Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-04

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with the forward part Of the train was
then severed, but st the same time the
baggage car and the passenger car imme-
distely behind 1t, were thrown from the
track. The baggage car was knocked
crossWise on the rails, while the pas
senger car was turned over on the left
hand side. This Is the one that was
burned. They had cleared the bridge
about fifteen or twenty feet before turn
ing over. The car which broke the bridge
and caused the disaster, after knocking
OF the top of the abutment, remained al
an angle of fifty degrees, the front part
down and the rear up; It had the effect of
stopping the rear car within three inches
OF the broken bridge, Just at the edge Of
where the rails were snapped right of at
the hrst abutment. This providen-
tial arrangement had the effect OF
saving the ladies' from any serious injury,
only n that we could hear of being In
any way, beyond the shock and fright,
damaged. Most of the passengers in the
car That got caught in the bridge were
thrown into a confused mass and injuries
OF various degrees of severity were s
tanned, but nothing dangerous, save one
Instance, a young son of Mr.. DsviB, Of
Hon Lake, Miss, had his head severely
hurt by a confusion, his hip was also
injured in the same way. The wounds
received by the passengers in this car are
all OF q slight character and viii be well
in a day Or two.
THE HECAToMB.
The car that succeeded il crossing the
bridge and flew the track contained about
thirty cOlored people, perhaps more. The
conductor, MI. Kirby, was in this car at
the time gathering up tickets. The shak-
ing and Earring peculiar to q car of the
track was the first indication he had of
he approaching misfortune. Presently
the car was turned oyer and Nj. Kirby
was thrown on top Of the stove. Here he
got his face severely burned and his pants
were scOrched but did not blaze up. He
was nearly sufOcated with the heat and
gas during the short moment be was in
voluntarily embracing the hot metal. He
instinotively felt that position would not
do for him, 50 he forced his way, crawling,
to the door, and got out. The jam was SO
great that not a person could force hiss or
her way through the aperture, so Kirby
commenced hauling them out as fast as
he could. He succeeded in rescuing most
of them from the now fast burning car.
At the moment Of the upset, and when
Kirby was thrown on the stove, q
who was sitting beside il was literally
1ammed into 10, head foremost. Her
clOthing-light ~calico-almOst scorchinR
before, Immediately took fire. Those who
were injured by the fall of the car, or
were too weakly to force their way
cut, we're caught in the flames and
died quickly. The woman who was
jammed into the stove was burned to a
cinder, like 8 chunk Of damp wood, that
has remained in the fire en- hour or SO,
Her remains were placed on a little board,
bOu ten inches wide and two feet long,
and carried up on the track. Such parts
Of the arms as were not yet pulverized,
dropped apart like the cinders Of a white
umh af5nIr Tho 1uh~-Tnw a. ,,rurI 1---
these remains as il they were the debris
OF a camp fire, trampling on the cslcined
remains of the bones, The more curious
got little sticks, and with their points
began investigating what remained of
the charred trunk, nov q shspelsss
mass. There were still several folds of
the dress she wore remaining in patches
here and there, but so black and scorched
that nothing could be discovered about it
but that it was woven fabric of some sort. /
The spinal column and part of one of the
shoulder blades were there twisted out of
all shape by the heat. There were three
bodies found around the stove and one
in it, that of the woman Just noticed.
None of them had anything left by which
they could be identified. One, supposed
to be the body of a man, had the legs and
arms completely burned away, and the
front of the head, nothing of that men,
Der was left but the back of the skull. !
white, like burned lime stone, in the cav |
lily of which the brain lay, a small black
shriveled mass. Beside him was the re-
mains Of anOther man, very large. There
were some stumps Of limbs left to him.
and the whole head, except the chin and
nose, the flesh was all burned away, but 1
the bone remained, white like the other. |
the bodies Of b are thought to be
three infants, were found These were so
diminutive and shapeless that one can
hardly say what they were. About fifteen
we're taken from the wreck in a wounded
condition. Two of the coIored !
occupants Of the burned car, who
are now In the hospital, are
badly burned. A woman died out there
last night. As was before stated. the
white people who were In the car that
broke the bridge escaped very well. Mr.. /
Davis and his son and Mr.. White are the |
only seriously injured. Young Davis is
despaired Of by The doctors.
THE BRIDGE
was an iron structure, resting on five |
brick piers very selidly constructed. |
about twelve feet high. The segment OF
one of the piers, which was knocked of
by the car, remained a solid mass after
thus showing the soundness of
the structure The car, after the passen-
gers escaped, fell down and became a
Total wreck. The creek is 80 low at pres
Snt that the -passengers3 both ways, were
transferred aCFOss on a plank, without
delay. The company had plenty of
6ut there to effect transfers of bag
promptly, Passengers on the trains
experiences very little Inconvenience from
his breach in the road. The managers of /
road, always very careful, have
proper measures for the rs-estab-
ishment of the bridge in the shortest