The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-02-12
TkRRIBLE ACCIDENT.
A Switch Engine ut Springfield,
Mo-, Jumps the Track
and Instantly Kills
Three Men.

Springfield, No., Feb. About
o'clock yesterday afternoon switch engirs
No. q, on the st. LOUIS and San Francisco
railway, while running at the rate OF
nearly Is miles an hour, jumped the track
when about quarter Of a mile west of the
main depot in this city and instantly
killed three men and wounded FIVE Others
four OF whom will probably die from the
effects of their injuries.
| The engine lad just hauled &. car OF
stock TO the stock ards and switched il on
a side track and was returning TO the depot
when the accident occurred. Ii is supposed
that 1t YVES thrown from the track by strik
ing switch frog, when il ploughed I'D
the rails and ties and forced itself parity
down an embankment. There were ten
men on the engine, several of hon were
standing on the step In front of the engine
when the fatal plunge was made Six of
these had both legs broken or severed from
| their bodies, and the scene of death and
suffering was enough to make the stOutest
men quail and grow faint.
As s"on ID - .-Sibl s'rOng arms placed
the iujure, litter, and conveyed them
In their homes or To- the rooms of DE-.
Barney, where ,ne physicians of the city
promptly did all hat could be done 10 re-
lieve their -uffeIing. while the remains of
the dead were earl To the undertaking.
rooms OF August LJhsmeyer, to be pre-
pared for interment The names of the
ALLIED are:
TIL: DEAD.
William Miller, variman, age about So,
and unmarried head crushed almost into
a jelly
GEORGE Lnwery, brakeman, aged 80 both
legs cut OF lie lelYts a sife and one
child.
Lhtrles Mason, swi.chman, aged 90, had
10th legs cut of and Irrrib y mangIed. He
also leaves family.
All three Of the men reside 10 this CITY
The wife of Mason, on hearing of the death
1 her husband, went into cOLvulsions, and
her physicion thinks that she will prob tbly
die from the effects Of the shock. Miller
was member In good standing of the
Ancient Order OF Uni ed Workmen at
Neosho, and Wentworth Lodge Of this city
will take charge of his funeral.
The following is list of those hurt
THE INJURED.
Z. U. Browning, aged about IS, both lie. s
cut of above the knees, and it is not
thought that he can possibly recover. He
Is stock dealer living at Sweet Water,
Tex. He was here on his way to II l. uis
with two carloads of mules. His family
have been telegrapheI OF his terrible mis-
fortune.
Ed. McEane, the engineer, badly scalded
and both legs broken.
Frank Crawford, yardmaster, both legs |
mangled and broken.
John King, switchman, head cut and |
both legs broken.
John Reynolds, brakeman, was also |
slightly injured.
There We're ten men on the engine and |
only two escaped unhurt. These were Jas. |
OBrien, brakeman, and Mason, the clerk |
of Baggage-Master W. d. Garsood at the |
North Sine Depot.
FORMER sEDALIAN.
George Lowery, whose name appears as
one o! the killed, was former resident of |
Sedalia. He was fireman on switch |
engine in the Missouri Pacific yards at this |
place for several months, and afterwards he |
run hotel restaurant opposite the union |
depot. He went to Springfield last October