The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-02
MANY WERE TORN TO PIECES. Fearful Results of Railroad Wreck Nea
 the City of Mexico.

the City of Mexico. City of Mexico, March LA wrecking
 train arrived this morning from the
 scene of yesterdays accident on the In- teroceanic railway. It brought forty
 persons who had been injured in the
 crash, and pr. Alfred Bray, Dr. Francis
 Crosson and two other surgeons who
 were sent out yesterday soon after the
 news was received.
 Many persons were left dead near the
 spot where the train left the rails.
 Others wer on the point of death, and of
 those who were brought back ten or
 twelve cannot possibly recover.
 The crew of the wrecking train told
 the first detailed story. The train con-
 sisted of ten coaches. It was chartered
 by pilgrims from Amerameca, and the
 engineer was under orders to run care
 fully. It was filled with pilgrims
 many of them women and children
 at the city station shortly before
 o'clock, and was started at 1;25. It
 proceeded slowly at first, but after stop
 ping for water the engineer began run
 ming at the rate of thirty miles an hour.
 About twenty-eight miles from the cap
 ital and midway between Temamatla and Tenanga there is a steep down grade. On one side of the track the blasted rock forms high wall on the other is a steep descent. At a point where the descent reaches down about thirty feet the track makes a sharp curve.
 The train usually runs around at half speed, but for a reason not yet ascertained the engineer tried to take it without 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 em- bankment The coaches ran off about fifty yards further on. The rear coach- es ran down against the engine and ten der and the rest went to pieces at the foot of the embankment hear by. Five coaches were smashed so as to be little more than piles of splintered boards and beams and twisted iron.
 About twenty passengers were able to extricate themselves without severe in- jury and they began rescuing those who were pinned under the wreck. Four women were found with their arms crushed and immovable under beams and twisted axles. They lay near the q iY1cr fp Op the flames.
 After all efforts to clear them had proved vain they were torn loose. One of them lost her arm from the shoulder, another lost her arm from the elbow and each of the others had both arms crushed and legs terribly mutilated l Three of the four will die. Three chil- dren of one family were found dead to- gether under an upset car track. Their | mother lay nearby with her skull l crushed and one leg gone The father | escaped with only broken shoulder, although he was on the same seat | with the three children who were kill | ed Fragments of arms and legs were | 3trewn through the wreckage and sev- eral of the bodies were so mutilated | hat no attempt to identify them will | oe made.
 When the doctors arrived on the vrecking train they found thirty-fve pilgrims near the wreck and five who lad not yet been taken from the ruins because they was no way of cutting hem loose.
 The five were rescued and put on he train. The doctors worked five tours to get the injured into condition o make the journey back Every one f the forty was spattered with blood rom some open wound. Three men lad lost half of their scalps. Four had ractured skulls. Six women were so adly injured in the back and abdomen hat it was feared they would die be- ore reaching the city.
 All the doctors agree that the scenes t the wreck and in the coaches during heir journey home were the most hor- ible in their experience. All the pill rims wer Mexicans The engineer and onductor of the train are supposed to ave escaped serious injury and to have ed to the woods. It was definitely announced late this vening that sixty-tive persons were filed in the wreck and forty were in- 1 red.