CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD ACCIDENTS 1877

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Statement of each accident in California resulting in injuries to persons.

Date 1877	Name	Whether Passenger, Employee, or Otherwise	Place of Accident	Cause of Accident	Extent of Injury
January 7	Donzeliman, William	Other	Oakland	Crashed at ferry wharf	Leg injured
January 8	Fry, Raybern	Employee	Oakland	Slipped off engine	Fatally injured
January 9	Langley, Jeff	Other	Oakland	Run over-suicide	Instantly killed
January 10	Fox, C. J.	Employee	Truckee	Coupling cars	Instantly killed
January 17	Wilson, James	Other	Truckee	Run over (supposed)	Body found February 8^th
January 21	Davis, Lewis	Employee	Acton	Fell from train	Severely injured
February 10	Indian	Other	Rocklin	Fell from train	Instantly killed
February 11	Clayton, Geo C.	Other	Cascade	Fell between cars	Leg injured
February 15	Cockerill, R. E.	Employee	Turlock	Fell from train	Instantly killed
February 21	Snyder, E. P.	Employee	Vallejo	Coupling cars	Handed slightly crushed
February 21	Burnett, Aug.	Employee	Summit	Striking against shed	Head slightly bruised
February 26	Morris, James	Other	Los Angeles	Run over	Fatally injured
February 27	Donahue, Pat	Employee	Oakland	Fell from car-intoxicated	Fatally injured
February 28	Russel, J. Legree, J. Newton, George	Employee Employee Other	Bantas	Cars obstructing main track	Slight sprain
February 28	Quinn, William	Other	Stockton	Getting off engine	Severely injured
March 1	Wilcox, J. B.	Other	Truckee	Getting on train	Instantly killed
March 5	Lockhart, Alice	Passenger	Ravena	Switching collision	Slightly injured
March 5	Chinaman	Other	Brighton	Walking on track	Instantly killed
March 9	Lawson, D.	Employee	Sacramento	Coupling cars	Fingers injured
March 12	Picketts, M. C.	Employee	Yountville	Oil blown from lubricator	Phase slightly scalded
March 17	Williams, Geo	Employee	Colfax	Broken will	Thigh fractured
March 19	Condon, J. F.	Employee	Blue Canyon	Striking against snow shed	Head severely cut
March 21	Coulter, Carroll	Other	Woodland	Fell off a flat car	Fatally injured
March 28	Chinawoman	Other	Midway	Walking on track	Fatally injured
April 2	Thomas, William	Passenger	Dutch Flat	Getting off train	Fingers cut off left-hand
April 4	Burt, George Maxwell, Frank Warren, D. F. Wright, John	Employee	Cascade	Meeting collision between two trains	Killed Killed Killed Severely injured
April 5	Warren, James	Other	Junction	Getting on train	Foot slightly injured
April 7	Brown, G. G.	Employee	Walters	Train breaking apart	Instantly killed
April 7	Butler, D.G.	Employee	Tulare	Coupling cars	Thumb amputated
April 8	Carter, Willie	Other	Oakland	Fell off train	Foot amputated
April 11	Muir, E. C.	Employee	Sacramento	Coupling cars	Finger amputated
April 11	Beckwith, J. R.	Other	Lodi	Getting on train	Large toe amputated
April 14	Davis, W. H.	Other	Stockton	Walking on track	Instantly killed
April 17	Booth, George	Passenger	Blue Canyon	Fell off train-intoxicated
April 18	Helm, Ralph	Employee	Tulare	Coupling cars	Hand slightly injured
April 21	Chinaman	Passenger	Oakland	Getting off train	Leg severely crushed
April 29	Kane, Mrs. Chris.	Passenger	Oakland	Jumped from train	Fatally injured
May 1	Van Tassel, Geo	Passenger	Oakland	Jump off train	Head slightly injured
May 2	Dodd, Thomas	Passenger	Newcastle	Struck by train-intoxicated	Severely bruised
May 8	Jordan, L. C.	Employee	Nelson	Coupling cars	Hand slightly bruised
May 11	"Shorty Magenta"	Other	Arbuckle	Struck by train-intoxicated
May 18	Hudson, Alex.	Passenger	Borden	Fell off train-intoxicated	Ankle sprained
May 23	Burgess, Chas	Other	Antelope	Getting on train	Fatally injured
May 23	Harrison, H.	Employee	N. E. Mills	Coupling cars	Finger bruised
May 28	Weiland, Phil	Other	Sacramento	Struck by train	Leg fractured
May 30	Shehan, E. J.	Other	Niles	Fell from cars	Instantly killed
May 30	Shell, Frank	Other	Santa Monica	Capital run over-intoxicated	Instantly killed
June 4	Boyle, George	Other	Strongs	Struck by engine	Shoulder slightly injured
June 11	McGlynn, James	Other	Oakland	Getting on train	Leg amputated
June 13	Tracy, John	Other	Vina	Sitting on track-intoxicated	Instantly killed
June 15	Balderson, R. Y.	Passenger	Emigrant Gap	Getting on train	Toes slightly injured

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