The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-01-19
AN EXPRESS TRAIN DASHED
OVER A HIGH ENHANCEMENT.
TWO KILLED and SCORES MANNED.
Fast Flying Passenger Coaches Hurled
Down to Ruin In an Instant-Thirfy.
Eight Injured and Several Ex-
pectei to Dle-Two OF the
Cars Completely Shattered
by the Fearful Fall.

CRAwPoRDsvILLE, Ind, Jan. 12.-Be-
tween and 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon
the north bound Monon train ran of the
track about two miles north OF here at
Nicholson crossing and four cars rolled
down a fifty foot embankment, the engine
and one baggage car keeping the track.
The first passenger coach rolled over
three times. 1t was full of passengers,
and caught fire from the stove, but all oc-
cupants escaped alive The express car
went over, but no one in it was severely
hurt.
The ladies' coach was literally torn to
pieces. as was also the parlor car. Here
was the greatest damage
There was hardly passenger on the
train who escaped injury.
Help was soon at hand and in few
moments the road was full of the manned
on their way to town.
There were three theatrical troops on
board, one of which, the ''City Club" bur-
lesoue company, was completely broken
up nearly every member sustaining seri-
Gus injuries.
The killed are:
Ben Hamburg, Cincinnati, travelling
man.
Madame Eina Van Rokey of the City
Club company.
A Long List of InJured.
The injured of the City Club company
are:
Mack Rogers, badly hurt in legs and
back.
Gus Rogers, back injured.
Stella Clifton. legs and back hurt
Helen Love, internally injured.
Cora White, Syracuse, N. Y, slightly
Injured about the head.
Fanie Everett St. Louis, internally in
3ured.
OLA Lewis, bruised about head.
Harry c. Bryant, Philadelp LA, back
sprained and head hurt.
Madge Barner, Pittsburs, head bruised.
The other injured were:
M. G. Rutledge, porter chair car, face
mashed.
C. N. Cornwell, roadmaster, internal in
juries.
John Winshecter, Louisville, baggage
master, injured about the shoulders and
neck.
George Cutter, express messeng r,Louis-
Vile internal injuries.
w. NJ. Snyder, newsboy, Chicago. shoul-
der broken.
William Bishop, brakeman, Lafayette,
Ind, severely burned. u
John Bills, conductor, hurt internally.
Nellie Hanley. crushed; will die.
Ezra Hibbs, Wheatfeld, left arm broken,
right hand cut Of.
Mrs. Ann Hibbs, Wheatfield, face
mashed.
DR.. E. Whitesides, spine seriously frsc-
tured.
Dave Malsbury, Romney, eye gouged
out, arm and leg broken
C. N. Cheek, Greencsstle, right leg cut
on below the knee.
Fox, New Albany, head cut and leg
mashed.
Paul Alien, head crushed.
Thomss Monase of the opera troupe,
hurt internally.
CT Hoyt, side and back and head bad
ly injured.
c. w. Lovenden, Salem, leg badly
Eva Marshall, Ellet.sville, side and fact
crushed.
il. Enright Chicago, knee and head
hurt
Melvin Mckee, Chicago, head, hip and
back injured.
OF this city there were also eight per
sons injured, but none seriously.
The cause was the breaking Of q rail
The piece broken on was eight feet long
The locomotive and baggage cars movet
1t out of position and escaped
The mail and express car made header
down the steep fill, which V as ninety fee
high, and stopped right side up resting Of
the sleeper The smoker, the ladies coacl
and the Pullman chair car went over an,
over sidewise and stopped 100 feet from tn
track
Forty passengers were in the smoke
sxd il took fire and burned up. One en-
of the Pullman fell on the ladies' car.
which were the ''City CLUB" opera comps
nv. Then the trucks came rolling dow
the steep slope. One struck the Pullma
and smashed it and another crashe
through the ladies' car.
Fifty men cutting ice a few feet ava
rushed to the rescue and prevented a holt
caust. They got every body out Of the cal
and saved those at the smoker from fir
The train was running thirty miles q
hour when the accident happened.
Mr.. Hands New Coinage Bill.
WASHINGTON Jan. 1.-The bill intr,
duced by Mr.. Bland of Missouri, chat
man of the hopse committee on coinag
for the free coinage of silver provides tn
the unit of value shall be dollars
&l2k grains standard silver or tive
ty and eight-tenths grains standal
eold. ANY holder of gold or silv