Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-19
THE RAILROAD SLAUGHTER.
Indignation Of the Public at the Con-
duet Of the Railroad Author
titles.
A Noble Heroine frem Texas-Neglect
of the officers Of the Railroad
Company.
Further Particulars = Conduct Of the
Passengers and Citizens-Two
More Victims.

SPRISGFELD, ILL, August lS.-
| There Is a great deal of indignation ex-
pressed here, by the citizens, over the
action of the officials, both great and
small, of the Chicago and Alton rail-
road, in keeping from the public, and
even from the friends of the victims,
news of the slaughter of Saturday night
on that road. Although the collision
occurred at twenty minutes past ten
O'Clock, and the fact was telegraphed to
the superintendent at Chica O within an
hour thereafter, not word was sent to
the friends of any of the wounded, and
the matter was studiously
KEPT FROM THE PRESS
until it could 10 longer be silenced. The
passengers who were on the ilI-fated
train, and who came down last night
from Chicago, state that until the ar
rival of the relief train, in charge of
Superintendent McMuIlen, everything
that was done to release from the wreck
and alleviate the sufferings Of the
scalded victims had to be done by the
uninjured passengers. The conductor,
they say, left the wreck before a single
person was extrieated, and went to Le-
mont to telegraph TO the superintendent,
WOUNDED AND DYING
from the wreck, and with such appliance
es as they had, ministered to their
wants, tearing up the pill0w-eases
from the sleeping-caTs for bandages, aud
improvising Eeds for them. Two physi-
clans came from Lemont soon after the
collision occurred, but it is said brought
nothing in the way of medicine with
them, and were, therefore, OF little use.
MISS TRACEY,
the daughter of an editor of Houston,
Texas, paper who was with her father
on the train, is spoken of in terms of
the highest praise, for her noble atten-
tions to the wounded, whose condition
was so horrible as to cause the stoutest
heart to grow sick and faint. When the
relief-rain from Chicago arrived, it
brought everything necessary for the
comfort Of the victims, several of whom,
however, had by this time found
relief in death. Some of the
passengers state it was half-past two
in the morning before the Felief-train
arrived, and one gentleman asserted it
was three O'Clock. The greatest interest
is felt here in connection with Major
smith and Mr.. Fleury, both of whom
are old citizens of this city, and the en-
tire public share in the grief of the fami-
lies of Captain Little, and Young and
Devilbliss.
TWO MORE VICTIMS DEAD.
CHICAGO, August 18,-Msior J. w.
Smith and j. w. Fleury, Of Springfield,
victims of the Alton railroad
casualty, died this morning at the West
side Briggs house.
A CORONER'S INVESTIGATION.
CHICAGO, August IS An inquest on
the bodies of those killed by the Ohio |
and st. Louis railroad disaster, was be- !
gun to-day. The superintendent of the |
road, the station-sgent at LemOnt and !
the conductor of the passenger train |
gave testimony, whose evidence shows |
that the accident was caused by the dis |
obedience of the rules of the COM
pany by the conductor and engi- |
neer of the cosl-train, who should |
have waited until the passenger-train |
passed.
The inquest viii be continued to-
The conductor and engineer |
Of the cOal-train have been arrested on |
8 warrant of manslaughter, sworn to by |
the attorney of the railroad company, |
and every effort will be made to convict /
them under the manslaughter statute, |
there being no statutes bearing directly |
on the case. The death-roll has been |
swelled to-day by the death of ]. w. |
Smith, warden of the State peniten- |
-iary, and ]. w. Fleury, agent of the /
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