Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-19
FROM ALI QUARTERS. THROWN FROM ATRESTLE. IA Mail Trains Fearful Plunge. THE SANTA FE STRIKE OVER. Engineers Going Back In
 Dr0ves. KAISER FRITZ DOING POORLY. A Horrible Butchery In
 New York.

PLUNGED THROUGH A THISTLE. l A Mail Train Takes Terrible Leap | Down In Florida - TWentY-Three
 Persons Killed and over Thirty IR- jured-GeOrge GOuld's Wife Badly Shaken Up.
 l SAVANNAH, Ga., March 18.-Ths first see- tion of the Cuban mail train from New York for Jacksonville went through trest1e
 at point seventy five miles south of Savsn-
 nah yesterday morning. The entire train ex- I cept the engine was demolished. Twenty three | persons were killed and between thirty and ! forty injured, ten of whom are expected to l die The private car of President Wilbur of the Lehigh Valley road, with MT. Wilbur and George Gould and others in it, was at 1 tached to the train. President Wilbur was injured. George Gould was unhurt and Mrs. Gould slightly injured.
 The accident was caused by broken rail off the track about a quarter of mile before it reached the bridge at Hurricane river. The baggage car mounted the track again, but the train passed safely over the bridge. Imme- diatsly on the other side of the bridge there is trestle several hundred feet in length. When the baggage car struck this trestle work it gave way and the entire train with the exception of the engine dropped through and excepting one car was completely wrecked. The train consisted of combina- tion car, three baggage cars, smoking car, one coach two Pullmans and & private car of the Lehigh Valley railroad. This private car was occupied by President Wilbur of the Lehigh road, his family and friends. The following is revised list of the killed: TT,,iA Bridgeport, Ohio; w. B. Gieger, of Savsn- nah; O. A. Fulton, master of transportation, Brunswick and Western railway; P. NJ. Smith, the Pullman conductor; J. T. Ray, Blackshear; John H. Pots, Hawkinsville; E. P. Thompson, New York; Mrs C. W. Kelley, bia Mrs. w A. A. Shaw and daughter of Jacksonville; M. A. Wilbur, son of E. F. Wilbur, of Bethlehem, Pa; J. H. Hurlbut, Phile, Iowa; Charles Pear and Coffee Williams, Valdoosta; Lloyd Dawson and Caesar Foster, Wsycross; Moses Gate, of Wsycross, and five unknown colered men. The following is revieed list of the injured:
 Milton Lawrence, Savannah, slightly; Will liam L. Griffin, Savannah, conductor danger
 ously wounded; J. A. Thompson, editor of
 the Peoples Journal, Jacksonville; Charles
 Brown, Savannah, badly hurt; c. D. Helm Laura Jones, ,Thompsonville, slightly; George
 2. Gould and wife, New York, slightly; Mrs.
 McClinch, Philadelphia, internally; Miss Alice Simpson, New York, internally;
 Samuel Ames and wife, Providence,
 R. L.; Dr. Booth, New York; E.
 P. Wilber, president of the Lehigh
 Valley railroad, Bethlehem. Pa, and his sons w. A. Wilbur and R. I. Wilbur; Miss Isa- bella Coxe, Bethlehem, internally; A. G. Broyle, Bethlehem. A. J. Faircloth, Wares boro, Ga; E. G. Butterfeld, New York; L.
 B. Mallard, Savannah, arm broken and cuts on head; T. B. Thompson. and wife, New Or leans; Captain O. ". Wallace, travelling agent for the Louisville and Nashville road, dangerously injured internally; w. D. Me Clinch: Austin, Savannah; Henry Sneed, Savannah; C-E. Van Worst, Savannah; A. c. Hudson, Macon, badly hurt; John Papy, Feraandina, Fla; General FerIero and wife, New York, badly injured; J. Spierro, New Sam. Allen, Savannah, badly injured. Fred
 Maynard of New York, reported killed, was from Utica, and is but slightly injured.
 Some of the dead have been sent to their homes and others will be embalned and sent home. The severely injured are at Maycross.
 Mr. Gould and his wife are at Blackshear near the scene of the accident, and special ear has been placed at their disposal by the Savannah, Florida and Western road. The trestle of the Hurricane river is about eight hundred feet long, and the break includes four hundred fest at the west end. and 
 the abutment The baggage car left the track on the trestle, which accounts for the accident. The ties show where the trucks cut deep into them. It was this car that careened the rear cars and by it's strain drag ged the tender. Had it not been for the presence of mind of Engineer Richard Weloh a much more horrible fate would have been in store for the wounded. Hurriedly dis patching the engine. with a fireman to Black shear he ran down to the wreck and with the assistance of the porter of the Pullman car
 Minerva extinguished the fire which had
 broken out in the baggage car, The part of
 the trestle which was destroyed is being re-
 built and direct connection will be reopened
 with Florida Tuesday morning. The acci-
 dent is the first of the kind that has ever oc- cured on the road since it was built, thirty
 five years ago
 A special to the News from Blaekshear says
 that Mrs. Gould was unable to walk to the
 train, but was carried to the car. The loss
 to MT. George Gould by the wreck will be
 $s, 900. Mrs. Gould lost ring valued at $1 600.