The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-01-12
tween the two men. Owens cut Barnes
with knife badly during the quarrel.

With knlIe DaQIy curing the quarrel.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
CAMDEN, N. j., Jan Isaac Mer-
rick, this afternoon shot his daughter
dead at their home on Central avenue,
and then turned the weapon on him
self with fatal effect.
The child was an adopted daughter,
an engaging gnI OF 10 years.
Merrick was 40. No cause can be as
signed except an insane jealousy. The
child was a general favorite, and any
attention showed her angered him.
Both shots were instantly fatal.
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED.
HAvERHILL, Mass, Jan. 10.-The
Portland express which left Boston for
Portland at i O'Clock met with a Sc
rious accident this afternoon between
Bradford SStation and the Haverhill
bridge, over the Merrimac
river, caused by the rails spreading
near frog on curve, where the turn
is made to run on the bridge. The
train consisted of an engine, two bag
gage cars, smoking. parlor and three
safely, but the smoker and two cars
left the track. The smoking car ran
on the bridge and turned over. One
coach smashed into the water
tank house, and the other
through the sleeper. Six per-
sons are known to have been
killed. Several others are expected to
die, and many others are more OF less
seriously injured. The train was
on time running at the ordinary
speed. Physicians were summoned
and the wounded and dying we're
rapidly carried away. Several of the
bodies were disfgured beyond recOgni-
tion.
The list of killed. as far as can now
be ascertained, is as follows:
f Rpadfor Maiden section R boss aD Of
child, of Kennebunk, Maine; an I'M
known man having card in his pocket
with the name of J. Hazelton. The
smoking car lies upset on the bridge,
and two passenger cars are
badly smashed. The Bradford depot
has been turned into temporary hos
pital.
Hugo A. Lettengeren, of BrocktOn;
was in the smoking car, and escaped
with broken leg. a little boy,
BERTHE Allen, was en- route for Exeter,
and received terrible scalp wound.
He will probably recover. Zenas
Thompson, carriage manufacturer of
Portland, injured about the head and
back, also arm broken. Mrs. La Rome of
Lowell, is badly shaken up. Fifty-twO
passengers in all were wounded, some
L d4G VI U1ClA nave DCCl ldhCh
to the city hospitals.
In the station the scene was a
terrible one. The men were laid
on the floor. In the ladies'
room were five or six ladies', and these
were suffering terribly. Many of the
injured were taken away by friends,
and it is impossible at This time to
learn the names of all the injured.
AS far as known they are: E. K;
McDeen, of Louisville, newsboy, head
cut and internal injuries; Rebecca Nc
Kee, of New Brunswick, leg broken
and head cut; BERTHE Allen, of Exeter,
head cut; w. F. Kimball, leg
broken; Frank Williams, of Boston,
head cut; G. c. Wentworth, head cut;
Dennis Shannon, of Bradford, both
legs broken; George II. O'Dell, of Bos-
ton, face cut; Calvin McKinna, of Au-
burn, Me-, head cut and injured about
the body.
One of the saddest sights was the
death of Mrs. c. p. Goodwin and little
child, of Mennebunk. She was riding
in the second passenger car
with her little child in her
arms. Both were instantly killed, as
was her husband. Mr.. Frank Litch-
field, of Portland, who was in the
smoking car, escaped with several cuts
| and was injured about the body, his
ClOIDlLS DCIllS IOIH III ou1Cu5
FATAL FLAMES.
NEW, HAVEN, Conn.,, Jan. l0.-The
Union has the following from Munro,
Connecticut: Between and o'clock
this morning the Aims house and an
adjoining dwelling, located in East
Villege, near Munro, was burned.
| Three persons persisted in the
| flames. About $3.50 a. m, Thomas Col
| lyer, who sleeps in the poor house, was
| awakened from slumber by the
sound of falling dishes, the
flames were spreading rapidly, and he
fastened to arouse the inmates. He
rushed into the dwelling where Mrs.
| Wheeler, owner of the building was
sleeping; the smoke was suffocating and
binding, but he CROPPED through
it to the bed of Mrs. Wheeler. Grasp,
ing her he rushed out into the open
air, saving the woman's life. There
were twelve other inmates, but, suf-
| fering from his own burns,
| Collyer continued his self-as-
signed task, never once faltering
until nine others were in place of
safety, the other three persisted before
Collyer could reach them. The paupers
and Mrs. Wheeler suffered terri
bly, from want of cloth
ing. Nothing was saved from
the building, and they were obliged to
remain in county out house while
waiting for help. Collyer himself was
| fearfulfy burned. The cause of the
/ fire is as vet unascertained.