Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12
COLLISION ON A BRIDGE.
TWO Freight Trains on tho Cana
dian Pacific Meet on High
Bridge.
Four Lives Lost and Much Damage
Done-A Revolver Accident in
Texas.
A Lad Blown Off Car and Killed-Shcok-
ing Affair in Detroit-Freight Engine
Blown Up.

pgrSSIpEe Man. JAN AT Middleton,
On <he Canadian Pacific, about two O'Clock
"Wednesday morning, two freight trains
ceslided on bridge eighty feet high
The freight going east was trav,
ezing twelve miles an nour and
she train boaad west running at
much higher rate. The engine OF the
west bound train became fastened in tue
trestle, while the tender and several cars
jumped over the engine and went TO the
bottom. Thesngine coming from the east
went through the trestle Immediately
after the collision and took Gown a nuu Der
of cars Two engineers, one fireman and
one brakeman were killed outright One
man uedged under the wreckage was nc
ticeE TO be alive and enesef his comrades
undertook 20 rescue him by grasping his
hand Hhs rescuer was herrItied when tie
brtSne off'the mans fingers which had been
frozen wiEie he was III this deplorable son-
ai4ion. Another man was seen underneath
the wreck, all his body eseing visible ex-
cept the head, which was horribly man-
sSied. The trainmen think the boiie-S of
the engine exploded when the to-ains
STRUCK, sand that thisfcaEs ed the damage to
.the brio &c. Nobody seemed to know the
Seause of the accident. EE was thought that
tho four men had been, too long on the train
agoing East and had faAsn asleep. Che dam
age 49, estimated at $50, 900
TALE spfsuoL-
iPERsx, Tex, Jan.5.-Chis morniEsg Simon
Morris and his stepsbrother George Affell,
each about six PEARS of age, were playing
with q toy pistol with Sallie patrick,
aged about fourteen years. when George
Affeal secured ,deringer. The girl took
It frCCn him and snapped it TO sec If it was
lQadeG and as it faled to fire cooked it
again and holding itherself told George TIC
shoos- He pulled The trigger, when tho
pistol went of, wouzding the%girl in ths
haBd-and killing Simon Morris.
BLOWN rERoM TRAa1J.
tER5E, Pa, Jan. .7-Dr. James Gassoway
ofTcrtland, Ne, .aHa his son Games, eleven
years old, were passing .frcEl one car TO
anOfsler of a west bound Lake Shore train
near Westfield7 N. X, this morning win dc
Jhestrain was runuing and a high gale
blowing, when the. Lad was Fitted from the
car platform by the wind and hurled TO the
ground and his slSEll was crushed, and he
was picked up dead. A Mr.. Eaton of Euf-
falo, who attempted to catch the boy, was
thrown from the train, but not serious ty
injured.
SHOCKING MIsHEp.
UDETRoIT, Mich, Jan. 7..Erhis morning
three employees .0hshe Stroh Brewing Com
pGny were vanishing u large iron beer vat
inscne of the Collars with a preparation
composed Iargelyof alcohol, being prov ed
with candles e xed TO the rim of their caps,
when one Of these lights was permitted TO
approach too negr the freshly painted sur
face, and in q moment the whole vat was a
sheet of fame. sThe men were horribly
burned and two Of them are not expected
to 1--we.
g FREIGITEENGINE iEEowN UP.
NV KEELING, W. Wa, Jan. AT Gam
bird ge, o., yesterday afternoon a yard en-
CINE of the Cleveland q Marietta road ran
into u north board freight train and the
boiler of the freight engine exploded, scaid-
ing Engineer J R. Pack, .ef Marietta The
fireman, Charles Bennie, of New Philaaal-
phis, was badly injured ana scalded.
FATaLssNOw SLIDE.
GLENwooD SPRINGS, Col, Jan. This
morning John Neville and a companion
werc caught in a snow storm near here and
carried down the ountain in a snow slide
several hundred feet Neville was killed,
buhilis companion escaped with slight in
iuries.