Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-05-31
ShepherdstoWn News.

We are informed that a colored
man was seriously injured by the
steam drill at the quarries near Kear-
neysville last Saturday.
A few days ago Walter Entler was
picking at dynamite cap with a
horseshoe nail when the cap explod-
ed, burning and mangliug three OF his
fingers quite severely.
A coal hopper in a freight train on
the Cumberland Valley Railroad
| jumped the track few miles above
Hagerstown Monday and wrecked the
train. Five freight cars were broken
up and the track badly INSTRUCTED.
The colored school of this place
closed its session last Friday. Alice
Robinson, John Branson. Gussie
Creamer and John Stevenson COM
pleted the course of study, and Prof.
Joseph McMurran presented each
with a certificate showing that they
had passed their examinations with
credit.
DEATH OF A COOP WoMAN.-Mrs.
Kate Keplinger, wife of Mr.. John
Keplinger, died at her home near
Shepherdstown last Sunday morning
about 2 O'Clock. Her last illness com
menced some weeks ago, when she re-
ceived a paralyticstroke, and although
she recovered from the first effects,
the improvement was but temporary,
and she breathed her last on Sunday
morning.
Mrs. Keplinger passed her 10th
birthday on the 31st of last December,
and on the 9Th of January she aad her
husband celebrated their golden we'd
ding-the 50th anniversary of their
marriage.
A FRIGHTFUL RAILROAD ACCI-
DENT.-A terrible accident occurred
at Dust's Crossing, on the B. e. O..
Railroad, miles from Shepherds
town, about half-past s O'Clock last
Friday morning, by which Mr.. Frank
Chopper, e huckster, of Keedysville,
Md, was very badly injured, and
Clayton Creswell, aged II years, son
of Mr.. Joseph Creswell, of Hagers-
town, was instantly killed. Young
Creswell had visited Chopper, and az
companied him on one of his huckster-
ing trips to this county. Last Friday
morning they were on their way TO
Shepherdstown from the vicinity Of
Charlestown. AZ they approached
Dust's Crossing, which is very
dangerous one, they kept sharp look
out for trains, even stopping to listen
and to inquire of a colored man near
by if he heard a train coming. Hear
ing nothing, they drove on. Just as
they got on the track. however, the
fast mail train going west struck the
was smashed into thousand pieces,
parts of it being carried nearly four
hundred yards. Young Creswell was
thrown into ditch, and when picked
up he was dead, his neck having been
broken. Mr.. CHOPPER was terribly
hurt. His left leg and his collar bone
were broken, his shoulder dislocated,
and his skull fractured. One of the
horses had leg broken and had to be
killed. The wagon had three barrels
of eggs in it, which were smashed
over everything, and of fifty-oid
chickens in the boxes over forty were
killed. The train was stopped, and
the conductor obtained the names of
the victims and telegraphed to their
friends from the next station.
Mr.. Chopper was carried 10 the resi-
dence of Mr.. Raleigh Moler, near by,
and physicians sent for. Drs. Daniels
Updyke and Schaffer responded and
took charge of the case. and the rail.
road sent its physicians, DR.. Ransom
from Harper's Ferry and DR.. Myers
from Martinsburg. The injuries Of
the unfortunate man were attended to,
and he was made as comfortable as
possible. He is in q critical condition,
and at last accounts his recovery was
considered doubtful.
The remains of the dead child were
taken to Keedysville on Saturday,
and the funeral was held there on
Sunday. Mrs. Chopper came over to
attend her husband, and is now at his
bedside.-Re0ister.