Meadows Accident

The 4:15 P.M. train from Newton to Franklin Conductor Burrell, met with quite an accident on the meadows near the big spring, on Saturday last. While passing a marshy spot where the track was somewhat sunken, the tender of the locomotive and the first freight car jumped the track. Fortunately, the train was going slowly, and was soon stopped, but not until the fore trucks of the first car were completely twisted about. Had the train been running fast, a great deal of injury would have been the result. The passengers were sent by the way of Drake's pond, and workers began to repair damages. The tender placed on the track, new trucks put under the freight car, and the work completed at about half past ten o'clock.