St. Paul daily globe., 1891-07-05

Il. T. CALHOUN. Gallipolis, thigh broken
and cut under chin.
- Ross, Elk City, bruised.
GEORGE MCKEE, Poca, W. Va, internally
injured.
ELIZA MCKEE, injured about head and
arms.
RABURN BLACKBURN, Elk City, legs hurt.
w. ". JENNINGS, Columbus. side hurt.
GEORGE EIsELT. Charleston, head injured.
CLARENCE EIsELT, Charleston, arms
bruised
A. C.wALL, Elk City. side and legs bruised.
LUCINDA JONES. Elk City. head bruised.
ALLIE SPEADLING, Elk City, head cut.
c. c. LONG, Poiuf Pleasant head cut.
CHARLES CONNER, Poea' slightly injured
about the head
ED CONNER, Poca. side hurt.
y. ARCHIBALD, POca, arms in jured.
Samuel. CARPENTER, POca. head hurt.
WILLIAM JONES Elk City, head injured.
ELLA iIINS0N, Elk City, head Injured,
JAMES NICELY, Charleston, was on the
train, but he has not been seen or heard from
since the wreck. II is believed he is under
the wrecked car.
Where They Fell.
When the crash came the front coach
tOppled over 10 the left, on the side to-
ward the river, and the rear car jumped
off the trestle on the right side. The
forward car turned completely over.
and now lies right side up in 4 field
some ten or fifteen feet beneath the
track. The other car fell TO the ground,
probably fifteen feet below the trestle,
and turned completely over. This was
bad enough. and many were killed by
the fall. but to make the destruction
more complete, the trucks on which the
rear car had rested crashed down on
top of the Car, smashing it to splinterS
and killing almost every person in
its range. The top of the car
was crushed beneath the weight
of the heavy truck and pressed down
fiat against the bottom of the car. liter
orally squeezing the occupants TO death.
There were but four persons not hurt:
John Z. Norville, Postal Clerk Hugh
Hays, Engineer Patrick O'COnnOr and
Fireman Hyatt. They at once gave as
SiStance to the dead and injured.
Survivors Talk.
The wreck came on so suddenly that
few Of the passengers had time to think
and before they knew it found them
selves buried in a confused n ass of hui
manity, car seats and windows and all
kinds of debris, when a general scram-
bic ensued TO get out of the cars. Nor
veil, the only passenger who escaped,
had gOneintO the mail ear to speak with
the Ludii dE6Dl AHtii Ailt SitCh Cdtut.
First, he says, theTe was jar
and jOlting, and rhat ne knew they
had jumped the track. lie seized one
OF the rods and hung on for life. In an
instant the mail car was jerked back
on the track, and then with crash the
coaches swung off over the trestie. The
jar DurSt all the windows and doors
in the mail car, but its occupants were
unhurt. Immediately he and the train
crew rushed below to the wrecked
cars. There were so many in the
train, and so few to help that
it seemed almost impossible to do any
thing, nor was there anything TO bind
the wounds with. lie went to the county
pOorhOuSe near by and got bandages
and began to use them. John White,
who was among the wounded, says it
was the most terrible wreck he ever
saw. He held one woman, an acqualnt-
ance, for ten minutes while the Uhysi-
clan forced her mouth open to pour
stimulants down before he recognized
her. One doctor is reported as saying
that he preferred any battlefield he
ever saw TO this affair, as far as the hOr-
ror in it was concerned.