Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-09
DOWN AN ENHANCEMENT.
Sleeper Derailed Near English, Ky.-Eight
Persons Injured.

persons injured
LOUISVILLE, KY, June 9.-The Wag.
ner through sleeper from Louisville tc
Boston, via Cincinnati over the Louis
vile and Nashville, was wrecked near
English, KY, at o'clock Friday after
noon. The town is fifty miles out from
Louisville, and the train sent to the
wreck has just returned with the
wounded. There was no telegraph SER
vice at English.
Eight Injured.
Eight persons were seriously wound
ed, two Of whom will probably die.
They are as follows:
Col. n. G. Hodges, superintendent of
the government storehouse at jefferson
vile, severely bruised and right leg
broken.
Mrs. Hodges, wife Of the colonel, cut
and crushed about the head and
shoulders; can hardly recover.
John johnson, wealthy cotton mer-
chant, of Memphis, cut about the head
and chest.
Mrs. John johnson, dreadfully
mangled about the shoulders; will
probably die.
B. G. Epperson, superintendent
Short Line division, louisville and
Nashville, cut about the head and arms;
greatly bruised and mangled.
Brent Arnold, general agent Louis
vile and Nashville at Cincinnati, cut
about the head and back and severe cut
on arm.
G. r. Brent, contracting fright agent
Louisville and Nashville at Cincinnati,
scalp wounds.
G. Beggar, brakeman, leg crushed at
the knee; amputation necessary.
Joseph Blackwell, colored porter, of
Suffolk, Va, badly bruised.
All but Arnold and Brent were
brought back to Louisville for medical
attention. Solomon Epperson, of Gin
cinnati, the only other person on the
sleeper, escaped unhurt.
The train left Louisville at S:15. The
through sleeper service is new, this be-
ing the third trip for it, the connection
being by the New York Central, and
Superintendent Epperson was making
his first trip to try the new service. The
train passed English at about fifteen
miles an hour, and was going twenty
miles an hour just beyond where it ran
upon an embankment, which had just
been repaired and had been softened by
the rains.
The engine and one coach, which
made all the train, except the sleeper,
passed safely, but the track spread un-
der them. The sleeper was derailed and
broken in two about one-fourth back.
The front part, in which Mr.. Epperson
was, jumped on over the ties 100 feet.
The rear part rolled over four times, and
landed complete wreck at the bottom
Of the bank. The passengers and crew
of the train hastened back, and as rap
idly as possible cleared away the broken
beams.
Mrs. Hodges and Mrs. johnson and
the porter were unconscious when taken
out, and all were at first too badly hurt
to take care Of themselves. Col Hodges,
johnson, Epperson and Beggar, on
reaching Louisville, could walk with as
The two ladies were carried
to the Calf house and the porter was
taken to the city hospital. Arnold and
Brent, though badly hurt, went on to
Cincinnati.
None VIII Die.
LATER-All the passengers and train
men injured in the wreck on the Louis
vile and Nashville near English, KY,
Friday, are improving and none of
the wounds will prove fatal. Mrs. HI.
Q. Hodges, of Jacksonville, Ind, and
Mrs. johnson, of Memphis, Tenn, who
were the most seriously hurt, are pro.
out of danger.