The rustler., 1891-12-04
TERRIFIC CRASH.
DESPERATE LEAPS FOR LIFE


ilision occurred at Messcugerville at
b.s0 o'clock yesterday morning on the
Delaware. Lackawanna a Western rail-
road between a south bound freight
train aud q passenger train which left +
New York at o'clock over night The /
passenger train. under charge of Con-
ductor Kettle and Engineer Heating. /
was bound north on q single track. 4
The freight train tried to make n side
track. running nj the rate Of twenty
miles an hour while the passenger train
was running at the rte Of forty miles
an hour. The engineer Of the passen-
ger saw the danger on rounding n curve.
but Il was too late 70 stop the train lie
and his fireman jumped. as did also the
engineer and fireman of the freight
train.
The engines came together with n
terrific crash, telescoping the express
aud mail ears. which rolled down a six
foot embankment The passenger
coaches remained on the track. En-
gineer Heating was badly injured. hav-
ing jumped against barbed wire fence.
lie was taken to his home In Syracuse
and may recover +. H. Dcuning, the
express messenger, OF Syracuse, was
bruised and cut but not seriously 7.
X. Currie, the mail agent of Syracuse,
had one of his hands smashed and is
injured about the body. Walter Horn
ing. the freight engineer, was injured
in jumping. though not seriously.
Word was sent here and u special
train took DR. White and Father
Laughlin TO thu scene OF the wreck
The passengers, though considerably
shaken up were uninjured. The pas
sengcr train consisted of -one express,
one mail, a smoker, n day coach and a
sleeper. Wrecking trains from Bur-
lington and Syracuse cleared the track
In three hours. The freight hands are
supposed 10 be at fault, as they were
running on the time Of the passenger
train.
TWO MEN DROWNED.
CHICAGO, Nov. 27.-Six men were
plunged into the icy waves of Lake
Michigan yesterday afternoon by the
capsizing of the little pleasure yacht
half mile out from the Auditorium
A tug Mt once put out TO the rescue, but
two of the unfortunates quickly sus-
cum bed TO the intense cold and before
help could reach them slipped from the
keel, upon which all had climbed. Both
perished. They were father and son,
Charles and John Emerich. aged re-
spectively 80 and rs Their companions
escaped though they experienced great
s,,e e,agtVrr 1,tNf Ia flaa oh i'll a
water. The six men had spent the day
on the lake duck shooting and were
homeward bound when their craft was
overtalSen by sudden gale and be
came unmanageable.
KILLED ny A FALLING AMPHITHEATET
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Nov. a7.-J Il.
Coleman, an American engaged in busi
ness at Guanaiuato, Mexico, brings
particulars of an accident which tool
place in that city last Sunday, resulting
in the killing of twelve people and th'
serious injury of nine others Severa
hundred people had assembled in bul
fighting arena TO witness fight be
tween two goats, when n part of TIN
amphitheater gave way. The heavl
tim bers fell on the crowd, crushing
men ana women beneath their weight
DAMAGED IS A COLLISION
LONDON. Nov. 27.-The British
steamer. Victoria, Capt Baker iron
New Orleans, October 2s, has arrive,
at Hamburg, her port of destination
badly damaged. When off Cuxhavei
she was in collision with an unknown
vessel Some of the Victoria's boy
plates were stove In and her forwar
compartment is full of water. TIL
damage sustained by the other vessel
If any, is unknown.
RAN INTO AN oPEN SWITCH.
DECATUR. Mich, Nov. 81 The east
bound New York express Of the Mich
igan Central ran into an open switc
at this place. The engine left the trac
and, plunging into an embankmeni
turned over on its side, The enginee
and fireman escaped injury by jumT
ing. The coaches remained on tn
track and none of the passengers wer
injured.
BoYs DROWNED.
SPARTA, Wis, Nov. 27.-Two boy
named Wooster and Summerfeld. wer
drowned in the mill pond at Milton
Monroe county, while skating. The
were alone, aud no one know of tn
occurrence until night when the boy
failed to come home to supper Scare
was made and the bodies found In th