Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-27
WRECK IN KENTUCKY.
DiSobedience Of Trainmen Cause
a Railroad Wreck and Loss
Of Life.
The Number Killed By the BURNING of
the River Steamer Unknown
Possibly Sixty.
Seven Lives Lost By Burning Steamer
Near Seattle, Wash. T.-Four Men
Killed in an Explosion.

90 LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 25.-The through
Passenger train to Nashville and the South
on the Louisville & Nashville railroad ran
INTO the Knoxville branch passenger train
at Bardstown junction, twenty-five miles
south of this city, at $3.50 o'clock yesterday
morning. and two passengers were killed
outright and thirteen injured severely.
Both trains left this city on time, but the
branch road train, which left twenty
minutes ahead of the through, was DELAYED
by frequent stops until it ran on the other
trains time. At the junction there is a
sharp curve and the first train stopped on
the main track just around the curve.
The through train was running at the rate
OF forty-five miles an hour and split the
rear and second coaches of the stationary
train in two, scattering the fragments in
every direction.
The passengers who were killed were:
Mrs Mary Perkins, of Old Deposit XIV.
Willie Houston, of Water Creek, Larue
County, KY. The wounded were: Engi.
neer Mcpherson and Fireman Charles
KING, both OF this city; E. X. Dickerson,
hoston, KY; Miss Bertha Flownbacker,
boston, Ky; E. S. Miller, Lebanan, KY;
Judge Phil B. Thompson, attorney, Shep-
herdsville, KY; Miss Ada Adams and NJ.
3. b. Adams, Louisville: Mrs. j. R. Mount
and John Mount, Lagrange, KY; Miss
May Kennard, Louisville; Bertha Reehner.
Swiss domestic, East Bernstadt, KY.
Engineer Mcpherson and Fireman
King, both of No. s. are thought to be
fatally hurt The former remained at his
post, but the fireman jumped. Both re-
covered consciousness sufficiently to state
that they had seen no flagman. The Of
hcers of the road say that the branch road
train, which makes all local stops, was de-
layed on account of the rush of express
bus ness and for some reason or other
either neglected TO notice the time or failed
to send out the proper signals.
Two coaches of the front train and the
eng ne and baggage car of the through
train were completely demolished. All
the passengers on the rear train were
severely Jared, but mono of them were
fatally hurt The most of the injured were
bFuised and scalded.
An investigation of the railroad wreck
at Bardstown junction conducted by the
Louisville & Nashville officials, shows that
the conductor of the first and the engineer
of the other trains disregarded
their well known regulations. The
frs. srain, which had been DELAYED
and was running on the following
trains time, should have sent back flag
man with torpedoes, hat did send back
nobody. The engineer of the following
traipa az All trains have, had instructions
20 approach the junction with the train
under full control, but his train was going
full speed.
thE WRECK OF THE ADAMS.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec. 25.-There is
concerning the disaster to the Kate
Adams. William F. Donohae, one of the
clerks, came up yesterday from the wreck.
He was in tho yawl with George Corbett
whsn it eapsized and the last he saw of
his colleague he was floating down the
river clinging to small ladder, Donohue
managed to catch on 10 4 bale of cotton
and was swept oat into the current and
was rescued six miles below Commerce
lsfand on the Arkansas side of the river.
ne says tScrpett may have been rescued
taf' ar down the river. Loss of life is not
vet definitely known and the prospects are
that the exact number who were drowned
will never be accurately stated. Thirty
five is the most conservative estimate. OF
a party of fifteen white laborers which
boarded the steamer at Friar's Point only
two are said to have been saved. If this
be true the loss of lives may reach sixty,
as MANY negroes on the lower deck lost
.her lives in attempting to swim ashore
from the stern of the burning steamer.
The boat and her cargo were valued at
$50, 0oa.