{"id":344,"date":"2025-05-10T03:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/?p=344"},"modified":"2025-05-10T03:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:30:19","slug":"many-killed-and-injured-in-railroad-accident-near-salem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/2025\/05\/10\/many-killed-and-injured-in-railroad-accident-near-salem\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Killed and Injured in Railroad Accident Near Salem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Originally posted 25 MAR 2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worcester (MASS) Daily Spy, December 26, 1883, p. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THE SALEM, IND., DISASTER<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louisville, Ky., December 25-The following are additional names of the killed and injured in the railroad accident near Salem, Indiana, yesterday:<br>Killed-Boone Thompson, farmer, of Washington County, Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Injured-J. W. Myers, fireman, of New Albany, left leg and side severely bruised&#8217; Patrick Kane and John Spears of Chicago, the former badly bruised, the latter severely injured about the spine; Samuel Collins of Bainbridge, Indiana, fatally injured; J. F. Boggs of Bainbridge, Ind., slightly injured; James Quarrels, colored, of Chicago, severely bruised and burned; John Coledager (sic), severely bruised; George Davis, American Express messenger of Louisville, fracture of right shoulder and badly bruised.<br>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br>Special thanks to Randi Richardson for this and many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted 25 MAR 2012) Worcester (MASS) Daily Spy, December 26, 1883, p. 1. THE SALEM, IND., DISASTER Louisville, Ky., December 25-The following are additional names of the killed and injured in the railroad accident near Salem, Indiana, yesterday:Killed-Boone Thompson, farmer, of Washington County, Indiana. Injured-J. W. Myers, fireman, of New Albany, left leg and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}