Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-08
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
Two Men Killed ON Massachusetts Road
by Train Running into a WASH
Out-A Passenger-Train on
the z. C. s. st. Louis Road
COllides with a Freight-Train, while
Running at the Rate of Forty Miles
an Hour, and is Completely
Wrecked - Twelve Per-
sons Killed-Many
Wounded.


Three Men KILLED on Massachusetts
GREENFIELD, MASS, August THE
twenty minutes past nine O'Clock night train,
from Miler's Falls to Brattleboro, last night
ran into a wash-out a mile above Northheld
Farms. Engineer Pattee, Fireman Arnold,
and a man named Root, who was riding on
the locomotive, were killed. Conductor Hol-
man was injured slightly.
FrightrHI Accident near Mingo juno
tiOn, OhiO-Twelve Persons Killed.
PTTTsBURG, August THE fast-line train
on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis
road, which left this city at forty-seven min
utes past eleven O'Clock last night, met with
a terrible accident at a point one and half
miles west of MinQo Junction. The train
was composed of two sleepers, one hotel-car,
one baggage, two postal-cars and two
coaches, the latter being occupied by emf
grants. At one in the morning, at the point
named, the fast-line, which was twenty min
utes behind time, and ran at the rate of forty
miles an hour, collided with a frelght-train
The entire train, except the hotel-car and the
sleepers, was thrown from the track and fear
fully wrecked. Eleven or twelve persons are
reported killed and fifteen to twenty seriously
wounded. No names have ret been received.
All passengers In the sleepers escaped with
out serious injury, the loss of life being con-
fined to those in the forward cars occupied by
the postal clerks and emigrants.
The Cincinnati postal car was thrown over
an embankment thirty feet, and completely
demolished. The postal-clerks, Frank d.
Graham, A. w. Andrews and w. Johnston,
were killed; George l.. Mooreau had leg
broken. The st. Louis car was thrown over
an embankment on its end. and badly
wrecked. The postal-clerks, G. W. West,
w. II. Houston and G.. G. Matthews, were
injured, but it is supposed not fatally. The
baggage and emigrant-cars were thrown from
the track and badly wrecked, while the last
coach and sleepers remained on the track,
and the occupants escaped almost unhurt.
The following is
A PARTIAL LIST OF THE KILLED AND
WOUNDED:
KiIled.-Frank d. Graham, A. w. An
drews and w. r. Johnston; Mrs. Cullen, of
Bridgeport. Connecticut, and Patrick Cannon,
of Barry, Pennsylvania.
Wounded.-M Cullen and four grand
children, of Bridgeport, Connecticut; Mrs
Frances Owen and three children, Of Bridge
port, Connecticut; James Cullen, foot mashed;
Fanny Cullen, injured internally; Mrs. Ed
ward Burke, Of Louisville, leg sprained and
back hurt; Mrs. M Cash, Glasgow, Scotland,
and Mrs. Jane Romano, of Glasgow, and
two children, twins, aged seven years; Mrs.
Jane Agnew, of Allegheny, left leg fractured;
Edward Downing, Of Allegheny, hip joint dis
located; j. w. Harris, Allegheny, right leg
Mrs. Cormick, Ireland, and Mary Mcdowell,
London, England, internally; Mary Haley,
New Rossell, serious, internally; Geo. Thomp-
son, Washington City, body and leg man
gled: R. ]. Conwel, leg cut and badly
bruised; Samuel Sample, Philadelphia,
bruised on head and chest Evan Peter Oh
sen, New York, internally; B. Thomas,
Philadelphia, leg broken and skull fractured;
Phillips, Harrison county, Ohio, conclusion
of the brain, serious; E. Downing, Allegheny
City, pelvis fractured; John Il. Scatter, Mon
ticello, Indiana, bruised; Mrs. E. Burk,
Brooklyn, wrist sprained and head bruised;
J. G. Fulton, Burgettsburg, nose mashed and
jaw broken.
THE WOUNDED CARED FOR.
Owing to the fact that most of the killed
and wounded are emigrants, great difficulty
is experienced in getting a list of casualties.
The killed and wounded were taken on a
special train to Steubenville, Ohio, where the
officers of the road did everything in their
power to make the wounded comfortable.
Both public and private houses were offered
to receive them, and they received the atten-
ton of the best physicians of the town.
CORRECTED LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.
The following is an accurate list of the cas-
ualties at the wreck at Mingo Junction:
KiIled.-Frank D. Graham and w. r.
Johnson, postal-clerks, Cincinnati; Augustus
Andrews, postal-clerk, Clarksburg, West
Virginia; Mrs. Cullen, Bridgeport, Connec-
ticut; Bernhard Miller, of Germany; John
Currey, Ireland Fred Gross, Mankeim, Ger
many; Patrick Ganson, Ireland; John Du-
gan, engineer of the passenger train. This
is the list of the killed that have been iden-
tilted, although the list foots up fifteen who
were either killed outright or have died from
injuries. Many of the killed are emigrants
and cannot be identified.
Wounded.-R. r. Council, Uhrichsville,
Ohio; Margaret Brandon, East Bridgeport,
Connecticut; Samuel Semple, Philadelphia;
Mrs. Mccormick, Mrs Jane Bomerine and
two children, Jesse and Robert Bomerine,
Glasgow, Scotland; Mrs. Mary Haley, New
Rochelle, New York, dying; George Thomas,
Washington City; Edward Downing, Allie
gheny, Pennsylvania; Mrs. f. Owens, and
the husband and three children of
Mrs. Maria Cullen, Bridgeport, Connect
cut; Mrs Ed Burke, Louisville, Kentucky;
J. w. Harris, GAINESVILLE, Ohio; John B.
Thomas, Philadelphia; ]. P. Skaters,
Monticello, Indiana; w. D. Agnew, Ale
cheney, Pennsylvania; j. c. Fulton, Bur-
gellstown, Pennsylvania, passenger; fire
man, Charles Graham; freight-engineer,
Evan P. OLSON, New York; Mary M'Donald,
London, England; Mr.. Phillips, hppecanoe,
Harrison county, Ohio; w. Fl. Houston, In
Cambridge City, Indiana, postal-clerk; ]. c.
Matthews, postal-clerk; Charles NJ Cann,
wreck master of the p. G. and st. Louis rail-
road. A large number of Swedes, Danes and
Swiss were among the wounded, whose
name are not yet known.
The list OF wounded will foot up fifty,
many of them very badly injured and not ex-
pected to recover. The wounded are at the
railroad hospital in Steubenville, receiving
every care and attention. The dead have
| been neatly cefhneS, and are being forward
ed to the friends of the deceased.