Greene County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Newspaper Articles

Feb 1, 1890
THE QUINCY DAILY HERALD
[Submitted By: Debbie Lee - 2008]

SPRINGFIELD

ENGINEER'S BINGHAM KILLED
The Wabash Cannon Ball derailed and the engineer fatally injured.
Engineer W. H. Bingham, of Springfield, was at the throttle of the locomotive drawing the west-bound Wabash Cannon Ball passenger train on its run on Thursday night. Early yesterday morning, when the train was some sixteen miles west of Hannibal, the locomotive struck a horse, the force of the shock throwing the locomotive off the track and derailing the train. The fireman, Frank Majer, jumped and saved his life. Bingham went down with his engine and was fatally injured, dying three hours later. He was a son of Cook Bingham, of the Bingham House, Springfield (himself known to every railroader in this part of the country), and was thirty years of age. He leaves a wife. The remains were taken to Springfield last night.
Bingham alternated run between Springfield and Quincy and Springfield and Moberly. As a mark of the respect in which he was held-there is no more popular man on the road then he was-the Wabash locomotives have been appropriately draped.

Ed Adams, of Springfield, formerly of Quincy, was in the city yesterday looking up old friends