Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1888 — Railroad Accidents. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Accidents.

A light eng ne coming ont of the Broad-street fetation at Philadelphia, Sunday, ran into a New York express train at the Wts: Philadelphia crossing and caueed a bad wreck. The passenger train took fire, and a number of narrow escapes were made. Twenty-one passengers were injured,bat none seriously. The fast mail train on the B nrlington Road collided with a freight train, about one mile west of Creston, lowa, Sunday. C. A. Shoop, fireman of the freight train, was iastantly killed, and the engineer, J. M. Osborne, slightly injured Brakeman Henry Gibbons had a leg crashed, and L. J. Miller was internally injured. The wrack is said lo have bean caused by the conductor of the" freight train falling asleep and passing a station where he should have side-track-ed. He had been on duty fifty-four hours. A paES9Hger Lain on the St. Louis & San Francisco Road co’lided with a car load of lumber left on the main trask at Tnscahoma, I. T., Sunday, and was wrecked. Engineer Charles Parritt and Fireman James Ellis were instantly killed. Many others were injured. Notable Deaths. At Galveston, Robert Mills, one of the most remarkable of Texas nioneers. He was immensely wealthy before the war, his slaves and plantations being valued at s3,ooo,ooThe emancipation proclamation resulted in his financial ruin, from which he never fully recovered. At Waterbary, Conn., Mrs. Mary Taylor Porter, wife of ex-President Porter,of "tale College. At Boston, Prof. Wm. T. Sherwin.well known as a musical composer and conductor, and throughout the United States and Canada as a Chautauquan worker. ‘ j At Lynchburg, Va., Elizabeth Arnold (colored), aged 118. '