The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-31
CAUSED BY SLIPPERY RAILS
A Train on the Cincinnati Southern
Goes Down an Embankment.
Ten Persons Fatally Injured, and Forty
Three Others More or Less Hurt
List of the Casualties.

CINCINNATI, March 30-A land slide near
Mason, on the Cincinnati Southern railroad
this morning, threw the north-bound pas
senger train from the track-sixty persons
are reported injured, none killed. The place
of the accident is forty miles from here. The
injured are arriving from the scene of the
wreck. They were going forty miles an
hour on a sharp curve when the whole train
left the track and rolled down the embank-
ment fifty feet below. Two sleeping cars
were completely wrecked, and one car
burned. The passengers were extricated
with great difficulty. The total number Of
injured is ffty-three, several of whom
very badly. The whole train did not leave
the track. The cause of the accident was a
broken rail. Engineer Michael discovered
it and instantly applied the brakes and re-
versed This threw Conductor Ward, who
was in the smoking-car forward, and gave
him the slight bruises he received. The en-
CINE and baggage-car remained on the track;
the smoking-car was partially thrown off;
the ladies' car entirely left the track and
stood almost at right angles with the road,
the lower end down the embankment
This car was subsequently burned
The two sleeping-cars rolled down
the embankment and were badly wrecked
Very few passengers escaped without some
injury, though most of the injuries are not
serious. Mr.. ]. n. Brown, who was on the
train, furnishes the following list OF wounded:
q II Haalu and ruifa of
the Bee Line, London, o., both bruised, not
seriously; VIM. Orr Thos. Orr. ALI. Harris,
Harmony, Ind, slightly cut in the face and
hands, J. c. Roberts, Cherry Lane n. c.,
badly hurt internally and both legs broken;
J. Tragin, Cincinnati, hands cut and back
bruised; JAS Spalding, Port Clinton, o.,
badly bruised; JEFF. Folger colored, Mont
gomery, Ala, cut on the side and bruised on
the face and arms; S. Alspaugh, Cincinnati
broken leg; ]. E. Mason Brazil Ind, cut on
the face and hands; J. C. Barges, Richmond
Ind, cut on the face and hands; Captain A.
Mcdowell, Xenla, O., cut on the head and
shoulders; Jas Kelton, Sparta, N. c., slightly
cut; James Edwards. Sparta, N. c.,
slightly cut; J. A. Sharp, Harmony,
Ind, scratched; Mr.. and Mrs. +. c.
Walsh. Mr.. W. head and breast crushed
Mrs. w, internally injured; Mrs. NJ. Cos
tello, Whitley county, Kentucky cut in the
head and neck, not seriously; J. H. Carrick
Pratt, Mo-, head crushed, badly hurt; S.
Idd;ngs Lafayette, Ind, bruised on the face
head and arms; Sam Lynch, Brazil, Ind,
painfully hurt about the face and head; D.
e. Emory, Athens, Ga, leg broken; J. C.
Martin, Chicago, scratched slightly; Thomas
Allen, Augusta, KY, leg and shoulder
broken wife not hurt; j. w. Leaver, Boston,
Mass, wife and sons, bruised, not Seriously
Mrs. E. Bellamy, Macon, Ga, scratched and
bruised; ]. G.. Gather, st. Louis face
bruised and cut, not serious; James
Tupe, scratched and bruised; Colonel A.
B. Baritz, wife and three children, one child
badly hurt. others slightly, Mrs. Baritz cut
in the head; Mrs. Nj. L. Fiatt, Cleveland, o
hurt on the head and back; Mrs. l.. H.
Thompson and mother, Saratoga, N. Y, Mrs
Thompson Frustrated from the shock, moth
err not serious; Mrs. E. Lovelace, Watauga
Tenn, and three children, one child bruised
in the face. the two cut and bruised. Mrs.
Lovelace bruised in the breast; Marshal
Caserly, Alba, Mich, slightly cut in the face
and hands and side bruised; Judge ]. H
Millet, New Castle, badly cut and bruised in
the face, wife slightly scratched; Mrs. D.
Evans and two children, all bruised, not
seriously; Dan Hallon, st. Paris o., bruised
in the head and back.
The most severely injured were taken to
Williamstown, KY, and others were brought
here and placed in the Good Samaritan Hos
pital and in hotels
Superintendent Carroll returned tonight
from the wreck, bringing all the wounded
from Williamstown except Mr.. and Mrs.
Welsh He says the accident was due not
to a broker rail, but to the slippery track,
caused by the heavy rain last night. There
had been fill at this point short time ago.
hn rain rha /.
were stripped from the ties for a dis
lance of forty feet 1t could
not be definitely ascertained where
Mr. and Mrs. Welsh live. They were newly
married, and are supposed to have been to
Florida and were returning to Cleveland.
Mrs. Welsh could only speak incoherently;
both are supposed to be fatally injured.
Others supposed to be fatally hurt are
Thos. Allen, of Augusta, Ky.;Mrs. E. Lowell
and three children Watauga, Tenn; Judge
j. H. Mellett, of New Castle. Ind; Mrs. J.
W. Sewer, OF Boston; ]. E. Mason, of Brazil,