Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1887 — RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.

Two of Tliem Occur in rhe South, Injuring Many People. A freight train from-Spartensburg and a passenger train from Atlanta collided at Grier’s, twelve miles East of Greenville, S. C., Thursday morning. Two persons were killed and the number injured is variously estimated at from three to ten, some of whom will die. The collision occurred three miles West of Grier’s and was caused by the freight train not side-tracking at Grier’s to let the passenger train pass. The passenger train consisted of nine coaches. Both engines were wrecked, also the postal, baggage and express cars of the passenger train and the first three cars of the freight. Engineer Harris and conductor Reville, of the freight train disappeared. A negro saw them running through the woods. The engineer of the passenger train was one of the two instantly killed. About noon Thursday, the fast express on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, was wrecked twelve miles below Charleston, W. Va., by a defective switch. Twenty-six persons were injured. None were killed outright, but Several were severely hurt. Report of the Comptroller of the Treasury. The First Comptroller of the Treasury has made to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of the work of his bureau tor the fiscal year ended June 30 last, in which he recommends that Congress legislate especially on the assignment of claims against the United States; that United States District Attorneys, Marshals and Clerks be paid sa’aries, and that fees shah be abolished; that a maximum be fixed to the amount of compensation of United States Commissioners, and that each Commissioner be required, in issuing warrants for the arrest of persons charged with any offense to make such warrants returnable either before himself or some other Commissioner, so that a return may be made before the Commissioner located nearest to the residence of the party arrested; thus saving large amounts to the government and preventing injustice being done to the accused, and perhaps innocent persons, by taking them long distances from their homes. He also urges the passage of a law limiting the time within which claims against the United States may be presented, reserving the rights of persons laboring under some legal disability. The Comptroller, reports that most of. the old back work has been disposed of. and that the current business of the bureau is well in hand. ~~7 Boldßen ‘Butjer."? " Ban Bufler has been retained attorney for the anarchists before the United States supreme court for a retainer of $6,500 and $250 a day.