Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-11-08
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
.HIGHWAYMEN WRECKERS
Train Thrown fromthe I rack
in Missouri.
THE LATEST ELECTION RETURNS.
Explosion in the Brooklyn
Navy Yard.
AN ANARCHIST RIOT IN NEWARK.
An Indiana Town Wiped
Out by Fire.
AN ANARCHIST RIOT IN NEWARK.
A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS.

Train Robbers Cause a Wreck In
Missouri-Serious Collision on the
Cincinnati Southern-A Florida
sleeper Crashed Into by n Freight
other bad Accidents.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, Nov. IA special
to the Star from Sedalia, Mo-, says: Train
No. westbound on the Missouri Pacific
was wrecked by train robbers three miles
cast of Otterville, near the notorious Rob-
bers' Cut, at $40 this morning. The train
consisted of seven coaches, including mail,
express and baggage. The robbers had
removed the spikes, bolts and fish plates
for distance of three rail lengths and
placed crowbars under the rails so that
they would spread. When the engine
touched the loosened rails it jumped the
track, broke loose from the tender and ran
fifty feet on the ties and turned over.
Fireman Lyons jumped and escaped in
jury. Engineer John Boyd stuck to his
post and received a severe wound on the
back of his head and had his hand badly
cut. The tender turned across the track,
throwing part of the mail car thirty feet
to the side of the track. There were four
postal clerks in the car and all were slight
1y injured. j. D. Mccarthy, one of them,
received a severe injured to his right leg.
The baggage and express cars were COM
pletely wrecked. The smoker, which was
filled with passengers, was turned upside
down and the car was badly smashed.
Strange to say not one of the occupants
were severely injured. The two chair cars
jumped the track but did not turn over.
The Pullman was the only coach that re-
manned on the track The engineer had
cfonro1 tho train ohorf dsotonoo froy,,
the wreck to make a repair on his engine,
and the train was moving about eighteen
miles an hour when the engine struck the
loosened rails, to which fact is no doubt
due the miraculous escape of the passen-
gers and the train.
Accident on the Cincinnati southern.
CINCINNATI, Nov. IA miraculous es-
cape from death by the occupants of the
Jacksonville Fla.) sleeping car on the Gin
cinnati Southern road happened at juno
ton City at 1888 o'clock. The Louisville
and Nashville railroad crosses the Southern
at this point, and when train No. 8 of the
Southern road reached the station on
place the middle sleeper of the three was
directly across the track of the Louisville
and Nashville. On the latter road heavy
freight was coming from the west. 1t 4
should have stopped two hundred feet
from the crossing until the track was clear,
but for some reason did not. 1t is said the
brakes would not work, and that the grade
was steep.
At any rate the train came rushing on
and struck the sleeper in the center, the
engine ploughing through and breaking
the car to pieces, throwing the occupants
right and left on either side of the track.
The engine left the track and crashed
into the baggage room of the Louisville
and Nashville depot. Fortunately the
wrecked car did not take fire, and no one
was killed outright. Eight persons were
seriously injured.
Mr.. E. D. Northup of Elkootsville, NY,
was passenger in the wrecked sleeper.
He arrived here to-day and said he could
not account for the escape of anybody in
the car. The engine crashed through it
with force that wrecked the whole car
and the sleeping passengers were thrown
promiscuously among debris. The train
reached Cincinnati over three hours late.
Jumped the Track.
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