The Brookhaven leader., 1889-05-30
A TRAIN WRECKED.
A Train Wrecked on the Sc. Louis San
Francisco Road and All the Passengers
Injured-Reward For the wreckers.
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railroad, which left st. Louis Thursday
night at 6;15 O'Clock, was wrecked three
miles west of Sullivan, Mo, sixty-eight
mlss v eat of st. Louis. Not passenger
escaped unburt and for.y-nve were seri-
ously injured, though no deaths are yet
reported.
The train was running at high rate Of
speed when suddenly and without warn
ing the track gave way and the locomotive,
baggage car and five coachss 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 turned their attention to
the more unfortunate injured, and in a
very short time forty-fv passengers, all
badly hurt, had been released from the
debris. A temporary hospital was i'm
provised at Sullivan 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 women are under the
care of DR.. Mcintyre, chief surgeon of the
road.
1t was 11;25 p. m when the accident oc-
CURED. The train was travelling at high
rate of speed and most Of the passengers
had already gone to sleep, while the few
remaining awake were about to do so.
There is a curve in the road about three
miles west of Sullivan and when this
curve was reached sudden jolt and jar
was felt all over the train. Everybody
felt it and the people in the rear cars could
hear the forward coaches rattling and
rumbling over the ties and the crushing
noises of cars being demolished A creek
= 4 l. 49, II. .,,I
there is a 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 cars 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 and down
the embankmsnt Walter Davidson, who
travels for the Westinghouse Air Brake
Company, was thrown right out of win
dow on the opposite side of the coach from
which he was sitting and sent rolling
down the embankment to the edge of the
creek. His feet were in the water.
The explanation given by the trainmen
and passengers was that the spikes and
fsh-plates had been removed from the
rail at the curve thus leaving the rail
loose on he 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 1t would probably have gone the en-
tire distance had not the forward end held
itup. Who removed the spikes and plates
is not known, but the suppositon is the
work was done by train robbers who want
ed to hold up the train. Still no robbers
put in an appearance, and il the accident
was caused by them they must have either
weakened in their purpose or have thrown
the wrong train and were not prepared to
do their work at that time. The road off,
cals claim it as a clear case Of train
wrecking
In the same train were several physi-
clans returning from Springfield, where
the State medical convention was being
held, and they also rendered valuable as
sistanee in caring for the injured Among
the latter was DR.. Russell. who received
very serious hurts, having both ears taken
of and being otherwise injured so badly
that he could not be brought home and is
now at Sullivan.
The following is list of the injured: D.
s. Weikert Wentzvilie, Mo-, both legs
broken four inches above the ankle,
may lose one of them; George s. Simpson,
Hancock County, Ill, shock and cut on
face; Patrick O'Day, seven years, fracture
of skull, will probably die; Mrs. Kate
O'Day, bruised about head, neck and
side and injured internally; Martin
O'Day, cut and bruised on the face.
also cut in right foot and bruised about
the chest; William Doherty, left hand cut
and bruised; Mrs. Mary Griffith, Fair
Creek, ILL.,, injured in forehead and right
elbow broken; John o Oatley, Rolla. Mo-,
right shoulder injsred and thumb dslo-
Gated; John E. Holloway, Cuba, Mo-, lower
portion right side bruised and cut in fore
head; Mrs. Mary E. Nash, Bloomington,
Ind, bruised on left side and severely
shocked; c. W. Phillips, Springdale, Ark,
fracture of arm and cut on shoulder; Dr.
Ed S. Russell, Tuscarawas, O., flesh
wound, ear torn off and cut in head, Sc
we're shock but rallying nicely, his wife
also cut in the head; B. II. Newman, Cuba,
No, cut in the mouth; D. Railey. New
York, arm and leg broken; D. s. Graves,
Marshtieid, arm, leg and back bruised !;
John Kendrick, Fort Smith, Ark, slight
ly bruised on forehead; Joe e. Harlin,
Cuba, Mo-, cut on head, bruised on chest
cut on arm and shoulder bruised; Walter
slightly cut on arm, hip bruised; j. B.
Sally, Rolla, Mo, bruised on right leg
and arm; B. B. Mcintosh, St Louis,
bruised on shoulder and side; j. o. Nor
rison, Richmond, Mo-, cut on head slight
ly; Emma Pattonson, Decatur, Ill, face
bruised; Mrs. w. j. Wright Decatur, ILL.,,
check bruised; NJ. Lipc, st. Louis, bruised on
shoulder, side and back; Mary O'Day,
wrist cut slightly: IL. F. Shaw
Durango, COL, bruised on shoulder
and slight cut on forehead; Anton Marx.
St. Louis, slight cut and bruised on side;
]. j. Brinton, Sparta, Mo-, cut on head,
right hand and left leg; J. c. Hovele,
Litchfield, ILL.,, cut and bruised on head,
bruised on shoulder and hip; Croel Cres-
Ter, Galveston, Ind, bruised on foot and
arm; I. L. Cone, Brest Mo-. cut on head
and back and shoulder; Hattie Shank,
st. Louis, light cut on head; c. j.
Wright, baggageman, bruised on knee
and right side, cut on face; Paul Horn.
Mount Pulaski, Ill, cut on head. bruised
on shoulder; Mrs. w. j. Wayne, Decatur,
Ill. slightly bruised.
No deaths have as yet resulted from the
effects of injuries received by the passen-
gers, though several of the injured are in
a precarious condition.
General Manager Morrill, has offered
reward of Sl,C00 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.
A Valiant Doctor.
CHARLOTTE, N c., May 25.-Dr. John
Allen was robbed on a country road, Tues
day night by highwaymen. of $40. The
doctor was furious, and when the robbers