Crider - McDowell Family Tree

He with 13 others was killed instantly near Northfield, Vermont, on the Vermont Central R.R., on a train of cars precipitated, by the most wanton heedlessness of the engineer, down an embankment of seventy feet at the Harlow Bridge. This bridge, some 300 feet in length, had been recently burned and a party of 60 or more workmen were engaged in repairing it, who were returning at the time from their dinner at the neighboring town of Northfield, some two miles distant, to their work. Most who were not killed outright were seriously injured.