The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21
SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT
A Sleeping-Car on the 0. & N. Falls
Seyenty-Five Feet Into Creek.
Three Passengers Killed and Two Others
Dangerously Injured Thursday Nights
Wreck on the Virginia Midland.
THROWN FROM A BRIDGE.
A Sleeping-Car Falls Seventy-Five Feet Into
the Muscatatuck.

Sleeping-Car Falls Seventy-Five Feet Into
the Muscatatuch.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NORTH VERNON, Ind, Feb 20.-The Ohio ~
mississippi eastbound fast-mail and passenger
train, due here at o'clock A. NJ, met with q
serious accident one-half mile east Of here al
o;3o this morning. The mercury registered 10
degrees below zero, and the train did not arrive
on time. When it pulled out from the depot tho
nindmost car, Pullman sleeper, was thrown
from the track by broken rail. There were
only six persons on this car but in the car ahead
hfty-two people were occupying berths The
porter Of the sleeper which had been
thrown from the track rushed to the forward
car to pull the bell rope, which did not reach the
hind car. By this time the train was on the
bridge which spans the Muscatatuck river. He
gave a leap to the forward coach Just in time to
save his own life, as just then the car behind
him swung from the bridge and went crashing
down below, distance of nearly seventy five
feet. The Mortified porter was powerless to give
the alarm, and it was not until his cries brought
several of the passengers to him that
he told what had happened. The train was
stopped, but the engineer, the conductor, nor
any of the passengers had noticed anything
wrong the car which had been derailed and
gone down in the river with such terrible crash
having run along smoothly over the ties, which
were deeply covered with hard snow, until it
reached the bridge, when it swung off,
When the train was backed to the bridge the
missing car standing perpendicular against
the rear abutment of the bridge. Between the
abutment and the car a passenger
was found, near the top Of the bridge,
manged beyond recognition. Two others were
found in the debris of the wreck, horribly man
gled, and the two whose lives had been spared
were dug out from beneath mass of timbers
and rocks. The following is list of the dead
and wounded
N. NJ CARROLL, colored porter, of Baltimore,
killed
e. P. ELDRrDGE aged twenty FIVE, of jefferson,
Texas, killed
L. M. PANT aged fifty, of St Louis, killed.
JAMES B. MOORE of Hartford, Conn, fracture
OF the head and arms and internally injured,
perhaps fatally.
Connersville N Y. probably fatally injured
in head aud back.
Mr. Moore was started for Hartford this after
noon. and Mr.. Taylor was removed to Corners
Vile L. NJ. Pant, of st. Louis, was on his way
to New York. He had $50 in money, and check
for 1892 on the Chatham National Bank Of New
York, drawn in favor of Eurstnan & Brother, Of
that city. His remains were shipped to st. Louis
this afternoon Mr. Moore when lie was
finally rescued from the WI ok, found himself in
an extremely bad prelcame 1t. He was not
only seriously injured. but tlai, mile from
town, with bare feet and with no cothirg>except
his night garments When warm qnarterA@%lre
finally secured for him, he was almost chilled to
death. His feet and hands were horribly frozen,
and for several hours he suffered terrible agony