Telegram-herald., 1889-05-26
THREE DOZEN HURT.
= Passenger Train Ditohsd Near
Sullivan, No
KIsDLIsC-WOOD MADE OF TEE CARS.
Nobody kniea ostrgghs bat Some 80 sss
1hirts Sax IsJeEsa I,asssaseEs Nas
lie suspicious ~8 a. A.
teLa 2ted E0ebsFy.

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as wrecked nuJle before midnight IL =
Elllnt three miles west II Sullivan. No,
which place "a s1Xty-slght mites v esg II 81
Louis Not : IasseLsSI escaped uNAalb
Gnd thirty ak GTe known = have been &c
ri0usy injured. though ne deaths Afe /. q
reported Following - hsg of TIE M -ieoi
D :. We.kert wsnizvllIs. No both less
broken -four iuoEes above tie GnktSi Uecsse
> / Epso1, Hancock Csusth III, F@tf4sA
O'Dsy, sgSG yesTs, fracture ol sAe4A Viz
probably die, Nrs h-te = Day, bruised about
head neck and side and injured lHteTn~l.S
Martin . Day, sut aEa bruised On ths iANe' @.s"
cat IL get foot ana bruised about ths
chest. William Doherty. Jeff h.nc eu'
and bruisea, Mrs Mary Grifrth. far creek,
IL injured on forehead and right eiso~
broken. john U. Oaasy. hola. HE, rsh'
shoulder injured snd thumb olsloe&toe' 1ohh
l. Hollo~, cuba. No, lover paTI OF r.shi siae
bruised ane cut on forehead, Mrs- Mary AsL,
Bloom Ston, lad. bruised on len sloe sna
severely shocked; c. W. Phllips, Sprinsos!e.
Ark. fracture OF arm sna cot OF shoulder; Dr.
Fd : Russell TnsssTAwEs. o, severe nesn
wouad, ear torn and cut IN The head. severe
shock. eut rsllyiHs nicely his VIE slsO
cuI in The head: b. II. Newman, Cuba,
Mo. ID. Raney. New York, arm and les
broken; D. w. Graves. MErstnele, Mo John
kendTiok, Fort Smith Arb. Joe r Hsfiin,
Cuba. Mo, Walter Davidson. 81 LsGis, No. /;
J. r. silly Rolla, No. B Nelntosh, 81
LOUIS. j. O. Morrison, Kiehlsno, Mo; Emma
Paterson, Decatur. III; Mira w. J Wright
Decatur. IL; ID Lpo. st Louis, No I;
Mary O'Dsy, i. J. shaw, Durango.
COL Anton Marx. ST. Lous. Mo-
J. J. BriIton Sparta, Ne; J. c. hosele. Liteh'
-. - FVN 4
Cone Brest Mo; Hattie Shank, ST Louis.
Mo-; C J. Wright baggageman, bruised On
knee and ght SIDE, cut on face Paul harr'
Mount PulAski, III, "a cut on head, bruised on
shoulder; Mrs. w. J. Wayne. Decatur, IL.
slight y bruised, little girl unhurt
The train was running at a high rate Of
speed, when suddenly the track gave way
and the locomotive, baggage car and five
coaches went over the embankment The
trainmen and those only slightly injured at
once SET 10 work 10 prevent the additional
horror Of FIRE, in which they succeeded, and
then turned their attention 10 the more un-
fortunate injured, and Ia O short time the
passengers, all badly hurt, had been re-
leased from the debris.
II was II :25 p. N. when the accident oc-
CURED and most OF the passengers had al
ready gone TO sleep There is curve in
the road about three miles west Of Sullivan,
and when this point was reached a sudden
Jolt and jar was felt all over the
train Every body felt IL, and the
people in the rear cars could hear
the forward coaches rattling and
tumbling over the ties and the crushing
noise of cars being demolished creek is
crossed by the road at that point and there
Is steep embankment thirty feet high
oS hot bA
train was going through a bridge, and
feeling of horror chilled their blood In an
instant all the coaches except the two sleep
ing cars had been thrown from the rails
People were thrown about in the cars ia
all directions, and some OF them were
thrown from the coaches and down the
elnbankment Fortunately there were no
fires in any OF the cars end the jolt ex-
tinguished the lights immediately. Other
wise a confagration would have been
caused and there is no telling how many
lives might have been lost As it was most
of the forward cars were smashed into
smithereens.
The explanation given by the trainmen
to the passengers was that the spikes and
fish-plates had been removed from the rail
at the curve, thus leaving the rail too
loose on the ties The forward portion OF
the locomotive passed the place al right,
but the tender jumped the track and was
thrown part of the way down
an embankmeRt Who removed the spikes
and plates is not known, but the
supposition is the work was done by train
robbers mo wanted 10 hold up the train
Still TO robbers put in an appearance, and
II the accident was caused by them they
must have either weakened in their pur-
pose or have thrown the wrong train The
road officials claim 1t is u cles. case of train
wrecking
General Manager Merrill has offered re-
ward of 100 for information which will
lead to tse detection OF the party or parties
who removed the bolts from the fish plates
and fh,s caueed the wreck