Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-02-01
RAILROAD HORROR.
LAIN CRASHES TMROUGM A
SDGE-sIX VICTIMS ROAST
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,ASArOLIs, Jan. 3l.--The South.
accommodation train on the In.
onlis and Chicago Ah Line, due
10 80 o'clock this morning, met
terrible accident at Broad Rip
ven miles from this city. Al
,,oint the railroad crosses the
River on a truss bridge OF two
| each l5O feet in length. The en-.
had gone 70 the baggage car for
X Of water and the locomotive
charge OF the fireman. When the
had reached the centre of the
the fireman felt that structure
w. -, 4.
bs time he had his hand on the
r. which he opened, living the
lot va all the available steam.
bpine sprang forward with great
breaking the couplings between
t,der and baggage car, but keep
e track The baggage and smok-
(ts and a passenger coach, drop
hrongh the bridge and were piled
None mass at the foot Of the pier,
noking car being to some extent
bpe,l by the baggage car.
wreck was partially submerged,
I, ,ortion above water Immediate
fir, from the stoves. A wreck
En- with surgical and other assis.
was sent from here to Broad
Immediately. When 1t reached
pne the bridge and cars were yet
+, and ,he sufferers had not been
k.I from the flaming wreck. In
brt time, however, the flames
kxtinguished by persons from the
kjup train aud a search for bodies
,.gun, Six persons had either
| Killed outright or burned to
their bodies charred almost be-
Y,,u guilion and horribly mu'ila.
The only means of identification
iuron,bustible trinkets known to
! property Of the dead.
Fang Of workmen who had been
hing the bridge were all slightly
Iii. Tx Sheriff Lenan and hr
were left at Broad Ripple, the
IF the passengers being brought
The dead bodies. were most OF
under the sleeping cars, which
ulled on each other and burned.
hccidpnt is now attributed 10 the
Is in the supporting rods, the nnls
4 ends ftting 80 badly that the
( was unable 10 support the weight
4 train. A skitf was used for
tprring the bodies from the ruins
J cars to tbs land
b. White, '. no was working under
Ridge when the trains went over,
rDue II the breaks occurred within
h, feet Of th" pier, and another
J midway oi the span. HIS escape
marvellous. As he stood on the
L. falling ars and bri 'ge struck
(n the head and drove him through
!, and down 10 the very bottom of
yer. The timbers did not rest
|hlm, however, and he swan out
dead than alive, covered with
H., hut able TO walk.
hlrwsbol of tho train says he chulu
distinguished the fire with II single
;, Of water, but it was rot to be
G. {. lod and j. Is. Horton were
\ smoking car, at one end Of which
man with his skull crushed and
Extinct. Across the latter, and close
} rrd-hot stove, lay Lynn Clark, a
Ey timber binding one Of his legs
bvably. lodrr tried tn find an axe,
which each rar iSpruvided, but IL
n the other side OF the car in three
water. " For Gods sake, don't
me !" cried Clark, and they did
esert him until the flames scorch.
m and they were almost suiiucat-
th smoke.
|Ore leaving the car Lodcr kicked
window close by Clark and left
n agony, Presently the flames
led the timber IN two az a point
| by Clark, enabling him to crawl
y the window which had been
ed ont by L0drr.
nduC'Or lOsry says:
five minutes after Ibr train went
b the entire wreck was wrapped in
rS, and, in les, time than that. all