Fair play., 1889-06-01
WRECK ON THE FRISCO.

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i:c,uIt of Train-Wreci.er>' wurk-Li>t
Of Thr i"iurcsi-
ST. Lut-1S May o4-The yest-Hnun1 s..
I.a4i. 4 Sl,, Francisco tram which
LETT I-ai4u ,irlot al 4 urarter-ptsr
eight o'clock last ui.ht met w5fi,
a most disastrous accident thres
miles west OF Sullivan. No. a st,tf,r
sixtv-ci-nt nils from here. Nearly
every coach in th, train was smashed aud
scarcely q passenger, exreot those in The
slreuin.-rars. e~clueI injury. V. ons
was killed. though at Least one. and prob.
ABLY more vii. die. Some o. the u,~.rr-
gers continued west on their Journey.
fogr Of them returned 10 81. Louis, and
many are still a Sullivan 50 badly in
jured that they can not he moved. They
are under tn" care a. DR.. McIntyre, .:
thIS city, the chief surgeon of the road.
II was - p. III. when the accident 0c-
cured. The train was travelling a. a high
rate Of speed, and most OF the passengers
nad already gone To sleep. while the few
remaining awake were about to do 50.
There i n curve IN the road about threa
miles west "t sullivan, ana Wheu thi
point was reached sudden Jolt and '1r
was ie!t al over the tram. Every body
telt II, and the people IN the rear cars
could hear the forward coaches rattlin:
and rumhlinc over the ties aud the crush
l"S noises "t ears being d'moilNh"d.
creek l. crossed by the road NJ that point
and there i n steep emhaukmcn; thirty
feet h!gh. Most of the passengers
thought the train was going tnrouah
bridge, and feeling ot horror chilled
their blood. In an instant all the coaches
except the ;"o sleeping cars had been
thrown from the rails. People were
thrown about IN the cars in all directions.
and some ~ them we're thrown from tho
coaches and down the eubankment.
Fortunately there were no fires in anv
Of the cars. at the time, and the Jolt ry-
tinguiShed the lights immediately. on
erwiSea u couilal-ration would have been
caused AMI there Is no telIiu., how many
lives might have been lost. As it was,
most OF the forward cars were smashed
into sInitHereens and IN" debris thrown
on both sides of the track. II was the
worst wreck that has occurred in this Sec
iion for lon: time.
The explanation riyan of il by the
troinrncn tr the r,,s.nn,-ars yv,s rr,It thr
spikes and fish uIates had been removed
from the rail al the curve. tins lrav;n..
the rail loose or, the ties. The forward
portion of the locomotive PASSED the
place all right, but the tender jumped tho
trac: and WAS thrown part OF the way
down The cmbtnhmaEt. |. woald prob
ably have gone the entire distance had
not the forward end held 1t mp. Who re-
moved The spikes AMI plates l. not known,
but the suppoSition is the work WAS done
by train ruhIrrS who wanted tn hold NJ
tLe train. sin no robbcr, mt in an an
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,l'.r purpose or nave thrown 'hr wrong
Hain anu Were not prepared To d" their
Work at thtt time. Possibly they We're IN
wait for the ca~t-bound train. which dill
not arrive uutil som. hours later. Il
seems improbable however. that they
shauld not hay, pn.i,.,I themselves be,tar
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case OF tram n-wreekin-. DR.. John H. Me-
lHiyrc, Ia" cllIet surgeon OF the Frisco
road, WAS coming up on the east-b.ul
'F.iscn train with his wife, aui renamed
at sullivan to attend the injured wholtI
been removed there. On tho sam, rr,f,,
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go IN '''4 - ING ".''''
ana 'neF as" 'rhuefed 'a'naoIe ASSIST
arc III caring i"f the injured.
Til" following; is the official list Of the
injured:
u. 5. Wei!,er.. Wen,zvilio. Mo. both leg,
broken four i;,.hrs above the ankle: NAV lose
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shoe, and c.r ON left side Of fac
Patrick O'D4y. aged seven years, fracture
skull: VIII PROBABLY die