Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-09-05
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
A ailroad Train Collitles with q Fam
lily "agOn-F1vo Persons Killed.
From the PhiladelphiA Age. Augult Al.

Yesterday morning Mr.. Reuben Deal,
a gentleman of about IS years Of age,
who keeps a grocery store at the cor.
ner of thirteenth and Monterey
streets, between Race and Vine, left
the city, accompanied by his two grand
children, named George Muloch and
Ella Freberger, aged respectively ten
and eleven years, and companion of
the children named Mary Snyder, for
the purpose of spending the day at
the summer residence of Mr.. Edward
Middleton, a well-known iron.merchant
of this city, and whose residence is To-
Gated q few hundred yards northeast of
Tacony railroad station.
After q well.spent day among the
green fields, Mr.. Deal gathered his
little flock about him for the purpose
of returning to the city by the train
that left New York at 5 o'clock yester-
day afternoon. Mr.. Middleton's fami-
~ carriage was brought into requisi-
ton for the purpose of conveying
the visitors to the railroad station, and
an old and trusty driver in the employ
of Mr.. Middleton, named Porter Ostler,
was delegated to drive the party to the
station. The road from Mr.. Middle
tons house to the station strikes the
railroad and runs alongside of it about
one hundred yards above the station,
and at the station the road crosses the
railroad at right angles, and. keeps on
downward toward the river Porter
Ostler was driving the carriage on that
portion the road that runs alongside of
the railroad, and at this time the train
westward was rapidly approaching the
station.
The driver not being aware of the
proximity of the train, or at least Of the
great rapidity with which it was NOV
ing, undertook to cross the track at
the station in advance of the train, but,
sad to relate, the horse could not be
driven over the track fast enough to
escape the locomotive, and the terrible
consequence was that the carriage was
struck about the centre by the engine
with such fearful force that the vehicle
was shattered into Thousand pieces, the
fragments flying in all directions, and
the occupants, with the exception of
the driver, met v ith sudden and heart
rending deaths. The horse was just on
the other side of the track when the
collision occurred, and he became in
simultaneously detached from the wagon
and trotted quietly back to the stable,
and the driver, Mr.. Ostler, being on
the front seat, did not get the full force
OF the fearful crash, and was saved
from an instantaneous death. although
he was SO badly injured that he died in
about three-quarters of an hour after
ward, at the residence of Mr.. Middle
ton, where he was conveyed on Set
tee.
Mr.. Deal. his two grand children,
George Muloch and Ella Freberger, and
the little girl named Mary Snyder,
were terribly mangled and thrown out
in different directions A number of
ladies and gentlemen, mostly summer
sojourners of Tacony, were seated in
front of the station at the time of the
accident, and they were all unwilling
witnesses of the affair. As soon as the
male spectators recovered from the
temporary shock occasioned by the
collision, the bodies of the occupants
of the carriage were picked up, and
those of Mr.. Deal aud his two grand
children were carried into the station
and laid out on the floor, and that of
little Mary Snyder was taken to the
residence of Mr.. Titus, opposite the
depot.
The driver, Ostler, was placed on a
settee, he being still alive, and, after
receiving temporary attendance at the
depot, party of men carried him to
Mr. Middleton's residence, but he died
in about twenty minutes after reaching
| there.