The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-10-11
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Filled With Passengers-It Collides
With Switch Engine-The
Killed and Wounded
All A Big List.

tance east of the junction about !
O'Clock this morning. The Pacific
train bound west, which left Detroit
forty minutes late, collided with a
switch engine on the main track, at
thatplace. telescoping the baggage and
express cars and piling the remaining
coaches (eleven in number) on top Of
the others. The FIRST coach was filled
with emigrants, most of whom are kill
ed or seriously injured. Many Of the
occupants of the other coaches were
also killed or injured. 1t is supposed
that there are about twenty-five or thir-
ty-five passengers killed and twenty to
thirty wounded. The majority Of the
number are thought to be emigrants and
second-class passengers. Physicians
and surgeons were at once summoned
from Jackson to the scene of disaster,
and special train. carrying physicians,
left Detroit at a. m. A large force
of employees of the railroad company.
together with large number Of citi-
zens Of jackson are on the ground, en-
gagged in the work Of extricating bodies
from the wreck. The railroad officials
and surgeons are busily at work among
the wounded doing everything in their
power to alleviate the suffering. The
names of the killed and wounded will
be sent as soon as they can be ascer-
tained.
Up to noon IS dead bodies had been
taken from the wreck of the express,
ten Of whom were taken from the emil
grant car, have not been identified.
The identified killed are: Milton Fill
bert, of Detroit, engineer of the ex-
press train; c. b. Smith, of jackson,
fireman of the express train; John Rice,
wife and daughter, Philadelphia; Mr.
Gerland and a ten year old daughter,
Philadelphia; Louis Mongeon, Brick
ingham, Canada, and an infant daugh-
ter Of Mrs. Geo. A. Jones, of Chotodo,
Pennsylvania.
The following is list of the wound
ed 30 far as can be ascertained: M. ID.
Carlisle, express messenger, Detroit,
bruised; VIM. Buggy, Troy, Vt, right
leg and thigh crushed. Daniel Finn,
Chicago, head cut and bruised; s. NJ.
Sparlin. Philadelphia, cut on head and
hurt internally; Arthur Rogers, Phila-
adelphia, cut and bruised, not danger
GUS; Reuben Carter. Gardner, H., left
thigh broken and hands cut; George A.
Cunningham, GAINESVILLE, Wis, left arm
broken In two places; II. Missdas, Cam
ada, cut and bruised; E. ]. Parnell,
st. Catherine, Ont, left leg broken,
Mrs. e. J. Parnell, do, severely injur-
ed, In head and knee; Mrs. ]. F. Par
nell, Toronto, head cut; Jno. Jeffrees,
Newark, head crushed, probably fatal;
Willie Rice, aged four years, Phila-
delphia, leg broken, face eut, recovery
doubtful, and father, mother and sister
all killed; Mrs. Laura A. Finley, Wal
worth, N. T., bruised about head and
face; Mrs. R. J. Warren, Ganges,
Mich, bruised about the back and
shoulders; Henry Burrows. New Foun-
land, Pas cut in head; Arandus Mason
nuye, a ..Frenchman, Buckingham,
Canada, severe confusion in face and
head; Paimas Masonnuve, Buckingham,
Canada, cut in head and leg; Delbert
NJ. Benjamin, Jersey Heights, N. j.,
hip, head and lungs, slightly; William
Brenny, Gait, Ont, bruised; Mrs. A.
M. Steele, Detroit, leg sprained and
body bruised; Mrs. Thomas Clement,
Lockport, N. Y, arm and head badly
cut and severely bruised back and
head; Mrs. B. B. Hart, Clinton, Iowa,
head cut severely; Robert Neill, Tren-
ton, Canada. injured in back and body.
Leopold Hoffman, Randolph, Mass,
cut in the head and face; Mrs. Geo. A.
Jones, Chatodo, Pennsylvania, cut in
the hand and bruises on the head and
left side; one Of her children, eighteen
months old, killed instantly, and
another badly bruised in the head; s.
M. Sparklin, of Philadelphia, thinks
his wife and children, aged four and
six, are among the dead, but the bodies
have not been found. The engineer
and fireman of the express train were
literally torn to pieces, but the engi-
neer and fireman of the switch engine
escaped injury by jumping from the
engine.
The train was made up of seven
Wagner sleepers. four passenger
coaches and mail and baggage car.
The tender of the express was tele-
scoped into the baggage car about half
Of its length. This car in turn forced
its way into the mail car, and those
crowded the first passenger coach to
the right on to an embankment and
crushed back through the two following.
The passengers in the first coach were
comparatively unharmed, the harvest
Of death being reaped in the second
and third coaches. The fourth coach
escaped with slight damage, and none
of the Wagner coaches were injured.
As near as can be ascertained, the acci-
dent was caused by the switchman
having charge of making up the freight
train at Jackson junction, occupying
the main track with the switch engine
and caboose, understanding that the
express train, however, had made up
nearly all the lost time.
Progress of the Fever.
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