The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-11-15
Death On the Rail.

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Fred M. Bradley, brakeman on the Van
dalia coal train, while attempting to detach
an engine from the train which was being
run on side track at Venice, ILL.,, on the
9TH, slipped and fell and three cars passed
over him, cutting one leg off entirely and
terribly mangling the other. He died in
few minutes.
The three rear cars OF the special New
York express train, which left Poughkeepsie
at :05 on the evening of the 9TH, going
south, jumped the track when between New
Hamburg and Low Point. One of them
was thrown into the river. A number of
passegers were injured, but none seriously.
A freight train on the Pennsylvania road
broke in two early on the morning of the
7th while coming down the mountain about
eight miles west of Altoona, Pa. The de-
speed, running down hill at the rate of a
mile minute, until at Kittaning Point it
overlook and ran into the first part, "a cars,
completely wrecking them and scattering
the freight in all directions James A. Me-
Dowell, brakeman, was instantly killed.
j. G. Cook, another brakeman, was serious
ly Injured and is not expected to recover.
During heavy fog on the morning of the
9th freight train on the Pennsylvania
railroad ran into another freight train near
the Pennsylvania Rolling mill at Lancaster,
Pa, and two oil cars were wrecked. The
escaping oil caught fire and shortly after
wards one of the oil tanks exploded with
terrific force, severely shaking all the build
ings in the vicinity. The IRE engines were
of little service, the flames Ieaping up to the
height of thirty feet and for some hours the
track was blocked for miles, east and west
with trains waiting for the fire to burn itself
out.
The engine of freight train ran off an
open switch on the Louisville, Baltimore
and Ohio railroad at Newark, O., on the
18th, and ran into two houses, tearing them
down, but lnjuring no one except Engineer
Dennis, who had his leg broken.
John Schwartz, conductor of a construc.
ton train at Milwaukee, Wis, fell under
the wheels and received fatal in uries, on
the 9th instant. He was to have been mar
ried on the 18th, and few hours before his
death the ceremony was performed.
Mrs. James Fisher, of Etna Green, Ind
while walking on the railroad track near
her residence, on the 9th inst, was struck
by an engine and instantly killed.
At Freehold, n. j., on the 9Th inst, Sam
uel Hendrickson and wife, while driving
across the railway track were struck by an
engine and both fatally injured.
The manager OF Madris, British India
railway, telegraphs that an accident occur
the 31st OF October, in consequence of the
sinking of an embankment after rain
storm. Nineteen persons, including three
Europeans, were killed and 45 wounded,
A passenger train on the New York and
Greenwood Lake railroad, composed of one
engine and one coach ran into the river at
Hackensack on the 4th inst, owing to
the drawbridge being open. There
were about twenty persons IN the
coach, mostly business men living at Ar
ington, Mountclair and Greenwood Lake
on the way to New York. The engineer
named Dexter was the only person killed,
but several were badly bruised and injured
internally. The passenger coach foated on
the water, and the passengers were taken
ont through the roof and windows by men
in small boats.
Michael Hewitt, a brakeman on the
Milwaukee, Lake shore and Western rail-
way, fell from a moving train near Milwau-
kee, on the night of the ID, and was killed.