Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-19
LANDSLIDE WRECK
A Mass Of Rocks md Form Come Down
on Throe sleeper Of q Limited
Express Train.
Tho women abrl,k ana Faint Away-soms
BadIoinriet nd some Miraculous
Esrnpes

Ehfhpth
PfTTaBUnc, PA, Nov. 10 The limited
express coming east on The Pitlsbufri
Cincinnati .. ST Louis .railr cd, due 20
this city &C $3.50 th' morning, was
wrecked by n landslide at jones' ferry,
Of the oUtsKirts OF The city, and q number
OF pera1ns were Injured. two fatally.
Just no the train passed Jones ferry, o
mass 81 rocks aud earth ctme tumphng
down from prcclpice forty Feet apoVc.
Thefrst part OF tine iruiH escaped NV q
huge mass crushed Into three fleepers
whtsh were to the rear. The Interior OF
the front car Was almost completly os-
m6iisbed. 10 WIS the CinclnnaA sleeper,
ard fortunately hnd a small nninoer OF
posgenper4 In AZ. The twO other tleepers
were also badly wrecked TIE scene tol-
lowing the accident Is iDdcscribable.
The women shfioked aud the chit
dren scr.amed, while above all
were heard the grosns o. the injured, VINO
were wtdged In between the bcrihs ana
racks unable 10 move. The moment be
crash was heard the engineer stopped tue
train, and as soon az the conductor saw
the ffighiful result be crlcd' "HnrrY on
90 the union depot station, we don't want
20 wait a minute, Gs We must care Tor The
Injured"
Ia few minutes the station was reach
cd. A full CORPS OF surgeons Of the com
paDy wi h attendants, were on hand 10
carry out the injured ana the passengers
seriously hurt. Two men may die. The
list Of Injured thus far learned Is as fol-
lows
DAVID ARSurIM, Plttsburc, cut on the
head and body, slightly bruised.
SA. Bennett, New York, wedged In
under the upper beth Of one section,
dangerously Injured.
Capt. A. DouD Of Plttsburg, ugly cut
on the head
MRq. LIEUT. GLASS Of Fort Bayard, NJ
NJ, LIMB bruised, several cuts on the
body.
"A. Curtis, New York, severely but not
dangerously Injured
j. Q. LirMAN Of Indianapolis, badly
cut about the head aud body not scri-
ously.
A young lady from Teue Hiutc, Ind,
whose name WIS not learned, vas struck
by flying pieces ui rock and hurt about
the head and body
Mr. FOwIER Of Washington WAS etri.
ouBly hurt about the BODY,
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Der OF other passengers was slightly iu-
jurcd.
Those most seriously hurt were re-
moved % the hotels lu The vicinity Every.
thing Pc slble was done 10 alleviate their
suffer- e. The slecntrs that were 80
badly damaged were the Alice, Williams
port and Yarrow Interiors II each were
complete WI, OK, while tho roof wa
caycd IN aud tho sides torn ont Of the
Cincinnati car Pul'mau Conductor Il. X.
DuGroat, who was Ia The rear of the car,
says the train was running az rpsed VI
ten miles when the crash came. The scene
following cannot be described The pas
songers who were not Injured ran wildly
about, not knowing wheru 20 20 or what
10 do One woman rushed Into DeGroape
arms and tainted No one was badly hurt
In his car, but IN the two front cOaCht (
the injured were quite numerous. One
piece OF rock struck the middle OF ca
and Slid lengthwisv 20 section NJ. in N,
end OF the car, where II lodged
crushing tho section to atoms
An old gentleman and mis- daughte
had left the section minute before o.
they would have both been Killed. Tn,
sleeper Wtlliamsport WAS struck 10y a stonl
weighing almost ton Mrs. Lieut.
Glass mad just rot mp and passed into ID,
state room. Her berth and seat wef,
smashed To pieces The large rock whel
II struck the bottom Of the car glance,
toward the rear ana broke the seats Al
though they were spider webs One gen
tleman ftom Philadelphia, j. X, Lowis
sat just opposite Mrs Glass. He hear,
the crash aud jumped up an,
hall of HIS seat was mashed unde
him as though struck by trip.hammcI
He escaped without Injury with the eS
ceptlun Of some broken glass ~ his fac
and ear, one or two ladies In the iron
OF the car tainted aud dropped over Ga
seats They were believed 20 have bee
Killed. Two ladies who were In the stat,
room lay iu awuon until the train react
ed the union depot. Mr., Arnheim was
the nrst section OF the front sleeper.
large stone came through ikea bullet an
crushed the seat lust IN front Of hin
Had the train moved 20,
further he would have been Instant
killed, Mrs. Lieut.. Glass said her fr
impression Was that the train was attacl
ed by dynamite bombs Conductor Nj
gulre says he tnought tho whole will ha
tumblOd over upon the cars. The lerge
stone made an opening In the top OF u
car about six feet square, Twenty me
could not move 10. IL weighed over 1,
pounds, II will either have to be broke
up or removed with IA Grain,
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