Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-01-04
An ILLINOIS cENTRAL ACCIDENT.

Ing One Psrson and Wounding Seven.
Manson. Jan. 2-Train No. 2, due here
at 4:48 this morning, was derailed and
thrown from the track five miles east Of
here, caused by broken rail, the sleeper
and two coaches going over an embsnk-
ment. Mrs. j. II. Smith, of Ohio Sta
tion, ILL.,, was killed. Tho wounded are
as follows:
q. L. Turner, Msnchee; head cut and
ribs broken.
Mrs. Jane Dunning, Tonica, ILL.,; head
bruised and mind deranged.
Leon Jacobs, Lake City, MIMI; head
cut aud bruised.
A. M. Chambstlain. Montezuma. Iowa;
arm and back bruised.
John Holbrcok, Fort Dodge; hand
bruised.
j. R. Finch, Hinsdale, Ill; face cut.
| Thomas Pierce, Reinbeck, Iowa; head
cut.
Drs. Young and Martin, of this place.
were dispatched to the wreck at once.
and Drs Nicholson and Seymour we're
sent from Fort Dodge. The wounded
were brought to this place and are being
taken care of at the City hotel.
| Mrs. Smith, who was killed, had her
little girl, eighteen months old, with her,
which escaped uninjured. She was on
her way to attend the funeral of q sister
in Cherokee. The accident happened at
7:15.
THE CONDUCTORS ACCOUNT.
Sioux City Journal: That part of the
wrecked train which did not go off the
track arrived at Sioux City about 6
O'Clock last evening. A reporter inter-
viewed the conductor, Jud Ellis. He
gave the following additional particulars
Of the accident:
ut was little after o'clock, and We
were coming on at the rate of about
eighteen miles an hour, on q straight
piece of track. I was in the baggage car
and felt the trucks 60 over broken rail
The rail must have been broken BY the
engines, for both Baldwin, the train
enRineer, and the engineer on the help
ing engine. soy that they felt no broken
rail, Az l caught the bel-cord it broke
somewhere ahead. and jerked through
my hand. The breaking of the bell cord
was the first thing that showed the
engineers that anything was wrong
They looked back, and coult
Gee they we're pulling only tn
baggage and mail cars. Thinking tn
train might have been broker
in two. they slowed up easy, 30 that th
passenger cars. if they were coming
would not run into the baggage car.
jumped off and ran back. The smoking
car and ladies' car were on their sides of
q ix.foot embankment, and the sleeper
was off its trucks, but right side up
The passengers had just lifted the deat
lady up and laid her on the side of th,
car. She barely gasped once or twic.
after got there. She had been ridine
on the north side of the car, and the cal
went off on the south side of the track
This must have thrown her across the
car, and in trying to save her baby he
hands were occupied, and her head wen
; through the window and was crushed q.
J the car came on the ground. The pas
sengers say that her head and one arm
were through the window on the lowe
side of the car when they found her
The baby was not hurt. We brought il
to Cherokee and gave it to the lady
father. who was waiting at the depot
The body of the lady was taken back t.
Fort Dodge. The cars did not catch o,
fire. We put the fire IN the stoves on
about the first thing We did. No on,
was caught in the wreck. nor was an,
one cut with glass. Excepting the lad!
who was killed the hurts Of the passen
gers were such bruises as would com,
} from being thrown across the car. MI
Turner, who got on at Manchester, had
cut on his forehead and the doctor
thought that some of his ribs were frac
tured. They did not think the case dan
J gerous at xll, but said that it nigh
be tedious. There we're but abou
fifteen passengers on board, very Iigh
train. ]. s. Wheeller. the excursion
agent, was dressing in the sleeper whe
the crash came. The stopping of the ca
alid him along on the floor, and his leg
from tho knee down were somewha
skinned. After we bad cared for tn
ones that we're hurt I sent the hea
engine on to Manson with telegram t
Fort Dodge for surgeons. The eDgin
came back from Manson with help an
surgeons about the same time the on
from Fort Dodge arrived. The pal
sengers were taken care of in the bap
gage car and sleeper. until We could e
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