, 1863-09-27
SADAND TERRIBLE DISASTER
Caused by Drunken Mis-
creants.
Five Persons Killed and Twenty.
/, Two Wounded.

Five Persons Killed and TWENTY
/ Two Wounded.
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SD And deploaele accident occurred to an cx-
cutfton train on the Michigan Central Railroad, |
oet"een seven and eight o'clock on Friday even
ahg' At LaWton station, eome seventeen ,miles
west Of Kalamazoo, By which dvc persons wcrc |
Killed outright, and tw6nty.two mose or less dau.
gerouaJy wounded. Tho accident was tho result |
OF the mttchfeyious impulses OF Soma drunken |
rOwdies who Werc On the trafus and and to whom |
tho ee1eses penalties Of tho law should te applied
Tho following arc tho facts which we hAye obtain
ed nom authentic eoutces. Athalf past slx o'clock
On Friday evening, special train, consisting OF
twenty passenger cars and one engine, started |
from Kalamazoo loaded 10 thctr full capacity with
people returning home from the Michigan State
Fair, bound for Niles pud intermediate stations.
AtMattawan, twelve miles this side Of Kalamazoo,
there Is a down grade, extending all tho way to
Lawtop, -FOUR miles farther west Whllo coming
down this grade, some drunken rowdies, near the
rear end OF the train, cut tho be1rope and pulled
out the pin that holds tho couplings bctween the
cars. dividing the train. being upon do m grade
the engineer did not discover tho loss Of portion
OF his train, and dashed on to Lswton, where he
stopped his train. In less than two minutes the
rear portion Of the train, that had b.cn dlscon-
nected, was seen laundering down the grade close
upon tho forward tzain. The engineer Immediately
put On eteam to get out Of the war. and with such
force that tho coupling between the engine and
the car broke, and dreadful colliaion immediate.
ly ensued. The rear portion Of the train dashed
into The forward portion With such force that the
two cars which came together closed into each
Other shutting up like telescope, crushing their
occupants and maugliug them In q horrihle man.
1er.
terrible acene Of excitement and eoniasion
followed. Those present Immediately applied
themselves with vigor to cleaslpg away the wreck
and 1escuins those under It, and In short time,
The work was accomplished. The following is a
complete list OF the killed and wounded: : :
KILLED.
Grove Love, OF Lswton; Matthew hove, Of
Law1encs; Thomas White, OF Dowagiae; VIM.
Powell, Of Lawtou, and q boy named Cross, OF
Bangor, all In Van Buren, couaty, Michigan.
: WOUNDED.
: Levi Robinson, OF Lawton Geo. n. Fay, OF
Sharon Spring., n Y.,lcg broken; Philip Dcid-
rich, Of Lawrence: Mr.. Crawford, Of Van Buren,
Wayne county; Thomas O'Leary, Of Decatur; VI.
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