Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-07-31
THE RAILROAD DISASTER.

prevent, occurred TO the northern
bound tfait,Aea the NJ. G. a. l.. Rail-
road on the morning of the 2Sth inst.
At THIS season of the year, when the I
train is. northward bound, travel Is
quite brisk, and this particular train,
No. 2, passing this city at 1;15, A. NJ,
is the favorite through train, passcn-
gers from New Orleans to New York.
being obliged to make but one change
Cat Louisville) between the tire two
cities. By the best Information we
can obtain, there were about fifty
passengers OH the train. Everything
event well" till the crossing of the
wooden viaduct composed of four
girder bridges and u few bonts of tres
tle) that spans BUDDY creek and the
adjoining bottom. a single screech
of the locomotive, and the whole
train, composed of locomotive, bag
gage and express car, smoking ear,
ladies' car and two sleeping coaches,
was prccipitated into the valley
Such passengers as were not hurt
then commenced to try and save the
injured portion. Most of them did
good work, and some in their unset
fishness "worked like Trojans." And
in this connection we can not forbear
mentioning the name of Frank w.
Carney "a son of II. p. Carney, for
merly of this county,, who worked
with an almost superhuman effort
"now here and now there" Finding
himself unihjured, he first took care
of five ladies Immediately around
him, found their baggage and saved
it, besides helping others in all parts
of the train. Others, Of course, did
all they could, but the coolness and
courage of this young man deserves
high praise.
The piling of the cars upon and
near the locomotive, now upon its
side, set the cars on fire and when the
injured were all attended to, the fire
! had made such Roadway that the
whole of the train except one sleep
ing car was entirely consumed. The
engineer aud fireman were almost in
stantly killed, and, strange to say,
the only otherperson who was known
to be killed at the time was the pas
senger (NIr. Hugh Mccall, of New
Orleans, who occupied the last berth
of the last car in the train-supposed
to be the safest place in the whole
train. Since the wreck has been re-
moved, however, the body of another
man has been found, supposed to be
that of Mr.. Thomas Baxter, of Nash
vile, formerly of this county).-
These four comprise q list of the
killed. Quite number were more OF
less injured, whose names are APP
pended in the list below.
The cause of the disaster is simply
q matter of speculation. The final
cause, of course, was the breaking
down of the bridge or trestle, but the
question rs to what was the cause o.
J the break remains unanswered, as
the portion which fell (all but two
spans of the girder bridge) Is entirely
burned. The bridge was built bu
three years ago, and the trestle bu
two years since. Many persons thinl
there was foul play in the affair, anC
that il was the work of some human
iiend-the existence of such beings
, alas, being too well authenticated t,
r be denied. But the officers of tn,
| road say they are aware of no enc
5 mics of the road in that section O
f the country. Another impression
t land the one which seems to NEE
with the approval of most persons
D is based upon finding the aXles of on
}, of the cars broken, the coupling G
e the cars intact, and the pilot, or COW
:, catcher, of the engine uninjured, in
i ferring from this that the broke
axle under the cars tore away tn
trestle work but it is mostly con
lecture. AS we at first intimated,
=, is one of the many accidents, the pr
9 mary cause for which may never j
known. The whistle of the enginee
q just rs he approached the bridge ha
, n significance and meaning, as h
- was not required to whistle at tn
:, bridge and was n man who Away
y. had "his train well in hand" (as j
- r. operatives say; but he and h
fireman are not here to tell us I'll
=, cause of the blowing of the whistl
Below we give list of the casua
:, ties. The wounded, at this writing
= SO far as we are informed, are doir
), we'll:
KILLED,
-. Hugh Mccall. OF Now Orleans. Eugel
. Riley, Engineer. Charles Shields, Fil
{, man. one body recovered nom the wre'
. burt tou crisp,
II WOUNDED.
II Mrs. Hugh Mccall, back broke; son of q
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