The Forrest City times., 1892-01-15

CRAwFoRDsvILLE, Ind, Jan. 1.-The north-bound mail train on the Monon road, en route from Louisville to Chi. cago, went over steep sixty-foot em- bankment two miles north of Craw- fordsville yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The accident occurred on a curve. where the train was running at rate of twenty-five miles an hour. and was due to loose rail, two sec tion hands being at work on it at the time.
 The engine and two baggage-cars re- mained on the embankment. the mail. the smoker, the ladies car and the par lor-car, Minerva going over and tearing themselves to pieces in the mad rush among the stumps. powders and trees The ears fortunately separated as they rolled down the embankment and were broken to pieces at different points. The smoker and ladies' ear took fire and a baby belonging to a woman in the City Club Vaudeville Burlesque company of New York is said to have been burned.
 Where the Slaughter Took Place.
 The ladies' car rolled over three times. and in this the slaughter was done At one of its turns large stump was struck, and this. crashing through the car, disemboweled Ben Hamburg and Mime. Van Rolsay, passengers. As soon as the wreck occurred Engineer James Doyles ran back to Crawfordsville and announced the catastrophe. Hundreds of citizens were soon upon the scene, lending every assistance to the wounded
 The scenes at the wreck were terrible. Bleeding and senseless bodies were being carried from the burning cars and frenzied men and women rushed fran ticallt to and fro looking for missing friends and relatives Words would be but barren sounds to describe the hor- TOT, and it is best told in the following list of killed and wounded:
 CHECK. c. N, Greencastie. Ind; lumber merchant
 EVANS, Mrs Rosa. Greencastle. Ind; head and side crushed: died later.
 HANLEY NELLIE, New York
 HAMBURG. BEN, Cincinnati, Ohio; drum. mer horribly mangled.
 VAN ROkAY, Mime. EriDa City Burlesquc company; horribly mangled.
 The Injured.
 ALLAN, PAUL. buriesque company: head crushed.
 Rrrpg Mice Trawfor.sev{lia InI. tn,,rai internally aud about the face.
 BILLS, JOHN conductor; internal injuries BISHOP, WILLIAM, Lafayette, Ind: brake man; severely burned about the head, shoul- ders, and back. will die
 BRYANT HARRY C., City Club Burlesqae company. Philadelphia, Pa; head bruised; back badly sprained-
 BREyFocLE, Mrs; injured about the head, face mashed.
 BLY. HARRY.
 BEATTY, MAT, Charlottesville. Ind. CLARK, -, Covington, Ky; mail clerk: badly cut and bruised,
 CLIFTON, Miss STELLA, burlesque company; legs and back badly injured.
 CoNwELL.. c. N, roadmaster, Bloomington; back hurt and internal injuries.
 CUTTER -, express messenger, Louisville, Ky; internal injuries
 DAVIDSON, J. N. Charlottesville. Ind head crushed.
 
 DEwoLF MARCIA.
 ENRIGHr J. J.. Chicago; knee and head hurt EvERETTE, Miss FANNY, burlesque company, St. Louis Mo; internally injured and bruised. EvERETTE. Mir
 FULTON, Mrs. ROBERT, burlesque company; injured internally and Is dying
 Fox -. New Albany, Ind.; two gashes on head and leg badly mashed.
 Fox, =, Louisville, Ky: mail clerk; badly cut and brnfsed
 FAUST JOHN Crawfordsville. Ind cut about head
 GARDNER, GEORGE W. .Ladoga; back injured and right arm broken.
 HALL. WILLIAM, Charlottesville, Ind cut about head.
 HoYT, A., head, side, and back injured HIBBs, EZRA. wh,atheld; left arm broken; right hand cut of.
 HIBBs, Mrs ANNA. wheatneld; face crushed HALEY. THOMAS.
 HART G. Elettsville. Ind.
 JONES. DAVID. Crawfordvilie Ind. LOVE. HAL, City Burlesque Club company; injured internally.
 LoupoN. c W. salem, Ind; leg badly crushed
 LEARNER. Miss MApoE. Pittsburg, Pa. Bur lesque company: head badly bruised.
 LEWIS Miss OLLIE. Burlesque company; bruised about the head.
 LOWELL c. K. superintendent. Chicago MCKEE. MELVIN: Chicago; head, hip and back hurt
 MrAco Thomas; opera troupe internal in iuries.
 MARSHALL, Miss Eva Ellettsyille, Ind; side and face crushed.
 MArsBuRo. DAVID: Romney; eye gouged out and arm and leg broken
 MORRISON, MT.
 MATHEWS. GEORGE.
 ROGERS Burlesque company; concussion of spine.
 ROGERS. MACK. Burlesque company: legs and back badly injured; may die
 RuTLEDGE, W C., porter of chair car; face mashed REYNOLDS. RAY,
 RENzA, IDA,
 SNYDER, W. N; Chicago newsboy. shoulder broken
 SULLIVAN. J. F. Charlottesville, Ind SpEcK, HARRY.
 SpEcK, CURTIS.
 SMITH, WILL, Charlottesville, Ind. WINCHESTER, JOHN; Louisville, Ky; baggage master; back hurt
 WHITE, MISS CORA, BurlesQue company; ear torn or and side crushed.
 wHlrEsIDEs. E.; Frankfort Ind; back broken; will die.
 Eighteen Out of Twenty-Three. Manager T. E. Miaco of the burlesque company states that the majority of the company live in New York, and out of twenty-three persons eighteen were badly injured. The company was booked to appear in Chicago last night, having left Louisville yesterday morn ing. Ex-President Breyfogle and wife were on the train, and both were some what injured, Mrs. Breyfogle seriously. Mime. Van Rokay lately came from