Telegram-herald., 1891-11-28
TOOK AKlHFUL Plunge
4 Russian Railway Train Crashes
Through . Weak Bridge.
rHE FAULT OF DRUsEEs EaPIsYEs
0ssy Lisss Lsst-fw enty-six MAngisa
Dssiss TAksa from the Wrsek-Ihs
Cara Diss Esxsu<h ths lee late
tAs ki..F OpsoakhA~

D8y DetHeo2 Ofci AID dfi2xoWctxs Ia
northsFa Russia Owing u the
bxexkinx of = tire . train be-
e~ns dsra1isd At the bridge which
sro.ses the river opsoakhA The en-
gins, followed by tho carriages,
plunged slsag. tearing up tho tracks
and breaking through the para
pet of the bridge. Five carriages
Ia AL fell from ths bridge 10
the iee-csver-d river. and break
merged with their passengers. in
the chilling waters beneath Owing TO
tAe fact that the accident occurred in
. desolzts section OF the county. where
0hs population Is scarce. there 10 but
msA4er reports. except such as
were given by those who escaped in
fury. From Que Of the Lost carriages
oaly enc person was rescued Up to
tne present twenty-six corpses have
been recovered. and many more are
supposed To be under the debris A
nuabe OF persons were injured
Inse . Crowded Car.
CHICAGO. Nov. 27.-Thirteen lives
we're threatened Thursday in an acci-
dent in Lake. That mum Der Of persons
were injured by locomotive running
tnto . street ear. The injured were:
Mrs KAse Terry snd baby. No. soos Farrel
street. AFs Rcao a1d three eailtrea. Fcrty-
s>soad street asd Assisnd sse.ae. ore child
burned On stove; FrsaE sehz.L Ne 81
Market street: j. Slain No. 6oi0 Throop
street: John Marshall No ASS Lincoln street;
Mrs Daley No s.e59 Ashland avenue; Mrs.
O'>sil No. 1.Ts0 Forty scveatn street; Anthony
King No. sra Bloom street; james Kennedy,
Ne. aSs3 Centsr svess,
Drunken Railway Employees.
Drunkenness ca the part OF the en-
giDeer. George Porter, and the fireman.
Michael Burke, Is charged rs the cause
of the accident 1t was o'clock when
street car No. s2I left Thirty-niuth
street on Ashland avenue for the south
srn ternlnuA When the car pulled up
~ the crossing Conductor Peter
son went ahead as Is customary
To see IL the crossing was clear. Ac-
cordinx to the stories told the switch
ing association eagine attached to a
train was standing some distance from
Ashland avenue Conductor Peterson,
seeing the engine standing still, sig
nailed his driver 10 make the crossing.
johnson obeyed aud just as his team
had reached the track the engine start
ed across ss An unusually high rate of
speed
Created . Panic
The passengers, whose attention had
been called 10 the engine BY the sound
OF escaping steam. with one accord
made . dash for the doors In the
rush IL wa. impossible for any one to
get cut Many had to get out of
shs windows, breaking the glass
and szshes in their wild en-
ldesvor 10 escape. II was while the
sxcitemens was at its highest and dur
tnx which time some OF the terrified
passengers had managed to jump out
chat the engine struck the ear in the
center. throwing 10 from the track and
rolling it over several times in
iths street The car continued on
the liae Of the railroad tracks and the
engine. repeatedly striking it, speedily
veduced il TO spiinters. while the pas
sengers escaped a. best they could
The engineer managed to stop his en-
gins before anyone had been run
over. but not until the train
had gone some distance. People
IA the neighborhood who had seen
the accident fastened 70 the scene and
rendered ali Of the assistance they could
The police department. were notified
md patrol wagons were sent Medical
assistance was called and the injured
ones we're taken care of and rs soon as
possible removed TO their homes
A wrseking Train Wrecked.
BrRMISsaAM. Ala, Nov. 27.-Thc
fast train on the Louisville 4 Nash
Vile road collidcd Thursday afternoon
with o wrecser near Warrior. Both
engines were demolished and negro
tramp was instantly killed. The mail
agent was caught ey the tirnbers. but
was extrieated with little damage.
Engineer Love jumped for kis life and
was badly hurt The wrecker was on
tts way 70 clear . freight wreck
oas Kan Killed.
CuAYrANoesA, Tera- Nov. 7T.-Ex-
eress train No on the Cincinnati
eoutheru. which lefs Chattanooga for
Cincinnati as $50 .. IN Thursday. ran
of the track miles out OF Chattanooga
and $50 yards south of the Tennes-
see river bride. The engine tum mhlcd
down a big enbankncnt completely
wrecking L. killiss Fireman Pat
Welt aud injuring the engineer. The
baggage. mail. express and smoking
ears jumped the track bat did not go
down the embankncnt The train
men wers badly shaken up but not Sc
rieusly injured. No passengers were
hur. A tramp stealing . ride was
badly Injured.
Passengers Badly Shakes Co.
cosrrAxp. N Y. Nov. 31.-The
west bousd passenger train leaving
New York on the Delaware. Larks-
wanna q Western railroad at o'clock
Thursday morning collided with an
east-eouad train ~ Messengerville.
Jshn Jeafinx. OF Syracuse. engineer of
Va. passenger train and the oldest en-
gineer On the road. wss probably IA
tally hurt and his sreman also injured
Ths passengers were badlv shaken up.
but uone Of them were in jurrd
Hsss.eer .ss Fir-mss Rniss.
Axsox, O.. Nov sT.--At o'clock =
n. hesvr regal locomotive belong
tpg 20 the Cleveland. Akron 4 Celum-
bus Z silroad Company. exploded about
nile south ot this citv. The boiler
bead blew ont ara tbs locomotive ws'
hsdly wrecked The body ef Eegineei
Taha Fvroa vas found dea yards south
cf thu track. whtle taat of hts fireman
G-orxe Parker. va. eco feet north
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