Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-23
FATAL ACCIDENTS.
As Old Lady Crushed to Death By a La.
connective at the OhtO Depot
A Child Blown hi Of the World I'm
Crittenden County, Arkansas.

Accidents seem 70 take the place of crimes
In the social vortex OF Memphis. Something
Is always occurring to shock the nerves of the
acknowledgements or to disturb the peace OF
the timid. We heard of two disastrous acci-
dents yesterday. An old lady named Mrs.
Bill was the victim Of q horrid misfortune
which overlook her q little after noon yester
day near the Ohio depot, by which she was
killed She lived IN scotland, aud was appa-
renily coming cityw. I'd. Walking along The
track OF the Memphis and Ohio road, q little
beyond the Third street crossing, she was
Knocked down by an engine and so
mutilatedt hat she never spoke again. About
thirty feet beyond the spot where she was
killed commences the tresue work, or bridge,
over the bayou. She had crossed that coming
lions OF IN employs of the road who saw the
event, she moved from between the two
tracks, where she had been walking on TO the
track over which the engine was moving. She
was evidently under the impression that the
train Was on the other one. The switchman,
seeing the mistake, made a violent gesture
with his hat, and the Q gtneer reversed the
engine. He was SO close 10 the lady that he
could not see7her, besides his eye was fixed on
The switch-tender for signals. The train ran
upon the lady and crushed her, taking an
arm entirely of and breaking The skull. 1t
is said that her legs were broken also. The
engine was stopped too late. In a few mo-
ments sfterward Mr.. Ryan, q clerk at the
depot, was sent to remove the body
with a force of men. He found her lying
between the rails 10 the mutilated condition
described, and still living. She opened and
closed her eyes several times, and held a
pocket-book in her hand. She was dressed IN
black, and mad black kid gloves on. She Yves
at once removed to the freight house and word
sent down town to her two sons, who are part
ners in the grocery house of Fitzgerald &
Co., on Front row, between Court and Madi-
son streets. She was subsequently removed
to the residence of one Of her sons on Front
street, opposite the jail. The engineer Is ex-
honerated from blame by the voice Of those
who saw the accident. 1t was not the regular
switch engineer but a freight train engineer
that was detailed to do. that sort Of WORK yes
terday. There were I'VE or six cars attached TO
the train, and II was moving at the rate offour
miles an hour at the time. Some people say
that both tracks were occupied al the time by
trains going in different directions, and that
in trying TO escape one she fell under the
other. she was going from her sons house on
Brinkley avenue TO the house OF her other son
opposite tn Jail, on From street, aEthe time.
The other fatsl accident occurred in
Crittenden county, Arkansas, in the house OF
Mr.. Wilson Rosenberg, who lives near Marion.
He was pouring some powder, which he had
purchased in Memphis, Into a horn, when a
spark from the cracking logs on the hearth
dew into the powder, producing an explosion,
10y which his child, standing beside him, and
himself were so severely injured that their
lives are considered in imminent danger.
Some of the fragments Of the horn struck a
kerosene lamp on the mantle, upset II, and SO
spread the fire that destruction threatened the
house fos a few minutes The presence Of
mind of Mrs. Rosenberg, however, saved any
further disaster, as she at once put out the nre
by a timely application Of q bucket OF water.