Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-31
Wreck Of a Passenger Train on
the Cincinnati Southern
Road.
No Lives Lost but Broken
Bones and Bruises
Numerous.
D nver and salt Lake Oity
Connected by the Rio
Grande Road.
A Conductor Convicted OF Man
slaughter In Disobsying Orders.

slide near Mason, on the Cincinnati
Southern railroad, this morning,
threw the north bound passenger
train from the track. Sixty persons
are reported injured; none killed,
The place of the accident Is 40 miles
from here. The whole train did not
leave the track.
The cause of the sccldsnt, later In.
formation shows, was q broken rail.
The engine and baggage car remained
on the track, the smoking car was
partly thrown off. and the ladies' car
entirely left the track and stood
almost at right sngled with the road,
the lower end down the embankment.
This car subsequently, burned. Two
sleeping cars rolled down the en-.
bankment and were badly wrecked
Very few passengers escaped without
some Injury, though most of the
Injuries are not serious. The following
Is the list of the wounded: @. E.
Healy and wife, excursion agent, Bee
line, London, O., both bruised; VIM.
Orr, Thos. Orr and All. Harris, Har.
mony, Ind, slightly cut In the taoe
and hands; ]. @. Roberts, Cherry
Lane, N. G., badly hurt internally and
both legs broken; ]. Tfsgin, Clncin-
natl, hands cut and back bruised; Jas.
Spalding, Port Clinton, O., badly
bruised; JEFF Folger (colored), Mont.
gomery, Ala, cut In the side and
bruised In the face and arms; 8. Ais
paugh. Cincinnati, leg hurt; j. e. Ma.
son, B azll, Iad. face and hands cut;
Capt. A. M. M,Do vel, Xsnia, o.,
head and shoulders cut; James Kilton,
Sparta, N. G., slightly cut; james
Edwards, North Carolina, slightly
cut; F. @. Welsh, head and breast
crushed: Ms. Welsh, internally In.
jured; Ms. M Costello, Whitley
CO ,nty, Ky head end neck cut; j,
H. Corrick, Pratt, Mo, head crushed
ard badly cut; S Idding,, Lafayette,
Ind, head, face and arms bruised;
Sam Lynch, Brazil, Ind, painful hurt
about tho face aud head; d. e
Emery, Athens, Ga, leg broken, j.
@. Martin, Ohicsgo, scratched; Thos.
Allen, Augusta, Ky leg and shoulder
broken, wife not hurt; j. w. Lea
yer, Boston, Mass, wife ant
sons, bruised; Mrs.. E. Bel
lumy, Macon, Co., scratuhe'
and bruised; j. @. Oather, st, Louis
face bruised and cut; James Tape
scratched and bruised; Col. A. BArltz
wife and three children, one chill,
badly hurt, others slightly, Mrs
b ritz cut in the head; Mrs. M. K
Platt, Cleveland, Ohio, hurt In tn
head and back; Mrs. L. A. Thompson
and mother, Saratoga, N. Y, Mrs
Thompson prostrated from the shock
mother not serious; Mrs. e Lovelace
, Watanga, Tsnn three children, on
child cut aud bruised In the face, tw
cut and broised, Mrs. Lovelace bruise'
In the breast; Marshal CAserly, Ulby
Mich, slightly cut In the face an
hands, side bruised; Judge j. A. Mil
lett, New Castle, Ind, badly out an
bruised In the face, wife slightl
scratched; Mrs. D. Evans and tw
,, children, all bruised; Dan Hsllon
Paris, o., bruised In the head an
back.
7 The most seriously injured wer
taken to Willlamstown, KY, the ret
brought here and placed in the Goo
Samaritan hospital and hotels.
Superintendent Carroll returned t.
night from tho wreck bringing all th
wounded from Wil'iAmstown, excel
Mr.. and Mr.. Welch. He says tn
y accident was due, not to broken raj
= but to the sllpping Of the track cause
by the heavy rain last night. Thel
hsd been fill at this point sho
time ago which the rain sottened. TT
}. rails were stripped from the ties di
. tanoe of forty feet. II could not
= definitely ..sacertained where Mr.
and Mr.. Welch live. They were ne,
: ly married and are supposed to ha'
been in Florida and returning
. Cleveland. Mrs. Weloh could on
!. speak incoherently. Both are su
s posed to be fatally iuj ured. The othe
J.. supposed to be fatally hurt are: Tho
. Allen, Augusta, KY; Mrs. e. Low
8 aud three children, Watanga, Tenr
Judge j. q. Mellett, New CAST
Iod Mrs. ]. w. Sever, Boston;
E. Mscop, Brazl, Ind. j. w. Ci
rick. Pratt. Mo,