Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1895-03-09
THE MEXICAN HORROR.
Further Details OF tho Inter-Ocsan-
ic Railway Disaster.
First Reports More Than Verified by the
Visit of the Wrecking Train to the
Scene of the eWreck-Sixty-Five Per-
sons Killed and Forty Injured.

| Scene of the eWreck-Sixty-Ffve Per-
sons Killed and Forty Injured.
CITY OF MEXICO, March "A wreck
Ing train arrived here carly yesterday
morning from the scene of Thursdays
accident on the Oceanic railway.
1t brought forty persons who had
been injured in the crash and DR.. AL
fred Bray, DR.. Francis Crosson and two
other surgeons who were sent out soon
after the news of the disaster was re-
ceived here.
Many persons were left dead near
the spot where the train left the rails;
others were on the point of death, and
of those who were brought back ten or
twelve cannot possibly recover.
The crew of the wrecling train told
the first detailed story of the accident.
| The train consisted of ten coaches.
| 1t was chartered to pilgrims from
Amecameca and the engineer was un-
der orders to run carefully. 1t was
filled with pilgrims-many of them
| women and children-at the city sta
tion shortly before / o'clock and was
| started at 1:25. 1t proceeded slowly at
first, but after stopping for water the
| engineer began running at the rate of
| thirty miles an hour.
About twenty-eight miles from the
capital, and midway between Toman-
alta and Tenango, there is steep
down grade. On one side of the track
the blasted rock forms high wall; on
the other in a steep descent. At a
point where the descent reaches down
about thirty feet the track makes
sharp curve. The trains usually round
it at half speed, but for a reason net
yet ascertained the engineer of the
pilgrims train tried to make it with
out slowing down. Either the rails
spread or the engine jumped the
track. The engine and tender broke
loose from the coaches and rolled
down the embankment. The coaches
ran off about fifty yards further on
The rear coaches crashed down against
the engine and tender and trestle and
went to pieces at the foot of the en-
bankment. Five coaches were smashed
SO as to be little more than pile of
splintered boards and beams and
twisted iron.
About twenty passengers were able
to extricate themselves without severe
injury, and they began rescuing those
who were pinioned under the wreck.
-Four women were found with their
arms crushed and immovable under
beams and twisted axles. They lay
near the engine and were screaming
for fear of the flames. After all efforts
to clear them had proved vain they
were torn loose, one of them losing
her arm from the shoulder; another
her arm from the elbow and each of
the other two having both arms
crushed and legs terribly inutilated.
Three of the four will die.
Three children of one family were
found dead together under an up
set car truck. Their mother lay
near by with her skull crushed and
one leg gone. The father escaped with
broken shoulder. although he was on
the same seat with the three children
who were killed.
Fragments of arms and legs were
strewn about the wreckage, and sew
eral of the bodies were SO mutilated
that no attempt to identify them will
be made.
When the doctors arrived on the
wreckage train they found forty pill
grims near the wreck and five who had
not yet been taken from the ruins be-
cause there was no way of cutting
them loose. The five were rescued first
and put on the train. The doctors
worked for five hours to get the injured
into condition to make the jour-
ney back. Everyone of the forty
was spattere d with blood from
some open wound. Three men had
lost half of their scalps. Four had
fractured skulls. Six women were SO
badly injured in the back and abdo-
men that it was feared they would die
before reaching the city.
All the doctors agree that the scenes
at the wreck and in the coaches during
their journey home were the most hor-
rible in their experiences.
The train arrived at the curve where
the wreck occurred at o'clock, and it
did not start back until nearly mid
night. When the train came into the
station forty of the injured passengers
were stretched at full length, helpless
from their wounds. All the pilgrims
were Mexicans.
The engineer and conductor of the
train are supposed to have escaped se-
rious injury and have fed to the
woods.
sixty-Five Killed and ,rty Injured.
CITY OF MEXICO, March 2.-The loss
of life in the wreck on the Inter-
Oceanic railway has been made
known. Sixty-five persons were killed
and forty injured. The death list is
likely to be increased. as several pas
sengers are expected to die within
twenty-four hours.
The President TO Take an Outing.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The indica-
tions are that the president expects to
go to North Carolina ON fishing and
ducking trip shortly after the adjourn
ment of congress. The lighthouse
tender Violet, upon which his earlier
trips were made, has been ordered to
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