The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-11
Last NIGHTS Dispatches.
xArLRoAD DrsAsrER

dent to the Michigan Central causes great
excitement, as a large number of Detroit
ers were on the train. The following list
of the killed and injured has been re-
ceived:
THE KILLED.
Milton Gilbert, of Detroit. engineer of
express train; G B Smith. jackson, fire.
man of the express train; John Rice. wife
and daughter. OF Philadelphia; Mrs Cart
land and ten--year old daughter, of Phia-
| delphia; s Lewis Morgan. of Bucking-
Mrs George A Jones, of Chatudo. Penn
sylvapia
THE WOUNDED,
MP Carlisle, express messenger. De-
troit, collar bone broken; A A Bennett,
baggageman. Detroit, badly cnt and
bruised; William Buggy, Troy, VT, right
leg and thigh crushed; Daniel Fem, Chi.
cago, head cut and bruised; S VI SparlIn.
Philadelphia. cut 'on head and hurt inter
nally; Arthur Rogers. Philadelphia. cut
and bruised-not dangerous; Reuben
Carter, Gardner, III, hands cut and left
thigh broken; George A Cunningham,
GAINESVILLE, VIE, iclt arm in two places;
The Hon. Misdas, Of Canada, cut and
bruised; Parneli ST Catharnes, Ont,
lott leg broken; Mrs L ParneIl, St Cath
atines. Ont. severely injured in head and
knee; Mrs j It Parnell, Toronto, head cut;
John Jeffries, Newark, head crushed
probably fatal; Willie Rice, aged four
years, Philadelphia, leg broken and face
cut-recovery doubtful; his father, mother
and sister are all killed; Mrs Laura A
Findley, Wallworth, N 7, ;ruisen about
the head and face; Mrs r j Warren.
Ganges, Mich, bruised about the back and
al Hanru Rurrau7o NovfounJto.J
Pa. cut in head; Arandus Masounuvi, a
Frenchman, Buckingham, Canada, severe
confusion of face and head; Palmus Ma
sounuvi, Buckingham, Canada, cut in head
and leg; Delbert NJ Benjamin, Jersey
Heights. N j, hip, head and lungs-slight;
VIM Banning, Calf. Ont, leg bruised;
Mrs A NJ Steele, Detroit. leg sprained and
body bruised; Mrs Thos Clement. Lock
port, n I , arm and head badly cut aDd
severely bruised in back and head: Mrs B
b Hart, Clinton, Iowa, head cut severely;
Robert Neil, Trenton, Canada, Injured in
back and body; Leopold Hoffman. Ran
dolph, Mass, cut in head and foot: Mrs
George A Jones, Chalado, Pa, cuts and
children, eighteen months old. was killed
instantly and another was badly injured in
the head.
SM Sparlin. of Philadelphia, thinks
his wife and children, aged four and six
years, are among the dead, but the bodies
have not been found.
DETROIT, Oct. 10-Tne engineer and
fireman of the express train were literally
torn into pieces, but the engineer and
fireman of the switch engine escaped
injury by jumping from the engine.
The train was made up of sevenWagner
sleepers, four passenger coaches. and mail
and baggage cars. The tender of the
express engine was telescoped into the
baggage car about half its length. This
car in turn forced itself into the mail car,
and these crowded the first passenger
coach to the right on to the embank :
ment and crashed back through the two
following. The passengers in the first
coach were comparatively unharmed. the
harvest of death being reaped 10 the sec-
oud and third coaches. The fourth coach
escaped with slight damage, and none of
Wagner's S coaches were injured.
As near as can be ascertained the acci
dent was caused by the switchman having
charge of the making up of the freight
train at jackson Junction, occupying the
main track with swith engine and caboose,
understanding that the Pacific express was
considerably behind time. The express
train, however, had made up nearly all
lost time.
At Jackson this afternoon the Michigan
Central Railroad officials examined the
| different yard employees on duty last night
rat the AIRLINE junction, where the switch
engine with which the Pacific Express
west was placed on the track. 1t appears
| that the men engaged in making up the
| freight train at the east end OF the yard
went to the telegraph office, and got infor
nation that the Pacific express was nearly
| so minutes late. Cowell, the yard master,
reported to Jones, engineer OF tue switch
engine, that they had 45 minutes of the
| PaciGc's time in which to make up the
| freight train, and it was at this work they
| were engaged in when the collision occurr-
ed.
CHICAGO, Oct, TO- The news of the
| terrible disaster at jackson has been the
| theme OF conversation all day in this city,
| and the excitement over it increased de-
cidedly to night, when the train arrived
with many wounded. The widest rumors
as to the exten OF the disaster were cur
rent. The new kilograms received and
| their indefinite and contradictory infor-
| nation increased rather than allayed the
anxiety The Offices of the company have
been thronged all day with anxious in
quirers for friends, and H. G. Wentworth.
General Passenger Agent, did everything
in his power to obtain information as to
the condition of passengers on the train,
but outside that there was an evident dis
position to reeerve news until it came Off
cially The scenes at the depot at
clock tonight, when the train arrived,
was thrilling in the extreme. Passengers
who arrived were for the most part unable
to give any connected account at the affair.
it having been pitch dark when the accident
occurred, and most of the people on the
train being asleep. The Rev. Neil Nc
Diarmid, of Guelph. Canada, says he was
| In the third car when the collision came,
The train was going very fast. The front
car was full of passengers, most or them
Canadians, en- route for the pineries. In
his car all but about twelve were buried
| in the debris. Sixteen being killed in this
car, which Jared the worst of any, The
passengers differ as TO the number killed,
some putting the number as high as %
or 30. The wounded are being cared for
here.
CRIMINAL.
| KANSAS CITY, Oct 10.-About one hun