Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-07-06
Railroad Accident.


An express train on the New Jersey Southern
railroad, in crossing the bridge over parkers
Greek, near Long Branch, left the track, and
i've coaches went into the water.
The cause of the disaster was the changing
II the track for the Monmouth park races
which commence Saturday next The frog at
the switch was not properly spiked and when
It was struck by the engine II spread the track
aud tore up the rails for over 100 feet, while
the engine and forward cars were piled up on
the side OF the track. The succeeding five cars
,lunged forward on the bridge and were pre-
cipitated into the water. e. l.. Bradley, picked
10 dead, lived at 100 East Seventy second street,
New York. He was living for the summer In a
cottage at Ocean Beach. q W Demarest, pro
vision dealer OF Reed street, NewYork, died soon
,fter the accident. william r Garrison, son OF
Commodore Charles K. Garrison, Is at the point
II death at John HOey's house In Hollywood
park. He was pulled out OF the last car by
Arthur L Sewell and Thomas Day; Charles M
Woodruff of Newark, and James K Mallory
banker OF New York, are both dead; ex-presi'
lent Grant had his knee slightly bruised. The
fVllowingpt 70 swere slightly cut aud bruised:
J f Page, " nliam Tower, @ II Tucker, Il
Hall, E d Webb, S NJ Lehman, Mrs Charles
Newkirk, NJ Galloway, A r Lang, G Z Sco-
deld, d NJ Shaw, Joseph Brooks, Samuel Sc
lyman, NJ r Reynolds, @ Westervelt, G r
Fowler, William Dinkenspeil and wife, Morris
Brown, q r Blanchard, r Minturn, w c
Stokes and = Webb, all OF New York; G Fox,
Richmond, Va; A H Stillwell and wife and
Hiss Annie Scott, Philadelphia; John Buckalew
lnd the Rev DR. Matthew'S, Ocean Grove, N j;
r Carmichael and II G Faulkerson, Eliza
Oeth, j; w G Hilmer, Ocean Beach, N j; G
a Randall, Camden, N ] Henry Mordicia,
Dallas, Texas.
The wheat crop In Missouri is the best the
state ever had and the yield is estimated at from
80 TO S5 bushels per acre. Farmers are jublant,
md harvesting is well under way.
John Roche has confessed at the police head.
quarters In New York that he. at the soliclta-
ton of one Hand, helped to put out OF existence
a man by the name CT Mitchell, who was
suffer TO Hands daughter, whom the latter
heartily disliked. They killed Mitchell and
placed his body across the railroad track TO
avert suspicion.
MIR. Reid visited Guiteau Thursday To make
his will. The assassin proposes to appear on
the scaffold in clothes which his bother pre-
seuted him when no was sentenced.
Al a large meeting of tie shareholders Of the
Grand Trunk railway in London, Thursday
the agreement with the Great Western railway.
drawn up May rs, was approved with only
eight dissenting votes.
1t is said that Senator Hill's cancer came
from smoking, the nicotine getting into Bills
er or the tongue while he was INDUCING the
pipe.
The prohibtory amendment in Iowa gets
1000 majority.
The celebrated DR.. Helmbold, proprietor OF
the celebrated Buchu medicine, is in an insane
asylum in Philadelphia.
The lake freight on corn from Chicago to
Buffaly Is now IL cents busheI, and the
through rates TO New York or 81 cents.
A traveller claims to have seen herd of Buff
falc, fourteen miles In length, near Glendine,
Montana.
James w. Converse has served as president
Of the Boston Mechanics bank since August Is,
1885, when the bank was organized. Alvah
Simonds, the cashier, has also served like
term.