St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-08
CUT SQUARELY IN HALVES.
A Freight Train Crashes Through
q Sleeper Filled With Passen-

CINCINNATI, O.. Nov. "A miraeu-
lous escape from death by the occupants
of the jacksonville. Fla, sleeping car
on the Cincinnati Southern road hap
pened at junction City at 3:33 o'clock.
The Louisville 8 Nashville railroad
crosses the Southern at this point. ana
when Train No. 8, Of the Southern road,
reached the station on schedule time
and stopped at the usual place, the
middle sleeper of the three was directly
across the track of the Louisville &
Nashville. On the latter road a heavy
freight was coming from the West. 1t
should have slapped 200 feet from the
crossing until the track was clear, but
for some reason the freight did not
stop. 1t is said the brakes would not
work, and that the grade was steep. At
ahy rate, the train came rushing on,
and struck the sleeper in the center,
the engine plowing through and break
ing the ear to pieces, throwing the oc-
cupants right and left on either side of
the track. The engine left the track
and crashed into the baggage room of
the Louisville d Nashville depot.
Fortunately the wrecked car did not
take fire, and no one was killed out
right. The injured are:
HERBERT F. TOUSLEY, Belyidere. Ill.
conclusion OF The brain.
MRS. 5. W. WHEELER. Milwaukee. knee
cut. slight.
JENNIE B. WHITE, three years old, Mil
Waukee, injured about the head.
These are at junction City, KY, un-
der medical treatment:
T. j. WHEELOCK, Findlay, O., slight
scalp wound and bruise on neck.
FRED A. SHALER, boy, Findlay, O., slight
bruises.
DAVID B. snALER, Findlay. O., compress
sion of chest.
reached this city this afternoon:
W. II HARDIE. Jacksonville, Fla. general
freight agent Savannah, Florida d Western.
badly injured about SPINE
b. N. AUSTIN, assistant general passenger
agent Northern Pacific, ST. Paul, MIMI,
badly injured internally.
These two were brought to this city
on the delayed train and were taken to
the Good Samaritan hospital. A sad
feature of Mr.. AuStiu'S misfortune is
that he had gone to Jacksonville, Fla,
to take home the body of his mother.
who had recently died. and her body
was IN the baggage car at the time of
the accident. Mr.. Austin was in great
pain during his journey to this city and
as he moaned he thought he was dying
and said: IL shall soon join my
mOtner. Mr. Mclean, conductor of
the sleeper, was slightly injured as was
also the engineer of the freight train.
E. ID. NOrthrOp. of Elkottsvile, n. Y,
was passenger in the wrecked sleeper.
He arrived here to-day and said lie
could not account for the escape of any,
body in the car. The engine crashed
through it with such force that the
whole car was in ruins and the Sleep
ing passengers were thrown promiscu-
Ously among the debris. The DELAYED
train reached Cincinnati over three
hours late, little after 10 o'clock to-
day.
A dispatch says: a significant fact
In connection with the wreck, is that
Detectives Frank Tut and Williams
Barrett, of the Missouri Pacific secret
service and several witnesses in the
noted case Of the Otterville train rob-
berry were on the train. They were
enroute to Ottervill to testify in tue
case of Buges and Hufimany.
arrested for the "Robber's cut''
robbery, whose trial was to
have been commenced to-day. 1t is
thought to be possible that the accom-
plces of the prisoners wrecked the
train in order to put these witnesses out
of the way. Detectives Tut and Bar
rett started from the scene of the dis
aster immediately after the occurrence
OF the wreck, to work upon the case.
No clue as TO the Identity of the robbers
has as yet been discovered.