Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-26
THE RAILROADS.
The Passengers of a Wrecked Train
SEQ FOF'' the officials.

The Passengers of q Wrecked Train
500 FOr'' the officials.
WHEELING, w. VA, Aug. 24.--An ac-
cident occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad to-day, four miles west of Cameron,
by which three or four German emigrants
were fatally injured and fifteen or twenty
wounded. The accident was caused by the
sprea ding of the track, which threw the
tender, express car, and one passenger car
down an enbankment, and all the coaches
off the track. The coach that went over
the bank some fifteen or twenty feet con-
tanned some seventy or eighty men, women
and children. The car turned bottom up
wards, the trucks with il. Some of the
emigrants became enraged thin king the en-.
gineer and conductor were trying to kill
them, and set upon the officers of the train
with stones, and they had to fee for their
lives No blame is attached to any one for
the accident.
Fifty Women and Children Mangled.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-Another accident
occurred on the South Side Railroad on
Long Island this morning. When the ex-
press train from Patchague was between
Freeport and Babylon the last three cars
jumped the track and rolled down an en-
bankment. all the passengers aboard,
about fifty, mostly women and children,
were more or less injured, and one child
fatally.
Three Cents a Mile.
CHICAGO. Aug. ga Springfield, Ills :,
dispatch says it is understood that tbs rail-
road and warehouse commissioners have
fixed the passenger tariff on first-class roads
in the State st three cents per mile.
Among the roads thus classified, are the
Chicago aud Alton, the Chcsgo, Burling-
ton and Quincy, the Toledo, Wabash and
Western, over which the present rate of
fare is about four cents per mile.
A Construction Train Smashed.
MARSHALL, TEXAS, Aug. 25.-Last
night about O'Clock construction train
laden with ties for Ward, Dewey & Co., the
penitentisry Lessee, ran OFF the track IL
miles west OF Gladewater Station, throwing
Z cars down an embankment, killing Con-
| ductor Kendall, of Council Bluffs, Ia, and
seriously injuring ]. j. Kelly, guard, cut
all over; w. Prince, guard, accidental dis
charge Of q gun, in his thigh; j. Smith, in
the thigh; one brakeman, in his legs; Nc
Donald, sergeant, in the forehead slight
ly and conYicts names unknown. The
cause of the accident is reported to be that
an OK jumped in front of the train while it
was backing up.
Coming to Nashville.
Mt. VERNON, IND, Aug. Pa meeting
of stockholders of the Cincinnati, Rock
port and Southwestern Railway Company
to-day elected the following persons diree.
tors for the ensuing year: S. s. L, Homme-
diem, John Shillito, Jacob Sassougood, w.
Ressr, K. Garard, LEXIS Z. Yeatman, Jos.
Kiwey, e. 81. S4Din, L. O. Deerwiler, job n
a. ManI, Milton n. Moore John L. Waters,
Substantially the beard of last year.
! Two Men KIIIed-An Engineer, Over
come with Horror, Falls Dead.
ROCHESTER,, Aug. 25-The express train
due here at 10 O'Clock this evening, APP
preaching Balattia, ran into carriage, kill
ing both occupants. The engine struck the
hauch of the horse attached to the carriage.
The names Of the occupants of the carriage
were James Anderson and Dennis Delaney.
One of them was thrown nun
Der Of yards into field, and the
other was dragged along until
the train stopped. His body was horribly
maDgled. the engineer Stopped the train
as soon as possible and got off the engine to
see weat injury had been done. 10 passing
in front of the locomotive he saw it covered
with blood and brains, and was so over
cong by the shock that he walked but few
steps when he fell and was carried into the
smoking car and died in few minutes.