The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-12-21
FATAL ACCIDENT AT NORTH EAST.

ONE MAN KILLED AND ANOTHER INJURED
CAUSE or THE ACCIDENT-THE JURY
or INQUEST ExoNLRATEs THE COMPANY
FROM ALL BLAME.
I On Friday evening, the 18th inst, Israel
r. Dean (son-in- law of VIM. Scotch, Esq
general manager of the Mccullough Iron
Company, Jacob W. Campbell, c. Foard,
Samuel Bouchell, and four other employees
of the Company, were engaged in pushing
heavily LOADED coal car along the branch
track leading from the r., w. & b. rail
road to the rolling mill, which was con-
structed for the convenience of the Iron
Company, and has been used by them for
the last six years for the purpose of taking
stock to their mill and shipping their lion
when manufactured. and a portion of
which branch road, owing to the descent
in the ground between the main road and
the terminus Of the branch road, was built
upon trestlc work one of the caps sud-
denly and unexpectedly broke in pieces,
which precipitated the coal car and those
engaged in pushing it to the ground -
Samuel Bouchell was unfortunately caught
beneath the falling car, which topped over
and fell upon one side of the track, and
was instantly killed, and ]. w. Campbell
was considerably, but not fatally, hurt by
the coal, which fell around him from the
car and entirely covered the lower part Of
his person and bruised it very much. A
post moItem examination of the body of
the unfortunate man was made by DR.. Z.
b. Housekeeper, who also took charge Of
the injured man, NJ. Campbell, and he is
now convalescent.
The accident occurred about fifty feet
from the embankment and at Il point in the
tfestle work where it was about eight feet
above the surface of the ground. 1t was
caused by one OF the cross timbers or caps
of the trestles becoming rotten in the
heart, and which, though badly rotten in
the interior presented an appearance of
being quite sound upon the outside Three
cars of the same capacity had been taken
along the branch road over the same spot
the same day, only few hours before.
Justice !. y. Benjamin, Immediately
after the accident, impanneled jury of
inquest composed of the following gentle
men: Granville T. Jefferis foreman, Juo.
Crouch, Mr.. - Day, J. 5. Ferguson, Jesse
Lumm, Jesse West, c. w. Shippers, James
l'oney, J. b. Groves, J. Neasey, John b.
Anderson and +. c. McCracken, who, after
examining |. r. Dean and Charles Foard,
clock A. NJ, the next morning. at the
office of the Mccullough Iron Company
where they examined VIM. Scotch super.
inteudent of the Company works, who
had helped push the first cars along the
track in the early part >. the day the acct
dent happened and who was Fastening
towaiusS- - one that broke the rotten cap
with the intention of helping push it; and
John Boyd, John DiYiney carpenter, and
Samuel Lynch. All of these witnesses tes-
titled that they had frequently pushed load.
ed coal cars over the tresile work, and
never anticipated any accident either from
faulty construction or from weak or decay
cd timber. The jury thereupon rendered
verdict in accordance with the above facts,
entirely generating the Mccullough Iron
Company and its superintendent from all
blame in the matter.
Mr.. Bouchell the unfortunate victim of
the accident, left wife and two children