Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-03-08
OVER 100 ARE KILLED
MEXICAN TRAIN HORROR WORSE
THAN BELIEVED.
wreck on the Inter Oceanic Railroad
Near the City of Mexico Is an Appall-
Killed and Wounded.
Death List Grows.

One of the most frightful accidents in
sulting in the killing Of 1O4 persons and
the serious. if not fatal. injury of nearly
a hundred others occurred on the Inter
Oceanic Railroad at point twenty-five
miles from the City of Mexico 4 few
days ago n great number Of persons left
the capital and the towns in the vicinity
TO go on a pilgrimage TO the Catholic
Shrine at Sacre Monte. Tickets were sold
at reduced rates over the Inter Oceanic
line and this road carried the bulk Of
the pilgrims. Friday long train. aboard
Of which there We're 200 passengers,
was returning from the place of pilgrim
age. All went well until = point on the
line midway between Temamtla and Te-
mango was reached. On this part of the
road there is steep incline. the line at
one place on it having sharp curve,
where it runs close to the edge of Il high
precpicc This is one Of the most dan
gerOus places on the road. and was rem
dered more so by the fact that the track
here was not in the best condition.
As the train began To run down the in
cline the speed increased. and soon il was
running at friShtful rate. The passen-
gers ceased their laughter and joking and
looked at each other with a strange fear
depicted in their faces. Steadily the
momentum of the train. which was sway
ing and bounding fearfully. increased and
soon the dangerous high curve was struck
Engine Hits the Curve.
AS the pilot wheels of the engine took
the curve the locomotive swayed outward
and either jumped the track or turned
rail. 1t dashed across the scanty space
between the rails and the edge of the
chasm and then plunged downward. One
after another Of the coaches. filled with
passengers. dashed after it and piled up
in a mass of wreckagc at the foot Of the
track. but most fortunately did not go
over the edge of the precipice. As the
fifth coach left the metals il twisted and
broke the coupling connecting it with tho
coaches behind il. These coaches kept
the rails and passed safely around the
curve. After running a considerable dis
lance they were stopped by the hand
brakes.
When the engine and the three coaches
fell to the bottom OF the ravine there WAS
fearful crash and, mingled with it, We're
the shrieks of the affrightcd passengers,
which could easily be heard above the es
Gaping steam of the engine. which was
knocked TO pieces by the fall. In the
meantime q number of passengers in the
other coaches had returned to the scene
Of the wreck and devoted themselves TO
the work of rescuinc those imprisoned in
the wreck. The sight here WAS a grievoUs
one. The carriages were shattered. and Ii
majority of the occupants were lying be-
meath the wreckage. The shrieks and
means OF the injured were heartrending.
while many of the unhurt women and
children mOaned and walled in an agony
of terror.
The train hands were American, and
some of them, rs soon us possible, tele
graphed news of the disaster to the city.
The intelligence quickly spread and caus-
ed the greatest CONSERVATION among the
inhabitants, many of whom had relatives
or friends on the train.