The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-09
RniIrOad---Train Thrown from the
TE"elN---One or the Parties Arrested.

Shocking Affair ON Ihe PennsyIyanIn
EtRIIrOad.--TraIn Thrown from the
TFRek---One OF the Parties Arrested.
RoHl The Pit.IbuT0h Gazette Of YeiferCldy.
One of the most Rtrocious attempts to
destroy life that has come under our
notice for long time, occurred about
one mile east OF Wallis Station, on the
Pennsy lvania Central Railroad, yester-
day. The Cincinnati express that left
Union Depot mt eleven o'clock, was
thrown on the track at the place de-
signated above, by encOunterinR n
number of ties and u couple of kegs of
nails, which had been placed across the
rails, the distractions extending the
entire breadth of the road. The engi-
neer, Robert Kerr, did not notice any
thing in the way until within a short
distance of the baTricade, and the speed
OF the train being very great, all his
endeavOTS TO stop the engine and pre-
vent the approaching catastrophe
proved futile. With u crashing report
that could have been heard for n great
distance, the locomotive dashed against
the ties and nails, the conclusion
while the baggage and two of the four
passenger cars followed suit. For al
most quarter of mile the half
wrecked cars, now freed from the re-
sUraint of the rails, sped onward
leaping from tie to tie, until at
ituktuB the engine struck the
end of "A sleeper and capsiZed, buryinp
in its ruins engineer Kerr and another
employee of the road named Peter Nc
Cauley. The track on both sides, from
where the distractions were placed to
where the engine stopped, was torn ma,
presenting an ugly scene of destruction,
while the two cars which had followed
to the locomotive were considerably
schRttered. Three men were observed
standing close to the distractions. two
of whom decamped, but the third was
arrested and brought to this city, where
he was locked up in the tombS for a
hearing. He refused to give his name
and on being questioned as to why he
did the deed OF which he was charged,
his only reply was, AZ don't know. y
Although piled by a hundred queries,
lac refused to give anything but that
same reply, and sat in the furthest cor
ner OF the cell during the greater part oil
the night with his face buried in his
hauls, moaning low ms il TO himself.
n great number OF those who have seen
him, doubt his saueness, but that will
be II matter to be determined by the
medical fraternity. Since his arrest
the evidence OF his criminality has null
tiPlied. McCauley and Kerr are both
seriously injured, the former having
had one OF his feet cut of aud his leg
broken, while the other was severely
seaided by the steam from the boiler OF
the engine.
y young man named Bracken. N
brakeman on the train, was injured to
such AN extent that his death is looked
for each hour Quite number OF
others were more or less injured, but
none seriously.
The motive that those wretches had
Tor the preparation OF such 4 heflish-
deed cannot even be guessed at, unless
1t was with the expectation of having
an opportunity afforded them for the
robbery or the mail and passengers.
Since writing the above, we learn
that at an early hour this morning two
men named respectively Peter Howard
and Thomas Price, were arrested ON n
charge OF completely in the diabolical
deed of obstructing the track. They
were arrested NJ the Ninth Ward coke
ovens.
We learn that the name of the man
arrested at the scene of the catastro-
phe Is Monahan, and the police remem-
Der him as the person arrested on wylie
street some two months ago, while
begging, attention being attracted to
him by his playing dummy" and
throwing away articles of food, given
him as he passed from house to house.
Martin Il. Bracken is the name of the
brakesman injured. His right thigh is
fractured, and besides is Internally in
Jured to such an extent that it is tn ought
he cannot recover. He was taken 10
his boarding house, on Walnut street.
In the Firth ward. He is about thirty
years of age, and has a wife and child
residing al New Florence, westmore-
land county. - :.
MANUFACTURES are making steady
and rapid progress in the Western
States. Our Western exchanges bring
US announcements of over seventy es-
Establishments either opened or soon 10
be in operation in Michigan, Illinois
and Wisconsin alone. The main inter
est OF the West must continue for u long
time to come to be agricultural. The
comparative cheapness and extreme
fertility OF land will render farming as
general thing more profitable than
manufactures. But the distance from
the great markets of the East, and the
heavy charges for freight, VIII put n
limit upon tina nrOfit s,f aorir,, it,,-, 4