Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-16

/ LOUISVILLE, February l5.-Y ester
/ day the axle Of an engine-tender to
| the train going east on the Knoxville
| branch road broke and the train was
completely wrecked. The express
car was dragged hundred feet with
out a wheel under it. Fortunately no
one was seriously hurt.
ALMOST BURNED TO DEATH.
CINCINNATI, February 15.-Wiliam
ReddingtOn and his daughter, four
teen months old, were both danger
Ously burned on Monday night by the
explosion of a lamp filled with nom
explosive gasoline. The flames first
communicated to the child, and the
father was burned while endeavOring
to extinguish his daughters burning
clothes.
ANOTHER RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
ALBANY, n. Y, February I5.-The
Montreal express train left New York
thirty-fiVe minutes behind time last
night. At the Spuyten Duyvel creek
bridge the engineer slowed down,
when the YOnkers train came thun-
dering behind, around the curve, at
full speed, ran into and demolished
one car and smashed the platforms of
several others. MiraculOusly, no lives
were lost. Several persons were Sc
verely injured.
THE HAMBURG HORROR.
ALBANY, February I5.-The In
vestigatiOn Committee of the Legis-
lature into the Hudson River Rail-
road disaster at New Hamburg con-
tinued, yesterday, the testimony con-
eerning the disaster, which was
similar to that already published. A
dispatch was received from COmmO-
dOre Vanderbilt asked a suspension
Of the investigation until the railroad
company was represented by counsel,
and the request was complied with.
"THEY NEVER COME sINGLY."
LOUISVILLE, February 14.-This |
am. the morning train from Indian
apOlis ran into wagon and team, |
two miles from Edinburgh, Indiana. |
Patent brakes stopped the train |
within three hundred feet. The |
wagon was smashed to pieces, the |
mules and driver caught and carried |
on the cOw-catcher unhurt.
Monday night a stranger came hur-
riedly on board the steamer Indiana, |
at Portland wharf; the mate spoke to |
him, when he turned quickly to leave
the boat, and fell or jumped in the /
river. Cries for help were heard and /
nothing more is known of his fate.
Saturday morning John Helbig, re-
siding five miles from Hamburg, In
diana, went out to work his shingle
and was found some time
in the pit of the fiy-Wheel,
torn and mangled shockingly. His
arm and leg were torn from his body,
the leg torn in three pieces. He leaves
3 wife and four children.
COAL OIL AND CHICAGO PLEASANT.
RIES.
CHICAGO, February 15.-The Chica-
20 Board of Trade to-day contributed
i've thousand dollars for the relief of
he suffering people Of France.
Mrs. Mcguire was burned to death
It SlakOpee, Mimi, yesterday, Occa-
iiOned by upsetting lamp while In
iOxicated.
The Western Enterprise foundry
md machine shop at Lasalle, H., was
burned last night; loss $4,000. In
ured in the American, of New York,
or $500.
An unknown man was instantly
killed this morning, being run over
n the street by a coal cart,
Yesterday evening Malcolm Ross,
,ged eleven years, was killed, and
WO other boys were severely hurt, on
Hubbard street, by the caving In Of a
now bank, under which they had
lug caves and were playing.
Patrick McGinnis, an inmate Of the
hospital, about two weeks since re-
used to take food or medicines, and
lied last night from actual starvation.