The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-24
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WHEELING, W. VA SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY a. 1872
Railroad Accident in Kentucky..A
Passenger Train Drops Through a

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Passenger Train Drops Through a
Bridge. '.
CINCINNATI, February ga passen.
ger train coming north on the Louisville
i Cincinnati Short Line Railroad, due al
UoVlngton at r, NJ, fell through a bridge
three miles north Of Elllston Station 10.
day. Twenty.siS passengers were on the
train, and it Is reported that all were more
or less injured and several killed. No
other particulars arc yetreceived.
SECOND DISPATCH.
CINCINNATI, February 23.-The bridge
on the Louisville Short Line was IN iron
and wooden structure, known US the
"Finck Suspension Truss" 1t was 25 feet
high and 10 feet span. Il rested on two
stone abutnGnts, and had been considered
safe. The train reached the bridge al
ll:2O A. NJ, running Nbout go miles per
hour. The locomotive passed over safely
only before theslructure went down, and
with it two passenger coaches, tender,
luggage, express and mail car, piling all
together In one mass of ruin below. The
front passenger car was reduced to splin.
ters, while the others Jared but little bet.
ter. Tho fragments Of tho front car were
soon in flames, but by the promptness Of
Dallas Pullam, the engineer, they were
subdued. About sixty.llve passengers
were on this car, two Of whom werG killed
and liity.two wounded. Surgeons and
supplies went from Covington at once on
the afternoon train, and locomotive
started with other surgeons short time
alter. The wounded were cared for and
placed in the cars. Passengers on the
train state TINT the wounded were heaped
in horrid mass, and that lthe scene lol-
lowing was exciting in the extreme.
Wounded passengers Joined with citizens
from the surrounding country and officers
Of the train in the work ofextricating the
bodies. PC" H.,.F
The killed were John ]. Brock, of
Sparta, Owen county, KY, and Harrison
Julian, the colorcd porter OF the train.
Both were badly mutilated. The mail
agent was wounded, but not badly. A
train took the wounded US soon as posi-.
bic to Covingtou, arriving at halE.past six
in the evening. The following is a list OF
the'wounded: s, II. Albratson, Browns.
vile, Tenn, head and shoulder, badly;
Mrs. Levi, Columbus, Miss, head badly;
Craig Mitchell, louisville, teeth knocked
out back and head injured badly;
N. B. Jacobs. Warsaw, Ky, head, hip
and legs badly injured; b. f. Tomlinson,
Mt. Zion, Ky, arm broken and head hurt
badly; Mike Madden, Louisville, slightly;
w. Hukill, Louisville, severely in hip;
s. B. Voris, hurt all over-tougue bit
nearly in two; the stove fell on him. ].
?. Mosely, Lagrange, KY, slightly; Sam'l
Newport, KY, badly; Maggie Powers,
Perry county, Ohio, severely; Frank
Damment, Portsmouth, Ohio, badly; r,
Sherrard, Canton, Miss, severely; Andy
Pierson, Portsmouth, Ohio, hip and head;
P. NJ, Kerr, Cincinnati, head badly
J. 8. Scroggin. Bagdad, Kentucky, back,
leg and arm John w. Howe, New
Liberty, KY, shoulder and Side; Stephen
Allen, of New Orleans, slightly; Mrs.
Odell, breast and back; two children Of
the same hurt, one only slightly; Nellie
Clark, OF Chillicothe, Ohio, slightly; Carrie
McGhee, of Lincoln Furnace, O., slightly:
VIM. Clark, Of Chillicothe, o., leg crush
ed; J. L. TefEt, Of Oakland Station, Ky,,
slightly; j. S. Ledman, express messenger,
slightly; T. j. Martindale and wife, oil Ra.
cine, Wis, severely; s. Bull and wilc, Of
Racine, Wis, severely NJ. Shay, Of Gov.
ington, badly; O. A. Coffin, Of Cleveland,
Ohio, face cut and breast injured; Fred.
erick Shafer, of Cincinnati, Ohio, slightly;
A. +. Hewitt Derby, Conn, slightly; G.
3. DeGratle, Mrs. Ira ,DeGratt and Ira
DeGratf, WinOna, Minnesota, all slightly;
B. Martin, mail agent, Louisville, badly;
Preston Childs, Covington, badly; VIM.
P Oonyer, Zion, Ala. slightly; VIM.
Tull, badly; ThEs, Gayle, New Liberty,
Ky, severely; -Thos, Maddox, Poplar
Grove, KY, badly; Calvin Maddox, Pop.
lar Grove, Ky, badly; E. G. McMichael,
Anchorage, KY, severely; Jas. M. Hall,
slightly; !. s. Todd, Louisville, slightly;
Mary Martin, Of Springfield, O., badly;
child Of same, slightly. When the train
with the wounded arrived at Coyington,
the sufferers were conveyed to hotels, and
the st. Elizabeth Hospital. VIM. Tull, Of
Louisville, will probably die, The cloth.
ing Of many Of the passengers, was liter
ally torn from the bodies. Dallas Pull
lam, engineer OF the train, was the only
one escaping injury. The cause of the
bridge giving way is not explained. Some
Of the mail, and all the newspapers were
lost in the fire and wreck. The Gov
ington and Cincinnati mails were saved.