LINN COUNTY,
(transcribed
by: Tracie Broaddus)
BRUSH
CREEK WRECK - 1881
Authentic
List
For
the information of our many readers personally interested, we have revised and
perfected the list of killed and wounded by the late railroad disaster,
omitting only those so slightly hurt as not to come under the surgeon’s care.
Killed:
W.S.
Hallett, bridge carpenter, killed instantly and found buried under the wreck.
Dr.
O.H. Wood, taken out of the wreck, fatally injured, and died three hours after
at New Cambria.
George
Zwick, bridge carpenter, fatally injured and died soon after.
Arthur
Jury, bridge carpenter, fatally injured, lived but a short time.
Frank
Lock, brakeman of the construction train, fatally injured and died in a little
while.
John
Connors, foreman of bridge work, mortally wounded. (Died at New Cambria on afternoon of 2nd
inst.)
James
Nowlan, track superintendent, fatally wounded.
((Died here on the morning of the 3rd.)
WOUNDED
Harry
Carter, son of bridge superintendent, fracture of the thigh and generally
bruised.
Daly
Fitzgerald, conductor of train, collar-bone dislocated, cut in face, generally
bruised, severe nervous shock.
Name
Unreadable, three ribs fractured, face cut, spinal injury, thumb dislocated,
general nervous shock.
M.M.
Hunter, bridgeman, fracture of left leg, shoulder injured, bruised generally.
Matt
Hickey (Chilicothe), laborer, scalp wound, severe burn on forehead, bruised on
left side.
George
W. Alexander, laborer, lip cut, contused scalp wound, bruised on left side.
Mr.
Moulton (
L.D.
Hubbard, contusion of the chest and nervous shock, severe burns on left leg and
other injuries.
Frank
Tabler, bridgeman, scalp wound, spinal injury, generally bruised.
Mike
McGrall, laborer, wounds and cuts in face and scalp, fracture of right
shoulder, badly bruised.
Pat
McGrall, laborer, bruised on right side of head.
Ed
Fitzpatrick, laborer, dislocation of left collar-bone, bruise on left side and
arm.
BRUSH
CREEK WRECK, 1881 (Continued)
Wounded:
Pat
Doyle, laborer, bruise on right leg, right arm and chest.
James
Doyle, laborer, severe cut on side, spinal injury and severe bruises on whole
right side.
Charles
Jenkins, laborer, cut in face, arm and hand.
Andy
Ryan, laborer, wound of scalp and face and badly bruised.
James
Moorehead, bridgeman, right shoulder, arm and hip badly bruised.
James
Cloud, laborer, left side of head injured, left side bruised, severely bruised
generally.
Dan
Barrett, laborer, injury to shoulder and arm.
John
Lynch, laborer, left foot bruised, ankle sprained and leg bruised.
James
Lockwood, laborer, (now at Bucklin), right hip fractured; doing well.
Arthur
Conklin of Hannibal, brakeman on wrecking train, injured in face; reported
doing well.
Mr.
Dail, laborer, belonging at
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Burglars
and sneak thieves were on a working raid here last Sunday night. They effected an entrance to several
dwellings and tried several others but only succeeded in securing plunder from
Mr. Niles’ watch and two or three dollars in change. The officers have spotted the game and a
sudden emigration or an early arrest may soon be looked for. Legal proof is being worked up.
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TRAPPED
AT LAST
The
little town of
On
the evening mentioned, the residence of Mr. Joseph Davis, a merchant of New
Boston, had been visited three times before nine o’clock by a man evidently
intent on stealing. The first and second
times the man was frightened away.
Before the third attempt, Mr. Davis determined to capture the thief and
made his preparations. With the
assistance of a neighbor who was armed with a double-barrel shot gun, the thief
was captured in his last attempt to get into the house. The thief represented at first that he lived
seven miles north of New Boston and made all sorts of statements concerning his
business, etc., but finally gave his name by which he is known here -- Charles
Reyburn.
Mr.
Davis put Charley in the hands of four men and came to