CHICAGO, March 27.
The special train bearing a portion of Col. Brastow’s 3d Wisconsin cavalry regiment, met with a frightful accident at half past 10 o’clock last night, on the Northern RR, about five miles from this city. The catastrophe was occasioned by the breaking of an axle of the forward car, throwing it from the track. The next car was thrown a distance of several feet and upset; three others were piled upon these, making a total wreck of five cars. Ten soldiers were killed, three seriously wounded and a large number hurt, though not bad enough to prevent their continuing with the regiment. The names of the killed and wounded, are as follows:
Killed – Elisha Sharp, hospital steward, Delavan; Wm. Davis, Co. A, Roaring Creek, Jackson county; Lucien M. Ranson, C. A.; J. J. Palmer, Co. A, Oiroqus; Casper Stone, Co. A, Bangor; Charles Briggs, Co. A, Monroe county; Walter Suell, Co. G. Lynn; Wm. Case, Co. G. Geneva; Dr. E. M. Bemis, Co. G., New Albany; Chas. D. Hatch, Co. A, Sparta.
Seriously Wounded. – Q. M. Sergt. L. J. Edward, Co. G, East Troy, rib broken; Tweedle, Co. G, internal injury and contusion on left side, Madison; Alger, Co. A, left arm broken; Byron Wilconx, Co I, both legs broken.
The above are not considered to be dangerously injured.
Slightly Wounded. – Davis Oustot, Co. A, contusion on head; C. J. Farwell, Co. G, right shoulder sprained; C. Gibson, Co. A, left shoulder and arm and left foot injured; George Crosby, Co. A, Injured in [spine]; Robert Lawrence, Co. A, shoulder sprained; Frederick H. Johnson, Co. A, Right knee and left side injured; M. J. Whiting, Co. A, hips sprained and head cut; Wm. Anderson, Co. A, right ankle sprained; Chas. Putnam, Co. A, knee sprained; John Orites, Co. D, hand badly cut. The greater part of the last list will go on with the regiment, the others are provided with good quarters and will be well cared for.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, March 28, 1862, p. 1
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