Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-28
FELL THROUGH A BRIDGE.
Terrible Railroad Disaster on
 the Grand Trunk.
AFULI. CAR TURNS A SOMERSAULT.
It Land, Right Sidc Up-Another Stood
 on End-Nine Passengers Killed and

End-Nine Passengers Killed and Many wounded-virage Populace to thc Rnscue-Awful Scenes-
 ST. GEORGE, Ont, Feb. 2S--A terrible ac- c;dent, with great loss of life attending it, oc- cured about 500 yards east of this station at s o'clock last night Tho St Louis express, due to pass here at 5:57 o'clock, was late be cause of snow on the tracks near London. At Paris, five miles west of here, it stopped for water, and then the engineer and a man at the station, whose only duty it is to examine the car wheels found nothing wrong with the train.
 The train thundered past here very fast. The moment it struck the bridge over creek that runs under the Grand Trunk road, 800 yards east of here, n tire of one of the en- gine's driving wheels cracked, and the jar of going on to the tr'estle structure tore it off the wheel. The result was calamitous.
 Before the engineer could realize what had happened his engine left the rails which spread, tore all the ties up as if they were sothpicks and tore itself away from the train behind it, taking with it the baggage car and tender and express car.
 The Pullman, ill which were most of the passengers, was next It and the dining car, which immediately followed, went clear through the middle section of the bridge. The Pullman, according to the stories of eye witnesses, seemed to hang in the air a mo ment and then it began to topple over In its descent to the creek or rivulet, un- derneath, it turned complete somersault, lighting thirty feet below right side mp It was smashed into thousand pieces, the roof | falling in upon the passengers within the car, who in the descent had been turned upside l down and thrown about the interior of the | car without moments warning of what was 1 going to happen.
 The dining car, which was nearly full Of | people eating, followed the Pullman, but, in stead of turning completely over, landed be- low on its end, spilling everybody, tables, | crockery and cooking stoves in a heap in the | end of the which was bottommost. The first class passenger car which followed | the dining car was kept on the bridge by the ties, which in tearing up had piled before it, compile tely stopping its progress. The shrieks of the dead and dying were fearful. The dining car stove set fire to the woodwork and was beginning to spread, when some one, with wonderful presence of mind, left the wounded while he extinguished the flames. There was help had almost immediately from the station and the surrounding houses, and the work began of extrisating the dead and wounded
 It was just getting dark when the accident occurred, and this made affairs more serious than they otherwise would have been. Lan- terms were obtained and hundreds of people under the superintendence of the Grand Trunk agent at this place, worked like heroes.
 The first dead body taken out was that of q woman, whose head had been crushed in the Pullman out of all recognition. A boy was taken out of the Pullman next unconscious | He died within ten minutes after. Two men one of them with both legs broken at the thigh, the other with his chest crushed in were dragged out of the dining car.
 The following is list of killed and wounded | as far as known:
 George Leggatt, of Mitchell | w. M Wemp, of London
 Dr. Swan.
 \. w. Francis, of Woodstock
 Mir. Mclean, of the firm of Mclean S Beecher, Detroit, Mich.
 Rains, of London.
 Capt Moore, q Salvation lass from Brant ford
 Mir. Peers, of Woodstock.
 Harry Angle, fireman.
 The following more or less severel, wounded: Thomas L. Doutney. temper ance lecturer; Mrs. and May Jennings, Paris Mr. and Mrs. Buddin, Dorchester; Mrs Hig Ingersoll; Miss Chaffee, Pontiac, Mich. James Hyslop, Goderich; Dan Peacock Woodstock; R. W. Knight, Woodstock John Mckinley, Detroit; Fred Han cock, London; George Forbes, New York J. R. Marshall and Mrs. J. R. Marshall Regina; John P. Wilson (coloreD, Chatham Mrs. Evans, Hamilton; George Margott dining car conductor. Niagara; Robert Hilton St. Catherines; Miss Andrews, of Lambeth Mrs Mclaughlin, London; Conductor Rev ell, seriously; D. w. Karn, Woodstock; W NJ. Bennett, Sanilac, Mich Dr. H. Lequesne Cleveland; A. w. Francis, Woodstock; Mrs A. s. Sendall, Detroit.