Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-14

Plunged a TraiS on the Oregon
and California Road.
Train, Trestld end All Half
Buried tli the Mud.

The Engineer, Fire nian and Two Passen-
gers killed Number Of Deaths from the
Accident win Probably aseaeh Ten.
Five Cars smishcd Into spiInters.
Partial List of the rnjured
PORTLAND, Ore. NOV "A. The south
bound Oregon and California train went
through the trestls over Lake Labish,
near Salem, al o'clock Wednesday
night. The trestl' gave way when the
engine ran onto it and the train, trestle
and all went dowi, together, the engine
being overturned md half buried in the
mud Following the engine came the
tender, mail, baggage and express cars,
smoking car and tourist sleeper, all of
which We're smashed
Killed md Injured.
Engineer McFattden and Fireman Tim
McNeal were killed
The following were Injured:
Capt. Jack Crawford, the poet scout,
bruised.
Samuel Arson, i,f New York city, side
and back sprained
Mrs. I. G, Berley and May and Nellie
Boyle, of Missoula, Mont.
Wilson Berry, of North Dakota, in
jured about the throat.
c. M. Barrow, of Ellsworth, Kan,
back sprained.
Fred Waite, of Ellsworth, of Kansas,
back sprained and it is thought received
internal injuries.
Dr.. Hammel and wife, Of Philadel-
phia, both injured in spine. They were
returning from a nip around the world.
j. L. Kimber3ee, Of Neenafl, Wis,
back hurt
c. Griebel, a traveller for the Val
Blatz Brewing company, of Milwaukee.
q. q. Newnlah, of Pleasant Forks,
Canada, painfully injured about the
throat
James McGaT!, United States mar
shal of Salt Lalas Utah, nose broken,
leg probably brolPn and badly injured
internally; it lis Gared he will die
The train carried over 100 persons,
nearly all OF whpm were more or less
injured.
Saved by Tree.
The first class day coach was saved
from going over ]g an old tree broken
off about even with the trestle, the seats
and partitions III the car being broken
into kindling wo,h Then followed the
smoker, the seats iii which We're nearly
all broken Next was the tourist
sleeper in which were some twenty
or thirty passengn MS, only three OF whom
were uninJured.#
Next was the Pullman car Alatia,
with seventeen paSsengers, and only
three escaped Awr hoat ;niuIY. The next
and last car WAS he Pullman car Rose
burg, in which we're fifteen passengers
Only four OF these escaped with slight
bruises In the Fmoker and day coach
every seat was Occupied. The mail ex-
press and baggage cars overturned.
several $, riousIy Injured.
The deaths from the aeeiden5 viii
probably reach az high as tt,TI as many
have sustained what is feared to be seri-
GUS internal inj jlries. The body Of a
man was taken ont Of the wreck,
making four dead recovered. Fires were
built along eitheJi side Of the train TO
keep the woundtgl warm and to light
the way Of the li,scuels who had has
tened from SALEM and vicinity
Laid out ON the ground were the
mangled corpset recovered from the
wreck, reclining. on improyised beds
about the fire were the wounded while
standing about lending what assistance
they could We're those less seriously
wounded and around there and every
where were the crowds who had come
to help OF from curiosity.
In the coaches standing on the fallen
trestle work were the same scenes,
every available cushion being occupied
by some unfortunate one more or less
injured. Several doctors from Salem
administered to the wants Of the
wounded.
The length Of the bridge is 800 feet,
and the height from sixteen to twenty
feet. It is supposed the engineer felt
the trestle give way as soon as the en-
gine struck. He gave one short whistle
and set the braks AS the train went
down it moved ahead about fifty yards.