TROY, Jan. 25. – A tremendous gale prevailed all through
western Vermont, this morning. As the train,
which left Troy for Rutland at 7:15 A. M., was five or six miles above
Bennington in the town of Shaftsbury, Vt., it encountered the gale, while
passing an embankment about thirty feet high one of the cars was broken from
its coupling and thrown by the force of the wind down the bank. Dr. H. Wright, of Boston, a passenger, was
instantly killed. John Robinson, the
Road Master, was severely injured and will not survive. One other man and two ladies were slightly
injured.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 4
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