The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-24
A TRAIN WRECK IN ALABAMA.
RAILS SPREAD UNDER = FLYING
EXPRESS TRAIN.

One Man Thrown Forward From
His Seat and His Neck Broken.
Thirty or More Of the Passengers
Hut None of Them Expected 10 Die.
Six OF the Cars Burned.
Montgomery. Ala, Feb. 23-Passenger
train No. I, for New Orleans on the Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad. vas wrecked
by being derailed two miles below Green
vile, Ala, and forty-seven miles south
of Montgomery. this morning at $50
O'Clock.
The train was going about fifty miles
an hour when the rails spread and the
tender of The engine jumped the track and
the combination mail, baggage and ex-
press car, smoking car and two passenger
coaches were thrown over the fifteen-foot
perpendicular embankment and plowed
into the mud. the scene Of the accident be-
ing in a swamp. The first Pullman sleeper
left the rails. while two other sleepers and
private car OF the Chicago and Alton
railroad, with officials on board, remained
on the track
Engineer Campbell and his fireman re-
mained at their posts, the engine jerking
loose from the tender and escaping dam
age.
The mail clerk. baggage master and 9x-
9ressman all made miraculous escapes,
receiving but slight bruises. Conductor
keeler got out uninjured.
G.. r. Walsh OF Birmingham. Ala,
thought 10 have beer q barber was
killed instantly. He was occupying front
seat in the first passenger coach when 1t
crashed into the smoking car, and was
thrown forward against the toilet room,
breaking his neck.
Those injured are:
Mrs. G. p. Armstrong Of Buffalo n. Y,
left shoulder and arm broken, cut and
bruised about the face and left side
Mrs. G. W. Moody OF Shelbyville. Tenn.
jaw broken and cut; left ankle sprained
and foot cut. Her little daughter Marga-
ret sustained 81 few bruises. Mrs. Arm
strong and Mrs. Moody are now in Green
vile, Ala. at a hotel, where they are re-
ceiving medical attention.
w. II. Johnson of New Castle, Ind,
seriously hurt IN the back and groin.
Carried to Mobile.
Miss Sallie Johnson of Birmingham Ala,
right leg scalded By the water from the
heaters. She continued her trip to New
Orleans.
Mrs. W. l. r. Thompson Of Montgomery,
Ala, knee sprained.
Mrs. S~J. Wisdom of Montgomery. Ala,
face and head cut; left leg sprained; possi-
bly, injured internally.
Mrs. ". VI. Schoolcroft. OF Montgomery,
head cut and right hand manglej.
&. r. johnson, a travelling man Of Toledo.
O. hip cut and arm lacelated.
There were more than 325 passengers
aboard and OF that number al least thirty
were more or less injured, very slight cuts
and bruises being the extent of the dam
ages done those whose names are not
given.
The mail and baggage car three coaches
and two Pullman sleepers We're burned.
One sleeper and The Chicago and Alton
private car escaped the fire, which origi-
mated from the stoves Of the coaches.
All sorts Of exaggerated reports of the
wreck were received here this morning, and
as there We're more than twenty Mont
aomery people on the train the excitement
around the depot and telegraph Offices,
where large crowds had gathered was in
tense.
AZ 10:3o o'clock q relief train left here
bearing seven physicians, together with
General superintendent Evans and other
. Louisville and Nashville officials. and the
relatives OF the local people in the wreck.
This train returned at o'clock this after
noon.
The track has not yet been cleared, but
travel is going forward as usual. The
mail burned was from Montgomery. Birm-
ingham. Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati,
Chicago and the west.