The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-11-11
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the head, and piece of the skull as large
as the bowl of table spoon, has come out.
The death of Eliphalet Sherwood will be
lamented by as large host of devoted
friends as any young man in the State. He
wss twenty-three years old, think, a noble
fellow, of many more good parts than most
young men have, in these degenerate days.
He was clerk OF the steamboat Pearl,
running between Oshkosh and New London,
on the Wolf river-as faithful and interest
ing an officer as the travelling public ever
find many of whom, who knew him no
better than l, will, when they take passage
on the Pearl again, drop a tear at the
thought of young Sherwood.
He was the last of Eve brothers. and had
started with his only sister to join in the
festivities of the excursion, but was quickly
sent on another path to his long home. His
sister returned last night to their home in
Oshkosh, with his cold lifeless form.
The disaster is looked upon by all as eE-
tirely accidental. Not word of blame is
thrown upon any one. The train was rum
ming upon straight track, at the moderate
rate of fifteen miles an hour, when the OK
sprang up on the embankment, directly in
front of the engine, and the wheel running
upon him threw the engine over on one
side. Had the speed been % or 80 miles
an hour, the probability is that the more
violent blow would have knocked the beast
out of the way, and scarcely shock been
felt.
The bodies of M. J. Thomas and E. H.
Sickles were laid out in the Common Coun-
Gil room last night, and will be taken to
Fond du Lac this AFTERNOON. Thomas face
looks natural and pleasant, but Sickes
shows the long hard suffering he endured so
patiently.
What reminder of our constant liability
to mortality! That while in the midst of
"joy, revel and applause" the King of Ter.
rors may be standing at our own threshold,
grasp US in his iron hand one minute, and
Picture it Think of It,
DisSOlute man!'
WATERFOWL, Nov. 2.--Mr. Petersilea
died to-day noon. Smead and others here
are about the same as when l wrote this
morning. Mr.. Perry H. Smith, Vice Pres
ident or the Railroad, came down this morn
ing and says the wounded at Fond du Lac
and Oshkosh are doing well, except Mrs.
Cartwright, of Oshkosh, who may not. sur
vive.
THE VERDICT OF THE CORONER's JURY.
WATERFOWL, Nov. % p. M.-Inquest
before j. A. Hadley, police justice at
Watertown on viewing the bodies of M.
j. Thomas, Edward Sickes, Isadore Snow
John Boardman, and Jerome Mason. Jury
consisting of William NJ. Dennis, Calvin B.
Skinner, Peter V. Brown, Justus j. Moak
+. K. Crandall, and Henry S. Howell.
Verdict that said deceased came to their
deaths on the LIST inst, near Bellville Sta.
ton, in the county Of Jefferson, in conse
quence of an OK coming suddenly upon the
track of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad, and causing the engine to be
thrown from the track, demolshing the cars
in said train in which said persons were
travelling. and that said accident was una
voidable, and that the engineer nor any
person having charge of said train was in
fault.