The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-31
This. That and Other Interesting News,

c,ycryyArG, March 30.-A land slide near
Mason on the Cincinnati Southern, in
kentucky, this morning threw the north
Lonnd passenger train from the track,
S;rreen people are reported injured, but
none killed. The place OF accident is forty
miles from here. A train has gone to
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 n sharp curve
gshen The whole train lett the track and
oiled down au embankment fifty feet.
Two sleeping-cars were completely wrecked.
6ne ear burned The passengers We're eX-
trcoted with great difficulty. Total num-
her injured, iilty-three several OF whom
are very seriously hurt. The only names
attained were Major Mcdowell, Nenia,
ohio Seriously; j. +. Spalding, Port Gin
ion, Ohio slightly.
Tile whole train did not leave the track,
The cause OF the accident was broken rail.
Engineer Nichols discovered 1t and Instantly
applied brakes and reversed; this threw
Conductor Ward who was in the smoking
ear 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
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and wife, excursion agent of the Bee Line,
liam Orr, Thomas Orr, Alfred Harris, Iar
mOny, Indiana, slightly cut in the face and
hands; j. G. Roberts, Cherry Lane, North
S SSSSen badly hurt rra Internally c RU5h sE
Spalding, Port Clinton, Ohio, badly bruised;
JEFF FOlger (colored), Montgomery, Ala,
bama, cut in the side, bruised face and
arms; S. Allspaugh, Cincinnati, broken
leg J, Il. Mason, Brazil, Indiana, cut face
and hands J. e, Barges, Richmond Indi-
ana, cut face and hands; Captain A. Nc
Dowell, Xenia, Ohio, cut head and shout.
ders James Kitton, Sparta, North Caro-
Ina, slightly cut; J. A. Sharp, Harmony,
Indiana, scratched Mr.. and Mrs. i. @.
Walsh, Mr. WIS head and breast cut, Mrs.
W. internally injured Mrs. McCastello,
Whitley county, kentucky, cut in head
and neck mot seriously; j. H, Cormick
Pratt Missouri, head crushed BADLY hurt);
S, lddings, Lafayette, Indiana, bruised
face, head and arms; Sam Lynch, Braze,
Indiana, painfully hurt about the face aud
head; d. Il. Emory, Athens, Georgia leg
broken; j. &. Martin, Chicago, scratched
slightly Thomas Allen, Augusta, Ken
lucky, leg and shoulder broken, wife not
hurt j. W. Teayer, Boston, wife and sons
bruised, not seriously; Mrs. T.. BelIamy,
Macon, Georgia, scratched and bruised
J. e, Gather, St. Louis, face bruised ana
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. Il, Platt, Cleveland, Ohio, cut in the
head and back; Mrs. l.. II. Thomson and
mother, SaratOga-Mrs. T. Frustrated from
shock, mother not serious; Mrs. T.. Love
lace and three children, Watauga, Tennes.
see-one child cut and bruised in facs, 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. II. Millett, Newcastle
Indiana, cut and bruised face, wife slightly
scratched; Mrs. d. Evanill and two chill
dren, all bruised mot seriously; Dan Hal
Lon, ST. Pory, Ohio, bruised head and back
I Inc most severely injured were taken tc
Willlamstown, Kentucky, and the other.
Drought here and placed in the Good Sa
marian hospital and in hotels.