The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-02-01
A BROKEN RAIL
Wrecks "A Train Near Coatesvillc, Ind
Two People Killed and over Thirty In
iurcd


Two People Killed and over Thirty In
jurcd.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. s0,Vandalia
train No. 2, due at indianapolis at 2:35
Monday afternoon, was wrecked at
Coatesvlle, twenty.six miles out Two
persons were killed and over thirty
injured The train was running at full
speed. and was about ten minutes late.
1t had just passed the town and was
rounding curve when the track
spread The private ear Of President
w. Il. Mexican, which was in the rear,
jumped the track. This was followed
by the parlor car, then the ladies' ear.
All went off the track, the two rear
ears going down the embankment ten
feet before the train could be stopped.
The smoker left the track, but did not
60 over. The two rear cars caught
fire, but were extinguished when tho
work OF rescue began.
A man died soon after being taken
from the ear. In his pocket were found
letters indicating that his name was
John W. Norton, the manager Of st.
Louis theater. He was carried to q
schoohouse unconscious and lived
about twenty minutes lie did not
speak Mrs. $. W. Towers, Carthage,
Mo, was carried from the car, and died
while being taken TO the schoolhouse.
The injured were carried up the em-
bankment TO houses on the north side
Of the track Soon the townspeople
and physicians gathered TO give as
distance
Hon. George W. Farris, mcmber-elect
d Congress from the Eighth district,
was on the train, and was hurt about
the back and face. lie was coming to
this city, being a son.in-law OF Judge
Claypool. President Swain and wife,
Of the state university, were on the
train, but escaped unhurt. Other
prominent people on the train included
Hon. and Rev. Jackson, member Of tho
legislature, and Nat. U. Hill, banker
of bloomington.
+. L. Knapp, of Pittsburgh, was rid
Ing In the chair car, which he says wa
crowded. lie said the car turned {
somersault SO quickly that he did MOI
know his head was struck and cut. III
found himself on pile Of chairs, undei
(which was minister OF the English
Lutheran church, whose name ne die
not learn. lie pulled the man out, ant
found that he was hurt painfully in
tcrnally
Il saw woman on the floor" he
continued, holding her babe in her
arms. The child was covered with
blood, but not from its own body,
which was not injured in the least.
heard scream and found the car had
caught FIRE Fortunately this was soor
eXtinguishcd. Everybody except the
babe was more or less hurt II was Q
shame and an outrage that the com
pany allowed us to stay seven hours in
q car in which there was no Ere and
no light after dark The company
made no effort TO relieve our discom
forts, except, OF course, in the way
Of surgery. We were very shabbily
treated"
Mrs, Zelda Seguin Wallace, the for
mer opera prima donna, Is painfully
but not fatally hurt Her death wa.
rumored so strongly that even tho
undertaken went to the station 70 re
eeive her body. She was brought homo
Tuesday.
Engineer Daily, of the wrecked train
said Monday night;
~ heard the whistle sound danger
and ] reversed the engine, but The
track was too slick 10 stop quick. We
were twenty-three minutes late, anC
had determined TO make up lost time
but had not yet done so. We were go,
ing pretty fast on account OF the grade
did not know how the accident hap
pened."
lie is still laboring under excitement
A broken rail caused the wreck.