Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-19
ANOTHER DEATH BRIDGE.
PLUNGlNG THIRTY FEET THROUGH
 A BROKEN THISTLE.

A bROkEN RES LE.
 The LiDt of Victims by the Terrible Acci-
 dent at Hurricane Creek, Ga-Twent,.
 four Killed and Thirty-five Injured.
 Many Seriously.
 JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 19-At 10 o'clock Saturday night, as the West India express from New York on the Savannah, Florida and Western railroad was nearing Hurricane creek, near Biaclzshear, Ga, the forward truck of the baggage car broke down The train was running very rapidly at the time, and the car, after dragging on the eros ties sonie hundred yards, struck the trestle crossing the creek with irresistible force, knocking Gown nearly 230 feet of the structure and pr4cipitating the whole train, except the engine old tender, twenty or thirty feet into Hurricane creek valley, which, fortunately, was dry at the time. Several c;,t,s took fire, but were extng..lsled. - The c;rs went down with the bridge "itho": overturhing, some being telescoled into othHr'
 Ioentv-four rcrsons were killed and thirry- five rec1ivd q njaries of more or less serious nature Tic list of the dead, so far as now knowli, E as follows:
 Charla; Pear (coloiedD, train hand; Will ian Martin, of Union News company; c. A. Fulton, master of transportation, of the Brunswick and Western railroad; W. B. Geiger of Savannah; Frederick Maynard, of New York; F. M. Smith, Pullman Car company; M. A. Wilbur, son of the president of the Lehigh Valley railway; John T. Ray, BlacksheaT, Ga.; Maj John H. Pate, Haw- kinsvi.ie, Ga. Cuffy Williams (colored), Val dosta, Ga.; L. oyd Carson, Colorado; five col ored mon, names unknown; Co.son Foster tcolore;i), Waycross, Ga.; Moses Gale, Way cross, Ga.; E. F. Thompson, North Carolina; ; J. H. Hurlbut, Philadelphia, Pa., w. A. Mo 6Iriff, Co.umbia; Mrs. G. W. Kelly, Palatka, Fla; Mrs. Capt. Shaw and daughter, Jack sonville, Fla.
 Those most seriously injured are as follows: Gen. Ferrero, Now York, two rihs broken, case critical; Mrs. Gen. Ferrero, fractured hip joint; Mrs. T. P. Thompson, New Or leans, head fractured; Mattie Ray Gales Mills, Ga., thigh broken, internal injuries, can hardly lived through the day; Andrew Faircloth, Waresboro, Ga., concussion of the brain, internal injuries, unconscious; Miss Alice Simpson. Nashville, N. Y., internal in- juries, ankle broken: Conductor Griffin, in- ternal injuries, almost in dying condition; F. E. VanVorst, engineer, Georgia Central railroad, 50 yc>srs old, concussion of the brain.
 Owing to the presence of mind of train d was prevented. The second section of the train, which was ten minutes behind, was stopped. Relief parties at once vent to work. and soon citizens of Blackshear came to their Assistance ill the work of rescuing the wounded and recovering the bodies of the dcal. The bodies were taken to B.ackshear and Waycross, where the injured were also conveyed, after some hours of delay, and physicians from Savannah and Jacksonvil @ were brought on extra trains to assist local Physicians
 Among the passengers on the train were George Gould and his wife, who are on their way to Fernandina to meet Jay Gould, who Is expected from St. Thomas in his yacht. Mr. and Mrs. Gould both escaped with slight injuries.
 MT. L. C. Deming, general ticket agent of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West road, . survivor of the wreck, says:
 ''The train was composed of a baggage car, passenger coach, two Pullman sleepers and the private car of MT. E. P. Wilbur, presi- dent of the Lehigh Valley railroad
 'In all my experience never saw a wreck 50 complete, as there was not semblance of their former shape left of the first two cars. They were completely broken to fragments, and it is miraculous how any one escaped. The fourth car was occupied by MT. and Mrs. George Gould, and although badly dam aged it was not a compl te wreck. The end of the last car was telescoped into MT. 9ould's car, but was almost intact. It con- taired twelve persons, comprising MT. Will burs party. One son was killed, and MT. Wi bur himself was seriously hurt. He is at Naycross, and at last account was improv- ing. Two oti sons were injured, and others in the more or less hurt. except little daughter of MT. Wilbur, who escaped with out injury. MT. and Mrs. Gould were not seriously injured, although MT. Smith, the conductor of the car, was instantly killed, his body being mangled almost beyond recog. milton.
 s'Great credit is due Engineer Welch, whose presence of mind saved still greater disaster. As soon as the accident occurred he rushed back and finding the baggage car on fire extinguished the flames, and thus averted that terrible destruction that usually follows accidents of this kind. He then has tened back to the rear end of the train, to flag the second section, only ten minutes be hind. Word was sent to Patterson, a small station few miles north of the scene of the wreck, and the train was stopped"
 A Family Exterminated by Poison.
 EVANSVILLE. Ind. March 19-Samuel Will son. lumberman, with his wife and fou, children lived in wild section of the Greer river bottoms, about fifty miles south of thi city, near Calhoun, Ky. He was recently engaged in gathering hoop poles. His hog and chickens having become the prey of tim ber wolves, he poisoned a quarter of hogmea to destroy the thieves By some seriou negligence he had omitted to take it from hi Hnok house, and the meat was unconscously prepared for their dinner Thursday. Tn, meat was scarcely swallowed before all be came sick and grew rapidly worse. Within two hours all were helpless, and were found il this condition toward nightfali by a man wh' chanced that way Help was quickly sum moned, but it was unavailing, as during tn, night three of the children died, and Frida, the father, mother and other child died il great agony. Their bodies in the meantirn had sweiled to enormous proportions from th effects of the poison. All were buried neal their desolate hut.
 A Battle with Train Robbers.
 CHIHUALA, Mex, March 19.-A dispatcl from Cusihuiriachi, mining town sabou ninety miles west of this place, says that party of Mexican federal troops, accompa nied by R. H. Paul. of the Southern Pacifi railroad company, and N. W. Pierce, of tn iIxu~u v xuT,o loff o1,,