Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-03-04
RAILROAD HORROR.
Wreckiny Tram Wrecked ON the
IL 4 81. .la,e II. Il.

Wreckiny Tram Wrecked ON the
II. Il st. Joe r. X.
Train No. 3 on the HANNIBAL 4 st.
Joseph, westward bound. was thrown
from the track near Macon Mo-. about
3 o'clock Tuesday morning. all the cars
exrept the sleeper being ditched. Sev-
eral of the train men were injured, Dut
not seriously.
A wre"king train wss Immediately
dispatched from Brook6eld. 1t consist
ed of an engine. two fiat cars. wreck
ing car, a passenger coach and ca60oee,
the latter conveying surgeons and CIT
izens of Brookfeld on their way to re-
iieve the wounded.
Some fifteen miles from Brookheld
broken rail or wheel threw the wreeker
from the track at Muscle Fork bridge
and this car and coach and caboose-
al! containing about 50 persons-wens
down in a fearful crash, some 80 fee,
killing five persons and injuring per-
haps 20 more.
Those killed were: DIR. o. H. Wood.
W. S. Hallett. George Swick, A. Jury
and E. Lockman.
The wounded are: Jas. Cloud. slight
ly on the head; Jas. Conway. in the
head seriously; Jas. Doyle, lex and
back: NJ. NJ. Hunter. leg. slightly:
Frank Tableau, head and body slight;
J. Moorehead. head and hip; W. H.
Haze. head and arm: Harry Carter leg
broken: DR.. Rear, body slightly injured:
Jas. Nowlan. road-master, chest serious
ly broken; U. D. Fitzgerald, conductor,
hurt in the head; T. D. Hubbard, slight
scratches: NJ. Mccall, slight scratch,
and six or seven others slightly injured:
John Conners, serlously-will probably
die.
Both killed and wounded lived at
Brookfeld, Before the train bringing
the dead and injured home had arrived
the depot was crowded with relatives
and friends. uttering the most agoniz-
ing lamentations, and when the train
rolled up to the station and began dis
charging its awful cargo the scene was
beyond description.
All business is suspended at Brook
field and general mourning prevails.
(C0mmunlcetoo-J
The social position of any one
should never. be made to depend on
the church to which e.may belong. OF
course the reference is not here made
to such organizations as contain
immoral planks in their platforms.
or immoral practices IN their gen.
eral out workings. There are,
in this country. several represent
alive denominations. Methodist, Bap-
tist, Presbyterian, Christian and Epis
copal. These organizations, however
unlike. or however unscnptural. are
certainly alike respectable. Does or.
ganic connection with any one ofthese
justify the others in socially ignoring
the person so connected! The social
standing Of a person should never be
graduated by the UNCONVENTIONAL con-
convictions he may entertain. Ones
social standing should depend on en-.
tirely different considerations. There
are two things, and only two, that
should be required of any one, before
he is admitted to the best society.
Moral and esthetical qualifications.
I. MORAL QUALITIES. No one
should be permitted to enter the best
society who is devoid Of common NOR
ality. Here society has made grand
nistakes-mistakes hurtful to itself.
This should be well guarded. What
right has the impure to be made the
social equal of the pure. What right
mas the reckless and profane to be ell
evated to the social standing Of the
steady ard the moral! But what has
one's church connections to do with
his Law Of well.bred society! Does
being a member of a respectable
:hurch make an individual less morala
Rather, does not such a connection
'resumptively declare him sufficiently
moral to enter the best society7 But
gain,
2 ESTHETIcAL QUALITIES. By this
S meant those politenesses and civil.
hes ofmanner and life, impera lively
ecessary to the makeup Of a gentle
4 an or lady. No rude person how.
:ver moral. eau, or is entitled to either
he best circles of socialliie But does
eing member Of any particular
hurch, necessarily make 4 man i'll bredl
there anything in a representative
creed to generate rudeness!
re not the relations Of church thus
onducive to the beautiful in heart and
lannera
1t will be seen from the above that ]
oral and esthetical qualifications
one should be the passport into good
'ciety. and not ones denominational l
'oclvities. What right has any
lurch to assume that it subserves
1ly the highest social interests of a Z
or to effect, if not in
ct, say. no one who does not belong
} them can be well bred. The truth
, such social ostracism is beneath G
e dignity of honorable men and
omen. much more, professed christ. Z