Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-05-07
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
HEART-RENDlNG AND SICKENING
DETAILS.
Gallant Conduct in Rescuing Victims,
An IRON BRIDGE BREAKS CROWDED
WITH WOMEN.
Ninety Lives Lost and More Missing.

Ninety Lives Lost and More Missing.
DIXON, Ill, May 5.-The iron bridge
gave way with two hundred persons, in
Guiding many women, who were witness
ing baptising in the river. Thirty-two
of the dead have been recovered, twenty
four of the rescued are injured some fatal
ly. 1t is feared others are under the ruins.
Bodies were found six miles below the
scene. The loss numbers about ninety.
Every house in the city is in mourning.
Several of the injured have died.
Derricks are being erected to lift up the
wreck, when the full loss of life will be
ascertained. 1t is thought many persons
from the country around not reported
missing will
swell the Loss Terribly.
The bridge was torn and broken and left
hanging from the piers, and is an appall-
ing sight in itself. At each end, men, wo-
men and children were crushed into the
river, while at the north end, where the
loss of life was greatest, the bodies were
held firmly to the bottom of the river in a
net work of iron.
Among the killed at Dixon was Miss
Bette Payne, daughter of Mrs. w. l..
Payne, editor of the Chicago Lddy'S Mag
dZinc.
Particulars OF Narrow Escapes,
Mrs. Daniel CLANCY, who, it was feared,
was fatally injured, is now better. Chas.
Murray fractured one bone of his leg and
his collar bone, besides receiving several
flesh wounds, but is doing well this morn
ing. Mrs. Murray is also comfortable and
better. Mrs. Ella Campbell, of DoYetown,
who was severely injured, is doing well.
There were several buggies on the
bridge, but strange to say, no one in the
| vehicles were injured and the horses also
| escped,
VIM. S. Hillocks horse and wagon are
| still on the bridge, and food for the horse
| has to be carried to it.
Jacob Armstrong jr., went down in the
crash and was compelled to crawl on the
| bottom Of the river, out from under the
sidewalk of the bridge, but being an ath-
| letic man, saved himself and helped rescue
several. Charles Mcbride saved many
lives. Col H. J. Hale, made a narrow
escape, he held Mrs. Smiths little child and
went down with it and come up and
saved the little girl and barely saved him
self Mrs. Noble was several feet from hel
husband, but he could not reach her in the
| fall because there was a mass of human
] beings between them.
! Tony Brant, boy of eight years, clung
to plank and was picked up safe half a
mile below. Ed. Patrick leaped into the
water and saved several lives,
Noble Acts.
Will Daily, with noble energy saved
many lives, among them were three wo.
men on plank, whom he pushed to shore
He then pulled off his coat and boots and
swan to DR.. Hoffmon, who was on a ban
half way to the railrad bridge and rescued
him.
Mr.. Dauntler saved several lives. Fred
L. Show saved five or six persons. Henry
Woodcutt swan boldly into deep water
and rescued many. There were severa
bodies taken out of the river as far down as
below the railroad bridge.
The body of Fred Hope was found float
ing nearly a mile down the river this
morning. All those reported missing are
probably in the net work of the bridge a.
the bottom of the river. After the nights
work, under the superintendent of j. G
Jacobs, of the Illinois Central Railroad
who rendered much assistance, a derrick
was erected and it it is hoped this morn
ing that the iron work will be lifted, 81
that the bodies will be recovered, 1t i:
feared that the extent of the calamity il
not yet learned, for there may have beer
many on the bridge from the country
whose names were not obtained.
An Indiana Railroad Accident,
PRINCETON, IND, May 5.-An excursion
plunged down an eight foot embankment
turning the cars bottom up. A numbe
We're seriously and some fatally hurt.
SUMMARY OF SUNDAY TELEGRAMS.
Gen left O. Davis has arrived at the law.