The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-05-29
A Freight Tram Wrecked on
the L, & S. Road.
The Fireman of the Engine
Fatally Hurt.
The Engineer Escapes With
Only a Few Bruises.
An Eventful Day for News in
the 6 m City.
n vADA, Mo-, May 81.

Special to the BAsoo.
Yesterday (Sunda " will be q day long
nsmembered by Nevada and her citizens,
and especially BY the families of those who
suffered death. That grim monster is some
thing We all fear and grieve over, and to
be taken away so suddenly Is the three
were yesterday, and each one of them by
different exits from this world to the "Un.
known" is something to grieve over indeed.
Saturday all those we're young men in the
youth and vigor of manhood, with all the
veracity that youth implies. To day they
are living on their funeral bier a cold and
rigid mass of clay. While their fellow
men are living and prosperous still.
The FIRST accident was that caused by the
freight train coming from the south On the
L. & Saturday night at twelve O'Clock,
and on reaching the Y. inst below the de
pot, one Of the most terrible smashups &C.
Cured that your correspondent ever had TO
chronicle. The engine, on reaching the Y.
passed in safety, but the tank tender and
the three first freight cars were cut off
on to the Y. and the other part o, the train
coming so hard up against the rear end OF
the tender, forced The engine and five cars
from the track, throwing the
tender completely in front of the engine
and the engine between the two tracks, and
three freight cars fell on the engine-a
couple of them rolling down the embank-
ment, while one of them still lay secure on
top of the engine Two other cars went
over the other side of the track, and were
completely demolished. The engine was
all torn to pieces and the cab was torn loose
and thrown in different directions. The
engineer escaped with only few scalds
and burns, while the poor fireman. John
Pierson, was completely wedged between
the first freight car and the engine and sus-
! tanned very serious injuries. His thigh
2 was terribly crust ed and the pelvis bone
90 badly injured that his life is despaired
of by the railroad physician, DR.. Rock
wood, of this city He Was sent to Sedalia
by the 3:55 train Sunday morning, with no
hopes of recovery. All the cars were heav-
lily loaded-one with -four from Carthage,
one with gravel from Webb City; another
with bars of lead from the Joplin Smelling
Works, and the other two with various ar
ticles OF merchandise and household furni-
ture. The wrecking train came down from
Sedalia Sunday morning and got the en-
CINE on her "feet" about O'clock in tn
evening and the track and all things
cleared up SO that the trains could pas
The 1886 morning train on the Lexington
& Southern from the south had to wait be-
low the wreck all day before il could pass.
The scene as viewed by your correspond
! ent was terrible and awe-loOking, and
crowds focked there from daylight until
dark to witness the sad spectacle presented
in such q vivid manner. The greatest
wonder is that the fireman and engineer
escaped al all, and that the engineer e.
capped with so few bruises.
A MURDERED MAN
was found Sunday morning, near what is
known as the "Cave." south of the city,
Just outside of the limits, and in one of the
most wild and wierd looking places that a
person ever beheld. 1t is a place danger.
Gus to be in IN the daytime, lei alone after
night. In going to the "Cave," necessity
compels you to follow q small ravine-that
is, from the railroad-running direct west
for about three hundred yards, then an
abrupt angle is turned, and to the left OF
you is . ledge of rocks, about ten feet in
thickness, runs around the base of the hill,
and all along this wall is inches and
crevices, made by NATURES own hands. Un
til you come to the Gave" in general,
which has a small opening, but, on enter
ing. q very large room is exposed to view,
and this is the retreat of the worst, the
vilest and most wicked Of lewd women
women that would not care to murder or
commit any crime that would prove bene-
fetal in the least to them. It was . little
beyond this ''Cave" that the body of the
dead man was found, lying face downward,
with his hands under him,
The circumstances are about as follows:
Two young painters; Emmett Joseph and
Frank Mcclure, started out about 9 o'clock
for q walk, and went down to the wreck of
the Y, and stayed there for some time.
When they started off down the track, and
happened to glance over the west and saw,
D. they thought, acme one gathering straw
berries. they at once set out for the place,
! thinking they would, of course, procure
eome berries. They were disappointed,
but they still continued their walk in that
direction, not thinking that they were des-
tined to End
DEAD Man.
The ground around in that place is COW
cred with scrubby oaks, very thicl, and
nov being green. no one can re very far in
advance Of them. They had not gone very
far before they suddenly stumbled over the
dead body Of . man. To say they were
mrprised would not Be near the thing.
They were completely paralysed for the
moment. They at once came up town and
notified officer 6. g. Prewitt, who, in com.
pany viii few other men, 1t once re.
paired to the scene, and there, sure enough,
ke lay. Upon turning hin over he was found
TO b bleeding ut the nose, mouth, eye. and
ears, and hole through his left ear, while
his right cheek was cut q II Q bullet had
erased it. Upon placing bis hand under
his arm hs found ont that he was