Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-01-02

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On Tues :ay afternoon at fifteer
minutes past three o'clock, as the mai
train on the Buffalo, Cory and Pitts
burg Railroad leaving Cory at 1:20 p
n, neared Prospect, and when within
about eighty rods Of the station, tn.
train was thrown off the track at tres
tle-w0rk, the passenger and baggage
car and tender falling a distance o.
twenty feet, while the engine passed
over unhurt. The cars turned com
fell perpendicularly to the ground be
low, a distance of twenty feet. When the
cars struck. the trucks crashed through
the bottoms of them, and as the stoves
of the passenger coaches were directly
under the trucks. they were crushed te
pieces, and Immediately the woodwork
of the cars took fire. OF forty six peo
pie known TO have been in the cars,
but one escaped unaid6d, namely, the
brakeman of the passenger coach, who
jumped clear Of the cars as they were
falling.
The woodwork of the passenger car,
thickiy coated as it was with varnish,
burned freely, and before any
thing could bs done by the
force at hand to prevent it,
the flames enveloped both ends Of
the car and crept rapidly toward the
centre. Penned within it at this time,
with no possible chance to extricate
themselves were forty-thres adult pas
sengers, the conductor and one child.
OF those, seated in the ends of the cal
none escaped, but help arriving, about
twenty-five dead and living were taken
out of the center of it, and the flames
we're extinguished-or more correctly
speaking, went out for lack of any.
thing further to feed upon. The re-
mains of the other passengers were
then recovered and all brought to this
place.
The roll foots up as follows: Saved
all more or less injured 10, dead 10,
missing 8.
The dead, with four exceptions, were
burned SO as to be unacceptable from
the features and there are but three
that could possibly be identified from
the shreds OF clothing adhering to the
roasted flesh. Five were headless and
without limbs and the remaining ones
had the flesh all burned off the extrem.
tiles. The eight missing are supposed
to have been completely consumed and
there are pieces Of skulls, watches, and
the like sufficient to partially justify
such belief. -Four others are known to
have been on the train namely: Cath
creme Kelley, Kitty Ryan and Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilbur F. Rice, all of Titusville,
Pa. It is thought they will be identi'
fed tomorrow friends are here fol
that purpose.
The case of the two last named is 6
PECULIARLY sad one: Mr.. Rice was tht
only son of Mr.. James Rice, a leading
citizen of Titusville, and his wife tn,
only daughter of Austin Jackson, O.
Rochester, N. Y. They were married
on the fifth of this month and were OF
the way to Rochester to spend Christ
mas.
Judging from the clothing, baggage
and appearance of these coming K
identity them, a number Of the dead
belonged to the lower classes. Th,
bodies are laid out in the freight house
and will be kept several days for identi
6cation.
The following is the list of killed ani
wounded:
| KILLED.
Mark Haight, of Brockton, N. T.,
banker, one leg shattered; the othe
burned of at the thigh, and badl.
bruised about the head.
Mr.. Osborn, of Westfield. The sid<
of his head was smashed in, and ont
leg broken of below the knee.
Mr.. Ryan, internal injuries.
E. H. Bell, telegraph operator a
Sherman.
Mr.. Carleton, bruises on the bod,