1897 - SEVERAL VERMONTERS INJURED In Railroad Wreck Near Readsboro This Morning.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass., March 31.---There was an accident this morning on the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington R. R. a quarter of a mile below Readsboro, Vt. The train was due at hoosac Tunnel at 9:50. Two cars rolled over on their sides and lodged on the brink of a bank 25 feet high.

Several passengers were more or less injured. Those most seriously hurt were:

G. W. Averill of North Adams, cut on face and hands;

Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter, of Whitingham, Vt., bruised on chest and internally injured;

Miss Bertha Wheeler of Whitingham, shock and cut on face;

C. E. Wheeler of Whitingham, cut on the head and injured internally;

Frank Childs, Wilmington, leg lacerated by broken glass;

Spreading rails caused the accident would have proven most disastrous.

Assistance was summoned from Readsboro and Hoosac Tunnel. The officials are very attentive. The injured are being well cared for.