The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-24
HORRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
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A Trlin Of Passenger Cars Falls Through a
Bridge Into River on the Cincinnati
and Louisville Railroad
TWO KILLED AND SIXTY WOUNDED
Miraculous Escape Of the Wounded
from Being Burned.
THE SCENE OF THE DISASTER.
Complete List of Names and
Latest Particulars.

CINCINNATI, FEB. 20, 1872
Az The passenger train from Louisville. KY, over
the Cincinnati and Louisville Short Line, was cross
ing Ten Mile Creek this forenoon, the whole traln
consisting Of two passenger cars, baggage and
mail car fell through the bridge into the creek,
twenty five feet below.
The locomotive mad just reached solid ground.
The place Ia thirty miles distant from Covington,
KY. and is singularly wild and deserted; not
human habitauon Is in sight except one wrerched
howell inhabited by poor railroad labOrer and his
family, Who rendered all the aid they could.
The foremost passenger Car was completely
smashed. The hindmosr one was stood on end IN
the bed OF the creek, While the passenger cars were
piled up with the seats torn from their fastenings,
and the two burning stoves all in
FRIGaTFuLLY INEXTRiCABLE MASS.
There were nearly seventy people on the train,
and their shreks Tor help and the groans OF the
wounded be imagined. Men, women and
children bleeding and quiverlng IN the horrible en-
braces OF shattered tmbers and railroad
lron with clothing unaccOunably torn from their
persons and scattered in hanging shreds all about
them formed singularly frightiul and heart
rending spectacle. Dallas PuAam the engineer
with remarkable presence of mind sprang from
his place into the creek and extingushed the fires
In the wreck, and thus saved many OF the wounded
from horrible death.
RELIEF TRAIN WAS DISPATCHED.
with surgeons and reached the scene at three
O'Clock, returning 10 Covington. tonight. The
bridge Is a suspension, truss built after the Finck
model the same as the great bridge across the Ohio
River at Louisville, and Is the second one that has
broken under passenger train on this unfortunate
road.
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED
The following Is a list OF the killed and wounded
In the Cincinnati and 81. LOUIS Railroad accident
this afternoon:--
KILLRD--John J. Brock, Sparta station owen
county, KY, and HARRISON Julian (colored), porter
on the train.
worNDED-G. H. Alder tson, Brownsville, Tenn,
head and shoulder badly nurt; Mrs. G. Levy, Column
bus, badly hurt head and bruised generally;
Miss Craig Mitchell, Louisville, back and head badly
hurt and teeth Knocked out N. b. Jacobs, Warsaw,
KY, head. hips and legs very badly hurt DR.. b. F.
Tomblin Mount Zion. Grant county, KY, arm
broke and head badly hurt; Michael Mad
den, brakeman, Louisville, slightly hurt;
Wieshutin, fireman, Louisville severely injured in
the nip; $. B. voorhis, conductor nurt all over and
bit his tongue almost in TWO; stove fell on him; J.
p. Mosely, Lagrange, KY. slightly hurt; $. Hall.
Memphis, Knee slightly: Samuel Fox, Gutter street,
CINCINNATI, head and eye, badly; Henry Kiodgpack.
Newport, KY, head shoulder and side badly;
Maggie Powers. East Rush Creek, Perry county,
Ono, back ana head, severe; Frank Dammerl,
Portsmouth, OHIO, forehead and back badly
cuts Robert Sherrard, Canton, NO., side
and leg badly bruised; Andy Plerron, Ports
mouth, Ohio, side ana face cut; one leg broken;
George Brown, Portsmouth, OHIO, nip and head; p.
NJ Kent, Cincinnati. Of WEIGH, Brooks Kellogg.
head badly J. S. Scraggin, Bagdad. KY, back,
leg and arm hurt; John w. Hance, New Liberty,
n.y., shoulder and side hurt; Stephen Allen, New
Orleans, lace bruised; J. A. Odel, Provinceve.
Tenn, several ribs broken: Mrs. Odel, breast and
back. and her two children; one was badly
hurt and the other slightly; Nellie Clark
Chillicothe, OHIO slightly; Carrie McGhee
Lincoln Furnace, OHIO, slightly William Clark
CnilllcOthe, ono, one leg shed ]. L. Tent Oak
land station, Ky, slightly: J. s. Ledman
express messenger. foot and calf OF right leg
bruised ; 7. e. Mar,indae and wife, Racine, Wis,
severely; j. Bull ana wife, Racine, Wis,
severely; Mnrky Snay roadma'rer, Covington,
ky head and leg badly cut; T. A. CONN,
Cleveland, ONO, face badly cut, ana injured 10 the
breast Fred Shafer and p. W. straders Of the ON.
nibus line, Cincinnati, slightly injured; A. f. Hew-
AT, Derby. Conn.,, generally bruised Charles
h. Degrane, Wlnona, MIMI, slightly burned; Mrs.
Ira Degrafe, WinOna, Mimi, slightly hurt }. b.
IartIn. mail agent, Louisville, cut about the head
:uu InJured IN the breast and back--no bones
broken; Preston Cbllds. No. 7O3 Nam street, Cow
ington, KY, leg broken in two places ana large
cash III the head: William r. Conyers, Zion station
Grant county, Ky, slightly; William Tul
boin legs broken and both thighs badly
burned, probably fatally injured; Thomas Gayle,
New Liberty KY, knee and thigh severely cut;
Samuel Maddox Poplar Grove, owen county, KY,
eide ana back burned; CALVIN Maddox, Poplar
Grove owen county, Ky., back bruised; E.
McMichael, Anchorage KY, nip and back severely
bruised; James NJ Hall and Bridge Carpenter, both
slightly hurt; J. s. Todd, merchant, Louisville
slightly shaken; Mary Martin (colored Springfield,
ONO neck, breast and face badly cut; child OF the
same person slightly injured.