Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1890-11-28
SERIOUS WRECKS.

A. CTS this morning the train arrived
a. the Garrett street station. Kansas
City. Kan. and pulled Il for The Weed
street station on this SIDE Of the river.
In crossing the bridge at the mouth %
the kaw. the iron beams under the
track % the m ddlo span suddenly gave
way and the engine aud i've cars went
Al wn into the river.
Th. train was moving al the rate Of
miles an hour and the engine
-aosl s.eached the south end Of
re m1sal. spa when the accident oe-
cured
Aboard the engine we're Engineer
Christian Patch. Fireman Frd Allen
and Head brakeman Thomas Muitgan
The engine was the first 10 reach Tho
water thirty-one feet below The bridge
and on top Of 1t piled a carload Of hogs.
q car Of milling machinery and the ca
bousn
The depth Of the water Is fifteen feet
with al least five feet Of soft mud at tho
bottom.
In the caboose were Conductor Pick
ney Herod, brakeman d. T. Whitlatch
and : V. Smith: astockman OF Latham.
Kan. and owner of the carload OF hogs
and the car Of mill machinery.
The only portion Of the train hat Is
visible above the surface of the water
Is a part OF one OF the driving wheels Of
the engine and a little Of the boiler;
one end OF the ear Of corn and the great
er part Of the caboose, which stands on
end, resting on the carload OF hogs
The carload Of machinery and the
car Of hogs we're buried under the sur
face OF tho water at least three feet
There were sixty hogs in the car. ali OF
which were drowned but two
II. Coleman, L. Latimore and a dozen
jther eolored men. employed in Ar
mour's packing house. we're aboard the
box cars talking a FREQ ride across tho
river 10 go to work. baltimore, a few
minutes after the accident was rescued.
Moore's dead body was taken from the
bottom OF the river four hours later.
Engineer Patch, Fireman Allen and
Brakeman Mulligan went to the bottom
of the river with tho engine. The first
and last had an almost miraculous es-
cape from death, while the body OF Al
len yet lies beneath the wreck. Patch
and Mulligan crawled out OF the engine
cab and were stand ing on the engine in
water waist deep when picked up by
John Taylor and Daniel Young, en-
ployes OF the Kansas City Waterworks
Company, who FASTENED from the water
works plant near by and reached tho
wreck with q boat
There is a difference of opinion as to
how the acc dent occurred. The train
men claim that the bridge suddenly
gave way. General Manager Summer-
field and Trainmaster Johnson give it
as their opinion that the engine or
some Of tho cars first left the track and
that some of the ties were showed oil
the beams
Tho injured are:
Christian Patch, engineer, 204O North
Third street. Kansas City. Kan, cuts
and bruises on left leg. jaw fractured
and cut across forehead.
Thomas Muiligan, head brakeman,
Lawrence, Kan, bruises about body
and legs; cut across forehead.
S. V. Smith, Latham. Kan, stock
man, badly bruised about tho body and
legs
l.. Latimore. colored, Kansas City,
Kan, three ribs broken.
Pinckney Herod. conductor, Kansas
City, Kan, slightly bruised.
d. T. Whitlatch, brakeman, Kansas
City, Kan, 81 Fhtly bruised.
TEXAS wRECK
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Nov. is. Sowing
to a misunderstanding OF train dis
patchers' orders a disastrous wreck oc-
Cured on the International 81 Great
Northern railroad thirty miles north Of
this city. Tho engine of the pay car.
which was running at the rate of afty
miles an hour, dashed into the rear Of
the south bound passenger train as the
latter was In the act of taking the sido
track at Kyle. The two rear coaches
were completely demolished and thrown
upside down in the ditch.
There were thirty-two passengers SO.
riously Injured, the following named
probably fatally:
George Warner. real estate agent,
Austin. skull fractured.
Judge W. ID. Wood, San Marcos, Tex,
head badly cut and internal injuries
w. n Lewis, commercial traveller,
Chicago, head cut and internal iniuriea
L. +. Johnson. merchant San An
tonic cut in head and badly bruised.
Mrs Murdy, actress, New York, fatal
ly injured internally.
Norman Hopkins. San Marcos, arms
broken. badly bruised.
w. Il Seincask, Austin, seriously cut.
FATAL BofIsER EXPLOSION.
READING, Pa, Nov ga terrible ac-
cidcnt took place at Mertztown, this
county, at I o'clock this morning. which
resulted in the death OF three men, and