Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-18

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, Others, many Of whom il is SAID will
die. The cars caught fire, and numbers
of the injured are burned badly, while
Others were scalded by the hot water
from the locomotive boilers.
LE,,ONr
is about twenty miles south of this city.
The accident was not known here, eX-
/ cept TO the railroad officials, until be-
tween twelve and one o'clock this morn
/ ing, and ther only 10 parties who hap
pened to ascertain that surgeons had
been sent FOR to go to the wrecked train.
1t is impossible to give fun particulars at
| the present writing, but they will be sent
later. Among tEOse dangerously in
ljuTed is J. W. Smith, Of the Illinois
State penitentiary.
/ ADDITIONALlPARTIC
The total number of killed and those
who died Of their injuries by the colIis-
| ion, on the Chicago and Alton railroad,
/ near Lemont last night, is, up to three
o'clock this evening, eleven, and of
wounded thirty-five. The following Is
a list furnished by the officials of the
railroad and is doubtless correct:
killed-JOhn Metzler, an enc
gineer belonging to the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad; two fire.
men belonging to the colliding trains,
names unknown; Frank Bridges, ap-
parently Of the firm of n. Divelbliss,
jr., Springfield, Illinois; Thomas Nor
ton Porter, in AndersOn's hotel, Chiea-
60; r. J. Brass, of the firm Of J. Y.
EarweH 4 TO-, Chicago. There are two
men whose bodies are yet unidentified.
I1jured-CaptainJ w. Smith, warden
III
ly scalded, cannot recover; J. T. Fleury,
purchasing agent for the penitentiary at
Joliet, fatally, viii scarcely live till
night; Anton Finkleman, st. Louis,
badly, probably fatally; NJ. c. Cantrel,
Chicago, badly bruised; VIM. Mitchell,
Ducks Island, Maine, badly scalded;
Alex. MOnteith, Ducks Island, badly
scalded; Thomas Strong, Muskegen,
Michigan, scalded; Thomas Crowley,
Chicago, scalded, William Curran or
COnant, Ducks Island, scalded J. Le-
motto, Philadelphia, badly scalded;
John Sherries, Glasgow, Scotland, bad
ly hurt, ruptured; Alexander Hackett,
Ducks Island, scalded; A. Borden,
scalded; John WhaIen, Akron, on way
to Bloomington, back and hands
scalded; Henry Small, Akron, |
scalded; J. Z. Cunningham, baggage
man, leg broken; Thomas OlNeill, engi- !
neer OF the passenger train, both legs
broken; the engineer of the eoal-train |
badly bruised;..a newsboy on the pas |
senger train bruised; George Rentile, /
Chicago, body and arms scalded; A. G. 4
Hickman, artist, Chicago, badly scalded |
on the head and hands, and bruised |
Jacob KlOse, fatally; Jacob COrdovant, |
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, will probably die; |
Isaac Mills, New York, slightly scalded; |
Marion Carleton, Bloomington, Illinois, |
scalded; Albert Adams, Bloomington, |
scslded; William Richardson, Chicago, |
scalded; L. A. Hamilton, Dwight, lii |
nois, slightly scalded; John O'Keefe, |
and James Doyle, Akron, Ohio, scRlded; /
John Spears, Chicago, sealded M. St 4
John, Chicago, scalded.
THE TRAIN DIDN'T CATCH FIRE
as reported this morning, and all the
passengers killed or injured were in the |
second-class car, which was also used as
a smoking car, and with the exception |
of the fireman, engineer and train men, /
the casualties were all caused ty steam |
None of the regular passenger or Sleep |
ing coaches were thrown from the track, |
or iB any way injured, and no one in |
any of them hurt. The following ac- /
count Of the accident is from the state /
ments Of the officers of the road:
The regular passenger train for ST. |
Louis left here at nine O'Clock in the |
evening, and consisted of one baggage !
car, one express-car, three day-eOaches, |
the head one a second-class or smoking
car and two sleeping-cars. At twenty |
minutes past ten O'Clock in the evening, /
when three miles north of LemOnt and |
about twenty-five miles south of this |
city, at a curve in the road, there sudden
~ appeared a cOal-train Of thirty-fve /
ears, running at a rate Of about twenty
miles an hour. The passenger train was
running at rate of probably thirty
miles an hour, and neither Of the engin-
eers saw the other engine till it was
TOO LATE TO REVERSE,
a fact accounted for by a curve in the
road, and patty by a dense fog. The two
came together with fearful force. Being
on curve, however, the engines left
the track and passed each other that
attached to the cOal-trsin striking the
baggage-car few feet from the end and
showing it off the track, breaking the
coupling between it and the smoking
car, which the engine struck square in
the end, and with such force as to throw
the forward end in the air, 30 that the
engine ran under it, tearing the floor
completely out, and hurting the
FIFTY OR SIXTY UNFORTUNATFs
who were in the ear in a struggling mass
at the lower end, whence there was no
chance for escape, and now there was a
scene the horrors of which cannot be
accurately described. The smokestack
and dome Of the engine were knocked of
by the collision, and the broken timbers
Of the smOking-car penetrated the boil
er, letting oEt a dense volume Of hot
steam, which poured into theca blind
ing and scalding the helpless inmates.
who, with beartTending shrielzs, strug-
gled vainly to eXtricate themselves.
In the mean time Conductor Russell
Of the passenger train, who was unhurt,
and q number of passengers from the
rear coaches, came forward, and en-
deavored to assist the poor victims. but
there was little left to do beyond taking
from the wreck the
DYING AND THE WOUNDED.
Many who were fearfully scalded, died
soon after they were taken out, and four
have since died.
The point where the accident occurred
is near what IS known as the lag. a low
marshy meadow, about half wsv be-
tween Lemont and Willow Springs STA
ton, and not g house in the neigbbor-
hood. The Unhurt passengers, however.
took the bedding from the sleepers. and
as much as waspOssible, under
the circumstances, TO the wounded,
while Conductor Russell hurried back on
loot to LemOnt, and telegraphed Super
iBtendent McMullen here for
SURGEONS AND AID.
Mr.. MeAlallen hastily got together
half dozen physicians, and supplies Of
such articles as were necessary, and
started about midnight with a special
rain for the scene of the disaster, arriv-
ng there about half-past one o'clock h
his morning. Everything possible was
lone for the sufferers, and at six o'clock
his mOrning the train returned to this
;ity, bringing the injured, the coaches Of
he wrecked train, and all the dead and
wounded except the two flremen, who I
were left at Lenont for burial. On their
arrival those Of the wounded who reside
here were taken to their homes, and the |
others were taken 10 a hospital, with ]
ne exceptions Of Captain Smith and I
Ar. tleuTy, who were taken to the ]