CHICAGO, March 27 – The special train bearing a portion of
Col. Barstow’s Third Wisconsin Cavalry regiment met with a frightful accident
at 10¼ last night, on the Northwestern Railroad, about five miles from this
city.
The catastrophe was caused by the breaking of an axle of the
forward car, throwing it from the track.
The next car was thrown at a distance of several feet and upset. Three others were hurled upon these, making a
total wreck of five cars. Ten soldiers
were killed, three seriously wounded, and a large number hurt – not severely
enough to prevent them continuing with the regiment.
Names of the killed and wounded, as far as ascertained, are
as follows:
KILLED. – Elisha Sharp, Hospital Steward, of Delavan; Wm.
Davis, Co. A, Rang Creek, Jackson county; Lucien M. Ransom, Co. A, Sparta; J.
F. Hullmon, Co. A, Viroqua; Chas. Storm, Co. A, Bangor; Chas Brigs, Co. A,
Tomah, Monroe county; Walter Small, Co. G; Lyman Wm. Case, Co. G, Geneva, Dr.
E. M. Burris, Co. G, New Albany; Charles D. Hatch, Co. A, Sparta.
SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. – Quarter Master Sergeant L. G. Edwards,
Co. G, East Troy, ribs; John Tweedle, Co. A, internal injuries and contusion on
left side, Madison, also arm broke; Byron Wilcox, Co. L, both legs broken. The above are not considered to be
dangerously injured.
SLIGHTLY WOUNDED. – Davis Custat, Co. A, contusion on head;
C. F. Farwell, Co. G, right shoulder sprained; C. Gilson, Co. A, left shoulder
and arm, and left foot injured; Geo. Ordsby, Co. A, injured spine; Robert
Lawrence, Co. A, shoulder sprained; Fred. H. Johnson, Co. A, right knee and
left side injured; William Anderson, Co. A, right ankle sprained; M. J. White,
Co. A, hip sprained and head cut; Chas. Putnam, Co. A, knee sprained; John
Craits, Co. D, hand badly cut.
The greater part of the last will go with the Regiment; the
others are provided with good quarters and will be cared for.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 29, 1862, p. 3
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