Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-02
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Two Deaths by DrOWning-Desperate
and Fatal Shooting ARRAY at
Worthwhile, ny.
The Accident On the Baltimore and Ohio
Road, by which Six Persons
were Injured.
Murder in Madison County, Tennessee
The Cholera in East Tennessee
No Abatement of the
SeOurge.
BOYS DROWNED.

From the Paris lTenn.) IntelEgencer.l
On Saturday last two young men
(brOthers), George and Reuben Kendall,
while bathing in Sandy river were
drowned. 1t seems that neither of the
young men could swim. The elder
(George) was wading in water up to his
arm-pits, and suddenly stepped into
water over his head. His brother Reu-
ben, about sixteen years Of age, rushed
into the water to aid his brother, who
had sunk out of sight once and risen
again TO the surface, when he was
seized by the drowning nan, and both
went down together into 2 wateTy grave.
A third brother in attempting to save
these two came veIy near being
drowned. They were the sons of Mr..
David Kendall, and were esteemed by
all who knew them as worthy, honor
able youths. A deep sympathy is felt
by the acquaintance and friends of the
afflicted family ia this most sad be-
reavement.
SIX PERSONS KILLED AND WOUNDED.
The Cumberland (Marylandl news
papers give details of the terrible rail-
road accident which occurred Sunday
morning on the seventeen-mile grade of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, about
two miles east of AltamOnt, aud forty
three miles west of Cumberland. The
DGjly NeJUS SAYS: "a convoy of trains
of cars, loaded with stock, grain, cotton,
tobacco and miscellaneous merchandise,
were on their way east, when shortly
after leaving Altamont engine No. Adj,
of which Luke Conaway was engineer,
fI-- some accidental cause became un-
nlsna geable and ran away. OF course,
a- the grade at that point is very con-
sid aJie, the train in few minutes had
atla.ued a very high speed, stated 10y
some Of our informants to have teen at
the rate Of fifty miles an hour. The en-
glIeer blew his whistle for brakes, but
the speed of the train was not slack
enc In another instant he heard the
eng 70 eer of the train ahead of his blow
ing lor brakes, denoting that his train,
too, was running too fast. Knowing
that The forward train would decrease
its speed or stop altogether, En-
gineer Conaway saw that a terrible
collision was inevitable, and calling to
his fireman to follow him, he clambered
over the tender on to the cars and ran
toward the rear of the train. The fire.
man, whose name We have been unable
to learn, threw himself on his face on
the "running-boardn on top the car
next the locomotive, and braced him
self for the coming crash, entreating the
engineer to follow his example. Coma
way, however, paid no attention to his
remOnstrances, but ran on until he
reached the middle of the train, where
he attempted to put on a brake. AT
this moment the locomotive struck the
forward train, crashing with terrific
force through twelve or fourteen cars,
and throwing the remainder of the train
off the track. The cars in the rear train |
piled up on one another and ran off the |
track, injuring some of them considera-
bly,. The track for half a mile was scat |
tered with the broken cars and their |
contents. Several cattle were killed, |
while corn, cotton and tobacco were
strewn all over the roadbed. When the |
locomotive struck, Engineer Conaway
was thrown into the air, hurled head |
foremost to the ground and instantly |
killed. He resided in Westernport, |
where he leaves a wife and family. The |
car to which the fireman had clung ran |
up and followed it through the forward |
train, getting badly broken in the general /
crash, but the man escaped uniniured. /
In the eaboOse-car of the forward train |
merry, brakeman, and three drovers, Mr.. |
Martina, Of Barbour county; Mr.. ELI
oft of Harrison county, and Mr.. Rev /
nolds, Of Mineral county, West Vir- !
ginia. MessIs. Martina and Elliott were |
killed, Brakeman COrnery had |
his leg broken and received other iniu- |
Ties, and Conductor Burke and Mr.. Rey- |
nolds each received severe cuts and |
bruises. Mr.. Burke resides in Piedmont, |
and has q family. Mr.. COrnery is a |
young man and unmarried; he also re- |
sides at Piedmont. 1t is reported that |
the reason why Mr.. Conaway's signal |
for brakes was not responded to was that |
the brakemen were asleep. We believe |
they escaped unhurt, and if the rumor
above alluded to is correct, their feel
ings on hearing that Eogineer COnawsv
lost his life in desperate attemnt ~
supply their places must have been anv-
thing but pleasant. Both tracks were
blocked for a long distance for several
hours.
FATAL AFFRAY AT WORTHWHILE, ky.
In the Frankfort YeOmdR Of Tuesday |
last we find the following account |
of a gentleman committing murder IN |
ave learn from Mr.. NJ arsh /
Woods, of the steamer Blue Wing, that |
a fatal rencontre, the result of an old
feud, occurred on Saturday evening last, |
at Worthwhile, Carroll county, on the
Short-line railroad, between Shuck |
the landlord of the hotel at |
that place and a young man by the
name of VIM. Dean, residing on farm
in the vicinity, in which the latter lost
his life. Dean, it appears was advanc-
ing on Whitaker with a knife and a
heavy coupling.pin in his hands, when
the latter drew his pistol and shot Dean
the heart, killing him instant
L.. Whitaker surrendered to the Off
csr7 Of the law; but, as the killing was
generally regarded as an act Of justifia-
bic seif-defense, it is presumed that he
Aa teen discharged. Dean was gener- !