TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT!

Four Men Killed and Twenty-two Injured.

INQUEST OVER THE DEAD.

Cause of the Accident not Ascertainable.

Monday last was a day of sorrow in this city. Early in the morning the rumor reached us that six miles east the construction train which left between six and seven o'clock had been wrecked, killing several outright and iserously[sic] wounding a large number. Every physician in the city at once started for the scene of disaster, though we believe the EMERY Bros. Were the only ones to reach the wreck before the dead and wounded were extracted and placed in wagons to be conveyed to this city, bus Messrs. KELSO & WYLIE and MORRISON also attended the sufferers to town, ministering to their comfort as much as possible. We visited the wreck and found it a sad sight. On the north side of the track was a box car and one flat badly broken up, and on the south side was a flat greatly demoralized; but worst of all were the evidences of loss of human life as seen in the clots of blood upon the ground. Efforts at ascertaining the number of killed and injured, or the extent of injuries at the scene of the accident were in vain; but returning to the city we gathered the following from the railroad men, visiting all the injured at their boarding places.

KILLED.
OLE ANDERSON, Paxton; JOHN VANGHN, PATRICK TAYLOR, MIKE HALLIGAN, Bloomington.

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