, 1860-04-14
SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT,


RIEND1sH ACT OF MALICE.
Miraculous Escape Of Passengers,
The express train of the St; Louis, Alton i
Chicago Railroad, which left this city On Thurs-
| day morning, met with serious accident at 4
small creek about three miles north Of SPRING
field, called Three mile bridge, 77here the track
crosses small hut deep ravine, On trestle work
| about thirty feet high.
The train was made up Of the Engine "No.
co." baggage car, second class car first class
| car, and sleeping 8 -Ees, and was running 1t the
/ time about itteea nailes an hour. The accident
occurred about o'clock. 1t the pom: iu ques~
| ton, some iend in human shape had remorede
rail, at the deepest pazt Of the hollow. The en-
gins was throun dern and forward, carrying
| the tressle work before it, and landed in the
| small creek. The engineer, Nr. Cutter, stuck
| to his machine, snd wonderfully enough, es-
capped with but ieH bruises. The fireman
leapsd of in saessr.::
The three forwIl cars were thrown off
tie trestle wozt--3s:aving only the sleeping
car On the truck. Id::ths baggage car, the e1-
press messenger .eeesnpied the forward end.
| The other contents Of the car we're horse and
| the baggage. The messenger, Mr. Parker, was
| extricated from beneath the two last. and un;u.
| jured.
Strange to say 20 person in either tho second
or first class cara wagipjured 10 severely as not
to be able to rcsunetheir journey. brake
man who was on tie front platform of the fer
| mer car was pretty severely though not dan
gerons:y injured conductor Hedges "as in
TIE sleeping car, having Just passed through
h1s tra1u. From the nrsf investigation IS sooa
as lights could be proeured,it seemed that every
| passenger had escaped uninjured in this leap
into thuty-toot chasm, but On clearing the
wreck, the crushed BODIES Of tFo young men
were found between tie tender and the baggage
car,~here It Il supposed they had been secretly,
sseaslag s'ade on ths f@a:for1".
| At the inquest held: it could not be ascertain
ed who they weFe' but 1t was believed that they
were the same young men who day OF two
| previous had stolen q ride into Springfield on
| freight cur and had @odged IN the round house.
They we're Of poor appearance, and nothing
was found on their persons to identity them.
LIZ near vicinity to springfield prompt and
| efficient relief was sen1' and most OF the pas
| seh2efs went 1or"a1n On ao extra tram. a
large force was set a work ut the repairs Of the
fresseli'"ork' ana the Gag tram was detained
only twenty ruinutes At the break All will be
IN usual oFdeFso-day. 1t WIS altogether most
wonderful escape. lts pity the wretch yet
| ll'es VINO removed that rail-
| singular end ar Renxark,b1e y.,c.-
We gaye in yesterslay's issue the brief record
Of IN inquest by the Coroner. The bodv of nm
unknown man was found in hole partiully
| filed with water. The Jury gave their verdict
and with this we dismissed it, as all that was
definitely known Of the deceased. But there
are upyritten histories That need opIv the touch
of tie biocrapherx pea to l;chten and expsnd
into romance, and ons Of these was trulr that
Of JOHN Micbael Knappick.
lie was seventT-tyc years Of ace. native Of
Wurtemburs, Germany, anti in early youth was
noted a. scholar. After receiving I. thoroun,,
scholastic education, he filed a professors
caEir in the University of rabiueen Will, mach
honor. During his profsssorships be published
several works of thec}or;.al nhi1osonhv which
! were marked with much liberal tbouobt AMI
sound augmentation. After raca.;co t,,e Cxt
/ varsity ch,ir. he >t,',t.s for IL, 5r:,..hood
pained nucn celebrity a. y sanino,;,, and
finally was admitted to the priesthood.
In 1917 in common 3itb n,ber, of h;s corn-
,rrmen he IRA. o.,,;..ed tn }eore f3eru.nr- and
en,;grated to this country. lie WAS encaoed in
the Mexican war. and at its close toot m land
in Missouri, upon tvo land warrants, He Xyed
upon his farm fire years, a cat being his sole
companion, and during TINT time raised one Of
the finest vineyards in Missouri, aod produced
wines of noted excellence. Indeed, it is said
that be was the first to plant rineyard on tie
Mississippi, at Hermauu.
There, from some difficulty with his neiga-
bors, he sold out and resumed lis co.mopolitan
career. lie taught il the languages, and was
an a'eseue u .ue .''u'''s n.o"y newspaper IN
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over lie Oss IN i''s. sea.s dreaded anu oe~
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There WIS scarcely aGesulan in this country
more widely known an'oug his countrymen than
kuarpick, aud Gil knew him to he possessed Of
rare endowments and still rarcr cultivation Of
the sane. Soldier, college professor, teacher,
vineyard proprietor, PATROL, exile, the summing