifo h IIII lIe hocuridacon lifnlij jumping Hoipilrkl II 001 vejanco Shiver function and curried Ito I now to White Hver lllotll |