New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-02
SIX KILLED; IWENTY-ONE HURT.
NUMBER OF CASUALTIES AT GREENWOOD.


IN READING HIS oRnERs--IIsT or TIE DEAD
AND WOUNDED.
LEXINGTON Ky Jan. 1.-The point where the collision
occurred on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad yesterday
Is about one mile south Of Greenwood Ky on an en-
bankucnt sixty feet high At the time OF the crash Ice
withrow, baggage master, and NJ E. Jackson express
messenger were talking in tho baggage car.
when the car split open from end 70
end the mail car and smoker shooting over them.
the other ears cutting loose and dropping down the
grade 1t is reported that an unknswn passenger was
crushed and burned In tho water-co'et OF one
OF the trains. MIR. Alvey. OF Csv1nston,
threw his wife through a window and jumped sut
after her. Both rolled down the smbahkmsnt The
collision was caused by Conductor shrumm misreadng
orders delivered to him at Winfield. He mistook SUM-
mt for Somerset and hurried bis train down the gaoe
at fifty miles hour te make that point prooaoy run
ming at that speed when tho collision occurred AFTER
the collision Conductor Bennett up to shrumm and
said:
"rm not to blame for this. read your order and see"
shrumm took out his orders and looking carefully,
threw up his hands sxcaiming:
"Oh, my God have made misatke !"
sharksy withers formerly Of this city. but now OF
Edwards Miss. was on the train going soutn ana made
this statement
"We left Somerset half an hour late and running
obout thirty miles up grade was in the coach
next in front Of tho sleeper, close 10 the 'front.'
deor when shrill whistling alarmed me
I ran cut on tho platform and was pItched
down an embankment Of fifty feet. jumped
up and went to We helped to exricats the VIC
tins I helped to take out three alive and two dead
One of them Pat Murphy, helped dig out OF the
mud into which he was JamHed nearly 70 the
armpits. Tho next man we GET ous was
an express messenger, who was crusneo ny .ns
trucks Next we found baggageman, who was unaer
the tender of No We could hear his grsans and dug
him out He died in an hsur Then we got an injured
man out OF the mail car Of No. l. withrow died
I'm few minutes after he was put
ON the relief train Postal Agent James severens VINO
ws: S: G Ill '
at 10 p. m. whrows dead body was laid In the esg,
gage room and the Injured our train were placed IN
'"r The car and smoker OF No rolled down the
embankmen an the ladies' of this train was thrown
engine, the inmates being scaidsd Joseph Gepp
stated that yoang s@y St snG aasd The
regular passsg point Of Nos !, ! ~. ana 80 =
The railroad officials did all in their pewer to care fer
ts wounded The engines met with such iorce ,nat
ing and all their csntents IN few minutes
attempt to pun the snss apsrs dl1sa hs track 'ne'
The following are the killed:
wrrunow Lee sasgagsmaster r., IsG'w Kv' head
srvEsSs James postal clerk. stanford Kyv conclusion
cASps gr'I T. fireman Chattanooga Tenn thrown on top
the S sna ludlow K body
oA.ass crushed under th. smoker ,,.,,..u,. o,,o
fown sra,.a W under s ss isDTsss Tssck messenger
she died at Greenwood
Among the injured are:
% a% and M vim HSsnsS Ss E ss''a They
sHRuMNs. conductor internally injured ...,,o,
NOLAN Joseph coorsd porter Of Train No. 2 iaeeration
MrcusK e n an" d. Engineer No O. who jumped
engine. sprained his ankle and had hand scaded And
TAYLOR p so@er.et Ky engineer. of No l. bruised and
suffering IRON concussion. -, ~ -,
MURPHY, Pat. Junction Ciiy KY. fireman OF Nc leg
ROBERTS, W. r., Ricevls Tenn. mail SERVICE leg aud
| JACKSON " F. Ludlow, Ky, express messenger. hand
| Lead back, sprained and bruised ,,, -
SACkErT /. E.. No. All Rchnond-st, CINCINNATI news
BuRcH j. c. Syduey OHIO travelling passenger agent ch
cago Alton Railroad. badly scalde head ana lace ahd
! urPp J0sEPH covngton Ky scaIded and bruised
PATTON. RICHARD. Ludlow. KY brakeman cut an scane
CAMPBELL t. Hanoveron Ohio scaded on the face neck
In additien 70 these train No carried to Cincinnati
five or six badly iAjured passengers They were III te
Leudsr car the railroad officials re used 70 Allow tlo
Press reporter access 10 tem or give tho
namss or injuries DR. Reddish OF Frankfort cnarge
Of the Green wood coal Mines left Greenwood Win inc
wounded and the body OF Miss Grson, Ter Cincinpat
Green whose bsly left at Somerset Two cars the
mail and ba .gage OF No. Z took fire and ourEed
LOUISVILLE KY, Jan. IA dispatch to Ihe courier
Journal frsm Somerset Ky, tonight gives the Ioowlng
additional particulars OF the snasn up on tno
Southern Railroad yesterday
Later news from the wreck at Greenwood cehnr ~
the report sent last night There Is no DOUBT tnat sew
eral persons burned to DEATH NUMBER el ctarrsu
burned Many kilograms were received lnqulrinR Ior
relatives Of friends the fatal train, ana hunsor
the passengers inquired after cannot he found one s
these Inaures was for j. H. Avery, OF CiacinnatL he
nnst be fonnd ana is supposed to be the man who
| entered the toilet room and was burned 10 death'