Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-19
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From ALI Quarters.
BAD RAILROAD WRECKS.
Nine Killed and Forty-five
Others Injured.
ANOTHER sklRMIsH WITH INDIANS.
Continuation Of the Famous
SawteIl Trial.
| ANOTHER skIRMIsH WITH INDIANS.
HEAVY FALL OF SNOW IN The SOUTH.
Arthur I'll. Day Hanged
at Welland, Ont.
ACCIDENT IN CANADA.

49,
An Express Train Thrown Down an
Embankment-Five People Killed
and Several Injured-The Cars Piled
Up in a Mass of Debris-How the
Accident Occurred.
QUEBEC, Dec. 1S.-An express train
from Halifax on the Intercolonial railway
due at Lewis at II 40 met with frightful
accident about three miles from its des-
tination. The scene of the wreck is an
embankment at st. Joseph's. The train
was made up of baggage and mail car,
one second-class car, one irst-class and one
sleeper. 1t was running at high speed,
and after passing st. Joseph station the
second-class car appeared to have jumped
the track at the end of the station siding
on curve, and to have dragged the first
class and sleeper with it, and also to have
derailed the mail car and baggage car
ahead of it.
Three passenger cars ran diagonally
down the embankment for 200 yards, the
second class car striking the western abut-
ment of the bridge, which carries the track
over the public highway at this point. 1t
was in this car that the sacrifice of life
occurred, the front of the car being smashed
to atoms against the solid stone abutments.
Three cars turned over, the frst-class car
being badly shattered. Fortunately the
curve on which they were running threw
the cars away from each other and though
the heavy sleeper was carried half the
length of the first car it ran along side of
it instead of crushing through, as it
would have done on a straight line.
The sleeper was not so badly smashed
as the other cars. The engine-still draw
ing the baggage and mail cars-passed
over the bridge, the timbers of which
rallied by the plunge of those in the rear.
After passing the bridge the mail car
went down the embankment, having ap-
parently turned completely over in its
descent. The engine and derailed bag
gage car continued on passing over a
second road bridge safely and were
| brought to a standstill a few hundred
yards further on. AS soon as the news of
| the disaster reached the city a number of
| medical men crossed the river and went
down on a special train to the scene of the
disaster and rendered efficient aid to the
wounded passengers.
It is believed that two or three more
bodies will be found in the wreck. The
following is list of dead and wounded as
| far as can be learned;
Dead-M. Blais, merchant, of Kamour
| aska; Xavier Declerc, aged seventeen, OF
Lewis; two young peddlers of Jewish
origin; a man named Gauvin, from some
of the lower parishes and the train news
| agent, named Winner. Over thirty were
injured, some of whom will die.
BAD ACCIDENT IN OHIO.
| CANTON, O., Dec 18.-The last coach O
a south-bound passenger train tn
Wheeling and Lake Erie road left the tract
owing to the spreading of rails on a trestl
over the Tuscarawas river, half mill
north of Bolivar, village twelve mile
south of here, this afternoon. The ca
plunged into the river thirty-fve feet be
low, and every occupant, save two, wa
killed. The killed are: Unknown woman
crushed beyond recognition; Miss Ada Hal
of Sherrodsville, badly mangled; Henri
Hill and sister Carrie of Shelby, ILL.,, burn
ed to crisp. The injured: w. G. Ora
t'ham of Norwalk crushed and back broken
will die; Charles Conrad, Massillon, o.
internally injured, probably fatally; Con
ductor Fred Lands, seriously; William
Hall of Sherrodsville, back injured.
sMAsHUr IN VIRGINIA.
HARRIsoNBURG, Va, Dec. lS.-A wrec
occurred on the Valley branch of the Ba
timore and Ohio about two miles north c
this place last evening. A south-boun
train drawn by three engines ran into
snow drift and was derailed. Two engine
were thrown from the track and demo
ished while the third was thrown aero,
the track. Six employees were badl
scalded and Engineer Donovan had his hi
broken. The passengers escaped with
slight shaking up. The track was torn u
badly and the loss to the railroad compan
was probably $50, 900.