The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-03-08

Further Details of tho Inter.O Ocean
ic Railway Disaster.
First Reports More Than Verified 10y the
Visit of the wrccking Train to the
Scene Of the Wreck -sixty-five Per-
sons Killed and Forty Injured.

City OF MEXICO. March IA wreck.
ing train arrived here early yesterday
morning from the scene of Thursday's
accident on the lnter-Occanic railway.
1t brought forty persons who had
been injured in the crash and DR. Al
fred Bray, DR. Francis Crosson and two
other surgeons who were sent out soon
after the news of the disaster was re-
ceivcd here.
Many persons were left dead near
the spot where the train left the rails;
others were on the point OF death. and
of those who were brought back ten or
twelve cannot possibly recover.
The crew OF the wreck ing train told
the first detailed story of the accident.
The train consisted of ten coaches.
II was chartered to pilgrims from
Amecameca and the engineer was I'M
der orders to run carefully. 1t was
filed with pilgrims-m of them
women and children--at the city sta
ton shortly before o'clock and was
started at l:25. II proceeded slowly at
first. but after stopping for water the
engineer began running at the rate OF
thirty miles an hour.
About twenty-eight miles from the
capital, and midway between Toman-
alta and Tenango. there is a steep
down grade. On one side Of the track
the blasted rock forms "a high wall: on
the other III a steep descent. At Il
point where the descent reaches down
about thirty feet the track makes IA
sharp curve. The trains usually round
il at half speed, but for reason not
yet ascerta ined the engineer of the
pilgrims train tried To make il with
out slowing down. Either the rails
spread or the engine jumped the
track. The engine and tender broke
loose from the coaches and rolled
dow the embanh ment. The coaches
ran off about fifty yards further on.
Ihe-ycar coaches crashed down against
the engine and tender and trestle and
went To pieces at the foot of the en-
bankmcnt Five coaches were smashed
50 as to be little more than pile of
splintered boards and beams and
twisted iron.
About twenty passengers were able
to cNtricate themselves without severe
injury, and they began rescuing those
who were pinioned under the wreck.
Four women We're found with their
arms crushed and immovable under
beams and twisted axles They Law
near the engine and were screaming
for fear of the flames. Af,erall efforts
to clear them had proved vain they
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her arm from the shoulder: another
her arm from the elbow and each Of
the other two having both arms
crushed and legs terribly mutilated.
Three of the four will die
Three children of one family were
found dead together under an up
set car truck. Their mother Law
near by with her skull crushed and
one leg gone. The father escaped with
broken shoulder, although he was on
the same seat with the three children
who were killed
Fragments Of arms and legs were
strewn about the wreckage. and sew
eral OF the bodies were SO mutilated
that no attempt to identify them will
be made.
When the doctors arrived on the
wreckage train they found forty pill
grlms near the wreck and i've who had
not yet been taken from the ruins be-
cause there was no way OF cutting
them loose. The five were rescued first
and put on the train. The doctors
worked for five hours to get the blurred
INTO condition to make the jour
ney back. Everyone of the forty
was spattere d with blood from
some open wound. Three men had |
lost half Of their scalps. Four had |
fractured skulls Six women were so |
badly injured in the back and abdo- |
men that il was feared they would die
before reaching the city
All the doctors agree that the scenes
at the wreck and in the coaches during
their journey home were the most hor-
riblc in their experiences.
The train arrived at the curve where
the wreck occurred at o'clock and il |
did not start back until nearly mid
night When the train came into the /
station forty Of the injured passengers
were stretched at full length. helpless
from their wounds All the pilgrims
were Mcxicans.
The engineer and conductor OF the
train are supposed To have escaped Sc
rious injury and have fled to the
woods.
sixty-Fivc Killed and F,rty Injured.
CRY OF MEXICO, March 1.-The loss
% life in the wreck on the Inter
oceanic railway has been ma dc
known Sixty-five persons were killed
and forty injured. The death list is
likely to be increased. as several pas.
'cngcrs are expected to die within