Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-03
ON THE RAIL.
Accidents and Robberies on Sew.
eral Railroads.
Fatal Accident at Chicago-Another on the
New York Central-Train Robbery
I'm Texas and One In
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Accident at Chicago.

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| CHICAGO, Sept. 25.-While standing at
a crossing in the southern outskirts of the
| city, shortly after six O'Clock last night,
| the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific SUBJ
| q, ban train which left the main depot at
6:35 O'Clock for Blue Island. was crashed,
| into by q freight train and three ladies
| and two gentlemen killed and seven others
seriously injured
| The list of killed il: Mrs. Kelly, J.
| Mckenzie, Fred Huebner. Mrs. Brown, an
| unknown woman. All the dead lived in
Washington Heights Those most seri-
| ously injured are: Gus Mulcahy, Seventy
sixth and Wallace streets, fatally; Mrs.
| A. z. Steele, Anton Shusburg. Parker
| Harden.
when he boarded his engine and drunk
when picked up.
Wreck on the New York Central.
| CANAJoHARIE. N Y, Sept. pa fright
! full fatal accident happened on the Central
| railroad near Palatine bridge last night
| and three sleeping cars are in shapeless
mass, while many lives have been lost.
| The accident occurred two miles east OF
| Palatine bridge The first section Of the
| train broke down and before the second
| section could be tagged it ran into the
| first section. The first section OF the st.
Louis express No. B, which left Albany at
stopped for repairs two miles east OF Pala-
| tine bridge The rear brakeman was sent
back to signal the second section, but for
| some unknown reason failed to perform
his duty. The engineer of the second Sec
| ton says he did not see him and the first
thing he saw was the lights of the first
section directly in his 'front.' The first sec
ton was made up of baggage. mail, ex-
press and three passenger cars, packed
with people, and Wagner sleeper on the
end. tZ
The crash was terrific. The second sec.
ton telescoped into the first section,
knocking out the lights and plunging
every thing into darkness.
CANAJoHARIE, N. Y. Sept. 29.-There
were four people killed in the collision on
the New York Central railroad, namely:
Rev. Prentice Duval. of Dayton, evil
IDENTIFY a railway official. as he had a
pocketful of passes, aged about sixty
years.
Sadie Boyd, of Westport, N. Y.
A maid Of w. II. Manning and wife.
aged about twenty-four years.
Charles Franklin, a porter of the Michi-
gan Central railroad, formerly with the
Pullman Company, aged about twenty
eight
In addition to the above several persons
were seriously and a number of others
more or less injured.
A Texas Train Robbery.
Fort WORTH, Tex. Sept, pa few
| minutes before ten O'Clock last night as
the northbound Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe passenger train was Iulling out at
| Crawley, a small station ten miles south
| Of this city, three men boarded the train
| and two others jumped on the locomotive,
| placed pistols at the head of Engineer
John Monahan and Fireman Crager and
| told them to pull out to beat -" and
stop when told
When two miles from Crowley the en-
gineer was ordered to stay, when the two
men on the engine were Joined by the three
men on the train.
windows were ordered to get inside, the
orders being accompanied by several
shots.
| The men then cut the engine, baggage,
| mail and express cars from the rest OF the
| train and made Monahan pull half mile
further.
| A short, feshy young man and a dark
mustached, burly docking fellow then got
| into the express car and ordered John
Dickey. the messenger, to show them the
money. He pointed to three bags of Mex
lean silver. One of the men ripped open
| a sack and shoveled the silver out of the
door, while the other threw out the other
sacks.
| The robbers took two packages said to
contain s.. 900 each. but overlooked three
or four money packages for Fort Worth.
An Alabama Train Held Up.
MOBILE, Ala, Sept 23.-The Mobile &
Ohio southbound mail and passenger train
was held up at $3.50 yesterday morning by
train robbers at Buckatunna, Miss, sta
ton seventy miles north Of here.
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out and stop at the bridge twenty five
miles below Bucktunna and place the train
| so that the express and mail car should be
on the further side of the bridge from the
rest of the train, the bridge being trestle
over a deep creek. "You obey instruc-
| tions or it's death, " he said.
The leader made the messenger drop the
contents of the safe into canvas sack,
but noticing that he was not closely
watched, Dunning pushed some of the
money aside SO that about thousand
dollars was hidden, the robbers getting
about So. 700 belonging to the Mobile &
Ohio Railroad Company. Beside the ex.
press car door was a pile of $40, 600 o.
Government money, en- route to Florida
which the robbers failed to notice. Their
the robbers made the expressman get GU
Of the car and go with them to the mai
car.
The robbers then went into the mail ca
and compelled the agent to deliver up
pouch of registered letters. They thel
disappeared.
New York Republicans.
SARATOGA, N. Y. Sept 26.-The Repub
lican State convention yesterday nom
mated John j. Gilbert of Frankli
County, for Secretary of State and tn
following other nominations were mad
by reclamation: Martin w. Cook, Q
: Monroe, for Comptroller, Ira Hedges fo
Treasurer. General James Varnum, {
New York. for Attorney General Willial
: p. Van Rensallier for State Engineer an
Surveyor and Alfred Haight, of Buffai
, for Judge of the Court Of Appeals.
Massachusetts, Republicans.
Boston, Sept 26-The Republican Stat
! convention met here yesterday an
: nominated j. Q. A. Bracket for Gov