Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-05-02
Fatal Accident.

Last tuesday morning as Mr.. j. b.
Sheppard of Ssybrook was driving a pair
Of horses over the L. S. & NJ. S. Ry tracks
in the rear of the old..Allen Prindle house
near the North Bend road, his wagon was
struck by the locomotive Of Express train
No. g. bound east, killing Mr.. Sheppard
and breaking the wagon into pieces. In
approaching the tracks at this crossing
from the south it is impossible to see a train
coming from the west on account of a strip
Of woods. The wagon was loaded with
lumber and was within so feet of the track
when the train was discovered by Mr..
Sheppard, only few rods of, and running
towards him at Express speed. Whether
he then endeavored to cross before the
train, or the horses became unmanageable
it is not known; when. his wagon was di-
rectly over the track it was struck by the
locomotive and the load of lumber and
pieces of the wagon we're broken and
scattered over half acre of the ground in
the vicinity. The body Of Mr.. Sheppard
was found in the ditch north of the track
at least 100 feet from the point where the
collision occurred. The back of his head
was mashed, one arm, his back and sever
al ribs were broken.
The accident was witnessed by a Mr..
WiekhRm and Thomas RigdOns an employe
Of John Murfn, who was at the time talk
ing with Wickhsm only a few rods away
from the crossing. They ran to Mr.. Shep-
pard but his life was extinct when they
reached him.
The horses were caught short distance
from the crossing; one was severely injured
on the left flank, a strip of the skin being
torn, and cut on one of its legs. It is
thought by some the life of the animal can
be saYed. The other horse was apparently
uninjured.
The deceased was 81 years Of age and
leaves wife to mourn his untimely end.
Supt. Couch was aboard the train, and
when it reached Ashtabula he directed Col.
J. R. Newton, Claim Agt. of the company
to render such aid as was deemed necessary.
1t is said by several persons who wit
messed the accident that the whistle had
not been sounded fol the crossing and that
the bell was not ringing. Mr.. Sheppard
was little deaf, or he would probably
have heard the train.
ANOTHER ACCIDENT.
As Express train No. /, on the Franklin
Division, L. S. & NJ. S. Ry, due at Centre
Street 11:12 a. m. was nearing bridge No.
6, just this side of jefferson last Tuesday
morning the engineer Il. NJ. Jones observed
boy with a Wheelbarrow walking down
the track. The train was then running
about the rate Of thirty miles an hour, and
as the boy paid no attention to the repeated
whistles Of the locomotive, the air brakes
we're applied and the speed Of the train was
considerably reduced when it struck him.
The train was stopped and the boy, who
was insensible, was taken back to jefferson,
where he regained his senses and was ex-
amined by surgeon. Aside from bruise
on his forehead no serious injury was dis
covered. His name is Douglass Williams, is
deaf, and about 13 years Of age.
England must now feel the cup of her
humiliation to be full. Parole, the Ameri-
can horse, won three Of Albion's chief races
last week. In the city and suburban handi-
cap at EPSON, on Tuesday Of last week.
there were eight horses in the race, and on
the start betting was to against the
American nag. The time was 2:16. The
next day Parole won the great metropolitan
Fsos by nearly length. Mr., LOHllaFd, Of
New York, the owner of Parole and several
Of her American friends is reported to have
won nearly a quarter Of million on these
races.