Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-10-17
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
A Michigan Central Railway
Train Crushed to Atoms.
Thirty Persons Killed and Much Larger
Number Badly. Injured.

Detroit and jackson advlces of Oct.
10th give the following accounts of the
terrible accident on the Michigan Cen
trail railway on the morning of the
10th inst. The pacific express train
bound west, which left Detroit forty.tive
minutes late, collided with switch
engine on the main track TT Jackson,
telescoping the baggage and express
cars, and pitching the remaining
coaches, eleven in number, on top of
the others. The first coach was filled
with emigrants, most OF whom were
killed or seriously injured many OF the
occupants Of the other coaches were
also killed or injured. 1t is supposed
there are about 90 or % passengers
killed and 20 to so wounded. The
majority Of that number is thought
to be emlgrants and sccond-cass passen-
gers. Physicians and surgeons we're at
once summoned from Jackson to
the scene of the disaster, and
u special train carrying physi-
clans left Detroit at 5 a. M.
A large force of employees of the rail.
road company, together with large
number OF the citizens Of jackson, are
on the ground, engaged in the work Of
extricating bodies from the wreck.
Railroad officials and surgeons are busi-
| ly at work among the wounded, doing
everything in their power to alleviate
their sufferings.
KILLED AND WOUNDED.
AT Jackson, up to noon, eighteen
dead bodies had been taken from the
wreck Of the express, ten of whom, tax
en- from the wrecked emigrant car, nave
not yet been identified. The identified
killed are Milton Gilbert, of Detroit, en-
gineer of the express train;C. b. Smith,
of Jackson, fireman of the express
train; John Rice, wife and daughter,
Philadelphia; Mrs. Garland and her ten
year old daughter, Philadelphia; Louis
Mongoin, Of Buckingham, Canada, and
an infant daughter of Mrs. George A.
Jones, of Catado, Penn.
The following is u list Of the names
of the wounded, as far as can be ascer-
tanned:
M. d. Carlisle, express messenger,
Detroit, collar bone broken; A. A. Ben
nett, baggageman, Detroit, badly cut
and bruised; VIM. Baggy, Troy, n. H.,
right leg and thigh crushed; Dan. Finn,
Chicago, head cut and bruised; S. Har-
lin, Philadelphia, cut on head and
hurt internally; Arthur Rogers, Phila-
delphia, cut and bruised, not dangerous;
Reuben Carter, Gardner, Illinois, head
cut and left thigh broken; Geo. a. Cum
ningham, GAINESVILLE, Wis, left arm
broken in two places; Horris Misdas,
Canada, cut and bruised; f. j. Parnell,
st. Catharipes, Ont, lett leg broken;
Mrs. Il. j. Parnell, St. Catharines, Sc
verely injured, head and knee; Mrs. j..
f. Parnell, Toronto, head cut; John
Jeflrys, Newark, head crushed, prob
ably fatal; Emillie Rice, aged Al, Phila-
delphia, leg broken, face cut, recovery
doubtful; ather, mother and sis
ter all killed; Mrs. Laura A..
Finley, Walworth, New York,
bruised about head and face; Mr.. Il. J.
Warren, Ganges, Mich, bruised about
back and shoulders; Henry Burrows,
Newfoundland, Penn, cut in head !;
Arandus Masonnut, Frenchman, Buck
ingham, Canada, severe confusion OF
the face and head; Palmer Massonnov,
Buckingham. Canada, cut in head and
leg; Delbert M. Benjamin, Jersey
Heights, N. j., hip, head and lungs,
slightly injured; VIM. Brinny, Gait,
Ontario, leg bruised; Mrs. A. M. Steele,
Detroit, leg sprained and body bruised ;
Mrs. Thomas Clement, Lockport, N.
V, arm and head badly cut, and severe
| " bruised back and head; Mrs. Il. b.
Hart, Clinton, Iowa, head cut severely
Rcbt. Neil, Trenton, Canada, injured
in back and body; Leopold Hoffman.
Randolph, Mass, cut head and foot;
Mrs. George A. Jones, Chalado, Penn,
cuts and bruises on head and left side /;
one OF her children, eighteen months
old, killed instantly; another badly
bruised in head. S. M. Sparklin, of
Philadelphia, thinks his wife and chill
dren, aged four and six, are among the
dead, but the bodies have not been
found.
The engineer and fireman Of the ex-
press train were literally torn in pieces,
but the engineer and fireman of the
switch engine escaped injury by jump
ing from the engine. The train
was made OF seven Wagner sleepers
and four passenger coaches and
mail and baggage cars. The tender of
the express engine was tele-
scoped in the baggage car about
half its length, this car in turn
forced its way into the mail car and this
crowded the first passenger coach to
the right onto the embankment and
crashed back through the two follow.
ing. Passengers in the first coach were
comparatively unframed. The harvest
Of death being reached in the second
and third coaches. The fourth coach
escaped with slight damage and
none of the Wagner coaches were in
Ijured.
As near as can be ascertained the ac-
cident was caused by the switchman
having charge Of making freight trains
at Jackson junction, occupying the
main track with switch engine and
caboose, understanding that the Pacific
express was considerably behind time.
The express train, however, had made
up nearly all lost time.
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