Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-06-26
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TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
StNty.Five NeD and Women FcnrfuIIy
ScaIdcd.


cident on the Grand Trunk railroad to
train going from Toronto to Montreal.
The passenger cars were piled killing nine
and badly scalding sixty, most of whom
were second class passengers.
The unfortunate train contained many
Ministers of the English church enroutc
for their homes from the Toronto Synod.
About eleven miles below Bellville station
the engine jumped of the track, carrying
death and torture to scores of passengers in
the forward cars. The baggage car re-
mained on the track and telescoped the
mail, smoking-car and second-class pas
senger car, leaving them on top of the en-
gine exposed to the escaping steam from
| the boiler
| Here the poor creatures were hopelessly
penned for some time, breathing vapors of
death and suffering all the agony of inn
mersion in boiling cauldron of super
| heated water.
| An eve witness says immediately after
the accident he went to the second class
car. 1t and the smoking car were tele-
scoped, and on the locomotive the steam
of which was issuing from the cars so
i densely that he could see nothing. One
after another of the scalded victims were
crowding out of the opening. Crowbars
were immediately brought into requisitiOn
| by the passengers from the first class cars,
all of whom escaped injury, and openings
|
and We're eXtricated with the utmost diff
Guilty, timbers having to be broken.
Five persons We're found dead and were
! carried to the road side where the wound
ed lay for nearly three hours in the most
fearful agony. The sight was one that beg
| gers description. The terrible cries of the
sufferers rent the ears of the lOokers-on
who made every possible effort to grant
their requestsfor water.
Two first-class ears and n Pullman ear
were comparatively uninjured, and the
passengers were transshipped and went
East this forenoon. SiXty-iivc men and
women were fcarfully scalded and other
wise injured, six of whom died ON the spot.
Four more have since died, and Others are
dying every hour. Not more than one
third of the injured persons will live. The
wounded and dying are lying stretched on
mattresses on the floor Of the freight shed
80 much disfigured as to be unrecogniza'
BILE. ....#
CoIUNtBus, June ~ 1.-The boiler in ths
extensive shops of the Ohio brush and
wire works, within the walls of the Ohio
penitentiary, exploded to-day just after
the convicts had started TO work, with q
terrible noise and effect. The flying boiler
tore out the large three story building il
which it was placed, making it mass oi
ruins, and tore out the side walls and thu
roof off of Geo. CLIPS store and foundry
near by.
Pieces of the boiler were thrown great
distance. AT the time of the accident
eighty-five men were in the brush shop
and were just going to work. The shock
was terrific and yet no person was killed
out right. Several men were blown out al
the windows and fell with the debris
from the fourth story of the building.
One man ut work in the lower story of the
boiler house, remained for thirty minutes
between two heavy timbers. The fireman
II, .,ff I.Nsl
both buried under pile of brick and tim
bers, but We're dug out alive, considerably
burned and bruised. Some escapes were
miraculous. AS soon as possible large
force were set to work aud the men buried
were all dug out, and with the other
wounded were taken to the prison hospital
where good nurses were on hand. They
are now all well cared for, and it is
thougt all but half dozen will recover.
The engineer in charge of the boiler says
he could not account for the accident, as
a second before the explosion occurred he
had on but eighty-five pounds of steam
One end of this same boiler exploded about
year ago and it is said it has leaked ever
since. s4.
WASHINGTON, June 4.-The June re-
port of the Statstician of the Department
of Agriculture, now in press, is exhaustive
in its treatment of wheat statistics. 1t is
based upon reports from 9O3 counties, oi
> |
290 higher than an average and 434 lower
thc.conditiOn ranging from 100, the stand
ard of medium prospect, down to 10, and
in a few cases down to an entire failure
. The State averages are calculated not SIM
ply from the number of counties reported
but from the cooperative production oi
the several counties. The 9O3 reports in
clude q very large proportion OF the wheat
area of the country. The summary of the
. returns of the area shows a reduction o.
two per cent from that OF 1871.
The acreage of spring wheat in States
which grow that variety mainly, is re-
ported as follows:
Maine l0S, New Hampshire 100, Yer
mont 102, Massachusetts, 05, Wisconsin SO
Minnesota lOl, Iowa LOG, Nebraska ll3
Oregon 107, California, where the distine
ton of spring and winter is scarcely
, known, reports spring 120, winter 1885, Iii
nois, where winter wheat constitutes two
: thirds of the crop, gives l0l for winter anC
IS for spring; Kansas where spring whea
, prcdominates, returns 140 for spring anC
; 62 for winter. The States growing winte
: wheat are Connecticut 05, New York 9s
New Jersey 90, Pennsylvania 90, Delawar
90, Maryland 100, Virginia 90, North Caro-
! lima, l0l; South Carolina, 90; Georgia, 9s
4 Alabama, los; Mississippi, 05; Texas, lis
r Arkansas, 90; Tennessee, l03; West Viz
r ginia, 100; Kentucky %; Ohio, So; Mich
J igan, 81; Indiana, 0si illinois, lOl; Mis-
y souri,, 02.
4 The condition of the predominant varlt