Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-05-09
ACCIDENTS.
A sIeePinG.Car Blown From a Railroad
Track, and SeVeraHPassengers
Severely Injured.
The Terrific Explosion Near the Ber-
gen TunueI-Immense Damage
Done in Jersey City
Etc,

CHICAGO, Msy 3.-About hslf-past
six o'clock last night the passenger train
on the Illinois Central railroad, near
NATION, had five cars, one Of which
was a sleeper, bOWn from the track.
The train was going at full speed, but
was Immediately stopped. The engine
remained on the track. Nearly all the
passengers were moro or less hurt. The
following are the names Of those most
seriously injured: w. K. Ackerman,
general auditor Of the Illinois Central,
right collar bone and left shoulder
broken; Mrs. Ackermap, arm badly
jsmmed; Hon. Peter DOy lie, sc ere tary Of
state of Wisconsin, internally Injured /;
Brakeman Warner, back Injured and
skull fractured, will probably die. The
colOred porter lost an eye. The wound
ed were taken to their homes. Trains
are running again.
Terrific Explosion.
NEW YORK, May 6.-Just before
eleven O'clock tonight an explosion
took place in the magazine of the Della
ware, LsckRwanuS aud Great Western
railroad company, in which were stored
giant powder and glycerine, used for
blasting in tine 3 :rgen tunnel, outside OF
y JtIEcI SlAls 4bC plDolOh csAOuSCA OIL
New York, and il quirieS showed that
the buildings within radius of two
miles had been more or less damaged.
Ia the absence OF knowledge of the
cause, it is attributed to a strike.
NEW YORK, Msy 7.-Over forty thou
sand people visited the scene of the ex-
plosion in JerEey City tC day. In the
absence Of DANGEROUS Injury to any psr-
SOD, it is something wonderful when
riddled resid snces in the DeigbborhOOd
are seen. The Windows Of all houses in
the neighboThOod of the Heights were
shattered and in several instances bricks
pierced wooden structures, tearing down
ceilings, breaking wind0w-sashes and
damolishiug dJorpCsts. Doors were
blown off their hinges, trees uproOtsd,
and o WEole mass of earth in front of
the pOTder-mag3Zin was chiselled
cleanly out by the force Of the explosion.
All street.Ismps and lights in houses, as
far as the New York ferries, were in
stsntIy put out, and but for the clear
moo hight the whole OF jersey City and
Ho5oken would have been envelOped in
complete darkness. A number of houses
are so badly shattered that they will
have to be rebuilt, In this city and
Brooklyn the report was so loud that
eveI )dy suppc3cd the explosion had
occurred in their immediate vicinity.
Tt e police failed 10 t. i-ce a1ythiI - that
leadG to the suppositiOn that the strike }
were the pei petr1tors Of the deed. An
opinion is becoming general that spon
taneous combustion was the c1use. No
correct estimate of the loss has been
made, but the first reports are likely to
be exaggerated.
New YORK, May 8-The police re-
port two men killed and seven other
passengers wounded by the elevator ac.
cident at Bergen Hill, New York, this
evening.
Death in the Pit.
NEW YORK, May 8.-To-night q
West HobOken hOrse-car was driven on
the steam elevator at Bergen Hill, but
before the brake-b8r on the rear of the
elevator had been placed in position,
the engine started, and the car-full of
pssseDge.s was thrown off the elevator
and precipitated into the pit at the bot
tom. All the passengers were more OF
less injured, and five of them danger
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