A Sad Railroad Accident

Last fcnday evening, wnue james l. F. McAllister, Robert S. Orr, Nathan Woodmansee and a colored man named Wm B. Johnson, were crossing the Toledo and Ann Arbor railroad track on State street in a wagon driven by Mr. McAllister. train number 4 on the roiid was coming into the city, and struck the wagon jast as it crossed the track. Messrs. McAllister, ürr, and Woodmansee were sitting in the front seat of the wagon and Mr. Johnson in the bottom. Johnson saw the train coming and jumped out tliree rods from the track. Mr. Woodmansee about two rods before the wagon reached the tracked, callea out, "Whoa! the train is coming." Mr. McAllister replied, "I can get across," and commenced whipping the horses, Woodmansee jumping out, leaving McAllister and Orr in the wagon. The horses crossed the track safely but the wagon was struck, both men thrown out, the wagon utterly demolished and the harneas stripped from the horses. Mr. Orr was so badly injured that he died Sunday. Mr. McAllister sustained seveve injuries. So suddenly had the whole affair occurred that Mr. McAllister, when picked up, though that be had crossed the track in safety. An inquest was held before Justice Pond, Wednesday, with Moses Seabolt, H. J. Brown Leonard Gruner, John Finnegan, Charles Spoor and Charles H. Worden as jurors. The evidence showed that the train was coming at the rate of thirty miles an hour and was eight minutes late, that it was growing dark, but was not quite dark enough for the headlight to do rnuch good. Engineer Dodge, Fireman Long and Conductor Hatcher, testifled to the blowing of the whistle eighty rods betore tbe crossing was reached and the ringing of the bell by the öreman. Mrs. Mary Fox, who was milking a cow near the track, testifled to the cow being frightened by the whistling, but two ladies who were near the crossing heard no whistle and Mr. Woodmansee head the whistle when the train was only about flfteen rods away. Mr. Mc Allister testiüed that h was close to the track, when he hrst saw the train andwas afraid to stop for fear he could not control nis horses. The jury rendered a verdict that the collision was an accident and that no one was to jblame for the same.