Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-25
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. JUMPED THE TRACK. Horrible Wreck of a Train
 by Train Wreckers. THE BISHOP INQUEST. The Place Where Dr. Cronin
 Was Murdered. MORE IRISH TENANTS EVICTED, The Steamer Yantlc EX- periences Rough Weather.
MORE IRISH TENANTS EVIcTED,
A TRAIN JUMPS THE TRACK

! While Travelling at High Kate o1 Speed-A Horrible Wreck on the s. Louis and San Francisco Railroad The Forward Cars Smashed Into l Smlthereens-A Clear Case or Train l Wrecking Forty-FiVe Fassensefs Badly Injured, but no Lives Lost. ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 24.-The west bound train on the St. Louis and San Francisco rail road which left St. Louis last night at S:15 was wrecked at point three miles west oi Sullivan, Mo, which Is sixty eight miles west of St. Louis. Not passenger escaped unhurt and forty-fve are known to have been seriously injured, though no deaths are yet reported. The train was running at a high rate of speed, when suddenly without warning the track gave way and the locomo- tive, baggage car and five coaches went over the embankment. The trainmen and those only slightly injured at once set to work to prevent the additional horror of fire, in which they succeeded, and then turned their atten-
 tion to the unfortunate injured, and in a very short time forty-fve passengers, all badly hurt had been released from the debris.
 A temporary hospital was improvised at Sul-
 liyan and the most seriously injured were
 taken there, while others were brought to St.
 Louis on the relief train, which was hurried
 to the scene of the disaster. The wounded
 are under the care of Dr. Mcintyre, chief
 of the road.
 It was 11:25 D. m. when the accident oo-
 cured. The train was travelling at high
 rate of speed and most of the passengers had
 already gone to sleep, while the few remain
 ing awake were about to do so. There is 8
 curve in the road about three miles west of
 Sullivan, and when this point was reached 8
 sudden jolt was felt all over the train. Ev-
 erybody felt it and the people in the cars
 could hear the forward coaches rattling and
 rumbling over the ties and the crushing
 noises of cars being demolished. A creek is
 crossed by the road at that point and there
 is steep embankment thirty feet high.
 Most of the passengers thought the
 train was going through bridge and feeling of horror chilled
 their blood. In an instant all the coaches, except the two sleeping CATS had
 been thrown from the rails. People were thrown about in the cars in all directions and some of them were thrown from the coaches down the embankment. One man, Walter Davidson, who travels for the Westinghouse air brake was thrown right out of & window on the opposite side of the coach from which he was sitting and sent rolling down the em- bankment to the edge of the creek. Another passenger on the same coach was tossed from the rear end of the car to the forward end and in fact men, women and children were thrown about promiscuously. The train proper was made up of mail cal, ,sn express car, baggage car, smoker, a ladies' coach, 8 reclining chair car and two Pullman sleepers. Back of these sleepers were hitched five empty coaches of the San Antonia and Arkansas Pass railroad which had been picked up at some way station. The front truck of the first sleeper jumped the track, but the rest of the car remained on and the rear sleeper and empty coaches behind it never left the track. Fortunately there were no fires in any of the cars and the jolt extinguished the lights im- mediately. Otherwise con6agrstion 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 of it by the train men to the messengers was that the spikes ana nsn plates had been remor-u from the rails at the curve, thus leaving the rail loose on the ties. The forward portion of the locomotive passed the place all right, but the tender jumped the track and was thrown part of the way down an embank- ment, Who removed the spikes and plates is not known but the supposition IS the work was done by train robbers who wanted to hold up the train. Still no robbers put in an appearance, and If the accident was caused by them, they must have either weak ened in their purpose or have thrown 1t un- der the wrecked train. The officials claim 1t is a clear case of train wrecking. On the train was large body of physicians return ing from Springfield where the State Medi- cal convention is being held, and they ren- dered valuable assistance in caring for the injured. Among the latter was Dr. Russell, who received very serious hurts.