Middletown transcript., 1876-08-26
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A Town Omcer at Last.
Middletown has at last succeeded in getting
a policeman, thanks to the energy of our pre-
sent Board Of Commissioners. Mr.. Hurn,
the president of the Board, went to Whining
ton last week, and through the assistance Of
Sheriff Lambson, secured the services of L..
Woodward, who now patrols our streets
clothed in the authority symbolized by the
blue dress and star, and whensoeyer the rag
ing peach-pluck gets on the rampage and
breaks the ordinances and laws Of the corpo-
ration, his rawlings are suddenly brought to
close, and he finds hims Elf being gently trans
ported to the cells beneath the hall, there to
stay until his benzine ardor has cooled off.
In this way thirty-one of them have
been furnished with gratis lodging by
our generous authorities this week, three Of
whom, being rather more obstreperous than
their brothers, were, on Wednesday, trans
ferred to the larger mansion of Sheriff Lamb
son, there 10 remain until they can either
give bail for future good behavior, or are re-
leased on other equally as good grounds.
Last Saturday night, for the first time on
that night in many weeks, good order pre-
vailed, and the residents of the Square were
not kept awake half the night BY the yell
ing and swearing of disorderly tramps and
negroes. These latter are a worse nuisance
than the tramps ever were, and there can
possibly be no good reason for allowing them
to collect in crowds upon the street corners,
clutting up the sidewalks, and subjecting
passers TO the annoyance of working their
way as best they can through them. This
thing has been put up with entirely too long,
and if the present authorities will break it up
and make the negroes quit blockadfng the
streets and behave themselves as white ci-
tizens do, they will be entitled to, as they
will receive, the gratitude of all order and
peace loving citizens. }t5 /
Accident ON the r. w. &: b. Railroad.
A very serious and destructive accident oc-
Cured at Stemmer's Run, nine miles |
north Of Baltimore, on this railroad, early on
Wednesday morning. The early freight train
from Wilmington broke an axle when near
that station and was thrown from the track,
causing the wreck Of several of the freight
cars, two gondolas," and two new pas
senger cars, which were on their way to
Virginia, for use in that State. The wrecked
cars were set on fire by the upsetting and
bursting of coal oil lamp, and several of
them entirely consumed, as there were no
means at hand of extinguishing the flames.
While the track was obstructed with the de-
bris Of this wreck, the north-bound freight
came along, and seeing the trouble, stopped,
and all hands went to work to assist in clear
ing the track. While the freight was thus
delayed upon the track, the 6.25 A. N. ex-
press from Baltimore came dashing along,
of the accident, and at too high
rate Of speed to be stopped in time to prevent
q collision. The consequence was,
ACCIDENT NO. g.
The express ran into the rear car of the
freight, tearing off its smoke stack, and
damaging it, and smashing four of
the frelght cars into atoms.
THE INJURED.
By these two accidents several persons
were considerably hurt-mostly employees of
the road, though none, it is hoped, seriously.
Of these were Mr.. James Sheen and his
brother, who were in charge of the cars for
Virginia Jas. T. Gordon and Glenn Biddle,
engineer and fireman of the express train;
W. T. Abercrombie, agent of the Baltimore
News Company; Thos. Streets, agent Of
Adams Express Company; and T. T. Wal
ers, of Stemmer's Run.
INCIDENTS. ~
Mr.. James Sheen, who was injured by the
irst accident was tightly fastened in between
he timbers, and as the car, in which he was,
ook fire, he must have persisted, had not
ramp, who had been stealing ride on the
rain, burst open the car window and
ragged him out; and now he says he shall
hereafter have more respect for tramps, as he
yves his life to one of them. There was quite
! number of tramps on the train, and when
he accident occurred some went to work to
'ssist in restoring order, while others broke
'pen and tried to steal boxes of merchandise.
Two of these latter were arrested and sent to
he county Jail. ss - ,sssks
The total loss to the Company was some
s35, 900. s.o