Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-25
TERRIBLE RAILROAD WRECK.
A Missouri Passenger Train Goes
Over an Embanlkment.
EVERY PASSENGER INJURsD.
While Going at Full Speed the Traip
is Derailed-Forty- Five Badly
Hurt-No Deaths
reported.
Was I, Train Robbers Work.

ST. LOUIS, May2t-The west bound pas
senger train which left st. LOUIS last night
mt S:l5, was wrecked three miles west OF
Sullivan, Mo-, and not passenger es-
capped unhurt. Forty.fve passen-
gers are known TO have been
seriously injured though no deaths are
reported. The train was running al high
rate of speed when the track suddenly and
without warning, gave:way, and the locomo-
tivo baggage car and five coaches went over
an embankment. The trainmen and those
slightly injured at once set to work TO aid
the others. In q short time fortyf pas.
sengers all badly hurt, had been released
from the debris. A temporary
hospital was mprovised ut Sullivan aud
those most seriously injured were taken
there, while the others were brought to st.
Louis on q special train.
1t was IL % p, m. whom the accident oc-
Cured. Most of the passengers on the train
had gone to sleep, and others were about to
do so. There is u curve in the road about
three miles west of Sullivan, and when this
point was reached, "a sudden jolt and jar was
felt all over the train.
The creek is crossed by road at that point.
and there is a steep embankment thirty feet
high. la an instant all the coaches except
two sleepers had been thrown from the rails.
The passengers were thrown in all directions,
and some of them were hurled from the
coaches and down the embankment. The
train was made up of mail car, express
car baggage car. smoker, ladies' coach,
reclining chair car, and two Pullman Sleep
ers, and back of these were hitched five
empty coaches. Fortunately there were no
fires in any of the cars, and the jolt extin-
guished the lights immediately.
The explanation of the accident given by
the tranmen was that the spikes and fish
plates had been removed from the rail at
the curve, thus leaving the rail loose on the
ties.s The forward portion of the locomotive
passed over all right, but the tender Jumped
the track and was thrown down the en-
bankment.
Who removed the spikes and plates is un-
known, but the supposition is that the work
was done by train robbers. 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 nave thrown the
wrong train. On board the train was q
large body of physicians returning from the
state medical convention at Springfield, aud
they rendered valuable aid in caring for the ,
injured
Following is list of the injured
ID. S. Weigert, Wentzville, Mo-, both legs
broken, may lose one of them.
s. s. Simpson, Hancock county, Illinois,
shocked and cut on the left side of the face.
Patrick O,Day,, aged seven years, fracture
/ Oh Skull, Will pfOuhOty ulc.
| Mrs. Kate O'Day, bruised about the head,
neck aud side, and injured Internally.
Martin O'Day, cut and bruised on the face,
also right foot cut, and bruised about the
breast.
William Doherty, left hand cut and bruised.
Mrs Mary Griffith, Fair Creek, H., in
jured on the forehead, and right elbow
broken.
| injured and thumb dislocated.
John E. Hollow. Cuba, Mo-, badly bruised.
Mrs. Mary Hash, Bloomington, Ind,
bruised on the left side and severely shocked.
G. w. Phillips, Springdale, Ark, arm
| fractured and cut on the shoulder.
DR.. Ed Russell, Tuscarawus, o., severe
| flesh wounds, ear torn off and cut on the
head; severely shocked.
| Mrs. Russell, cut on the head.
b. H. Newman, Cuba, Mo-, cut in the
mouth.
ID. Railey, New York. arm and leg broken.
ID. w. Graves, Marshfield, Mo-, arm, leg
John Kendrlck, Fort Smith, Ark, bruised.
Joe Harlin, Cuba, Mo, badly bruised.
Walter Davidson, ST. Louis. badly bruised.
j. b. Sally, Rolla, Mo-, bruised on the leg
b. N. Mcintosh, Richland, Mo-, cut on the
| head slightly.
Dina Patterson, Decatur, H., face
Mrs. w. j. Wright, Decatur Ill.,, cheek
bruised.
M Lipo, ST. Louis, bruised on the shoulder
| and back.
Mary O'Day, wrist cut.
E. j. Shaw, Durango Col, burulsed on
| the shoulder and lightly cut on the forehead.
Anton Marx, st. Lonis, cut and bruised on
| the side.
| j. j. Brinton, Sparta, Mo-, cut on the head,
| right hand and left leg.
| j. G. Hovele, Litchtield, ILL.,, badly bruised.
Corel Crusler, Galveston, Ind, bruised on
| foot and arm.
| II. l.. Cone, Breast, Mo-, cut on the head
| and bruised on the back and shoulder.
| Hattie Shank, st. Louis, cut on the head.
| G.. j. Wright, baggagcman bruised on tho
| knee and right side and cut on the face.
! Paul Horn, Mount Pulaski, H.. cut on The
| head and bruised on the shoulder.
| Mrs. w. j. Wayne Decatur H., bruised.
| General Manager Morrill, has offered q
| reward OF $40 900 for information which will
| lead to the detection of the party or parties
| who removed the bolts from the fish plates
| and thus caused the wreck