The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-07
FEARFUL ACCIDENT.
An Excursion Train Coos Over a
 Precipice.
Over One Hundred Passengers Killed an Fully as Many More Injured by Rail- road Accident in Mexlco-The
 Negligent Engineer.

CITY OF MEXICO, Mex, March 2.-one of the most frightful accidents in the history of the Mexican railroads, re- sulting in the killing of l0+ persons and the serious, if not fatal, injury of nearly 100 others, occurred on the h. teroceanic railroad at a point not 25 miles from this city. A few days ago a great number of persons left the capital and the towns in the vicinity to go on pilgrimage to the Catholic shrine at Sacre Monte. Thursday a lcr~ train, aboard of which there were l,200 passengers, was returning from the place of pilgrimage. It went well until a point on the line about midway between Timamtla and Ten ango was reached. On this part of the road there is a steep incline, the line at one place on it having sharp curve where it runs close to the edge of a high precipice. As the train began to run down the decline the speed began at frightful rate. Steadily the momentum of the train, which was now swaying and bounding fearfully increased, and soon the dangerous high curve was struck. As the pilot wheels of the engine took the curve the locomotive swayed outward and then back. As the drivers went on the curve the engine again swayed heavily and then either jumped the track or turned rail. It dashed across the scanty space between the rails and the edge of the chasm, and then plunged downward. One after another the three coaches filled with passengers, dashed after il and piled up in a mass of wreckage at the foot of the precipice. The next two coaches also jumped the track but, most fortunately, did not gC over the edge of the precipice. As the fifth coach left the metals it twisted and broke the coupling connec ting il with the coaches behind it. These coaches kept the rail and passed safely around the curve. After running con siderable distance they were stopped by the hand brakes.
 When the engine and the three coaches fell to the bottom of tn, ravine there was fearful crash, anC mingled with it were the shrieks of the affrightened passengers In the mean time number of passengers in tn, other coaches had returned to tn, scene of the wreck and devoted them selves to the work of rescuins those imprisoned in the wreck The sight here was a most grue some one. The carriages were shat cred and a majority of the occupant! were lying beneath the wreckage Tn, shrieks and moans of. the injured wer, heart-rending, while many of the un hurt women and children moaned anC walled in an agony of terror. The train hands were Americans, and some of them as soon as possible tele graphed the news of the disaster to this city. The railroad officials dis played commendablc activity, and 6 special relief train, with surgeons an ambulance, medicines, bandages etc.. was promptly dispatched to tn, scene. One hundred and four dead anC eighty-five wounded were taken out o the wreck. Many of the dead vii never uc luCllIihCu, ooilC oi thCh bSihs so horribly mangled that it is impossi ble to recognize the, remains as thos of human beings.
 So far as can be learned, the acciden was due to the negligence of the en giheer. It is stated that when thu train entered the incline he made n attempt to check it's speed by the us' of air brakes