Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-14
AN UGLY WASHOUr On the Central, Near Troy, Causes
 Two Deaths AND POSSIBLY OTHERS
POSSIBLY
Several Injured-Thoughtfut- ness of Engineer Post.
 How 1t Happaned.

TROY, March 13.-tSpecial. l-About 12 o'clock today an extra train on the Central extension was wrecked el=ven miles from Troy. The train consisted of eight box cars aud a caboose. One box car and the engine were ali that was left on the track. Seven box cars and the caboose were thrown headlong into the water and mud.
 The passenger train came over safely this morning, which wss almost miracle. The track was fiagge1 as dangerous from the end of the road toward Troy, but the flagma1 had failed to flag the other end, not knowing there was train below.
 The train was in charge of Engineer Kirby Post aud Conductor Strickland and was running at the rate of about twenty miles an hour. It was sent down for slaves and there was large force of hands em- ployed by William Greene on board.
 THE DEAD.
 FOX CURTIS, white, son of William Gurus of Glenwood, about 20 years of age.
 JONES, a negro, one Of Greene's timber men.
 THE WOUNDED.
 REUBEN WILKINS, an old colored man.
 Two or three more are wounded and two others missing, supposed to be under the cars or in the water.
 The dead man Curtis was taken to his home at Glenwood and will be buried to- morrow.
 The negroes who are wounded were brought here by Surgeons Beard & Brown.
 The negro who was killed had a ascantling stuck through him. He was on top of a box car, and on the caboose was Curtis and two other young men, one named Camp, bell and one Walters. Walters was thrown into the mud and Campbell into the water, and each narrowly escaped death. Curtis was thrown on the track and his head and chest crushed. He lived about two hours, but was unconscious.
 The caboose was thrown about 20 feet, and contained eight men, all of whom came out alive-a most wonderful escape.
 The conductor was sitting up in the cu-. pola, and he says the first thing he saw of the wreck was a box car straight up in the air, and in an instant he found himself and his companions scrambling about to get out of caboose that lay in the swamp.
 Engineer Post, who is one of the best on the Central system, and runs from Colum- bus to Birmingham regularly, says that as his engine passed over he felt the track give way, and threw on his brakes to stop, but too late. His engine was torn loose by the terrible weight of his train tumbling down the embankment.
 As soon as the wreck occurred Engineer Post took his conductor on bis engine and started for Troy to secure telegraph com munication and to get Dr. Beard, tho com- pany's surgeon. They came to another dangerous place where a culvert had ol pA bau ad mn m ahead, secured the section boss and re- paired the washout so they could cross.
 After crossing they found an emoank- ment had caved in on the track and their man was sent on to meet the freight train which would be due shortly. This train arrived and they transferred the conductor. came into the city and thus broke the news of the appalling disaster about 2 o'clock. 2. Further particulars could not be obtained till Engineer Post with one box arrived about 6 O clock, bringing three wounded negroes and Drs. Beard and Brown and Capt. H. B. Cowart, Rev. A.. J. Briggs and Mfr. Featherstone, who went. out on the ens inc about o'clock.
 The Central railroad runs near Conecuh river nearly all the way to Searight after it strikes the swamp, six miles from Troy. This wreck occurred within 150 yards of the river bank. The road bed is very soft there, and there is a sharp curve just at this point. The embodiment washed out about half way under the track, and the weight of the train crushed the remainder. The recent rains have flooded the swamp.
 The good people of Goshen turned out and are rendering all the assistance possi- ble. A wrecking train passed through here en route to the scene about 10 o'clock to- night, and it is thought the wreck will be cleared away by noon tomorrow.
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