Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-24
AN UGLY WRECK On the L.. & N., Which Might
 Have Been Worse. FIRST SECTION OF NO. l Goes Over an Embankment: One Man KilIed-Many
 Reported Injured.
FIRST SECTION OF NO.

MONTGOMERY, Feb. 23.-Passenger train No. for New Orleans on the Louisville : and Nashville railroad was wrecked by be- 2 ing derailed two miles below Greenvile, Ala, and forty-seyen miles south of Montgomery at 9:30 this morning. The train was going about fifty miles an hour when the rails spread and the tender of the engine jumped the track and the combine ton mail, baggage and express car, smok- ing car and two passenger coaches were thrown over the fifteen- foot perpendicuar embankment and plowed into the mud |, the scene of the accident being in swamp. The first Pullman sleeper left the rails, while two sleepers and a private car of the Chicago and Alton, with railroad 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.
 ceiving but slight bruises. Conductor Keeler got out uninjured.
 BIRMINGHAM MAN KILLED.
 G. K. WALSH of Birmingham, Ala. {, thought to have been a barber, was killed instantly. He was occupying front seat in into the smoking car and was thrown for ward against the toilet room, breaking his neck.
 LIST OF INJURED.
 MRS. G. P. ARMSTRONG of Buffalo, N. Y; left shoulder and arm broken; cut and bruises about the face and left side.
 MRS. G. w. MOODY of Shelbyville, Tenn; jaw broken and cuti left ankle sprained and foot cut. Her little daugh- ter, Margaret, sustained few bruises. Mrs. Armstrong and Mrs. Moody are now in Greenyille, Ala, at a. hotel o,' there' where W. II. JOHNSON of New Castle, Ind. {; seriously hurt in the back and groin. Carried to Mobile.
 Miss SALLIE JOHNSON of Birmingham, the heaters. She continued her trip to New Orleans.
 MRs. w. 1. R. THOMPSON of Montgom- cry, Ala. knee sprained.
 MRS. s. J. WISDOM of Montgomery; face ,.i and head i.,; cut; left leg sprained. Possibly MRs. W. H. scHooLcRAFT, also of Montgomery; head cut and right hand maneled.
 c. R. JOHNSON, a travelling man of 1ol- edo, O.; hip cut and arm lacerated.
 There were more than 325 passengers aboard, and of that mum Der at least thirty were more or less injured, bot slight cuts and bruises being the extent of the dam- ages done 10 those whose names are not given.
 COACHES BURIED.
 
 The mail and baggage car, three coaches and two Pullman seepers were burned One sleeper and the Chicago and Alton private car escaped tue fire, which origi- mated from the stoves of the coaches. All sorts of exaggerated reports of the wreck were received here this morning, aud as there were twenty odd Montgomery people on the train, the excitement around the depot and telegraph offices, where large crowds had gathered, was intense.
 purrE
 At 10: 30 o'clock relief train left here bearing seven physicians, = together with General Superintendent Evans and other Louisville and Nashville officials and refa- tives of the local people who were in the wreck. This train returned at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
 The track has not yet been cleared, but travel is going forward as usual. The mail destroyed was from Montgomery, Birming- ham, Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago and the west.