Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-20
A FATAL EXPLOSION.
The Victims the EnsIs. err and Fireman
Of Yesterdays Esm.Bound
Texas 4 Paclae.


Fortunate Escape % the r~-eahss.-.A
nadiy rrEhiened
DarhyI
$ News Of frighifal railroad seelden,
reached Fort Worth yesterday afternoon
About ? O'clock Telegram came Nom
Nedo, on the Texas s Paclac, that the
engine attached 10 the east bound through
passenger train had oxplodcs1, klllne the
i,nglneer and fatally wbuuding the ike.
man. special uain was Immediately
made up here and sent ont q, 3. reaching
the scene OF the accihent within ats
minutes TITS was az n switch used for
passing trains, allncst on the boundary
line OF larrant county aud called Ions
The passengers on the wrecked train
were transferred 80 thc special, which no.
turned 10 this city at $500, bearing aiso
the victims vi The accident, Engineer W
( II. Mulcaii and Fireman N l.. CLARK
Z From an eye Witness, Mr.. NJ O. Wade oi
Z AlYGrado, a passenger ON tho train, a
4 GA2K1rr reporter learned
TUE DETAILS on run ACcmKNr.
The tralH was acyon hours behind
time, being due IN Fort Worth OF Gi45 a.
m. AZ ii8o pm q reached the Iona
] switch, hlteen miles west OF the cltV.
7 Tho train slowed Up and was running at
the rate ot about siN miles au hOur
when the explosion took place.
Mr. Wade was Ia the smoklng-oar
aud At the time was looking out OF n
window On tho left hand side OF the car
He saw volume OF steam Jet forth
from tnc Side OF the engine, aud immc
I dittcly the report OF the explosion fol.
lowed. The fireman was blown into the
air q height OF fifteen feet, land.
Ing about hundred and lity feet In
the rear and thirty feet from the track
The engineer was blown about ffty
feet forward, The tender cnt loose from
the train aud dropped on To tho right,
Willie The engine ran about fifty feet aud
turned almost completely around nj an
angle with the track, The mail car went
on the track and the forcwherls OF the
smoker also len H. Debris from thu ex.
plosion was scattered IN every direction
A pieceo of connection pipe, fifteen feet long
was found 100 feet In front of the place
whore the engine stopped. One-hali VI a
rail- was thrown 100 feet to the lVfg and
the other half was thrown atty feet TO the
right Pieces OF Ties were fouud 100
yards distant scattered 10 every dir elton
AZ the placo of the explosion the ground
WAS torn up two feet deep Tho engine
was complete wreck.
A roWuNArK nAngN,
~ was picct VI rcnarkaDly good for.
time that none Of the passengers were
hurt. A negro man from III paBo, named
Lon GiYens, WIS stealing ride between
the tender and the mall ear Tho force OF
the explosion carried him fifty feet 80 the
right, aud all covered with ondUrH aud
ashes, he struck terra tirma feet foremost,
running at fun speed and uDhurt.
He came on TO Fort Worth IN the epe1inl
none the worse for bis aerial ilight eN-
eepta little soreness.
INCIDENTS
Metcali was Instantly Killed by the os-
plosion, aud Cart lived only an hour
, all the time unconscious. A physician
was summoned, who chaneod TO bn living
4 near by but be could give the Injured
( nan no relief
! No. G2S, the ill-fhtcd locomotive, was q
! large "Queen" engine, and considered
one Of the best on the road Friday
morning r WAS sent out on the local pas'
scnger from Fort Worth 70 Colorado CilY
IT. regular engineer was Tom Sisk, who
Is Wing yeryi ia this city
TnE cAusE
OF the explosion eau never be definitely
traced. Mr.. Douglass, superintendent III
the rouud-hnusr, thinks that the crown
sheet gave way The force 10 such
= cases always goes downward, which
. accounts for the escape Of the coachos
Z, from Injury. Had the door TO tbs fire.
e box been securely closed, II Is believed
I that neither OF the men 10 the cab would
e have been seriously hurt but rs u was
u all the IRE was thrown into the cab, and
S Of course, large volume OF steam en-
: capped through this aperture.
= AS gNGiNErR's BEurF
G a passenger on The train who Is an en-
= giueer suites II az his belief that the
+ cHusp OF the accident WAS az iUiiOWh