Morris tribune., 1883-08-04

on the subject. Should any other action be
necessary, this board wall not fail to ask foe
1t.
Horrible RailOad Accident In New
York.
A terrible accident on the Rome, Water
town & Ogdensburg railroad occurred a
Carlyon station, N. Y, at $50 o'clock on
the 9th inst, by which nineteen were killed
and thirty wounded. The train, q doubl.
header, was an excursion train No. 90 anC
bound for Clayton with Thousand island
tourists, mostly from Michigan. It was be-
hind time, and at the time of the collision
was running at the rate of forty miles al
hour. The wind was blowing a gale, and
had blown a freight car off side track
partly on to the main track. When the ex
cursOn train came laundering along, q
collision came. throwing one of the en-
gines on its end and the other into the ditch.
The baggage car aud two sleepers were
completely demolished. Cars were piled
upon one another until it was one vast
heap of ruins. At the time a heavy thun-
der shower was passing over, and the night
was dark. The cries and shrieks of the dy-
ing and wounded were terrible. The crash
was heard three miles away. The count ~
is but thinly settled, and 1t was some time
before assistance could be obtained The
coroner, DR.. Coehrane of Albion, was sent
tor, and the work of recovering the bodie $
commenced.
Following are the names of the persons
killed who have been identified:
Thomas Hayne, Chicago; uis front
fireman; A. Taylor, WatertoWn N. Y. Jane
Carl, Lansing, Mich; Prof. @. w. Stone
Battle Creek, Mich; Lutte ]. f RANGES, Oswe.
go, N. Y; Willie Lafevre Bay City Mich
Ashley Tyler, N. Y; Thomas Stalls, Water.
town, N. Y; o. b. Troop and gran ddaughter
Mary Troop, Schoharie, N. Y.;J. G. Schenk
Cleveland, Ohio; Thomas Dixon; 249 Pearl
marked "Cornelia to Louis" and thought
to be Mrs. Booth, of Bay City, Mich; MIS-.
Louis J. Boos, Philadelphia; L. WorIeh ;,
Saline, Mich; Henry Mccormick, Benton,
Mich; An unknown body thought to be
Mr.. Booth, of Bay City.
The fireman was instantly killed, and
Engineer James Mccarthy, OF the second
engine was terribly scalded.
The following are injured: Minerva Nun
day, Bay City, terribly bruised, Thought she
will never recover. Mrs. ". F: Hall and
about the head, daughter, spinal injury
Both will recover. Mrs. B. Salisbury, Bat
tie Creek, Mich, hip dislocated, double
fracture of the right side, neck and head
badly bruisei. Thought she will recover
Rev. E.S Gould, Carthage, Mo-, severe
cash in back of head will recover. Mis-. j.
r. Ireland, Granite Falls, Mimi, bruised
about the head.
Mrs. Moses Sweeter Parkersburg, Va,
spine bruised and head cut, will recoye';
Mrs. T. G. Field, Parkersburg, Va, eye
confused, ankle sprained and injured about
the hip; will recover; Mrs. A. l.. Briggs,
Saline, Mich, cut about the head; will re-
cover, She is at LyI.donVille. Mrs. Nc
Masters, of Ireland, wrist fractured and ear
cut off; Mrs. Alice jennison, Philadelphia,
broken ankle; Mrs. Prof. @. W. Stone, Bat
tie Creek. Mich, fracture of arm and 9th
erWise bruised; Alex. Tower, Lansing,
Mich, injured in head; will recover. He
is brother of Mis- Elizabeth Jane Carl.
Total killed, twenty two. The list of the
wounded will reacn thirty-tive persons
Reports from tWenty-three of the wounded
do not indicate that over three will die
and shipped to their homes. Conflicting
testimony of witnesses is SO great that the
jury have been unable to agree upon YER
dict yet, and adjourned until Wednesday.
One OF the Big hascaIs Don vlcted.
In the trial OF M. T. Polk, late treasurer
of Tennessee, at Nashville the jury, having
been out forty-eight hours, brought
in a verdict of guilty fixing the sen
tence at twenty years in the penitentiary-
the full extent of the law-and assessing
fine or 1896, 54O.10. The verdict was I'M
animous on the first ballot. Counsel for
the defense entered motion for q
new trial on the ground of the iEcompetency
of the jury. Tue attidavits of two witnesses
were submitted to the effect
that Taylor Afford, one of the
jury, stated to them on the day he was sum-
moned that. if selected as juror, he was
in favor of hanging the prisoner; bot the
affidavit also stated that this was said in q
TESTING way. Polk, was state treasurer of
Tennessee for two terms. His defalcation
'ame to light on the 9th of January last,
and caused cons: derable of a sensation. His
populations had been going on for year or
more; but so adroitly did he doctor the
books of his office that the committee of
the legislature which examined the affairs
of the treasury early in 1882 was deceived,
and reported everything in proper shape
The legislative investigating committee
found that the shortage amounted to $270,-
900. Polk immediately fed to Texas, but
was shortly captured and taken back to Ten
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