The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-10-11
HIS HEAD CRUSHED.
4 Shocking Accident Occurs on an
 Electric Road in Tacoma.
RAILROAD TRAIN JUMPS THE TRACK.
A Bad Wreck Occurs on the Southern Rail- way Near Bristol, Tenn.-Ten Peo- pie Hurt-The Deadly
 Folding Red.

TACOMA, Wash, Oct. S.-A shocking street car accident occurred about mid night in which George c. Chandler, general agent of the Northern Pacific in this city, was killed and several other passengers injured. The car was returning from the interstate fair grounds and was crowded with passengers. Mir. Chandler and other gentlemen were standing on the front platform, behind the motorman. As th,- wheel struck the crossing of North Second street. the axle on the front truck broke near the right wheel. The car left the track, plunged along at an acute angle to the right of the rails for rod and then fell on its left side. Mir. Chandler, who was then on the steps, fell underneath the car. The heavy wood and iron works struck his face, killing him in stantly and crushing his head to a shapeless pulp.
 So dreadfully was his head crushed that, although one of the best known men in Tacoma, his identity was in doubt when the remains were first re- moved from the wreck and was only ascertained by examining his watch upon which his name was engraven. His body was removed to the morpue.
 James F. O'Brien, another passenger, was forced down by the struggling mass of passengers The iron roof of the car fell upon his right leg, pinion- ing him to the ground, tearing the flesh and lacerating the limb terribly. Several others were injured either by falling from the platform or by being thrown violently against the breaking glass of the windows.
 TEN PEOPLE HURT.
 BRISTOL, Tenn, Oct. S.-Yesterday afternoon train No l from New York on the Southern railway jumped the track about miles south of here. The engine fell across the track and the eX- press and mail cars jumped over it and falling on their sides were soon prey to the flames, which started from the dining car and consumed all the train eight coaches-with the exception of the last Pullman, which was cut loose and backed from the train. A train with arrived about an hour after the wreck and immediately set to work to relieve the injured. The injured are: Samuel Smith, engineer, leg broken, scalded, buried underneath the wrecked train, taken out with diff culty, will probably die; Will Holmes. fireman, head cut badly and scalded; w. w. Rogers, express messenger. arm broken and head injured; - Tucker. postal clerk, ankle broken, cut in the head and back; c. N Markworth, of Bristol, postal clerk, badly hurt in arms, legs, back and head; w. II. Simp- son, of Messy Creek, baggagemaster, arm broken and internal injuries; Thomas McDermott, Michael Coleman, John Coleman, cmigrants from Ireland, sustained severe injuries on the heads, thighs, chests, legs and arms. A for eigner, name unknown, was badly hurt in chest and legs, very serious. Every body was badly shaken up and it is that many deaths did not re- suit. Capt. Bell, conductor, escaped with slight bruises.
 The accident happened in cut be- tween two high entertainments and was the result of bolt having been placed on the rail by unknown persons. Great heroism was displayed by the passen- gers and crew, who were unharmed, in rescuing the injured.
 THE DEADLY FOLDING BED.
 SEDALIA, Mo. Oct. S-Mrs. R. J. Par sons, wife of railroad conductor, met with an accident Saturday night that will prove fatal. She had locked the | lcor to her apartment and was prepar- ing to retire. In attempting to lower her folding bed the bed clothes caught | in the sliding headboard and her weight caused the bed to topple for ward and close. Mrs. Parsons was caught between the bed and badly crushed internally. Her cries attracted | attention on the street, and only after breaking down the door to her bed | ,I, n n, bar tvoc Sba libarataI