, 1891-10-24

ono upon duotner An8 maSS OF broker pIanks.
iron beams, and living bodies. There was q
silence like death for a full minute, all the
passengers being paralysed with terror. It
was a lovely moonlight night. Then upon the
night rose a frenzied Glamour. On all sides
echoed appeals, prayers, and b~lasphemies.
l heard one man crying, "Oh, Holy Virginl
Oh, Saint Pillar Save me nv future. nv life
shall be yoursl" Groans, sh1ieks, and cries
made an uproar that [ shall never forget. 1t
was awful. And Senator Comas stopped,
shuddering at the memory of the scene.
friend of mine, Soriano Murillo, one of the
sons OF the Secretary of the Minister of Pub
lie Works, told me that when the accident &C.
Cured he was asleep. His first feeling WAS
the consciousness that he had been thrown up
IN the air, and he felt himself falling from
what appeared to be a height of loot upon a
mass of broken carriages and bleeding and ter
rified fellow-travellers. He believed himself
dead for a moment, but was recalled to his
senses by the bursting of the boilers of the
two locomotives. This scattered steam and
boiling water in all directions, while the hot
Goals set fire to the debris. Coming to his
senses, Murillo started to run away, anil
found himself face to face with six or eight
frightened and frenZied bulls, which had been
set free by the breaking of the foremost wa
CONS of the mixed train. They were the sur
vivors of several car loads they h~esitated for
a moment, and then, led by the foremost one,
made a charge through the group of the pas
sengers who had escaped, incre asing greatly
the terror Of the latter, who for a moment had
escaped one danger only to be menaced by
another. Senior Canalejas and Senior Arcemis,
the WelI-known astronomer, began assisting the
wounded. Among the first was General Castro,
who was begging for help. He was carefully
withdrawn from the beams which held him.
The engineer of the express train, 'grisv ously
injured, was running about crying, and half
crazy with grief and pain. Some of the wound
ed gave vent to fearful oaths, which echoed
on all sides. At this moment Angel Faster, the
tOreador, came running up with four Of his men.
lie was en- route to Paris in the mixed train.
They began actively succouring the wounded,
and removing the dead. These were placed
at the side of the track, and were moved with
every care. The first body taken out was
that Of Lorenzo Leal, a Spanish Journalist.
manager of the paper El Guipozcano, at San
Sebastian. A priest came from the mixed
train. and soothed his last moments. Under a
mass of planks and debris, Senior Campo, a
lieutenant Of gendarmes, was found, and q
musician named Pelote Berroudo, who were
with difficulty brought to their senses. The
lieutenant nad two large bags OF money under
his arms. "My life was saved, and chat of
my child" said Senator Comas, by the fact
that the sides of our carriage remained stand
ing, though the roof wasbroken into a thousand
pieces Senior Canalejas changed compart-
ments at Miranda, at his wife's request Owing
to this they and their family were saved. The
superintendent of the train, Senior Perez, was
covered up by a mass of debris, and marvel
lousy escaped without a scratch. The miracle
was the more apparent from the fact that's
man named Charpie, a mechanic, was crushed
into a shapeless mass beside him.
BURGOS, Sept. %
One Frenchman is among the dead, M.
Camilla, a photographic printer of Madrid
Close to where the body of M. Camilla lay
was Mr.. Maurice Long, whose lower limbs
were caught under the debris, and who was
appealing for help in the English language,
which nobody here understood. At length
when he was extricated his legs were found to
be frightfully mangled. Medical aid was at
once summoned. But when the doctors hint
ed that the arhputation of both legs would
be indispensable, the unfortunate gentleman
conveyed by signs that he would rather die
than undergo the operation; he waS subse-
quently conveyed to the St. Johns Hospital,
where he died after a few minutes. The papers
found on tbs deceased proved him to be
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