The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05
SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

CINCINNATI, March 3U.-A land,
slide near Mason, Ken lucky, on the
Cincinnati Southern this morning
threw the northbound passenger
train from the track. Sixteen people
are reported injured; none killed.
I he place of accident is forty miles
from here. n train has gone to bring
in the wounded.
LATER.--The injured are Just ar
irving from the scene of the wreck
They say the train was going forty
miles an hour, on a sharp curve, when
the whole train left the track and
rolled down an embankment fifty feet
high. Two sleeping cars were COM
pletely wrecked and one burned.
The passengers were eXtricated with
great difficulty. The total number of
injured is 90, several of whom are
very seriously hurt. The only names
obtained are Major Mcdowell,
Xenia. Ohio, seriously; j. +. Spalding,
Port Clinton, Ohio. slightly.
LATER.-The whole train did not
leave the track. The cause of the ac-
cident was broken rail. Engineer
Michaels discovered it and instantly
applied the brakes and reversed the
engine. This threw Conductor Ward,
who was in the smoking car, forward
and gave him the slight bruises he re-
cieved. 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 angles with the
road, the lower end down the en-
bankment; the car subsequent
ly burned; two sleeping cars
rolled down the embankment
and were badly wrecked.
Very few of the passengers escaped
without some injury, though most of
the injuries are not serious. Mr.. j.
n. Brown, who was on the train, fur
nishes the following list of the
wounded: G. Healy and wife, excur-
sion agent of the Bee line, New Lon
don, Ohio. both bruised, not seriously;
VIM. Orr, Thos. Orr and Alfred Harms,
Harmony, Indiana, slightly cut in the
face and hands: j. C. Roberts, Cherry
Lane, North Carolina, badly hurt in
ternally and both legs broken; j. Ira
gin, Cincinnati, hands cut and back
bruised; Jas. Spalding, Port Clinton,
Ohio, badly bruised; jeff Folger,
colored, Montgomery, Alabama, cut
in the side, bruised face and
arms; S. Allspaugh, Cincinnati, broken
leg; j. E. Mason, Brazil, Indiana, cuts
ON the face and hands; j. G. Barnes,
Richmond, Indiana, cuts on the face
and hands; Capt. A. Mcdowell, Xenia,
Ohio, cuts on the head and shoulders;
James Kellon, Sparta. North Caro-
lima, slightly cut; j. A. Sharpe, Har-
mony, Indiana, scratched; Mr.. and
Mrs. F. G. Walsh-Mr. Walsh head
and breast cut, and Mrs. Walsh inter-
nally injured; - Costello, Whiteley
county, Kentucky, cuts in the head
and neck, not seriously; j. III. Car
rick, Pratt, Missouri, head crushed
and badly hurt; S. Iddings, La
fayette, Indiana, bruised face,
head and arms; Samuel Lynch,
Brazil, Indiana, painfully hurt
about the face and head; ID. Z.
Emory, Athens, Georgia, leg broken;
j. G. Martin, Chicago, scratched
slightly; Thomas Allen, Augusta,
Kentucky, leg and shoulder broken,
wife not hurt; j. w. Leaver, Boston,
wife and sons bruised, not seriously;
Mrs. Z. Bellamy, Macon, Georgia.
oCldCCuCu anu UIuioCu, d. VI. OdtbuCI,
st. Louis, face bruised and cut. not
seriously; Joseph Tupe, scratched and
bruised; Col A. Barter, wife and
three children, one child badly hurt,
others slightly, Mrs. b. cut on tie
head; Mrs. w. Z. Plat, Cleveland,
Ohio, cuts in the head and back;
Mrs. l.. ii. Thomas and mother. Sara
toga, New York, Mrs. t. pros
trated from the shock, mother
not seriously; Mrs. E. Lovelace, Wa
tonga, Tennessee, three children, one
child cut and bruised in the face, two
cut and bruised, Mrs. L. bruised in
the breast; Marshall Caserly, Ulby
Michigan, slightly cut in the face and
hands and side bruised; Judge j. III.
Millet, Newcastle, Indiana, badly cut
and bruised in the face, wife slightly
scratched; Mrs. ID. Cavanen and two
children, all bruised, not seriously
Dan Hallon, st. Parry, Ohio, bruised
in the head and back. The most Sc
verely injured were taken to vii
Jamestown, Kentucky, and the other.
brought here and placed in the Coco
Samaritan hospital and hotels.