Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Serious Accident on a Northern Railroad.
"a dispatch from Elmira, N. Y, last
Sunday, gives the following particulars of a
serious railroad accident, from which it would
seem that such occurrences are not confined
to southern roads,
The Atlantic express left Elmira last night
at II o'clock for New York. The train con-
sisted of one postal car, one express car, two
baggage cars and nine passenger coaches,
most Of the latter Pullman sleepers. When
twenty.6v miles east of Elmira, near vii
lage in the vicinity of Tioga, the centre of
one of the driving wheel axles of the loco
motive broke close to the wheel, and the en-
tire train was thrown off the track. The
train was going at the rate of thirty five
miles an hour. The accident occurred on
level where there was no embankment. The
engine kept its upright position, and Engi.
neer Dewitt applied the air.brakes as soon as
he felt the shock. The cars we're stopped
very quickly, and the forward ones turned
over and over two or three times, some going
on one side of the track and some on the 9TH
er. The engineer and fireman escaped un-
hurt. The postal Car containing four clerks
almost Immediately took fire and burned
with great rapidity. The oil lamps upset,
probably exploded, and added fuel to the
fire from the stoves. Every man in this
car, four in all, was roasted to a crisp.
Henry G. Brewer, the messenger, was in the
express car. Efforts were at once made to
relieve him by breaking hole in the side
door. He managed to get his head through
this hole, but the doomed mans legs were
fastened inside by piled up express matter.
The train men made every effort to pull him
out, but the flames drove them away and he
perished.
The South Carolina Census.
- Concerning the census of South Caro-
lima, the New York Herald has the following
Washington dispatch:
Col. Butter6eld and his assistants have
completed their recent recount of the popula
tion of South Carolina, and the result of their
investigation has been striking condrma.
ton of the correctness Of the June count In
the localities where the census has been taken,
there is gain of 450 over the June count in
a total population of about 2l,500, in Able
Vile, Due West township Laurens, Waterloo
township; Fairfield township; Number Eight;
Barnwel, Wiliston township; Lexington,
Broad River township; Chesterfield, Steer
Pen, Marc, Gains, Williamsburg and John.
son township. These were selected because
their increase was 80 large as to arouse sus-
picion of crookedness The inquiry shows
conclusively that the fault had been in 1870.
when the census was conducted by negro
enumerators, who were very ignorant, and
often by field hands and by incompetent Off
GERS The President thought the re enumera-
ton would satisfy everybody, and care was
taken by Gen. Walker to select such men
as would be endorsed by the most radical
Republicans. Col. Butterfeld, the Super
visor of Vermont, and four assistants were
accordingly selected, and United States
Marshal Wallace was allowed to designate
the points to be recanvassed, he having made
the charge of fraud and urged the President
to investigate it, So thorough has this work
been done and so carefully was it done last
June, that the gain in u townships is accoun-
ted for to person, and the loss of ten persons
in the eight townships is explained by the
emigration of two families. AS Gen. Walk
er says: II cannot imagine that there will
be further objections to the correctness Of
the South Carolina census Col. Butterfeld |
and his assistants are all Northern men and
Republicans, and you may be sure if the
census has been stuffed they would have
found it out They went there with instruc-
tions to take an entirely new census in the
localities where there was the greatest cause
for suspicion. l think the result of their
labors will settle the controversy about the
correctness of the South Carolina census"
The Liquor Law.