The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-09-19
DkHUuu ~ OAOO
II Was Made on the Rock Island
Road Yesterday Near Bev-
erIy Ststior.
A Freight Catches up to a Wood
Train but They Fs! to Pas
Upon the Same Track.
The Natural Consequence Being
Collision, in Which Henry
Carter is Instantly
Killed.
The CoronErs jury SaJs That Neg
I;gence was the Prime Cause
A Railre ad Suicide at
Trenton.
A FATAL MORNING,

Rock Island and Pacific railroad short
distance east OF the bridge, between the
bridge and Beverly station, yesterday morn
| ing, shortly before seven O'Clock, Henry
| Carter, foreman Of II. l.. Bickford's wood
train, beinC Instantly killed. The wood
train, with :ifieeI hands on board, and Mr..
Bickford, left the Rock Island freight depot
at the head OF Sixth street, yesterday morn
ing, shortly before six O'Clock,
BEING SOMEWHAT IN ADVANCE
Of the morning freight on that road The
running time al the wood train was consid-
erably faster tlsan that of the freight, and
| had no delay or accident occurred, the
wood train would have reached its destina-
ton, some twenty or twenty-five miles up
the road, fully an h"ur ahead OF the freight.
When coupling the cars in making up the
train at the Sixth street depot, the brase-
nan OF the train used coupling pin, con-
Meeting the fiat car the third from the rear
! with the one forward, which was entirely
too large, and failing TO drive it in with his
boot and billet Of wood used Tor the pur
pose, he sent ole of the train hands
TO GET SMALLER PIN,
but when it was handed to him he failed to
Use it, ii is said, because he could not draw
the other and larger one. The wood train
pulled out and proceeded rapidly along on
its way until shortly after leaving the tres
| tie work forming the eastern approach TO
the iron bridge crossing the Missouri river
here, when the coupling pin referred TO
dropped out, loosening three flat cars and
the cabOose from the train. This occurred
just before
THE BEND IN THE ROAD
was reached, and a. soon as the curve was
made by the engine and the remaining por-
ton of the train the detached cars were
lost sight of, and il was therefore impossi-
bic TO signal the engineer TO come back
At this juncture, and while the detached
cars were still going at a slow speed, the
heavy rumble OF the approaching freight
train was heard, and in II moment il dashed
around the curve and almost upon the fat
ed cars. Ii was but the action following |
the immediate thought upon
THE APPROACH OF THE DREADED DANGER |
for Mr. Bickford and his men to leap from |
the cars and save themselves all but one, |
Henry Carter, the foreman of the wood |
crew. Instead of jumping off when the |
other men did Carter went through the ca
boose 10 the Eat car in front and Was run
ming along the car when the ponGerous en-
CINE OF the freight struck the cabOose, lift |
ed il up in the air, overturned it upon the
4 At car in front, the two cars in turn being |
piled upon the third and all upon the |
fourth, the debris finally being
PUSHED FROM THE TRACK
into the ditch at the side Of the track As |
the freight train shot around the curve in |
sight of the detached portion OF the wood |
train the engineer of the freight whistled
for down brakes, and the conductor and
crew of the freight, together with The fire.
man upon the engine, seeing the danger Of
the collision, which was inevitable, jumped
for their lives. The engineer of the freight,
however, Dickerman, stuck braveiy TO his
post, and af.er whisliing down brakes re-
versed his engine, and after doing all
in his power 10 avert the catastro-
pine remained in the cab with
HIS HAND UPON TIIE THROTTLE,
determined TO stick to his engine even if
his life should be the penalty. Fortunate
ly his eng inc kept The track and he remain
ed un injured nelIered by protecting
providence which watches and cares over
brave men.
After the first shock of the collision was
over the debris was searched, and under
meath was found the body OF Carter, still
breathing, vet terribly mutilated and pre-
seuting a most CHASTITY and horrible sight
He was literally crushed TO pieces, and al
though he breathed for ten minutes after
extricated, he WAS senseless, the rolling of
the eyes anu lalnt motion oil the head being
indicative OF
STRONG sol STRUGGLING
in Tho l.s, .c-o,;as Of J;ssoIr,;o, C,r,ar,, |
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body had been crushed between two OF the
cars in addition 10 which large stake had
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THE BODY WAS TAKEN UP
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