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_ UNO BM 0fCA|Un Ihumi irrrnirf *«UmmAIN»udtMrlB«MMlf«WeSnlMMat UUneia, running from NapSs,!* UmHTOiffiila river, through Dm-tir tad east towtrd the Indium Une, hotH(nothing that malted in any serious oonee-wuenfcea more than m temporary delay, until the night of the 9th ef October; then a ■vritch-lock wee eutaad tbeewiteh misplacA4 A1 IfmnCfClClttlD.Jfled at a point eboetfhnrand a half mifauaut of Decatur, in Macon county, «t • h* bankment near the 8angamoi river A freight train (running ont of tier?) came along about eleven o’clock at night, waa thrown down the embankment, and the road master, Mr. S. Reaeonrr, wee eo badly crushed that he died about five o’clock the *following morning.following morning. The fireman was slight*aMHBHHIBly injured, end the engine and cars were a complete wreck. What rendered the case peculiarly atrocious waa the fact that a pas* senger train waa due first over the road, but was delayed from some cause, and thereby Jlt; saved. The villains no doubt intended a j| wholesale destruction, had a passenger train u ran off at that point and been precipitatedLI.down Ihe embankment forty or fi'ty feet am mg the rocke and stumps. B. P. Pond,nai*I j Gk|., superintendent of the Great Western Road, cam** to this city and engaged the services of C. P. Bradley Co., Railroad Detective Police, to ferret out the perpetrators of this most hellish act. B. B. Yates, Esq., of Kane county, ooe of the firm of B* Co.,as¥PPfJ0baX | waa detailed to work op the job, and bow well he has succeeded we will endeavor to •How. I1On the 13th i nit, he proceeded to Spring- fiv id and got the names of all the persona! l who had any trouble with the company in 1 that region, and carefully ascertained their whereabouts at the time of the accident, and afier a fruitless search of a week or ten days, came to the conclusion that no person who had any difficulty, that was known to the officers, could have done the act. The lock being brass, was eas‘ly cut with a sharp instrument, which appeared to be a hatchet of a peculiar round bit, and somewhat dull, and notches, and very thick at the edge. The detective then set to work to find the instru- j nent that would fit the hacks made in the j lock. Every house, shop and farm yard for i miles round was visited, under various pre-j tcocea, sod all the hatchets in the vicinity ■•ee
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New Albany Daily Tribune
New Albany, Indiana, US
Mon, Nov 10, 1856
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