Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
STRUCK A STUMP.
Terrible Accident to a Train in
Michigan-Lieutenant-Gover-
nor Mcdonald
And Others KilIed-Several Wounded
Five Men Drowned While Tearing
Down a Bridge.
Eleven Drownings Reported in British
Columbia-Two in Aichigan-COlli-
sion at Sea.

Eleven DrownlngS reported IN BRUSH
Columbia-Two in Aichigan-COlli-
sion at Sea.
MARQUETTE, Mich, Jan. 21.-As the east
bound passenger train on the Northwest
ern railroad neared Elwood, a station six
teen miles east of Watersmeet, at one
O'Clock Saturday afternoon, one of the
trucks under the rear coach broke and
threw the coach off the track. 1t ran
about five car lengths, when it struck a
| stump and was smashed to pieces, killing
or injuring all the occupants. The killed
are: John A Mcdonald, Lieutenant
Governor OF Michigan; William Corcoran,
of Escanaba; H. A. Tuttle, of Cleveland,
o. The wounded are: Mrs Percy Beasor,
of Ashland, Wis, spine injured, very bad;
Mrs. Mcclure, of Watersmeet, wife of the
train brakeman, badly cut and severe in
ternal injury; Mrs. E. P. Foster, of Iron
Fountain, severe cut in the head and in
jury 10 spine; Conductor II. A. Armstrong,
injured in the head and leg broken.
o. F. Davidson, of Commonwealth, at
the time of the accident was playing cards
with Lieutenant Governor Mcdonald, Mr..
first intimation he had that any thing was
wrong was a jolting sensation, the car
then swayed two or three times, then
turned on its side. He rememb ered moth
ing more until he found himself twenty or
thirty feet in the air.
1t seems that the car in turning over
struck stump which penetrated it be-
tween the men who were playing cards.
Mr Tntfla ba rod in ha 70
the rear of the table, was instantly killed.
Mr.. Mcdonald was in the same seat and
his arm was torn out at the shoulder and
found at least forty feet from the body.
The whole side of the car was torn out by
second stump and it seems miraculous
that any escaped.
The dead were brought to Watersmeet,
where they remain, but a special train will
convey Mr.. Mcdonald and Mr.. Corcoran
to EScanaba, where they resided. Mr. Tut
tie will be taken to his home in Cleve-
land, o.
From what can be learned at Ishpeming
the accident to the Chicago & Northwes-
tern train must have been caused by the
breaking of the trucks and could not have
been guarded against. AS the scene of
the disaster is twelve miles from the near
cob 1IOH hlFcIy duu
station nearer than that particulars are
meager.
Mr.. Mcdonald was elected Lieutenant
Governor in 1886 and reelected last No.
vember. He was sixty-two years of age
and leaves a widow and son and daugh-
ter. His estate is valued at over $500, 900.
Mr.. Tuttle was we'll known in Clevel and
and in the Lake Superior mining districts.
L., L.. oh.
Foster, of Iron Mountain, is a prominent
mining man, whose operations extend over
the Maronette, Menominee and Gogebic
ranges.
BRIDGE ACCIDENT.
EVANSVILLE. Ind, Jan. 2L-The officers
of the Evansville and Bowling Green
packet steamer, G. F. Dawes, which
arrived here at 6 o'clock last evening, re-
port disastrous wreck ON the Louisville,
st. Louis & Texas railroad bridge across
Green river at Spottsville. KY, eighteen
miles above this city, in which five men
were drowned and several fatally injured.
There are no telegraphic or telephone
communications from that point, but the
facts as near as could be ascertained are
as follows: Last Thursday the Louisville,
st. Louis g. Texas Railroad Com
pany were granted an injunction by
the circuit court of Henderson
County against the Keystone Bridge Com
pany from interfering with the plaintiffs
trains running over the bridge. The or
der was served by the Sheriff on the bridge
company. The order, it seems, was obeyed
until yesterday morning, when the bridge
company sent force of men to the bridge,
driving the railroad employees off, and at
once commenced tearing up the track and
portion of the ties from the draw of the
bridge. About $3.50 o'clock in the after
noon, while the work of tearing up the
ties was in progress, the dismantling of
one end of the draw caused the opposite
end to overbalance, when it broke in two,
precipitating about twenty workmen into
the river, five of whom are known to have
been drowned and seven seriously if not
fatally injured by falling tinbers and
iron.
ELEVEN DROWNED.
VICTORIA, B. c., Jan. 2L-The steamer
Cariboo Fly returned east last night from
an exploring trip to the Queen Charlotte
islands. The vessel brings news that on
December Is, while Cunningham's schooner
Skeena was making trip to Skidegate,
she sprang a leak and sunk. Eight Indian
passengers and Cunningham's son were
drowned. The captain, white boy and
seven Indians escaped. 1t is also reported
that a man named Faulkner and an Indian
were drowned on Skeena river by the up.
setting of their boat.
OCEAN STEAMERS IN COLLISION.
LONDON, Jan. 21.-The Guion line steamer
Wyoming, Captain Rigby, while leaving
the Mersey Saturday, bound for New York,
collided with the French steamer Henry |
~. The Wyoming's bows were stove and |
she returned to Liverpool. The Henry w. |
was damaged in the stern. She.was towed |
to Liverpool.
BOY SKATERS DROWNED.
EscANABA, Mich, Jan. 21.-Willie Murch, |
aged fifteen, son of q prominent citizen. |
and John Peterson, aged sixteen, son of |
County Treasurer Peterson, have disap- |
peared, and no doubt both are drowned. |
Invasion Projected.
SUAKrN, Jan. 20.-Bazaar rumors are |
current to the effect that the dervishes are
at Khartoum for an advance upon |
Dongola, and that the Mahdi intends to in