The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-02-24
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED.
One Han Killed Instantly and Thirty
More or Less Cut and Injured
RUNNING FIFTY MILES IN HOUR.
En- Route to New Orleans Via the Louis
Vile and Nashville Railroad-Mors
Than Three Hundred Passengers
Aboard-List of Killed and
Injured.

MONTGOMERY, ALA, Feb. 23.-Pas-
eenper train. No. 1, for New Orleans, on
| the Louisville and Nashville railroad, was
| wrecked by being derailed two mile.
| bcl1w Greenville, Ala, and forty-seVen
miles south of Montgomery, at 9.O CLOCK
! this morning The train was going ABOUT
! dftv miles an hour, when the rails spread
and the tender Of the engine jumped the
track. and the combination mail. baggage
| and express car, smoking car ana Two
| passenger cars were thrown over the nj
teen-foot perpendicular CIhDaHhHleiee : :
and ploughed into the mud. the scene OF
the accident being in swamp me I@rSe @
Pullman sleeper left the rails while TWO
other sleepers and a private car OF the
Chicago and Alton railroad, with oihclalS
ON board. remained on the track.
Eneineer Campbell and his fireman re-
mained at their posts, the engine jerking
loose from the tender and escaping dail-
age. The mail clerk, baggage master arc aiiu
expressman all made marvellous ESCAPES
receiving but slight bruises CONDUCTOR
Keeler got out uninJured. =. d. @l9"'
of Rirningham. Ala, thought TO nave
been a barber. vas killed instantly. lie
was occupving a front seat IN the hlst
Messenger coach. when 1t crashed INTO the
emoking car. and was thrown forward
against the toilet room, breaking ms
neck.
eo,,y or THOSE WHO WE'RE INJURED.
1boee injured were: G.. p. Armstrong
or RuffaIo X. Y. lett shoulder and arm
broken; cut and bruised about ihe l"ce
and left side. ,,,,,. ~,
Mrs 6 W. Moody. Of Shelbyville, Tenn.
law brolxen and cut on left ankle, ana
foot sprained. Her little daughter Mar
learet. sustained a few bruises. MIS-
Armstrong and Mrs Moody are now IN
GreenviIle. Ala. at a hotel, where theS
are receiving medical attendance
w. II. Johnson, Newcastle luu'' SCI So,
ously hurt ia the back and grolhi caIileu
TO Mobile. ,,....t,,.,,,,r,
Ala: right leg sDalded by the water rom
the heaters; continued her trip to New
Orleans. ,,...,,,
Mrs, w. I. r. Thompson, Of Montgom-
cry. Ala, knee sprained. a..
Airs. 5. j. Wisdom, Montgomery, Ala
face and head cut; left leg sprained; pos
sibly injured internally
Mrs. ". II. SchoOlcraft, Montgomery
Ala. head cut and right hand mangled.
G. r. Johnson, travelling man. OF
Toledo. O.. hip cut and arm lacerated.
There were more than 225 passengers
aboard. and of that number at least thir-
Nv were more or less injured, very slight
cuts and bruises being the extent OF dam
ages done those whose names are not
given. The mail and baggage cars three
coaches. and two Pullman sleepers were
burned. one sleeper and the Chicago and
Alton private car escaped the fire. Whlch
crigirated from the stoves of the coaches
EXCITEMENT ~ MoNTGoAEGY
All sorts of exaggerated reports OF the
wreck were received here this morning,
and as there were twenty-odd Montgom-
cry people on the train the excitement
around the depot and telegraph oiiice,
where large crowds had gathered, was
intense. At 1890 o'clock relief tram lett
here. bearing seven physicians and oiii-
cisls of the road, and the relatives OF
local people who were in the wreck. This
train returned at o'clock this even
ing. The track has not yet been cleared
but travel is going forward as usual
The mail destroyed was from Mont
gomery. Birmingham, Nashville, Louis
Vile, Cincinnati. Chicago, and the West