The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-02-12
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

a EFain on the Missouri Pacific Thrown
From the Track and Goes Over an Eight
Foot Embankment--Twenty- Per-
sons More or Less Seriously Injured
Some, It is Thought, FataIIy--List of the
Victims.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. THE Inde-
Pendence accommodation on the Missouri
Pacific was thrown from the track near
the distillery in the East bottoms, and
went down an embankment some eight or
ten feet high yesterday afternoon. The
train consisted of an engine, baggage car
ana two coaches. It struck a defective
rail, and soon the whole train lay on its
side, while the passengers, numbering
one hundred, were making frantic efforts
TO escape. Many ladies coming in to the
Lotta matinee were among the number,
and scene of indescribable excitement
enSued. The work of rescuing the inn
pFisoned people was speedily pushed for
ward, and all were found to have suffered
in some way, sustaining bruises and be-
ing cut by glass. Twenty-seven persons
were more or less seriously injured, two
or three perhaps fatally, although no
deaths have vet occurred.
The following is list of the injured.
Mrs. VIM. Clay, an aged lady, Pleasant
Hill; severe cuts on the head, neck and
body. She was sent home and is likely
to die.
Harry Chiles, aged nine, Platte County;
head badly cut and bruised.
James Smith, clerk of the Probate
Court OF this county; badly bruised about
the hips.
Cora Barnhil, daughter of a commercial
traveller, Independence; severe cuts
about the face and head.
Chas. Baker, Kansas City; injuries of
spine and head cut.
Mary Duke, of Danville, Ky, sister of
Mrs. Lee Christian, of Independence;
severe scalp wound, sprained ankle, brok-
en- jaw. Sent to hospital.
Mrs. w. S. Furnish, independence;
dangerous internal injuries. She is at
the CentrOpois Hotel under the in.
fuence of an opiate.
Miss Mollie Furnish, daughter of the
above; serious scalp wound.
Phillip Wettig, Kansas City; left hand
cut.
Mrs Emma Gilchrist, this city; cuts
on the head and neck.
Fannie Bailey, daughter of Judge
Bailey, independence; head cut by broken
glass.
Mrs. T. G. Bulene, Independence
ankle sprained.
Mrs. Horace Shelley, Independence
injury of the spine.
Charles S. Crysler, attorney-at-law, In.
O6pSuucuCGs severe SplldI III uIIcSs
Mrs. Nellie Smith, this city,; disloca-
ton of the right jaw.
Frank Chadburn, miller, Independence;
bones in right foot and ankle crushed
and severe cut on the head.
Emma Gassett, daughter of Rev. J. ID.
Gassett, independence; arm cut, wrist
sprained.
Mrs. James Roberts, Laclede Hotel In
dependence; finger broken, person badly
bruised.
Belle Embry, Independence; head cut.
Annie Barnhill, Independence; arm in
jured.
Mollie Roberts, Independence face cut,
badly bruised.
81 VIII shafeF, baggageRaasteF; right hand
badly cut.
Daniel Hughes, Sedalia, aboard the en-
gine learning the road as a fireman, re-
ceived severe scalp wounds.
j. L. Leavell, of Camden Point, Mo-, a
guest of Elder Proctor, of independence;
serious scalp wounds; sent to the Wa
bash hospital.
Thomas Mcnamara, fireman; foot and
leg crushed; sent to the Wabash hos
pital.
VIM. Mayo, Independence;sc ;scalp wound;
hip bruised.
J.R. johnson, this city; bruised.