Litchfield enquirer., 1873-03-06

In safety there. till storms shall cease
 In endless peace.
 They now are where no rude alarm
 Shall ever more disturb their calm;
 For they the further shore have won,
 Their work Is done. T. B. L.
 Little Rock, Ark, February, 1873.
 THE ACCIDENT AT GUTHRIE. KY.
 Particulars regarding the death
 of Mrs. Webster and child.
 Papers containing accounts of the death of the late wife and child of Lieut.. Web ster, have been received by his relatives here. The following from the Memphis Appeal gives the fullest particulars
 EDITORS APPEAL At three o'clock on Tuesday morning, the southward bound train, on the Louisville and Nashville encountered broken rail two miles south of Russelville, in Kentucky, which threw one of the sleeping coaches from the track, causing the. instant death of lady and her child, and injuries to, perhaps, fifteen other passengers. There was another sleeping coach in the train, fun of ladies and children, that fortunate ly escaped injury, having remained stand ing on the rail. The coach f9r Memphis snapped the couplings and tumbled down an embankment several feet deep. Mrs. Webster and her child occupied berth on the side opposite that on which the car fell. The violent oscillations that oc- cured before the car finally jumped of the track, threw the lady and her baby right across the car and half way out the window, and as the car fell over, her head was caught between it and the bank, and the neck instantly broken. The child that she hugged to her bosom was instantly killed also. The other passengers experi- enced the toughest usage, though none of them were killed outright. Lieut.. George o. Webster, Adjutant of the Fourth Uni- ted States Infantry, husband of the lady that was killed, was severely injured. There were five other ladies in the car, all of whom were injured considerably. The train stopped, of course, and all hands went to work to aid the sufferers. It was found by the light of lamps and torches-for the night was pitch dark that the coach had Literally turned upside down. Two hours and half were spent in removing the dead bodies of Mrs. Web ster and her baby. It was 8 sad nights work. The conductor, James Harwood, is a true man. His conduct throughout was such as elicited the well-merited praise of every passenger. When al the people and property were got out of the wrecked coach and put on board the train, including the remains of Mrs. Webster and her baby, and the suffering husband sad group-we started again, and reach ed Memphis little behind time. Captain Dougherty, the Quartermaster here, & kind, good man, took care of Lieutenant Webster, and had the remains of his wife and child sent to Little Rock, in charge of detachment of troops.
 This is simple narrative of very pain full occurrence that becomes interesting to you because of the fact that the dead by it pass through your city on their way to their final resting place. The event, also, is another illustration of the divine truth that death will come like thief in the night, showing us the great necessity of beinga lways prepared to face the Eternal Judge.
 Yours, VICTOR.
 The statement that Lieut.. Webster was himself seriously injured is no doubt a mistake. He wrote to his mother that he was only slightly hurt; the report in the Little Rock Republican, and the telegraphic despatches to Eastern papers, give full lists of the wounded and his name is not mentioned; and the Little Rock correspondent of the Appeal, speaking as follows of his arrival at that place, makes no mention of his being injured:
 Lieut.. Webster, Adjutant of the Fourth United States Infantry, stationed at the arsenal, arrived here tonight with the bodies of his wife and child, killed by 8 railroad accident in Tennessee. He has the sympathy of the entire community in his deplorable bereavement.
 Lieut. Webster is the eldest son of Edwin B. Webster, late of this place, and a nephew of the hate Col. Charles O. Bel. den, who served with distinction in the recent war. Lieut.. Webster is native of Litchfeld, and lived here till his en. trance into the West Point Academy. He is very highly esteemed, and the utmost sympathy is expressed for him in his ter rible afiiction.
 Mrs. Webster the young wife and mother, cut off in her best days--was 6 most estipable lady, beloved and esteem ed by all who knew her.
 The remains were inferred in the Ma tional Cemetery at Little Rock, by thu regiment that she had looked forward tt meeting, with so much pleasure and brigh hopes. Later in the season, it is her hus bands intention, to remove them to Litch field. to be laid by his fathers side in tn,
 cemetery here.
 The CANAAN depot express agent re gently had one package of live Chinamal
 to take charge df. The Chinaman va, sent by express from Hartford to Nortl
 Adams. After supper. the celestial wa
 taken into the parlor at Warmers hotel
 where lady was playing the piano. |
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