Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-31
LAND SLIDE.
Train Wrecked and Many Persons
IDiured.

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Injured.
CINCINNATI, March 30.-A land slide oc.
CURED near Mason, on the Cincinnati
Southern railroad, this morning. A north
bound passenger train was thrown from
the track. Sixty persons are reported In
iured. None killed. The place Of the ac-
cident is forty miles from here. The
whole train did not leave the track. The
cause Of the accident was a broken rail.
Engineer Michael discovered it and in.
stantly applied the brakes and reversed
the engine, which threw Conductor Ford,
who was in the smoking car, forward and
gave him afew slight bruises. The engine
and baggage car remained on the track.
The smoking car was partly thrown OIL.
The ladies car left the track and stood al
most at right angles with the road, the
lower end down the embankment. This
car subsequently burned. Two sleeping
cars rolled down the embankment, and
were wrecked. Very few passengers es-
capped without some injury, though most
of the Injuries are not serious. J: n.
Brown, who was on the train, furnishes
the following
last OF the wounded.
C. E. Heasley and wife, London, o., both
bruised, not seriously; VIM. Orr, Thos.
Orr, Alf. Hsris, Harmony, Ind, slightly
cut ON the 'tsce and hands; J. c. Roberts,
cherry Lane, n. c., badly hurt internally,
both legs broken; J. Fragin, Cincinnati,
hands cut, back bruised; James Spaulding,
Po1t Clinton, o., badly bruised; JEFF Fol-
ger, colored, Montgomery, Ala, cut in the
side, bruised on face and arms; s. AIS
paugh, Cincinnati, hurt in the legi J. +.
Mason, Brazil, Ind, cut in face and hands 4;
J.C. Bargis, Richmond, Ind, face and
A NJ nnt
on the head and shoulders; James Kilton,
Sparta, n. c., slightly cut; James Ed
wards, Sparta, N. C., slightly cut; J. A.
Sharp, Harmony, Ind, hand scratched
MIR. and Mrs. +. C. Welch, head and breast
crushed, Mrs. w. internally injured; Mrs,
NJ. C. Costello, OF Whitley county, KY, cut
in the head and neck, but not seriously; j.
III. Carrish, Pratt, Md, head crushed
badly hurt; S. Iddings, Lafayette, Ind,
bruised about the face, head and arms
Samuel Lynch, Brazil, Ind, painfully hurt
about the face and head; ID. +. Emery
Athens, Ga, leg broken; J. c. Martin, Chi
cago scratched slightly. Thomas Allen
Augusta, Ky, leg and shoulders broken
wife not hurt; J. w. Leaver, wife and sons
Boston, burished, but not seriously, Mrs,
Z. Bellmay, Macon, Ca, scalded ant
bruised; ]: G. Gather, ST.. Louis, face
DTulsQeu
Tune, scratched and bruised; Col. A. Bartz
wife and three children, one chile
badly hurt, the others slightly; Mrs.l B
cut in the head; Mrs. NJ, Z. Plytt, C!eye
land. Ohio, hurt about the head, and LEI
broke; L. A. Thompson, and mother, Sara
toga, n Y, Mrs. T. prostrated from th'
shock, mother not serious; Mrs. f., Love
Ian, WatauIa, Tenn, and three children
one child child cut and bruised about thu
face; the other two cut and bruised; Mrs
l.. bruised in the breast; Marshall Caserly
| Ulby, Mich, slightly cut in the face ane
hands, side bruised; Judge J. H. Willet
New Castle, Ind, badly cut and bruised
two children, all bruised and cut seriously
Dan Hal on, St. LOUIS, burned hand ant
back. The most severely injured wer'
taken to Williamstown KY, and the other
were brought here and placed in the Goot
Samaritan hospital and in the hotels.