Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1858-05-20
Railroad Accident,
UREA, \. Y, May II

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4 railroad accident occurred this 70 orn
ing at half past 6 o'clock, on the Can
trai. By the crushing of a bridge over
the Sagnoit creek, near Whitesboro.--
Seven or eight persons are already dead.
five or six others are barely alive, aud
ID or more are injured.
The killed area. Moore, of Risiny
Sun. Ind, head crushed two children
of Abram Mack, of Cincinnati an un-
known man, lying in the baggage room
at Utica /; an Irishman, aged apparently
60, jammed in--he seems to have died
instantly negro, whose legs are cut
OF; and an infant child Of Carl Hoover,
st. Louis.
The wounded are-Janes Ward.
Schenectady, conductor of the train. bad
ly bruised, but it is believed not danger
ously; w. II. Perkins, grocer, Roches-
ter, N. Y, very badly hurt about the
head and chest-he probably will not re-
cover; Walter II. Schube, of Rome,
Richland Co., Ohio, injured about the
spine, but it is thought not dangerously
n. Dellman. Cincinnati, Ohio, very dan
gerously injured about the head and
chest, an arm also fractured, it is feared
he will not recover; S. P. Tucker, Dry
Ridge, Grant county, Ky, slightly in
jured about the shoulder and side; Go.
Colt, Columbus, Ohio, wounded in the
leg. but not seriously /; L. Dushce, q lal
/ 5 or l6 years old, injured about tho head
slightly Mrs Schenck arm and head
badly hurt Miss Aliaick, slightly hurt
A. Cobb, Yorkshire, Cattsraugus coun-
ty, n. Y, slightly cut on the heal an |
shoulders, and severely bruisel; Mr.
and Mrs. S. p Hover, residence no. as
certained. Mrs. II. has about three in
ches of her scalp torn off, a tooth knock
ed out, and is otherwise seriously injur-
ed-faint hopes of her recovery Carl
Hover, of St. Louis, bound for Germany.
was pretty severely bruised. He was
accom- panied by his wife and little child,
the former is somewhat bruised and burn
ed, the latter. an infant. two years old.
was very badly burned by the upsettiny
Of the car stove, and probably will not
recover.
Mr. Riley. OF Albany, brakeman on
the train, has a leg broken, Mr.. Haley. of
Schenectady. another brakesman. is s,ri-
ously bruised Miss Cook, Of Sunbury.
Delaware county. n. Y, very slightly
bruised about the head s. Norton, OF
Binshampton, bruised; VIM. Fart.
Cleveland, Ohio. had confusion on the
head A. A. Langworthy. .-Sinclairvile.
n. Y. slightly injured; S. NJ. Allen.
President of the Niagara Falls Water
Co., slightly hurt; r. w Bulkell ana
sister Mary. Of New York. both sli Chilly
injured D. w. Andrews. teanlsty.
slightly injIed Mr.. Bicknell, of Rome.
father of cashier Bicknsll. pretty badly
hurt "A Mack. wife and six children.
more or less injured, and TWO OF tus
children are dead. The parenss will re
cover, Josephine Honbler, q young la
dy accompanying Mr.. AM Mrs. Muck. ia
badly hurt in the head; David Levi.
Cincinnati, has bal compression Of ths
ribs, but probably recover Rspha.l
Bonman, Strassburg. has fractured leg
and a wound on the head John Nc
Donald, badly hurt about the head and
right arm, but will recover John Wal
lace, of Eagle Harbor, Lake Superior.
Mich, injured. Many others slightly
injured.