The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-29
THE RAILS SPREAD.
A Vandalia Train Goes Over an
Embankment.
Causing Loss of Life and Many
Injuries.
ACTOR J. W. NORTON
Was Hurt so Badly That He
Died This Morning.

MANNED limbs occurred at Coatsviile
at o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Vandalia train No. 20, due in this city
at 2:35, was wrecked by the spreading
of the rails. Two persons were killed
almost instantly, and from thirty to
forty were seriously injured.
The dead are: John w. Norton,
manager Grand opera house, st. Louis
Mrs. W. S. Towers, Carthage, Mo.
The injured are: Margaret Roberts,
SGT Park avenue, Indianapolis, njured
about the face and breast, internal
injuries
Ewing O. Whiting. Boston bad cut
over the left eye.
Mrs. Ewing o. Whiting, Boston, in
jured about side and breast; seriously.
S. Neugeon, Vigo, Texas, seriously
hurt about the head, probably fatally.
L. L. Wrap, hurt about head, not
serious.
Dr. Fl. ]. Talbot. indianapolis.
seriously hurt about the head and in
ternally injured.
Mrs N. w. Ferguson, Terra Haute,
right side and internally injured.
Mrs. D. Hudson, Green Castle, Ind,
cut on right side of head, not serious,
Gertrude Parish, 4-year-old girl.
Palestine, ILL.,, cut on side. not serious.
w. S. Towers, Carthage, No, badly
hurt in side.
D. w. Menshall, Terra Haute, seri-
ously cut and fears of internal injury.
Lulu Sheets, Indianapolis, badly
cut about the knees.
j. j: Lea, Mansfield. Ohio, leg
mashed.
John W. Cravens, editor Green Cas-
tie World, rib broken and badly
bruised about body.
Mrs. Zelda Seguin Wallace, Indian
apolis hurt in back, not dangerous.
Richard Tarush, Brazil, Ind, head
hurt.
j. W. Mitchell. Terre Haute. skull
fractured.
Mrs. Delft. Omaha, Neb.. badly
bruised.
Joseph H Dillon, travelling sales
man. New York, badly bruised.
Mrs Joseph II. Dillon, New York,
badly bruised and arm broken.
L. w. D. Bebee, Paris ILL.,, bruised
about the head.
Frank Gully, Washington, D. c.,
Pullman car conductor, badly bruised.
Mrs. Rothschild, Ogden, Utah, bad
1y bruised.
Mrs D. L. Anderson, Green Castle,
Ind, hurt about the head.
Mrs. Fescus, Terre Haute, ribs bro
ken, internal injuries
Andrew Johnson, Pullman porter,
right arm broken.
Charles Jones, colored porter, In
dianapo1is, hurt in back.
C. F Carson. Elmira, n. Y, hip
crushed and eye gouged out.
c. Sherwood, Nyack, N. Y, shoulder
blade broken.
W. I. Sherwood. Nyack, N. Y, one
eye knocked out
c. II. Schmienmier, Evansville, Ind,
hurt internally.
Congressman Faris of the Eighth
Indiana district cut over the left eye.
The train was running at full speed
and was about ten minutes late. It
had just passed the town of Coatsville
and was rounding curve when the
track spread The private car of
President R. ". McKeen, which was
in the rear, jumped the track. This
was followed by the parlor- car ana
track, the two rear cars going down
the embankment ten feet before the
train could be stopped. The smoker
left the track but did not go over.
The two rear cars caught fire, but
were extinguished when the work of
rescuing began.
A man soon died after being taken
from the car. In his pocket were
found letters indicating that his
of the Grand opera house at st. Loui s.
He was carried to school house u n
conscious, and lived only a short
time. He did not speak.
Mrs. w. S. Towers of Carthage,
Mo-, was carried from the car, and
died while being taken to the school
house. The injured were carried up
the embankment to houses on the
north side of the track. and soon the
i L 1
to give assistance.
Zelda Seguin Wallace, one of the
injured, is woman of national repu-
tation. A few years ago few of better
voice or more grace trod the operate
stage. She was a member first of
the famous Richings Opera company,
and of the Carl Rosa, Emma Abbott,
and other famous companies. She
appeared at the May musical festival
/. in this city. She is-a wonderfully
we'll preserved woman. She is the
wife of x-Deputy Postmaster David
Wallace, who is a son of Governor
Wallace and half brother to General
Lew Wallace.
1t is miraculous that so many es-
capped unhurt. The wrecking crew
was sent to the scene an the track
soon cleared. No cause is known for
the wreck only that the track spread.
Coatsville, the scene of the wreck,
is twenty eight miles west of Indian
apolis.
In every land and cline Dr. Prices
Baking Powder leads the list 1t keeps
everywhere.
Drowned In a Tub of water.
PEABODY, Kan, Jan. 29.-Mrs. C. C.
Page, wife of city alderman, while
carrying basket of clothes to the
cellar fell, was stunned and fell face
forward in a tub partly filed with
water and when found a few minutes
later was dead.
Shoe Strike Settled.
HAvERHILI. Mass. Jan. 29.-The