Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-17
PASSENGER WRECK.
A SANTA FEE TRAIN WRECKED THREE
MILES NORTH OF BRENNAN.
Nobody Seriously Hurt But Number
Slightly Injured.

| At Z o'clock Tuesday morning
train No. l, south bound passen
ger on the Santa Fe, which was due
here Monday evening at 5:57 O'Clock
but was delayed on account of t
similar wreck north of Cleburne, was
ditched three and half miles north
of this city.
Conductor Lawrence walked into
the city and S. mmoned DR.. W. A
Lockett, the local surgeon of the
Santa Fe road, and with him the re,
porter was taken to the scene of the
wreck on section foreman Ed
Oranges nand car, and arriving there
such a wreck as he beheld, is not of.
ten seen.
Every one of the six coaches was
wrecked, some lying on one side OF
the track and some on the other.
Four of the coaches were filed
with the passengers and notwitstand-
ing the frightful tumbl ng of the
cars legs than a dozen passengers
were injured, and none of them
seriously.
The injured are as follows: Chas.
VIM. johnson, the three and a-half
year-old son of Mrs. A. G. johnson,
pa, 9th street, Galveston, had a
scalp wound back of the head about
an inch and a half long, but the
skull was not injured.
]. S. Vanstone, a capitalist of
Moberly, Mo-, en- route to Velasco,
had his right arm badly bruised and
his shoulder sprained and bruised.
j. A. Pace, merchant of Paint
Rock, was thrown through window
and got his face cut slightly with
the glass and was otherwise bruised.
J. S. Marmaduke, of Kan as City,
had bruised arm and his left wrist
sprained.
J. h. Hay, of McLennan, county,
had his nose and lip cut by being
thrown through the window.
b. NJ. Dardeen, of Temple, civil
engineer of the road, received Sc
we're scalp wound.
Thos. Kraitcher, of Caldwell, got
his head cut, and after he reached
was splitting up blood as
though he had received internal in
juries.
The train crew which consisted of
Conductor Lawrence, engineer
Spaulding, baggage master Ed Hill, |
route agent. A. NJ. Holmes express
Brown, and the Wells |
Fargo agent, Taft, were none of
them seriously hurt. Conductor
Lawrence sitting backwards as the
train went off a little too hard. pre-
ferrers standing now, though he was
able to walk to THE city, as previous
y stated.
The engine is still on the track, at
east the front wheels of it are. The
lender was tumbled over on the east
side. The mail car, on the west
side and lying on its side. The bag
gage car tumbled to the east, and
trunks were thrown out and scatter
I'd promiscuously. Ed Hill, the
baggage master, had an exceedingly
narrow escape, the car being filed
with heavy packages and express
safe by which he was standing were
,umbled clear across the car and
through the door next to the
ground.
The next coach was the one for
,olored peaple but only about eight
" ten were on board and but one of
hem sustained any injury, one ne
,ro woman had her leg slightly
lurt.
The second coach from the rear
besides the sleeper had IL passen-
,ers in it, and after it left the
ails and ploughed through the
oft ground a short distance
urned over and was left lying fiat
IN its side on the east side of the ,
rack, and the child mentioned
.b0ve was the only passenger in it
lurt, which to look at its position
GEMS almost Incredible.
The rear passenger coach re-
nained in an upright position, but it
Fas buried nearly up to the windows
n the mud.
Only a few passengers Were on .
he sleeper and none o. them we're
urt. The rear wheels of the sleep. |
T were still on the track. {
The trucks of all the coaches were ,
roken all to pieces and torn off &
THE CAUSE OF THE WRECK. '
A south bound freight just ahead
f the passenger had one pair of
rucks to jump the track just be- ;
ond where the wreck occurred and !
an two miles or more without this
ccident ever being discovered, !
hen the train passed a public =
rossing the trucks running up on
ne heavy timbers put there for =
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