The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-12-25
FRlGHTFUL WRECKS.

4 Train In Canada Plunges or q Bridge
Between Fifteen and Twenty People
Killed. and Many InJured-A Trestle
Gives Way In Ohio Carrying with 1t
Passenger Train-Four Lives Lost.
ST. JOSEPH DE LEWIS, Que, Dec. 10
A terrible railway wreck occurred
here Thursday on the opposite side of
the river from which the town is built.
The Halifax express No. 50 going to
Montreal by the Inter-Colonial railway
was due at HAS o'clock in the forenoon,
but was reported twenty minutes
late. On approaching the town and
when few yards from the bridgewhich
crosses the principal street near the
parish church the entire train with the
exception of the engine and baggage
car was precipitated over the bridge
into the street below, carrying with it
all OF its occupants. So far as can be
ascertained the number of killed will
exceed twenty. The names are not all
obtainable, but the dead bodies which
have SO far been extricated number IF
teen.
The cars which went over the bridge
turned completely over on top of each
other and were smashed to splinters,
having fallen distance of thirty-five
feet. The real cause of the accident
has not been definitely ascertaincd, but
It is generally thought that it was
caused by the breaking of an axle on
the baggage car and an endeavor to
make up lost time.
Crowds of people gathered round the
scene and at once set to work to clear
up the wreck. The piteous lamenta-
tions of the wounded and dying and
their feeble attempts to cxtricate them
selves from among the debris
were affecting in the extreme. Those
Of the. passengers who had mi
raculously escaped gallantly set
to work to aid their suffering fel-
low travellers. A special train from
Quebec with staff of doctors soon ar
rived, and as one by one the injured and
mangled were brought from the wreck
they were attended to and their wounds
dressed.
The Inter-Colonial railway was the
only railway on the continent which
serious accident in its existence.
BAD WRECK IN OHIO.
MAssILLoN, O., Dec. ia terrible
disaster occurred at Bolivar, O., on the
Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad, Thurs
day afternoon, only two of the four
teen occupants of the rear car of the
south-bound mail train escaping serious
injury. The train, composed of
two coaches and baggage car,
was approaching Boliver. About a
mile north of town the front truck of
the last car left the track just as the en-
gine started across long trestle.
thirty-fivc feet from the ground. Al
most before the fact that any thing was
wrong could be known the locomotive
was dashing across the bridge, the
rear car bounding along on the
ties. When fairly on the bridge
it swung around and toppled over,
falling to the ground bottom up
ward. The coupling connecting this
car with the remainder of the train
snapped like thread, and the air brake
thus suddenly put on sent the people in
the forward coach crashing against the
seats.
The following persons were killed:
Unknown woman, crushed beyond rec
ognition; Miss Ada Hall. of Sherrods-
vile, badly mangled; Henry Hill and
sister Carrie, of Shelby, Ill, burned to .
crisp.
The injured: w. G.. Graham, of Nor
walk, crushed and back broken, will
die; Charles Conrad, of Massillon, O.,
internally injured, probably fatally;
Conductor Fred Landis. seriously;
Leonard Whitman, of Marietta, leg
broken; Mrs. Louisa Piper, of Stark
County, O., internally; Ira Cowan, of
Norwalk, badly bruised: william Cor
linger, of Ada, O.; William Hall, ot
Sherrodsville, back injured.
The scene in the ravine, the car q
complete wreck, its trucks in the air
and the flames bursting from the de-
bris, is described by those who saw it
rs something frightful. Robert Cowan,
. brakeman and one of the two men
| who escaped uninjured, best realized
the situation. After crawling from his
dangerous position he at once gathered
up loose snow and began to pile il
about the stove. In this he was soon
assisted by w. E. Tingle, q travelling
man from GAINESVILLE, and between them
they smothered the flames.
WRECK ON THE B. : o. ROAD.
HARRIsoNBURG, Va, Dec. 10. -
wreck occurred on the Valley branch
of the Baltimore & Ohio road about
two miles north of this place Wednes
day evening. The south-bound train
due here at $50 p. M, drawn by three
engines, ran into a snow drift and was
derailed. Two engines were thrown
from the track and demolished, while
the third was thrown across the track
Six persons, all railroad employees, were
injured. The passengers escaped with
. slight shaking up. The names of thu
injured men as far as learned are: w
w. Kronk, conductor, badly scalded
Jenkins and Young, engineers, badly
scalded, and Donovan, engineer, scald
ed and hip broken. Two firemen, names
not learned, were also scalded. 1t il
thought that none of the injuries viii
prove fatal. The track was torn vi
badly and the loss to the railroad com
pany will probably reach S3O,OO
FIREMAN KILLD.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 19.-In ,
freight wreck on the Louisville & Nash
vile road near Memphis Junction lat,
Monday afternoon fireman name,
West was killed and Engineer Coleman
fatally injured. The disaster wa
caused by Misrepresentation Of orders
A Steamer Burned.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 19.-The steam
boat Lake Washington, plying between
Monroe and points on Bayou d'A1
bonne, was burned Thursday morning
together with her cargo, consisting Q
about 500 bales of cotton. The carg
was valued at ss5, 900; insurance no
known. The boat was valued at S1O,O ,OOl
insurance, $500. No lives were lost.
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