San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-06-20
WRECK ON THE KATY.
N0RTHB0UND EXPRESS PLUNGES
THROUGH A BRIDGE.
Fifty-rwo Passengers Aboard-None
Killed, But Many Injured-The
Coaches Turned Upside
Down and Smashed
to Pieces.

HOUSTON, Texas, June 2O.-lSpe-
ciall = The northbound flyer on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
way was wrecked at a point 10
miles north of here last night.
The wreck occurred at a branch of
White Oak bayou, which is usually
dry, but had been swollen by heavy
rains. Engineer Henry Garrett,
when within twenty yards of the
bridge, saw it sag and applied the
air brakes, which partially reduced
the momentum. The engine stuck
close to the track and crossed,
while the tender, baggage, smoker
and two coaches left the track and
turned over. Conductor johnson
walked back to Houston, a distance
of about eight miles, and relief
train was dispatched to the scene
with surgeons.
The wreck presented horrible
spectacle, and how any body escaped
instant death is miracle. The in
jured are:
J. w. Slocum, fireman, Smith
Vile; bruised internally.
John Graham, Cane Island; in.
jured in back, hip and side.
Mat. Renfro, Denison; badly
bruised in back. Renfro is bag.
gage master and his home is Sui
phur Springs, Ky.
Butler Davis, New Ulm, injured
in chest and jaw broken.
Allen Johnson, aged five years,
of this city, injured in hip.
The injured were brought to
Houston and placed in the hos
pital. 1t Is feared some are injured
internally. The tracks are blocked
and it will be several hours before
the track Is cleared.
There were fifty-two passengers
on the train, and considering that
two of the coaches were reduced to
kindling wood, their escape from
death Is miraculous. Two other
coaches were turned upside down.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
HOUSTON, Tex. June 20.-Special.
The M. X. & T. passenger train
which left here at 8 80 o'clock last
night, ran into a floating bridge
across a ravine about seven miles
north of the city.
The train reached the bridge at
I0:12 o'clock. When within twen-
ty feet, Engineer Henry Garrett
saw a swag in the bridge and i'm
mediately applied the brakes, but
not in time to stop the train, and
as the locomotive went upon the
floating bridge, the engineer felt it
was going. He stuck to his post
and was not injured.
His fireman was shoveling coal,
and after crossing the bridge, when
the tender fell to the left, he fell to
the right, down an embankment,
but was only slightly bruised.
The engine and baggage car were
showed across the ravine by the
momentum of the train, and piled
in a wreck on the opposite bank.
The smoker was damned across
the track, with both ends torn out.
The second class coach spanned
the ravine, taking the place Of the
bridge. Two chair cars and the
sleeper kept the track this side OF
the washout.
There were passengers in both
the smoker and second class coach
and how they escaped death and
more serious injuries is a mystery.
Conductor w. j. Johnston walk
ed back to the city and Immediate
ly took out physicians and a relief
corps.
No lives were lost but Baggage
Agent T. d. Renfrow, Engineer
Garrett, Fireman j. w. Slocum,
Section Foreman John Graham
and two colored passengers were
slightly injured and were brought
to the hospital here.
Track will be cleared tonight and
traffic resumed.
Nicaragua and Panama.
NEW YORK, June 20.-A special