The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-12-21
PACIFIC PASSENGERS
Who Received Rough Hand.
ling on the West Bound
Train Last Night.
A Broken Rail Encountered
Twenty-Ei9ht Miles West
Of st. Louis,

I. u Oh AOu10D
And Two Cars Di'ched. InjurinG
Some Eight or Ten Pas
sengers.
The vest-bound passenger train mo. -
that left St. L ,uis q feu minutes sefore 8
o'clock last night, and Vas due 1t Seialia
q $50 this morning. did not arrive until
1870 o'clocx, owing TO N accident that
occ usred At . point tseoty eight miles vest
Of 81. Louis, between Eareks and Glencoe,
and Just this side Of the Merrimac river,
., lO o'clock p. IN.
The train consisted Of six coaches, and
nail. express and baggage carr. At the
point above referred 10
ABxoKEN BAIL
vac encountered and in N instant the
CO sch Immediately behind the smoking car
Gas going down an emb anknent forty feet
high, and the one following wss pashing
I'd down upon it. The 6rst Of these tvo
turned completely over. but the other was
more fortunate. merely sliding down the
embAnkineot.
Ia m instant all vss the greatest confu-
zion. Women and children, siId With
terror, added to the excitement BY their
screams. % .king the occasion one never to
be forg a.e.,. All were frightened, Of
course; bat it required but few seconds
for the INN .tes # the coaches that had not
Left the track TO aiIght and Commence the
work Of a-ceriaining Who and
HOW MANY WERE INJURED.
All went to work wiih . will. aud II wss
not long until the passengers 10 the over.
turned coach were ,iber .led, and the dis
covrry Vas made th.t no lee than ten
we're il jured, some Of them seriously.
They we're immedistely Carried back into
the sleeping cosch, where they received
every attention AMI mrdicai treatment, the
same having been summoned ~ soon n the
accident occurred.
A. sOon ~ possible wreckins train ap-
peared on the scene, having been cen; out
from ST. Louis. and the work Of clearing
the track WAS commenced aud completed
at Eve O'clock this morning, when the
journey westward we're continued.
The run to Washington Vas made %
quickly ~ possible. where eight Of those
Who had received injuries we're left st the
comp.ny's hospital fora
PROPER rREArNsNr or THEIR ISJCRIEe.
A. To the names Of ih"se left there il Wss
impossible to obtain any inform alton. The
pa-.~nger. who came on vet, including
ih,~e belonging to this city, dad not know
them, and The train officials declined to be
interviewed 1t il known. though, th.t
those lief, At the comP.nys ho-pit.i we'e
three men, three women and twO children,
aud it Vas the general impression that
three Of them could not recover, il they are
not dead now.
Among the Sedalians on board sere Mrs
Mamie Brown, Will Ilgenfri,z, H airy Al.
len, w. W. Hesrold snd probably some
others who.e names the reporter failed TO
obtain. Will Was m the coach that
turned completely o.er, and his looks on
hi, arrival here betokened rough usage
H,s face showed IN ugly brui-e. and his
round crowned hat sported . couple Of
holes that we're made By his being
THROWN ON HIS Head
from the cen;er Of the Car to the front
end.
Conductor Charlie Fuller was in charge
Of the train, and the passenger we're warm
in their praise of the manner in which he
did all in his power 10 assist the wounded.
II ssems that the engine broke the rail
when il struck il, and then ran probably .
coupl of hundred feet before the Two cars
left the tr.ck. The rail vas broken into
pieces from ak inches to . foot in length,
which we're throsn nrowisciousiy shout.
In the car with Will Ileenfri,x was .
babe ih.t waa tossed about ~ though loot
ball. After Will sscerf.ined that he had
received no seriou. injury. be seised bold
Of the little one. and passed il from the
window {, Harry Allen, and received the
thanks Of the babes mother. Will Va
the only one of
THE sEDALIA PARTY
who vac hurt in the least. Samuel Ten.
pl~msn. butcher Of Pleasant Hill, va on
The train when It reached Sed.iis. He re-
ceis-d internal i'jIrier. and his shoulder
v.s badly ayr .inei, but be declined stop
ping at Washington, preferiinG TO 60
hOme.
The spot where the accident occurred il
almost the identical one where . similar
ama.hup took pl .ce ten ye.rs ego. II il
de cribed a. one OF the worst points on the
70 d, and the only wonder 10 th.t . num-
Der we're not killed and still more injured.