The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-10-25
Death ON the Rail,

An express train ran into a freight train
on the Susquehanna road at Oneonta, N.
Y, on the 18th inst, by which the engineer
Juddman, and fireman James Mcclure, Of
the express were killed and both Iocomo.
tives badly damaged. No passengers hurt.
The accident was a duplication of one
lately occurring on the Michigan Central.
a train was being made up in the yard at
Oneonta, There was heavy fog. A flag
man was sent to warn the express that was
due, when it came rushing into the yard
upon the partially made up freight.
The coroner's jury investigating the
Jackson, Mich, railway smash-up have
brought in a verdict of criminal negligence
on the part of E. T. Colwell, yard master,
and censured switchman Joseph Sawyer
and Robert Jones, engineer of the switch
engine.
A passenger named N. Narmile was run
over by the cars on the Wisconsin Central
road at Green Bay, Wis, on the 10Th inst.
His death was instantaneous.
A collision between paeseng ger and freight
trains on the Chicago & Northwestern road
occurred at BarabOo, Wis, on the night of
the 14th inst. Both engines and five cars
were badly smashed, owing to the engines
having been pretty well stopped, none of
the passengers were in jured. The mail
agent was badly hurt by jumping, and the
engineer and fireman considerably bruised.
The accident was due to carelessness on the
part of passenger conductor, John Mont
gomery, who pocketed dispatch and for
got it.
Nesr haywood, H., on the Chicago and
Northwestern road, on the 18th instant. a
freight and passenger train collided. Mon.
roe W. Anderson, of Elgin, and w. P. Sau-
Der, of Chicago, passengers, were killed. A
number were wounded.
At Milwaukee, Wis, on the night of the
18th instant during a dense fog, an engine
and two cars of freight train, ran into the
enomonee river through an open bridge
draw. A telegraph operator named Hill,
who was on the engine, was instantly killed,
and engineer Leonard Reiter so badly hurt
that he died soon after the accident
Henry Greer and John Donovon, tie cut.
ers, were run over and killed by railroad
train near bingham, ILL.,, on the 18th inst.
They were sleeping on the track.
Conductor Hawkins fell between the cars
at Hyndman, Pa, on the 18th inst, and was
horribly mangled.
A passenger train collded with an ex-
press on the Baltimore and Ohio road, near
Relton, West Va, on the 18th inst. Both
trains were going at the rate of forty miles
an hour and were well filled with passen.
gers, who miraculously escaped, with the
exception of one little girl, who was slight
ly hurt about the face. James Asker, engi.
neer and John Smith, fireman of No. l, were
instantly killed, while fireman Jasper of
train No. 10 was seriously hurt, Engineer
Boylun of train No. 10 escaped injury by
jumping from the train. A boy named
Flanagan, who was stealing ride, was in
stantly killed, and negro boy who was
stealing his way to Clarksburg, between the
tender and postal car, was badly hurt Geo.
Shinn, postal clerk, was dangerously iniur.
ed. Both engines were made compIete
wrecks.
A serious and painful accident occurred
on the Michigan Central railroad a short
distance east of Jackson, Mich, about one
o'clock on the morning of the 10th inst.
The Pacific express train, bound west, which
left Detroit forty minutes late, collided with
a switch engine on the main track at that
place, telescoping the baggage and express
cars and piling the remaining coaches
eleven IN number, one on top of the other
The first coach was filed with emigrants,
most OF whom were killed or seriously in
Jured. Many occupants of the other coaches
were also killed or injured. II is supposed
that there are about twenty or twenty-five
killed and an equal number wounded. The
msjority of the number ia thought to be
emigrants and second-class passengers.
Later-A correct list of the casualties by
ME collision at Jackson, Mich, shows that
were killed. Thirty were wound.