The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-13
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From Special Dispatch to the Memph
Avalanche

From Special Dispatch to the Memphis
Avalanche.
NASHVILLE July 4.-Evening-A fright
full disaster occurred on the Nashville and
Northwestern railroad at Harpet's river, Is
miles from this city, last night. The bridge
gave way. precipitating a portion of the
passenger train which left Nashville at 80
p. m. into the river. Many persons were
killed.
The bridge was made entirely of white
ing of the bottom cords, fragments from
which show much decay. The smoking car
was eased down or the ladies' car and turn
ed squarly into the water.
The fall, from the top of the bridge to the
water, was thirty feet, The employees are
busy removing the wreck,
The conductor states that the train was
not running more than nine miles per hour,
and thinks if it had been going faster, the
other portion of the train. beside the en-
CINE, might have been jerked over fast
enough to have prevented the accident.
The following list has been made up from
the latest and most reliable sources of infor-
nation, and is believed to be complete.
Killed.-Aleck Wright, White Bluff; J.
G. Hornberger, Clarksville; John Marshall,
Nashville: Charles Campbell and his wife,
and their child Ten months old, Edgeffeld
John f. Crockett, William Crockett, and
Wylie c. Howard, Chapel Hill; Miss III.
Elite Jones, Ohio; Mrs. Emma Yeatman.
Memphis; Mrs. f. Dunn, Kingston Springs
Mrs. Burns and child, Smiths Station; Mrs
Lynch, Newsome's Station Deputy Sheriff
Pendergrast, Dickinson county, Tennessee
lie.
Wounded.-Thomas Waine, Nashville
bruised; w. w. Ghee. brakeman. leg bro
ken; Miss Sophfonia Heard, Trenton badly
bruised, and injured internally; Mr.. w
Brown, Johnsonville. slightly; Mr.. Critch-
er, slightly; Captain w. d. YeatmanA Mem
phis, injured internally; Thomas Yeatman,
Kingston Springs, hurt in side; v. Halle,
Point Isabel, Indiana, slightly; Thomas NJ
Dunn, Kingston Springs, fatally; John
Campbell, Nashville. head cut and his leg
bruised Mr.. Wilhorte, Nashville, leg bro
ken; j. NJ. Thompson, Amherst Court House
Virginia, hip bruised and cut in the face
Miss Clara Leake, Broad street. Nashville,
arm and wrist broken; W. Walter, Union
City, Tennessee, jaw broken; Conductor
Lands, leg broken; Robert Daniel, Bedford
county, Tennessee, arm broken s. >. Brown,
jaw broken and internally injured; two
brothers named Pegram, slightly wounded.
The other casualties are of a slight nature,
and consist of cuts and bruises.
The most distressing feature of the disas-
ter was the extraordinary number of killed
compared with the number of wounded,
generally the very reverse in such cases.
Among the wreck were found hooD skirts.
hats, chignons, handkerchiefs, and newspa-
pers. everything in a confused state; a
handkerchief with the name of Mrs. Horn
berger upon il, a card of E. C. Allen & Co,
of Augusta, Maine, a lady's beautifully
marked underskirt covered with blood.
The train was composed of one baggage
car, smoking car, ladies' car and sleeping
car. with from sixty to seventy-five passeD-
gers.
AS the locomotive and baggage car pass
ed over, there was loud crash, and the
bsidge and three coaches fell in.
Captain 1eatman's wife was killed. He
4erhf hnR ma 0E ho rWaf In mo mi
down. She died from suffocation.
The excitement in the city was very
great, and universal gloom pervades the
community. The city bells were tolled and
the Mayor issued proclamation suspend
ing business.