The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-11-09
THE RocKisLAND RAILROAD ACCIDENT
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ihE ockfSLAND RAILROAD ACCIDENT
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rom Inc Chicago Dsmoeratic Free Press. Nov 81
1nepuolis were startled yesterday morning by
inteffgence of an accident to the passenger trsin
on the Rock Ialand Railroad which le this city Il
IL O'Clock on Wednesday night. Theirst aceounts
were greatly exaggerated, is frequently The case
but the actual facts are sufficiently painful The
following account is made out from the statements
OF those who were on the spot, and may be Relied
upon ~ correct:
Atthrec o'clock yesterday afternoon, two chill
dren had died. and two three persons would
probably not recover. The remainder of those
who were scalded were being made as comfortable
as possible, and but few of them win be laid up
more Than two or three days. 4
The train consisted of seven passenger coaches
WIN baggage car, under the charge of Mr. Van
Buskifk conductor. At q little past o'clock when
tour nh ss west OF Minooka, the train running at
hs average usual speed, about twenty miles an
hour, the forward axle of the locomotive truck
broke and the wheel flew Cf This was distinctly
seen oy both engineer and fireman. The engineer
Immediately attempted 10 reverse aud whistle for
tue oraies but was unableto do 20 before the truck
had settled down, and the locomotive was thereby
thrown from the track. After noticing the flying
wheel, he saw a horse upon or near the track
which was fouud killed ON the spot He b cobfi.
nUWeVeT, tne axle DrOke before the train
reached the horsa and that the animal had no con-
Hrction with the train being thrown off the track
The appearance of the horse also corroborafes the
engineers statement as he is not mangled, as he
would have been had he been the occasion of the
accident. This section of the railroad Ia securely
fenced but there is road crossing ust at the point
where the cars lie, by which 1t is probable the
horse came in the way The engineer, VIM. G..
Brown, csc aped with afew slight bruises. but his
brother, the fireman, had one leg broken below the
knee. Is ~
As the forward end Of the locomotive came to
the ground, the force of the train pushed the back
end around, throwing the engine off the track lea
wing right side up and near the rail- standing with
the head toward the trail OF the train The connec
tionbetween the engine and the tender broke, and
the latter, with the baggage car, ran off the op
poslte side. The first passenger car was driven on
past the locomotive, and fortunately no one in it
was injured. 1t would from their relative po.
sitions that it must have passed over the engine
The second passenger car mounted on the top Of
the locomotive where it stopped, and settling down
upon it, the dome broke through the ,or, and the
valve being open or broken the steam rushed into
the car, enveloping the unfortunate occupants
The car contained about Fl ty persons The follow
ing are the only names with which we are furnish.
ed a. SO
Mr.. Carpenter, badly scalded, Poughkeepsie, N.
York. ]. w. Albin, badly scalded, Munger county,
Ohio. Sarah Albip, badly scalded, Munger county,
Ohio. Hannah Albin, badly scalded, Munger co
Ohio. - Albin, badly scalded, Munger county,
Ohio. Mrs. Cox, Washington county, Iowa, seri.
ously injured Catharine LaughIin Washington
county, Iowr, injured. Margaret Laughlin, Gettys-
burg, Pennsylvania, seriously injured.
The three rear passenger cars were neither
thrown Off nor broken, and no passengers were in
jured, except in the second car.
A SCIENTIFIC RoGuE.-The local editor of the
Petersburg Express, relates the experience of a
Norfolk lady at the State Fair. She had entered
oft A. doJ
order to meet her friends at the Fair grounds and
as numbers were there anxious to get seats in the
same vehicle, 1t was pretty close work:
A fashionably attired gentleman very d;st;nque
looking, took his seat by the side of the lady. He
was dressed in the best black with most religious
looking neck tie A handsome talna cloak hung
gracefully over his shoulders, while his hands (of
most noble blooded symmetry, encased In spotless
and delicately colored "kids' ~, rested tranquilly
on his lap. The ladies present could not help ad-
miring the arfstocratic model of these hands,
On drawing near the Chinese entrance to the F air
grounds, our fair informant felt something stirring
her dress near her pocket 1t surely could not be
the hands of her genteel neigbbor, for they were
tranquil in his lap Again che felt something finger
ing near her sash where her watch was fascinating.
ly lodged. She put down her hand, and grasped
the acaraa fingers of an unknown hand belonging
evidently to the genteel parsonage by her side
The idea of athree or four handed man so terrified
the lady that she shrieked and swooned-right off
With bold swing Of his Talms," the aristocratic
Kids disappeared and their owner, amid the con-
fusion, said he'd run and get ssme water to restore
the lady. He did SO, but we presume he went very
far to fetch it, for he has not been yet heard of in
connexion with said water"
When the lady found herself in speaking condi.
on she told the cause and perceived that her port
monaie and pencil case were gone, and the marks
of pair OF nippers on her watch chain.i
The pair OF neatly gloved hands were :. sham, y
mere "decoy ducks y while from beneath the ia.
citatingly constructed fields of the talma the real
flesh and bone were wandering insidiously in search
of tie fair lady's valuables
A LUXURIOUS AUTHOR I'm the broiling month o
July used every method in my power to guard
against the heat; four servants constantly fan my
apartments they raise wind enough to make
tempestous sea My wine is plunged In snow and
ice till the moment drink IT; pass hakmy time il
the cold bath and divide the other half between
an orange grove, cooled by a refreshing fountain
and my sofa; do net venture to the street bu
10 coach. Oiher people are contented with smel
ling flowers, have hi. on the method of eating and
drinking them; protest that my chamber smell,
stronger of perfume then Arabia Felix, and am 81
lavish of rose water and essence of jessa nine that
actually swim in it While my neighbors at thi,
sultry season are Overlooking their stomachs witt
solid food subsist almost entirely on birds fed will
sugar; these with jelles ard fruit, are the whole O
my diet My house is neither so costly nor so ele
CANT as Fontainbleau, but it has a charming WOOD
behind it, which the solar ray cannot penetrate, and
is admirably calculated for an invalid with wesl
eyes, or to make an ordinary woman appear hand
some. The trees, covered with foliage 10 their We
ry roots are crowded with turtle doves and pheas
ant g. wherever walk tread on tulips and anemons
which have ordered my gardner to plant amons
the other ,ers to prove that the French stranger,
do not suffer by comparison with their ltaliar
friends.-Boizdc
A WONDERFUL SHIP NOW Bull DING "A Lopdol
fEneland) letter writer says very interesting pape
was read recently, by Mr. Scott Russell, on the sci
ence of ship building During the course OF his lee
ture he referred 10 the vessel he Is now building
He appears confident that when completed. she wil
accomplish the voyage TO Australia and back in &
days. Her speed will be no less than 81 miles al
hour,and II kept up. would enable emigrants to pro
ceed fiom Galway to Halifax in three days Tht
ship carry all her Goals required for the voyage
and will have accommodations for GOO hrstciasi
passengers and 1000 second class The fares, If she
had her compliment ON such voyage as that 70 Aus
tralia, would amount to s600000 Mr.. Russell says
that 10 obtain "a miles hour 400 feet In length Il
REQUIRED, but This vessel will be 6T5. In length