The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-09
The Wreck on the Wabash More
Serious Than at First
Reported.
Nearly Forty Persons More or Less
Seriously Injured, One
Fatally.
List o. the Victims-The Company TAX
ing Care of the Wounded-The
Wreck Cleared.

ten miles south of Decatur on the st.
Louis division of the Wabash Road at six
O'Clock yesterday morning, resulting in
the injury OF nearly forty people. 1t was
the fast through passenger train, No. AZ,
from Toledo, bound for st. Louis in
charge of Walter Morgan, conductor, and
Harry Gillis, engineer. The train was
heavily loaded and going down a hill at
the rate Of thirty-hve miles an hour, when
two rear passenger coaches and sleeper
were thrown from the track, which spread
for distance OF two hundred yards.
The sleeper fell down sharp declivity
on its side, as did also a passenger
coach. The other passenger coach
reared up nearly on end. Fortunately
no one was killed outright. Only
three of the thirty-nine are thought to
be seriously hurt by the four Decatur
surgeons who went to the scene with two
wreck trains to care for the wounded.
All were taken to Blue Mound in the sew
eral coaches which passed safely over the
break. The wreck was cleared away by
eleven O'Clock, when trains went by in
safety. The damage to Wabash stock is
very heavy.
THE VICTIMS.
Following is full list of the injured
passengers;
w. n. BoydstoWn, Warsaw, Ind; Sc
we're bruise of left elbow
Mrs. /. l.. Wizeman, Warsaw, Ind. in
jured severely in left side; bad cut on
left arm; unable to use left limb.
Myrtle Wizeman, eight years old, pune
tured wound of scalp and left side.
c. +. Murphy, Connersylle, Ind; con-
fusion of back, severe; unable to walk.
Mr. j. b. Rented, Fort Wayne, Ind;
commission Of back and toes on right foot;
unable to walk.
Aaron Short, of Rochester, Ind; Sc
we're scalp wound on left side of head
three inches long; cut over right eyebrow
inch long ard back bruised.
George Short, eight years old, scalp
wound and other injuries.
Harvey Short, eleven years old, cut on
top of head, three inches long
Newell Short child, abrasion of right
cheek and scalp wound.
Mrs. Aaron Short, cut on right side of
the head, three inches long.
There were eight of the Short family,
and five of the eight were hurt. The fam
lily was going to Concordia, kas.
l.. w. Hora, Connersville, Ind, cut
three inches long on forehead and bruise
on back.
Chas, Fee, st. Paul, Mimi, bruise on
back and severe cut in the leg.
Susan Lawson, slightly wounded.
Mrs. Nancy Tenbroecke, Hammond,
H.; cut over the right eye and bruised
in the left groin.
b. f. Briggs, Levina, n. Y; eighth
and ninth ribs broken on the left side and
q thrcc.inch cut on the back of the head.
j. NJ. Vincent, Buchanan, Mich, sleep
ing car conductor; fracture of spine, and
two severe scalp wounds on the back of
the head; lower eXtremities paralyzed;
single man. probably fatally injured
w. L. Robinson, Silver Lake, Ind;
cuts on left side of the chin, one and
half inches long; over right brow, one
inch long.
A. d. Degarno, Highland Station, Mich;
cut on the middle of the forehead and
back of the head, each one inch in
length.
Mrs. S. C. Fairbanks, Lisbon, Ind; left
shoulder dislocated; bruised on right side
and back; going to Brunswick, Mo-, to
visit her daughter.
j, B. Porterfeld, Sidney, ILL.,; disloca-
ton of right shoulder; severe zigZag
three-inch cut on back of hand going to
st. Louis to purchase machinery to start
coal shaft at Sidney.
W. f. Snlvely, Bellaire, o.. dislocation
of left shoulder.
Anna Clayton, Rochester, Ind; bruise
| over right eye and left hip.
DR.. w. p Armstrong, Lafayette,
Ind. inch-and-a-ha wound on top of
head; left rib fractured; was moving to
| Ackley, Kas.
Miss Annie Bigler, Millersburg O.,
cut two inches long on left side of
forehead.
j. H. Peck, of Cleveland, o., frac-
lures of seventh and eighth ribs; left
side, and separation of costal cartilage.
George Neck, Detroit, Mich, severely
bruised on left hip and elbow.
j, S. Rogers, Toledo, o., fracture of
small bone of left leg.
Rev. N. Crazy, Hicksville, o., bruises
on left thumb.
Henry Ort, Defiance, o., cut over right
eyebrow of an inch; injured on left hip
and shoulder.
j. b. Jones, Connersville, Ind, bruised
on right shoulder.
X. X Jared Vanvleet, Flint Mich, SER
iously hurt in chest and suffered
a great shock. He is land ex-
cursion agent for the Missouri
Pacific.
Oscar Vanderbilt, indianapolis, travel
ing passenger and land agent for the
Northern Pacific; slightly hurt.
Charles Mount, Connorsville, Ind; cut
over left side of forehead; triangular
! abrasion of scalp on top of head.
j. R. Sutton, Morrisonville, ILL.,. severe
bruises on both knees
Elizabeth Howard, Union, N. Y; Sc
we're cut over right eye and on right arm
and injured in small of back.
c. Boss, Defiance, o.; chest injury
not severe.
Rhoda Kennega, Churubusco, Ind, Sc
we're bruise on top Of head; going to
Missouri.
Mrs. William A. Walker, West Brattle-
boro, VT, hurt in back and unable to
move.
1t is reported by the surgeon that Con.
ductor Vincent cannot survive, and that