Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1860-01-17
Railroad MISUNDERSTANDING scene
and MonderTnE EscaRa.

aud Wonderful Escape.
We have already briefly mentioned Tat at
one o'ciock on THURSDAY morning last an ac-
ci1snt happened TO a passenger train on the
Pfnsburg. Fort WAYNE and Chicago railroad,
beyond E1oH, By which several passengers
were Injured, but fortunately noas killed
TIE widow Of the late Senator Kim, Of no,
and daughter, Judge Deiaf=ld, Of Memphis,
and z dozen Ctlers. who were IN the sleeping
car. we're thrown down an enbsnkmsHf Of
tli-tr feet, the car turning over several times,
cnce over e stake and r1er fence. L took
RE AID burned %. A passenger furnishes the
Btsburg Csr0nics with the following account
of the accident
After stating thss the scci5en- was occa-
sioasd by a broken raj. and that the locomo-
five ard baggage car passed over safely, be
SAYS The passenger ear first meets the OBJ
s~lrlclol, and is tcrUwn Of the track. With
ius load Of human life, is hurled over and
over down q steep euhsnkment on an adjacent
fence. It's inmates scramble out-the fallen
owes set on IRE, ard abandoned r. lis fate,
d r. a b~eacon-ight 70 what follows. It's
flames throw over the ice ard snow a lurid
giara- Ihzt car j. CONSUMED, and the fence
lrssit Is b. flames bot, in Gods providence.
not a single life was Loaf, and, save with q
few bruises OILY, the passengers escaped IN
injured. Iha sleeping car, last on train, was,
b. severe wrench. severed from the nassen-
E# E-HH ~ "a 49, AaM q .A
struck The slespe7s On wbich the track S laid.
i Wavered = moment or tyFo. AID suddenly
le1aing over is impulses carried DC forward
onward and onward, and over tie rrecipice.
Dowl the p~recipice az turned Jean after lean
Z took crash after cash came broken glass.
falling ike rain, amoaE its occupants, until
Ilupias over the fence, the car stopDe3 with
ai It's inmates, Sky feet from the fence,
within a held Crssh was only succeeded bV
terror. fHelpP was cried, but who was there
t5 help? Those who had escaped the burning
ear a snort distance il front, had gone on 10
the shelter cf the baggage car, Sill on the
track With a very few exceptions One q
-asu-aot e be iuviduous-Eas Fir. George
George, Of Cincinnati He snd s0us others
not knoEns retained % assisl the terrified pas
ssEgsEs.
Picture to your minds ere that sleeping car
fallen On rs side, at thst moment-sll pros
uate. The lamps -exiiHEuished, the smoke Of
the oFertlr0wn stoves filling snd sitting the
car, adding 10 its gloon distraction and dan
ger Tue cry o. IRE was raised. and followed
BIZ The most terrible confusion, in the midst OF
which a lady was heard 10 cry, HelpI OF ny
mother viii Be nurncc - Tie car vas nos
diad with snoke, while an arogad was 50
dark that nothing whatever couid Re distin-
guisaed. Tie passengers knew not where
Trey wsre, or lhe extent Of tIeiT danger. At
length the door was found, and a general rush
for he open air was made Some few, how
ever, remained behind, and assisted in rescu-
ing DE lady before referred 70, and her noble
and courageous daughter, from their Psrilous
p1saioa.
IN the meantime cher cries FOR assistance
Vers heard. A young lad named Eugene Ser
vice. only twelve years Old, travelling with his
endowed mother, finds her under the heated
stove badly injured, and threatened with i'm
mediste death. Calmly. bat promptly, he
drew bis coat sleeve over his hard, and, rails
IHE The fallen sloFe, rescued biz frightened pa
rent from dea-h. Wen may she Be proud of
that boy. She vas helped out Of The car.
badly burned, q her teeth knocked out
Ano-her young lady vas carried out Nth Der
collar bone broken. A mattress was spread
upon the snow, On which she was laid. and she
Wss protected from the then extreme cold BY
c~1FeTlets hastily thrown out q the ear. A
seuflslancf Springfield, IL, 5. s Wbitehu7st,
Esq., was amcHE the most active in doing
good. He was everywhere, helping every ore.
When the eXcitemeut eubsided. be fou1d him
se-f with q disiocated shoulder, and Otherwise
severely injured, and other passengers aiso
suffered much. TIE LADY whose collar bone
vas broken was a MIss L9nsdaie, an actress
10 one was killed. Ineed only odd that the
iuilfed lady, 6rst spoken O., was the respected
widow of Sssatsr Linn, Of Missouri, and that
TIE noble hearted gul, be- dang tsr, Mary l.
Barr