The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-23
HURLED INTO ETERNITY.
A Passenger Train on the
Panhandle Jumps the
Track at Black Lick
Station.
And is Precipitated Down an
Embankment 80 Feet
Casualties.

hour this morning at Black Lick Station,
on the Pan Handle railroad, twelve miles
from this city. The train was running
At the rate of forty miles an hour, when
from some cause or other, four cars Of
the train jumped the track and
Down an Embank meat
Twenty-Five or Thirty Feet.
At that place. The engine, baggage car
and mail car, remained on the track,
while those in the rear went OF. This
leads some 70 think the accident was
caused by broken rail, while others are
Of the opinion that 1t was caused by
jumping the track while making the
curve. The cars that went down the
are in terrible broken
One gentleman thai was on
The train states that the cars were
Fine Enough TO Make kindiinE
Wood.
and that there is not single wheel on
any OF the cars. Intelligence was sent
10 the city, and in few minutes a
trsih and physicians were at
the scene of the accident, and every at
tention was given to the wounded that
could be given. Conductor Lacy, who
was in charge of the train, and his as
sistants, did all in their power TO sllevi
ate the sufferers until assistance arrived.
The
Killed asd Wounded
were brought TO the Union depot, from
whence the wounded were removed TO
he hotels, the greater portion OF them
going 10 the Exchange and National.
PLY ysicians from the city responded
and were this morning busily
TO the wants of the sufferers.
In the confusion which prevailed 1t was
hard To get the names ot the killed and
Four persons are known Ia
have been
Killed Outright
Two men and two children. One Of the
killed is n son OF S. Z. Bennett, Cairo,
IN. the other Lizzie Bancroft, PhIladel-
phIa, child three years old. One ofthe
men is said 10 be from st. Louis, another
from Hamilton.
A number at the depot departed for
their homes without reporting 10 anyone.
1t is variously estimated that there must
have been between 80 and 40 persons who
were more or less ILjurcd by the accident
some of the wounds are slight while
others are quite serious. The Union de-
pct this morning had somewhat the
Appearance OF II Hospital.
The emigrant room had been used 10
received the wounded, where they were
placed on beds and from which they were
10 be removed 10 hotels. About the
depot waiting for trains were number
IF people with their heads handaged,
and arms in slings or limping around n
best they could. The wounded nj the
Neil House are Mrs. w. II. Ellis and II
little girl, from New Orleans. Mrs. r.
}addi WAS bruised about the head and
chest. The little girl Is unhurt. Samuel
Litz, of Philadelphia WAS badly bruised
about the body. but not seriously hurt.
All of these were
In the Sleeper.
The wounded ut DavidsOn's Hotel are
As follows: George Dinner, formerly of
This city and wife and daughter, seriously
injured; j. d. Briggs and wife, o. Spring
icld, Missouri, badly bruised, but not
seriously; j. Mccoy, No, 874, Eighth
street, louisville, Kentucky. seriously in
iured; he WAS laying quietly, but in such
a condition that he could give no infor-
nation.
At the Exchange Hotel About ten Of
the wounded and one OF the killed were
in this house. &. Brazelton and wife,
g reen wood, Iowa, was suffering from 4
serious cut in the thigh and head. Mrs.
b., is q very large lady, had one
wrist broken and other injuries; she was
seriously cut about the head and face;
Mrs. Brazelton's most serious injuries are
feared TO be interns!; Mr. and Mrs. j.
K. Bancroft and four children are at this
hotel, Mr.. Bancroft WAS walking about,
but Mrs. b. had received internal n p ;
and three of the children were injured,
Lizzie Bancroft, three years old, wa
killed and had been laid out in the room
occupied by the parents and children
10 IN WOLF two cousins and two gentle
men were bruised and their clothing torn
almost 70 sbreds, they are from Marion,
Mo, and had been % Philadelphia.
Iater-CasuaIttes.
The following is q reliable list Of the
per, ms injured severely enough 10 re-
quire mention: Mr.. Mary Banning,
Pleasant Ridge head, hand and face
badly cut; z. II. Fay, Concord, n. l,
shoulder and legs broken; ID. 3. Sey-
mour. Goshen, Ohio. hand cut ard leg
badly broken; Peter Lewiston, ADkeny,
Iowa, head cut and side bruised |;
Mrs. Jane Lewiston Of Ankeny,
Iows, head and neck badly spraIned; !;
CALVIN Thornton, Des Molnes, Iowa,
head and legs bruised slightly; j. ID.
Bsgg., Springfield, Missouri, shoulder
and legs badly hurt; Mr.. }. ID. Bags.
head bruised and shoulder badly sprsinet |;
A. Shsnly. st. LOUIS, head and shoulder
cut; Mrs A. Shsnly, legs cut and body
badly bruised; Samuel Jones, -. Louis,
badly hurt and bruised about the breast
head and arms; Mrs. 5. 3. Eastwood,
Louisville, left shoulder dslocated; +;
Matte Grubbling, Dayton, face
and head bruised; S. Il.
Bennett, Cairo, foot and leg crushed I;
Mrs. s. B. Bennett; hand cut and shoul.
der badly bruised; T. NJ. Mccoy, Louie
vile, body badly bruised; Mrs. J. X.
Bancroft, Philsdelphis, badly Injured
about shoulders, and two children Of the
lady badly bruised and one killed; Mrs..
w m. Ellis, New Orleans, slightly bruised
about the head, and her child unhurt;
w. J. Williams, Yincennes; bruised
about the chest and Leg;
Mrs. Lizzie Shanklon, Evansville,
shoulder and head bruised; Daniel Orr,
head and legs bruised; John Woiz. Bur-
ton, Miss, head and hand cut and arrn
sprsuned: Mrs. y. A. Ot, badly hurt
about the back; Mrs. Anna Brszelton,
Green wood, Iowa, seriously injured in
ternslly; Sarah Oden. Of Burton, Miss /,
badly bruised; X. 5. HOrnbrook, OF
Lexington, badly bruised. The rsilrosd
officers are doing their utmost 10 care Tor
the sufferers.
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snsh, yesterday, we're 81.
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