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Life Crushed Out

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Day
4
Month
August
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Fbkix, 111., July 29.- The disaster causea by the collision of a Chicago & Alton freight with a construction train near Hopedale Wednesday is as serious as it appeared to be from first reports. So far as now known there are ten men dead and twenty-one hurt. The dead are : Martin Dunseth, of Delavan; James Brown, of Hopedale; David Waldron, of Delavan; George Griots, residence unknown; James Kelly, residence unknown; Timothy Sowars, of lallula; William McQuary, of Tallula; Blano Darrah, of Ashland; Charles Parker, of Petersburg. An unknown dead man was taken from the wreek yesterday afternoon. The wounded are : August Cadet, of Bloomington; John Ely, of Hopedale; Samuel Anderson ; W. Kenney, of Tallula; Thomas Kavanaugh, roadmaster of Chicago & Alton; John Cox, of Bloomington; Frank Holmes, of Bloomington, the engineer of the south-bound freight; Maher, flreman of the freight; Thomas Delong, of ton; Charles Smith, resídence unknown; Charles McKibbon, brakeman on theírelght; J. Trout, flreman on the work train; S. Henderson; Wllllam Rothsburg; Thomas McClellan; PatRyan; Pat Farmer; J. Raynor; L. McMart,n; Smlth; Fred Hagel; Ed Hamilton. lt is now aid that the blame tor the accident attaches to the section men who sent ior the construction train to assist tliem in putting out the bridge flre and faileil to notify the engineer ol the freight train, which stopped at Hopedale. The freight train passed over the partially burned bridge and ran into the rear end of the construction train. Ther were 100 men on the construction train at the time oí the accident. Pekis, I1L, Aug. 1.- The coroner'9 jury completed Baturday the inquest on the bodies of the ten men killed in the colusión of trains near Hopedale. The blame is attached to the section foreman at Hopedale and Roadmaster Thomas Kavanaugh. York, Ind., July 28.- Two men were killed and another seriously injured by an accident on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad here yesterday. The wreek was caused by the turning of a switch by some unknown wratch.

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Ann Arbor Register