The Forrest City times., 1888-08-18
WORK OF TRAIN WRECKERS.
A Fiendish Crime Road in Texas
 Ends an Engineers Life.

WACO, TEX, August S.-The south bound Texas Central tram was wrecked six miles west of Waco at 9 o'clock last night. Several of the pas sengers were injured. The fireman was seriously injured and the engineer was instantly killed. The wreck was caused by persons deliberately placing Instructions upon the track, and in such manner as to secure the derail- ment of the train. The work was done bv skillful hands and showed a thorough knowledge of railroading. The bars of cattle-guard near by were torn up and fastened on the rail, after the manner of frog, and would force one wheel up above the track, while the other would be wedged from the rail. The train was mixed one, containing ten box cars and two pas senger cars with forty-one passengers on board. When the train left Ross
 it was half an hour behind time and
 the engineer attempted to make up a little of it on the run into Waco, and was running faster than schedule time.
 about three miles from Ross, and
 while in dense wood, the engineer, J.
 R. Moses, who had his head out of the cab window peering ahead, suddenly
 drew it in and said to the fireman:
 My God Buffalo, we are gone /"
 In an instant more the engine struck the Instructions and bounded off on
 the ties. The eng gineer and fireman
 both stuck bravely by their posts. The engineer whstled Down brakes v and
 reversed his lever. The engine ran
 along the ties for several hundred
 wards. then pitched off into the em- bankment, turning somersault and
 landing on a 9moke stack.
 The engineer. J. R. Moses, was caught beneath it's ponderous weight
 and killed instantly.
 Fireman A. II. Cartrelle was thrown
 from the cab against box car and re-
 ceived serious contusionS of the head
 and several fractures of the body, but will recover.
 The box cars, which were between the engine and passenger coaches, were completely wrecked, being piled upon top of the engine and tender in the ditch. Several passengers received iniuries, but none of them are serious, as the passenger cars remained on the ties, and were not piled up with the others. The passengers remained at the spot until o'clock this morning, when a relief train arrived and carried them off. The body of the brave en- gineer. who refused to jump and save his life. was taken to Walnut Springs, where he lived and where he leaves wife and several small children. He
 had been employed on the road for number of years and was faithful and efficient man.
 The matter of the wreck was re- ported to the officers this morning, and
 a posse, under Constable Lee Jenkins,
 and several operatives from Hall x Walters Detective Agency, repaired
 to the scene, and gathered what clews there were to be had The railroad officials seem to think that the deed
 was committed by persons in that vicinity who have had cattle killed by | the railroad, but the officers are satts- | fed the men who arranged the obstruc- | ton on the track were well acquainted | with practical railroad work. A large | force of officers is at work, stimulated | bv the rewards which have been of
 fered for the recapture of the perpe- | trat0rs.