Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-11

Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.]
MICHIGAN CITY, Tuesday, Nov. 1.
One of the most frightful railroad &C.
cidents that has for many years occurred
in the West, took place yesterday after
noon, about four OF clock, on the Indian
apolis & Lafayette Railroad, about seven
miles south of Lafayette. A stock train
cOllided with the regular afternoon mail
train, due at Lafayette at four O'Clock
p. NJ, by which twenty-seven lives were
lost, and about twenty persons more or
less seriously wounded.
The following is list of the killed:
THE DEAD.
l. Louis ]. Laplant, b. 18th Iowa, Marshall
. Henry slough. b. llth Iowa.
John Binnic l. SD M, Dundee, H.
I. William kcrnan, {, 9Sd Ill.,, Peru co. Ill.
D. Henry Perriugton. +. liJh Iowa. Washing
ton co.. Iowa.
g. Loseph Bolien. H. sith H., Warsaw. Iii.
: II. l.. Thomas, c. ;.d H., Gaesburg. III.
5. James r. Ewing. X, saith III Biggsville, III.
o John Fl. Maulove, q, nth Iowa, Mt. Pleas
AM, Iowa.
10. simon :. Hyler, d. I2sth lnd South Bend,
Ind.
IL. Charles Nj. Hanyille, ID, l2sth Ind, Misha-
waka, Ind.
l.. George F. Commins, II, lO2d Ill., Henry
CO.. III.
il; Moses Kellett, L, c5th Mich, Nfiddlebury,
Ind.
II. Abraham 4. Carter, lst Lieut., l, 10th
Ind. Hve,i near Lafayette.
10. James Il. Hnff, d scharged soldier from the
~ North Carolina mounted in:au'ry, Knox
Vile. Tcnu., had letters upon his person ad-
dressed to Capi. Il. Turner, DE, atur, IN.
vilie, Ill.
Il. Lewis w. Morris, B, l0lth Ill.
Is Richard y. Hoag, X, lGlst ~.
ans cn.. III.
%. Warren II. Riggs, soldier. no papers found
Il. james Ross, Esq. Jackson, Clinton co.,
Ind.
z. Thomas Sandens, Whitestown, Boone co.,
Indiana. This man had both his legs mashed
/. the most horriole manner, one foot banging
by 4 small ,icce of skin. He died in about an
hour after being eXtiiCaied.
y. Wright SIMS Wh;testoWn, Boone county,
ln1iann, d'ed about TWO hours after being eA-
trcatsd.
Ht my Treshour, Warren county, Ind.
-. Rev. Is. mans, Lafay cite, Indiana, L. s.
sanitary Commission.
%. John II. Knight. Morgautown, Iowa. He
To t,im at Stephenson, Alabama, together with
large sums OF money.
70. Unknown citizen, no papers or meinoran-
da being found upon his person.
The following is list of the wounded
as far as the names could beprocured by
jured:
THE WOUNDED.
/. Joseph King soldier, Marshall county,
Iowa.
=, Dan V Kinnaman, leg broken, Whitestown,
3. Charles Schreiner, soldier. Mt Pleasant,
Iowa.
1. John w Robinson, soldier, Pontoosuc, III,
right arm broken and serious in jurieS about the
head.
j. John Kelly, soldier, Springfield, Ill, leg
broken and Very bad injuries about The head.
.. jeremiah Casteel, soldier, Qauawlla, Ill. in
head.
:. Robert Otis soldier. Dundee. III.
s. Joseph Aplant, soldier. MarShalltown,
iowa, thigh, brother of one OF the killed.
9. Henry Decker, Government carpenter.-
His father is a butcher in Buiiaio, New York.
10. Jacob Lawrence. Hardin county, Iowa,
arm, and badly hurt ahoHt the head.
H. Noah Davis, soldier Mason county, Ill, Sc
riously.
L. Charles Schreiner. soldier, Mt Pleasant,
b Edward Benway, soldier, south Bend, Ind,
II. Geo j 81 Louis, Little Shute, Wis, internal
IS. Jacob Miller, soldier, Monticello. Illinois.
Is Renal Newton. soldier. South Bend, Ind,
Il John Resley, soldier, Muscatine, Iowa,
Is. Captain Loveless. Clark's Hill, Ind, dislo-
Gated shoulder.
49, Lieutenant Dash, serious injuries about
the head.
20. Joseph Callow, newsboy, Lafayette, Ind.
2i +. B. Howard, New York.
One or two of the above have since
died. All the wounded were conveyed
to Lafayette, where every attention was
shown them by the citizens. The Cor
oner was promptly on the ground, and
took possession of the bodies and effects
of the deceased. We hope thorough
will be made, and the
guilty parties punished to the full ex-
tent of the law. The soldiers would
have lynched the engineer OF the freight
train had he not suddenly disappeared.
The above list is Incomplete. No
mention is made of Noah Fry, of COM
pany A, 1lth iowa, who was killed, and
of Wm. II. Meeker, of the same compa-
ny. who was severely hurt.