Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-06-07
FKoH ALL. QUARTERS,
TWO RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
So q,
One in Kentucky and the
Other in Illinois.
DISASTROUS FLOODS IN ONTARIO.
Another Terrible Explosion
At Philadelphia.
CONFEDERATION NEAR WARSAW.
Further Debate on the Sill
yer Question.
CONGREGATION NEAR WARSAW.
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.

RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
A Train Jumps the Track In Kentucky
Tho sleeper Upset-Several MORALLY
Wsunded-Five Men Killed and Sew
eral wounded In an Accident In
Illineis.
LOUISVILLE, KY, June Ga railroad
wreck occurred at Englishs KY, half way
between Louisville and Cincinnati. Nine
are reported killed.
CINCINNATI, June 6.-Trainmen here are
very reserved about giving particulars as to
the accident at English, KY, on the Louis
Vile and Nashville road. They say, how
ever, that the accident was to the train
coming from Louisville to Cincinnati and
that the sleeper in that train left the track
and rolled down an embankment, that some
passengers were hut, but none killed.
CINCINNATI, June 6.-Adams Express Mes
senger Kendall, who arrived here shortly be-
fore II O'Clock tonight on the Louisville and
Nashville, says the wreck was on the Louis
vile and Boston express. The sleeper, which
contained Eve men and two middle aged
women, jumped the track in rounding a
short curve this side of English and rolled
| over and over down forty foot high em-
bankment smashing the sleeper all to pieces.
The woman, he thinks, was MORALLY hurt.
They were left at English. Several of the
wounded men came on to Cincinnati and are
| here tonight. None of them were danger
ously hurt. The train was moving around
the curve at very high rate of speed. No
names of the passengers are at present writ
ing obtainable.
| LOUISVILLE, KY, June 6.-The Wagner
| through sleeper from Louisville to Boston via
Cincinnati, over the Louisville and Nashville,
was wrecked near English, KY, at 4 O'Clock
wounded, two of whom will probably die.
They are as follows: Colonel 81. Q. Hodges
superintendent of the government store
houses at Jacksonville, seriously bruised and
| right leg broken; Mrs. Colonel Hodges, out
| and crushed about head and shoulders, car
hardly recover; John johnson of Memphis
cut about head and chest; Mrs. John
Johnston, dreadfully mangled about shout
ders, will probably die; B. O. Epperson
superintendent Short Line division, Louis
| vile and Nashville, cut about head anG
arms, greatly bruised and mangled; Bren
Arnold, general agent Louisville and Nash
| vile, Cincinnati, out about head and bach
and severe cut on arm; y. Il. Brent, con-
tracing freight agent Louisville and Nash
Vile at Cincinnati, scalp wounds; G. Beg
gar, brakeman, leg crushed; Joseph Slack
well, colored porter, of Suffolk, Va, badly
bruised.
All but Arnold and Brent were brough
back to Louisville and are receiving the bes
medical attention.
Spreading of the rails threw the sleeper
from the track and 1t broke in two, one par
rolling down a steep embankment and being
completely wrecked.
ROCKFORD, ILL.,, June 6.-The northwest
ern passenger train from Freeport, whiol
reaches Chicago at 2 O'Clock jumped tn
track two miles west of here at II oelocl
this morning on account of q broken wheel
A gang of section men were working abou
200 feet from the point where the engine lef
the rails, and before they could get away tn
train had run them down and toppled owe
| on them. The entire traine train was wrecke
and engineer and four of the section me-
were killed outright. The fireman, two sec
ton men and some of the passengers wer
, injured.
The killed are: Edward Blaisdell of Free
port, who had been engineer on the Galen
division over thirty Eve years, August John
son of Winnebago, Emil Anderson OF Wiz
nebago, John Gustafson of Pecatoaioa, job
Drehmea of Pesatonica. The injuries c
Fireman William Seoor will prove fatal.
None of the passengers were dangerousl
hurt