Evening journal., 1889-05-25
FORTY PEOPLE INJURED.
"A Train Thrown Down an EN-
bankment.
THE DEED OF TRAIN WRECKERs.

A Reward of 81 600 Is Ohered for the
Arrest Of tho Fiend who Caused the
Aecident-Many Miraculous Escapes.
List Of the injured.
! ST.. LOUIS, May 25-The regular west
bound express train ON the ST. Louis and
San Francisco railroad was wrecked three
miles west Of Sullivan, Mo-, and more than
forty persons were injured, some Of them,
perhaps mortally. An investigation by the
train men and passengers who escaped injury
showed conclusively that the disaster was
caused by train wreckers The object Of the
wreckers is not clear. II il was robbery,
there must have been some miscalculation,
for the wreckers were not on hand to plumber
the passengers The spot chosen is one Of
most dangerous on the line There is a sharp
curve, and an embankment forty feet deep
The spikes and fish plates joining the rails
had been taken up and the rails turned
Crowded with Passengers.
The train consisted OF baggage, express
and smoking cars, two day coaches and two
sleepers. The train was crowded with pas
sengers, many Of whom were returning home
from the Odd Fellows convention and the
Episcopal diocesan convention, which ad-
journed Thursday. Most Of the convention
people We're in the two sleepers Nearly all
the passengers were asleep when the train,
running at a high rate OF speed, reached the
spot selected by the wreckers A sudden
jolt and jar was felt the entire length OF the
train People In the rear cars could hear
the forward coaches rattling and rumbling
over the ties and the noise Of cars crashing
together. A creek is crossed by the road at
that point, and the embanknent is very
steep. Most Of the passengers thought the
train was going through bridge
Thrown Down the Embankment.
The engine passed the loosened rails safely,
but the tender left the track and rolled over
In an instant all the coaches except the two
sleeping cars had been thrown from the rails
People were tossed about in the cars In all
directions, and some Of them were thrown
out Of the coaches and down the embank-
ment One man, Walter Davidson, an agent
Of the Westinghouse Air Brake company,
was thrown out Of a window on the opposite
side of the coach from where he was sitting,
and rolled down the embankment to the
edge of the creek. His feet were in the wa
ter. Another passenger in the same coach
was tossed from the rear end Of the car to
the forward end. The forward cars were
smashed into kindling wood, and the debris
was scattered on both sides Of the track
A Miraculous Escape.
| II was thought at first that the loss of life
must be heavy. The uninjured trainmen and
passengers set to work az once 70 rescue the
injured. Over forty men, women and chill.
dren were taken out Of the wreck alive.
Their escape from death was almost miracu-
GUS. Many are dangerously hurt and cannot
now be removed from Sullivan.
The Injured.
This is the list Of the injured as far as il
has been completed:
ID. S. Weikert, Wentzville, No. George S.
Simpson, Hancock county Ills; Patrick
O'Day, Mrs Kate ODay, Mertin O'Day,
William Doherty, Mrs Mary Griffith, Fair
Creek, Ills John Oatly, Roa No John f.
Hollow, Cuba, Mo-; Mrs. Mary Ash, Bloom.
ington, Ills c. W. Philips. Springdale, Ark
Dr. Ed S. Russell and Mrs Russell,
Tuscarawas county, o.; b. H. New
man, Cuba, Mo; D. Railey, New York
| ID. w. Graves, Marshfield, No. John Ken
drick, Fort Smith, Ark; j. T. Hartin,
Cuba, No. Walter Davidson, St. Louis; j.
| b. Sally, Rolla, Mo. B. b. Mcintosh, st
AfbhAN -. ~ AhNAA An'ls NO i4lltAlu
Patterson, Decatur, Ills Mrs W. j. Wright,
Decatur, Ills NJ. Lipo, St Louis; Mary
ODaY, Durango, Colo; Anton Marx, ST
Louis J. J Brinton, Sparta, No. J. O.
Hovele Litchfleld, Ills Croel Creslef, Gal
weston, Ind. 7. l.. Cone, Brest, Mo. Hattie
Shank, ST. Louis; c. J. Wright baggage
man; Paul Horn, Mount Pulaski, Ills Mrs
| w. J. Wayne, Decatur, Ills
Boy and Mother Mortally Hurt.
The O'Day family are relations Of Vice
President John O'Day, Of the St. Louis and
San Francisco railroad, and the boy and his
mother are mortally hurt
General Manager Morrill, has offered re-
ward Of 81 900 for the arrest Of the man who
wrecked the train. Nearly all the injured are
still at Sullivan, under the care Of the medi-
cal corps Of the read.
The ODays in the list were New Workers
en- route to Springfield, No, where they ex-
pected to live.