The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-26
Terrible Railroad Accident.

1eTIlDic NdInOdO Accident.
Il Bridge ON the Ohio and Msss;ss;ipp;
Railroad Broken THrough-Faur
Car Loads of Troops Plunged into
the Creek Thirty Dead Bodies Re-
covered and More undcs. the Wreck
-92 Wounded Taken to Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, Sept. Is.
Last night at half-past eight, train
on the Ohio and Mississippi road, con-
tanning a portion of Col. Torchin's 9th
Illinois regiment, while passing over a
bridge near Huron, Indiana, one hun.
dred and forty-three miles West of
Cincinnati, fell through, killing and
Fwounding over one hundred soldiers.
Intelligence of the disaster reached
here late last night, when Especial train
was dispatched to their assistance. di;
The following dispatch was received
from the operator at Huron, dated ten
minutes past one this morning: "Bridge
No. 48 is broken in two. It let four
cars down into the bed of the creek,
and one on top of them. The engine
and one car passed over safely. There
are about one hundred men wounded
and ten or fifteen killed. The Colonel
of the regiment says about that num-
ber killed, although nearly all of one
company are missing. 1t is thought
the bridge was weakened by some ma
licious person.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 18-11 o'clock.
The accident on the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi Railroad proves worse than at
first reported -Four passenger ears
went into the creek, one box and one
baggage car on top of them. These
cars contained $50 men, companies E,
F, G, and /. The latter two were the
principal sufferers. Capt. Howard, of
company /, was killed. Up to this
time about 80 dead have been taken
out, and more are under the wreck. A
train is now on the way here with 90
wounded. 1t is the impression that
40 to so were killed at the wreck. Cir
cumstances indicate that the bridge
was tampered with by malicious or
traitorous persons. The bridge was 60
feet span, 10 feet high, and lately in
spected. ''-<'' e--i "
.a CINCINNATI, Sept. IS. 3
The following are the names of the
killed: Co. E-Martinr Kelly. Co. f
&C. III. Valentine, ]. w. S. Babbitt.
Go. &C. FL. Cutting, David Noble,
G. M. Bradstone. Co. Capt. B. B.
Howard, Corporals Samuel Clark, j Jerry
Ingram and A. Painter, William Frost,
L. Carroll, Isaac Coleman, Henry Con-
ners, John Brown, Joseph Smith, Nc
Connolly, Robert Bruce, II. G. Bur
roughs, William Hanwick, Antoine
Raffner, Peter Fowler, William Ringer,
John Douglas, Henry Hunt, and four
others, names not yet ascertained. ss,o
Wounded-Co. A-First Lieutenant
Clifton, ]. Wharton, seriously; Private
H. "A. Massey. Co. B-John Black
man, leg amputated; Joseph W.Peck.
Co. F-William E. Brown, Daniel Mar
cy, Prosper Warneg, Richard Porter,
James Myers, J. HI. Harkinson, G. w.
Martin, John Flussel, Felix Cox, j. H.
Border, William Welch, William U.
Zane, B. F. Wright, Daniel Smith,
Corporal H.. E. Bebee, o. B. Reed,
Corporal A. Goldsmith, A. q. Plummer,
]. w. Lindsay, James Ammo, Andrew
Nc Cormick, Henry Atwood. Co. G.
George Morris, seriously; William Ira
cey, John Lyons, Alfred Taylor, Caleb
Showers, Benjamin Bennett, John J.
Whitley, Henry F. Miller, Michael
Ziegenfuss, James Christian, John
Haas, Robert G. Osborne, seriously ;
Henry Stahl, Martin Walman, Dennis
Gallagher, Daniel TOMS, Ross Mumford,
John Billings, William r. Whitley, J..
B. McMullen, J. f. Moore, Charles E.
Braggett, II. A. Reed, Isaac w.
Houghtaling, Hamilton. Barns, w.
Brown, Franklin Seborn, James Mar
well, Stephen Stalock, Jonas NJ. Tenne-
son, ia. Lindsay, Lewis Springer,
Clark Dodge, Henry Farr, Henry Hope
well, Thomas Dick, Abraham Persing,
Charles Peers. Co. I-Daniel Snyder,
William Gilmore, Alfred Crippen,
Charles H. Rhea, John Rhinas, Conrad
Schlasser, James Linn, seriously J.S
Allison, William Trippo, August Wirth,
/. McAnoll, UP. Tyler, Jno. Morrisey,
William HI. Vickens, Frank Hardee
Henry Hobbs, Nicholas Antoine, M. V.
Foley, Michael Maloney, Harrison
ICowder, Howard Beardsley, William
@. Smith, S. G. Irwin, seriously; John
M. Michael, Z. M. Jones, William Pitt.
man, Daniel Farlow, John Kramer,
corporal Vincent Simon, Victor
\ Auiken, Henry Dennis, II. H. Palmer,
seriously, James Dawson, John Fritlan
! Stephen Bowling, William Noble, John
w. Boston. Co. K-James g. Fuller.
ton. Twelve others so slightly wound
ed we omit their names. Six are SO
seriously wounded as to be beyond
hopes of recovery. The wounded ar
rived here at 5 P. NJ, and were taken
to the Marine Hospital, where ample
iprovisions have been made for their
comfort. j,
4 The following additional particular,
; concerning the terrible railroad acci
dent, are from the Cincinnati Gazette
On Saturday last Col; Turchin's
Illinois Regiment, the " Bloody Nine
teenth," as they were generally known
at that time stationed on the hentucky