The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-04-05
MINOR MATTERS.
RaIlroad Disaster.


CINCINNATI, March 30.--A land slide nea
Mason, on the Cincinnati Southern, IL
Kentucky, this morning threw the nortl
bound passenger train from the track
Sixteen people are reported injured bui
none killed. The place OF accident is forty
miles from here. A train has gone 70
bring In the wounded.
The injured are just arriving from the
scene of the wreck. They say the train was
| going forty miles an hour on sharp curve
when the whole train left the track and
rolled down an embankment fifty feet.
Two sleeping-cars were completely wrecked.
One car burned. The passengers were ex-
| trcated with great difficulty. Total num-
ber injured, fiity-three; several Of whom
are very seriously hurt. The only names
obtained were: Major Mcdowell, Xenia,
Ohio (seriously); j. +. Spalding, Port Gin
ton, Ohio (slightly).
The whole train did not leave the track.
The cause OF the accident was broken rail.
Engineer Nichols discovered it ndlnstantly
applied brakes and reversed; this threw
car forward, and gave him the slight bruises
he received. The engine and baggage car
remained on the track. The smoking car
was partly thrown off. The ladies' car en-
tirely left the track, and stood almost at
right angles with the road, the lower end
down the embankment. This car
subsequently burned. The two sleeping
cars rolled down the emban kment and
were badly wrecked. Very few passengers
escaped without some injury, though most
of the injuries are not serious. Mr.. j. n.
Brown, who was on the train furnishes the
following list OF wounded: y. Il. Healy
and wife, excursion agent OF the bee Line,
London, Ohio, both bruised slightly; VII
liam Orr, Thomas Orr, Alfred Harris, Har:
oil tltyn nrt N a
hands; J. G. Roberts, Cherry Lane, North
Carolina, badly hurt internally, both legs
hands cut, back bruised; James
Spalding, Port Clinton, Ohio, badly bruised;
jeff FoIger (colored), Montgomery, Ala,
bama, cut in the side, bruised face and
arms; s. Allspa4gh, Cincinnati broken Ken
and hands J. @. Barges, Richmond lndi-
ana, cut face and hands; Captain A. Nc
Dowell, Xenia, Ohio, cut head and shoul-
ders; James Kitton, Sparta, North Caro-
lima, slightly cut; J. A. Sharp, Harmony,
Indiana, scratched Mr.. and Mrs. H. U.
Walsh, Mr.. WIS head and breast cut, Mrs.
w. internally injured; Mrs. McCastello,
and neck mot seriously; j. II. Cormick,
Pratt, Missouri, head crushed (badly hurt;
s. Iddings, Lafayette, Indiana, bruised
face, head and arms; Sam Lynch, Brazie,
Indiana, painfully hurt about the face and
head; d. Il. Emory, Athens, Georgia, leg
broken; j. G. Martin. Chicago, scratched
slightly; Thomas Allen, Augusta, Ken
lucky, leg and shoulder broken, wife not
hurt j. W. Teaver, Boston, wife and sons
bruised, not seriously; Mrs. u. Bellamy,
Macon, GEORGIA, scratched and bruised
J. G.. Gather, st. Louis, face bruised and
cut mot seriously) Joseph Tupe, scratched
aud bruised; Colonel a. Bartez, wife and
three children--one child badly hurt. the
Others slightly, Mrs. B. cut on head: Mrs.
NJ. E. Plat, CLEVELAND, Ohio, cut in the
head and back; Mrs. L. H. Thomson aud
mother, Saratoga-Mrs. T. prostrated from
shock, mother not serious; Mrs. d. Love-
lace and three children, Watauga, Tennes-
see-one child cut and bruised in face, two
cut and bruised, Mrs. l., bruised in the
breast; Marshall Caserly, Ulby, Michigan,
slightly cut in the face and hands, side
bruised; Judge j. H. Alillett, Newcastle,
Indiana, cut and bruised face, wife slightly
scratched; Mrs. ID. Evanill and two chill
dren, all bruised mot seriously; Dan Hal
Ion, 81. Pary, Ohio, bruised head and back.
The most severely injured were taken to
Williamstown, Kentucky, and the others
brought here and placed in the Good Sa-
maritan hospital and in hotels.