A Train Wrecked

One Person Killed and Several Seriously Injured.

Quincy, Ill., Feb. 23.-The Hannibal and St. Joseph passenger train which left here last night was wrecked at the Chanton Bridge about 2:30 o’clock this morning. The train had just covered the bridge when a broken rail threw the tender and baggage car off and the smoker into the river, while the coaches and sleeper were turned over and demolished. The tender dropped back but the engine escaped wreck. All the coaches were badly damaged, and the passengers were nearly all injured. WILLIE BALDWIN, of this city, a boy of four years, on the way to California with his parents, was instantly killed. A passenger on the train says this is the worst that has ever occurred on this road. The smoker and the baggage car went through the bridge. The first coach was precipitated toward the river, but became lodged, and, being suspended, took fire, the flames being extinguished with difficulty. Every coach in the train, which included two sleepers, a chair car, a second class car, and Smoker, and President Perkins’s Private car, were badly damaged. The bridge was rendered useless for the present. No portion of the train retained the rails, and two coaches were turned over and splintered by being dragged across the bridge. The wounded were taken to Brookfield to be cared for.

The injured are as follows:
J.A. ROSE and T.L. TRACY of St. Louis; slight cuts and bruises.
LONDON MILLER, wife and daughters, Cameron, Mo.; bruised in the head and limbs.
MRS. THOMAS ANDERSON and daughter; the former hurt in the head and breast and the latter in the head and arms.
DAVID ANDERSON and three children, of Cameron; all more or less bruised.
B.T. ANDERSON, Galesburg, Ill.; face cut.
JOSEPH WELLHART and wife, Canada; MR. WELLHART’S leg was cut; his wife was hurt in the breast.
THOMAS BOWEN, wife and children, Hutchison, Kan.; cuts and bruises.
F. FOWLER, Hutchison, Kan.; hurt in the feet.
HENRY KEIL, Wheeling, Mo.; badly cut on the body.
JACOB BOSER, Chicago and J.A. MILLER, Fort Scott, Kan.; burnt in the head and back.
J.M. RUFF, Lemoines, Ill.; head cut.
W.J. CLARK, Onelie, Ill.; slight cuts and bruises.
R. YEILING, Kansas City; side and shoulder hurt.
G.W. HUAM, Ottawa, Ind.; head cut.
C.A. ATIKINSON, newsboy, Kansas City; badly hurt in arm, head and breast.
AUGUST WINCKLER, New York; cut and bruised.
A. MOORE, Yates City, Ill.; cut and bruised.
GUS JOHNSON, Galesburg, Ill.; cut and bruised on leg and body.
H.S. WHITFORD and W. JOSEPH, traveling men; hurt in head and shoulder.
O. JOHNSON, Shelbyville, and A.M. BROWN, Quincy, Ill.; cut and bruised.
The engine had passed clear over the bridge before the accident occurred. Mr. Perkins’ private car and the chair car were thrown fully a hundred feet from the track. Fiver of the persons reported hurt are seriously injured, and three of them may die.

The New York Times, New York, NY 24 Feb 1884
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