Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-11-08
DEEDS OF DEVILS.
One Train Wrecked at Knoxville and
Taps Set fer Wholesale Destruc-
ti0n Of Life.

One Train Wrecked at Knoxville and
Taps Set fer Wholesale Destruc-
tion of Life.
Tribune. 9th.
Last night about ten minutes be-
fore eleven o'clock freight train
was wrecked at the Southern Car
Works. mile west of Knoxyille.-
The wreck was caused by a mis-,
placai switch, which caused the
freight train to run into o number
of cars standing on the side track.
No lives were lost, bat the engineer
John Nicely was severely hurt and
perhaps seriously injured internally.
The fireman was slightly hurt.
Some person unknown had
changed The switch. and the result
was that the freight train ran off on
the side track and collided with a
train Of new ears standing near the
car works. The engine was thrown
across the track. nearly turned over
and considerably damaged About
half tte train was thrown from the
track and several Of the cars were
badly smashed up. Nearly oil the
new cars standing on the side track
we're thrown off and several of them
smashed up. The rear cars Of the
train were left on the main track
uniniured. The wreck being
entirely en- the side track no othe>.
trains were delayed.
The watchman, Mr.. Roberts, says
he was at the switch less than. twen>
ty minutes before the accident and
the switch was all right. He was
making the rounds Of the car works
and the fend who set the switch to
wreck the train must haye watched
his opportunity to do SO while the
watchman was on the opposite side
Of the buildings. The wrecker was
probably secreted in the field near.
After the train was wrecked flag
men wera Immediately sent back to
the city for assistance. Then it was
discovered that the switch at the
Rolling Mill had been changed and
the lock thrown away Had this
not been discovered tho passenger
train due at Knoxville at 1855 p.
m. would have been thrown from
the track, precipitated down the
embankment and made total wreck
carrying with it its load of perhaps
q hundred passengers OF course
great loss of life would have been
inevitable. It would have been
wholesale murder.
It was also discovered that an
other switch connecting that X. g.
o. track had also been changed.
Could the passenger train by any
possibility have escaped the first
danger it would have run into q train
of cars on the z. & o. track. Fort
unasely both dangers were discover
ed and terrible wreck prevented.
Ben Butler and Boss Kelly TO Form
New Party.
N. Y. Hsrald.
1t is asserted in Massachusetts,
that John Quincy Adams, George
M. Stearns, Leverett Saltonstall
and the rest of the forty or fifty
Of the "old liHev democrats in
that State who united In an adj
dress to their party the other day,
urging the defeat of General Benz
jamin L: Butler, were moved to
do so by the belief that he medi-
tates getting up third party
next year in combination With
our distinguished fellow citizen
Mr.. John Kelly. Our Boston lets
ter yesterday said:
"They .believe that if General
Butler should be successful this
fail he would be IN &splrant for
the presidential nomination., and
that if he failed to get it he would
bolt, and with John Kelly, for
whom he has q warm personal
friendship, could organize a third
party, and thus defeat the hopes
OF the democracy in 1884. This
plea has had more or less effect on
the rural sectiens of the State,
where the name OF John helly is
believed to be Synonymous with
treachery and diShonoI."
There is nothing improbable in
such combination. Mr.. Kelly's
paDer praises General Butler pro-
fusely every morning, and on
some days devotes almost as much
attention to his canvass in Mass
achusetts as it does the democrat
ic canvass in New York. The no.
lion of ''third party organiza-
ton. with General Butler for its
Presidential candidate, has been
i'll Buffers mind ever since the
Johnson impeachment trial. and
Kelly would be his natural ally.