The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-04-27
A Terrible Accident.

| MIR. and Mrs. JOnn wade OF Appleton, Cecl
County and a Wilmington Boy Killed on
the p. w. & b.
| A terrible railroad accident, in which
three people lost their lives, occurred a
short distance above the Newport station
of the P. w. & B. railroad about 2 &c
o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The story
of the accident is as follows:
John Wade, aged GO years, and his wife
Matilda, aged SO years, VINO reside near
Appleton. Cecil county had been in Viii,
mington. When they had disposed OF
their goods they started for their home
which is about fifteen miles from Will
mington. They were accompanied by
James T. Lenderman, the 11-year old son
| of Louis G. Lenderman of No. 22S Parish
street, Wilmington, who had asked the
old couple to take him out into the
country with them. When the party
reached Newport they drove to the phos
phaJe works of J. A. Cranston & Co.,
where they purchased 400 pounds of plas.
ter from john E. Whann, member OF
| the firm, and then started away.
To get to the phosphate works they
| drove across the three railroad tracks,
| about 100 feet north of the station build
ing. just on the edge of the tracks is
| the office of the Marshall Iron Company.
| The road runs into the iron works pro.
perty and also divides and makes sharp
bend to the left, running along parallel
with and about eight feet above the rail.
road tracks. Two hundred feet from the
| iron works Office the road turns again to
the right and enters the phosphate works
| grounds. Coming from the phosphate
works to recross the tracks it is impossi
BILE to see very far down the tracks. AS
| Wade drove around the corner and started
down the road by the track Edward Cook
a colored man, working in a field, called
out to him to look out for the train
Wade, however, drove on, in a minute
turning by the iron works Office on to the
track. As he did so Samuel Bailey anG
Edward Hinesworth, who were standing
on the opposite side of the track, criet
out to Wade to hurry.
The old man, it is supposed, did no
understand what was said, and stopped
his horse directly in front of the approach
ing express train to listen. The stop wa
fatal. The train was section No. l O
train No. IA which stops at Elkton dali,
at 1.5S p. m. The COW catcher of thu
engine struck the front wheel of tn
wagon, tearing it into pieces and scatter
ing it along the track. The train, which
was running about forty-five miles al
hour at the time, was at once stopped
On one side of the railroad, at least
feet from the road lay the horse dead
About 90 feet from where the team wa
lay Lenderman dying, about 100 fee
further on lay Mrs. Wade dead and a few
feet further on lay her husband, ais
dead.
The boy died about three minutes afte
being struck His body was not mangle
but the blood was still flowing from a
ugly wound in the head. Death evidentl
resulted from fracture of the skull. TIL
body of Wade was considerably mangle
the face being bruised and his bear
clotted with blood His wife's body wa
even more mangled than his. The hea
was literally broken open and the brain
had been scattered about the track. Nea
the body of the boy was piled porto
of the wrecked wagon. Several measure
, and bags of plaster were in the pile. Or
posite the bodies of Wade and his viii
were the running gears of the Wagon
minus two wheels, which had bee
crushed off by the locomotive. Plaste
was scattered up the track for dstanc
of at least 100 feet.
The Wades leave one child, a daughter
Jennie, Is years of age, who at the tim
of the accident was at home prepariD
for her parents return. VIM. Wade, he
cousin, went to the house to tell her tn
sad news.