The rustler., 1891-12-25
SERIOUS WRECK.
a Passenger Train Hurled DC IN
an Embankment
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passenger train on the Gulf road due
here At s.io o'clock from Kansas CITY.
was wrecked two miles north OF this
city by the disp necmeni af a rail. owing
q decayed ties The train was COM
posed of three passenger coaches. an
express car and a mail aud baggage ear.
IN charge 81 Conductor Eli Parsons and
Engineer Raub.
The train was running at about
twenty-five miles an hour. and lust
south Of the Cherry creek bridse the
Three coaches and the express ear be-
came detached from the baggage car
and engine and were suddenly hurled
down a high embankment with about
forty passengers besides the trainmen
aboard.
The coaches had no sooner struck the
ditch than fire broke out In each car.
causing general panic. Twenty-six
persons were injured. three Of whom
will probably die The passengers
who were able went bravely to work
to save the seriously injured ones and
all were rescued before the fire had
consumed the coaches, although quite
number of the unfortunate received
serious bruises.
The passengers were brought 10 the
city aud taken to The sherman house.
where medical aid was summoned 70
alleviate the sufferings Of the Injured
ones.
The list Of the injured Is a. follows:
Conductor Eli Parsons, cut about the
head and injured internally, is in dan.
gerous condition.
Mrs. Lizzie Mcclure, Of Sharon. Kan.
fracture Of skull aud concussion OF
spine; cannot recover.
Clarence Bailey, colored boy. seri-
ously fractured skull; in u critical con
dition.
T. |. Brown, Grenola, Kan, badly
bruised aud fractured leg.
Mayor c. c. Kincaid. Cherrvvale
sprained back and severe bruises on
head.
O. +. Carson, Cherryvale, injured
back and shoulder.
Mrs. A. 7. Wall. Grenola. Kan, se-
we're spinal injuries aud cut on head.
Mrs. NJ. II. Spires, Franklin, Ill, head
and back injured.
W. I. Spires, Franklin, Ill head and
bacl, injured.
Mrs. Lula Brooks, Oklahoma City.
shoulder fractured and head cut
Little daughter injured internally.
James ostrander, Wellington, collar
bone broken.
L. l.. Larnes, Lawrence, badly burned !
face and internal injuries
j. Gibson, Scvery, Kan, injured back
and head
Moses Thompson, Spirit Lake. Ia..
head, neck and shoulder hurt
t. T. Johnston, Houstonia, Mo |
slight bruises about head
C. L. Stuart, Shenandoah, la. head.
neck and shoulder injured.
ID. H. Fuller. Eureka, Kan; slight in
ternal injuries.
DIR. G. w. Cress, Galesburg, Kan:
badly burned hand and cut on head
+. Bacon, Wilton junction. la; frac-
tured shouldrr and cut on head.
f. w. Spellman, Topeka; back and
head bruised
John II. Brown, Kansas City, Kan:
cut on head and shoulder.
Lulu Bailey, Ada Bailey and Miss
Talmage, en- route from Memphis to
Guthrie, Ok; all more or less injured.
Others whose names are unknown
were slightly injured. All that remains
Of the four cars is pile of trucks and
cinders
THE ONO WRECKS CASUALTIES.
PITTsBURGH, Pa, Dec. 1s-The
official report of General Superintend-
ent Waltz, of the Pennsylvania com
pany, on the wreck of the Columbian
express at Lima, o., gives three killed
and nineteen injured, two of whom are
In addition TO the list al
ready published n. +. Thomas and II.
Williams, colored porters and Richard