The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-12-27
The Terrible Accident Which
Befell an Excursion
Party Yesterday
Three Citizens Of Jefferson
City Instantly Killed, and
Several Wounded,
Ry the Breaking OF Flaugs
Which Caused the Train TO
Leave the Track.
s. -i2 81 the Base.

S,,..-i1 So the Basc.
IErETRsrS Cry, Zee. j..
Aocui twelve o'clo2k yesterday horr.-
bic sccid.nt occurred oH she Lebanon
brs-cch of the Missouri PsciSc railroad, 81
place called Horseshoe Brnl, about z
? R.iia aud :. nall this side o: E:is,elsii,e. =
tovn twenty m;ies irom this city 4 con
structiun train leit mere yesterday morning
for ihc rcrpo~e of taking some railroad
iron down the read About thirty .. i4rus,
besides the employee, rere en the train
taxing SORT q pleasure trit. over
thu nc~ route, which Tae one In which
she citkens % Jefir-Jr we're greatly
Interested, T-'caniarily or o'hcrsi-. In.
traio s:arts} bSck, an: when little dis
tancr tAis side q: EpSseiiviiln, Tor some uri-
ku0-H re.,svn--a Srokeu Gans,, sor.e sup
ptse-tsic engine lief, lie track, goir. dorm
al ernhankmcGt sbor; iou- feet iig!.. an3
turning completely UPSIDE ,ioSu. Tbr 90
CINE was in fronI 81 the train, bot Vas rug
RiBg backwards the teB.!-- fc-t f,G,ned-
lately behind 'Ls loconDot ~, Wa Z Ia: CIR,
On which the cscuEsinEis's were riding.
This csr passed enlineiy over tie engine
And stopped against d y. BOX csr :o..
bowed 4!.d r2E upon TIE c:lSiue, sherr Al
stopped. The other ears iolio~.G. On tie
Ne; ear we're, among vthers, Green
T. BprTy- one ~ the m"s; Prominent cit
Eens 81 Cole county, sad WHO has: held -.
stioe o: sheriff foc eight years: Chris.
WagDer, An ola and lifelong. resident AID
p'oloiu.u. merchant; Oscar Morning,
young MAD O! thirty, uno was doing
prosperous bus,nese a. = bookseller ana
0tStioDer: Willie ZueDd, p son-i3-lnv and
partner OF Magnc- and Christopher ,;,.mein-
hart. farmer Of Cole GO. E..rry was ileia n.iv
hltied, being found on ;i.e pilot with In. !
wheel cf the box car acrosS his breast. I
Has body was crushed ia 8 horrible man. :
Der. Christ. Wzgne. ani Oscar Monuing
mel the same fate. Iuend; was not ~ :
eiant!y killed, but cannot liy. He ~ss
badly crushasi and a. terribly scal.ied Dv |
ibe escaping steam from the eos iI". tie-
melnharJ SLs also crush,-! beneath The .
wrecked ears, both his ieg, teins bsnk.-n.
kOnning ~as but little bruised. his .Iea; h
resulting ircm his n-ck being broken
The persons killed and injured wcn. 81 !
SIC fat car next 10 tn" -Dgi nc, where ,hev
were riding for tt,e r-asJn that sn. pass.r-
ger coach Ia which they we're seated ~hcu
the train lei; jefferson City got nE the
track shortly alter the tran srart.a Oh the
return and the condlictur con,lC.',,I 80
leave IT, After considerable labor
zeundt and tier,eiukar. we're r.'sastd
fom their horrible positions IN ihe wreck.
The skin and flesh Veeie-i of iLrir ;nri.,
and scalded bodies in 4 siei,ni,c inanuec.
Both Of Gemeinl,art's legs were broken snd
she lower part oi his bcdy WAS burnt IL a
crisp.
The conductor. who wag IN Inc re:l- car.
escaped without injury, ami ~ once pro
cured & hsn,:car anu came ,o Jefferson Civ
and communicated the horrible intoili-
gsDce. 4 special train c"nyevisi- surgeons
and Others ASS at once dispatched 10 the {
scene % the disaster
STATEMENT.
From 8 gentleman who was a. jefferson
City yesterday when the bodies and wound J
I'd were broueh; 20 their friends and relatives
gives the following &ocoun; al the accident.
ss he obtained ii ,rorn eye witnesses of the /,
disaster
The accident "sourred ".o-,. =. .1ile ami ]
= hall this side vi Rnaso!y:il.-. a. town
about twenty miles down the road from :,
Jefferson, at turn in the Toad called
Horseshoe Bend. Eyerybofy on the train
had gone down the road, about tS-ut, fave J
miles on 8 kind OF froiic o-er ghe opening :
Df the new line. When tbcv were return
ing, the engine WAS backing, ai,houch she ,
Has hItchej 10 the front end OF the train y
The men that were killed wore or $ fat car :
light next 10 the .ntsin. the engiue
empet the track. The fiat passed over t,e =
engine, which turned notion up. TIN, hox 4
far went or to the cngine, and Berry, Nag-
her and MonniuS vere killed insiau,is 4"
Inendt Was scaided terribly, AMI the doe L
Ors say lie cannot possibly live Gsemein- n
aart VAS .scalded, ami had both his legs =
proken. Berry Was mashed all 10 pi.c.s Y
mere wasn', a single mark OF auv kind on
Morning, bat his neck was broken Wag- a
ler's head was mashed in. |, had a
,rest, big hole in il. The conductor Il
vas thrown out of the rear ear into 4 mud ID
.ols, but we not hurt 10 the slightest de-
rec. He went to work and got q hand Il
ar and started for jefferson CITY lie Was =
O covered with mud that he had 10 re- p
omblance 10 anything human. The en- q
ineer, the fireman and q wiper we're u
ut on the engine and went down With p
er, but not one of them was hurt. y
fhen the special train with the dead and 81
ying arrived at jefferson, all the friends :"
nd relatives Of the victims were at the II
epot, aud a most heartrending scene en- T.
ned. Women tore their hair and scrt AIMED, =,
nd strong men wept. 1t MAS most hur- u
Idle and sickening sight. 1t is supposed !"
aai the accident happened through the ~
reahing II ilange. h'
Who They Were.
Mr. Chris Waoonar waS nna of IA. ol,las, ~