Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-28

from where the engine fell His only injury
wac broken arm lie left the scene for
Bocton on foot almost Immediately after
the wreck. apparently craZcd with fright
The railroad officials have not yet been able
to see him, and get a statement
THREE CHILDREN SAVED.
OF the eight other survivors, three were
children. all OF whom bad their feet burned
and mashed, and woman who had both
feet crushed Their names have not yet
been learned. The other three were Henry
Handberry, a conductor from Birmingham.
who was taking his wife and two children
out for a ride around the circuit, and VIII
Gardner and Andrew Bryson, miners from
BOCtun. Handbcrry IVES on the same ecai
with his wife and children when the crash
came. The latter three were killed and he
was pinned down and would have been
burned alive had he not been rescued by
Broyson and Gardner These two men also
eavod the unknown woman and
pinned down ana appealing pteously
for help but by the time they
had rescued these five persons, the heat
had become SO intense that they were com
PEELED TO GCsist i'm their work OF rescue. II Is
thought FULLY thrcc-.ourths OF the dead were
killed outright In the crash, while the other
five We're pinionCl down and grematCd.
Gardner and Brys3n were both badly hurt
while Handocrry will probably die.
The flames had completed the work Of de-
country around the scene of the accident
Is sparscly settled and the few farmers who
heard Of the wreck and went to the scene
arrived too late to be Of any assistance ex-
cCpt to the survivors
Dr. Ray. a BloCtOn physician, who at
tended Gardner, one Of the injured survivors,
tclegraphs tonight the statement made by
Gardner as to the cause Of the wreck.
Gardner says when he felt the cars leave
the track he looked out and saw three savage
LOO, Inn 1,
down toward the waters edge, and that
after the wreck they went through the
wrockage, rObbing the dead and wounded,
and then fed to the woods. They did their
work quickly. and offered no assistance
whatever in the way of resCuine the i'm
prisoned and injured passengers. This
story, however, has not yet been corrobo-
rated but other facts tend to show that it
was the work OF train wreckers
An examination Of the engine shows that
Engineer White had shut off steam and re-
versed before the engine went down indi-
eating that he saw danger ahead as he APP
preached the bridge and tried to stop his
train. His charred body was found, with
his hand on the throttle Tho survivors all
agree that the train left the track and
bumped along the ties, and then with
crash, plunged through the bridge Expert
engineers say that there is every indication
that rail was removed, which derailcd the
train and caused IT to pull down the bridge.
The cross ties show marks of the wheels.
TO add to this is the fact that three men
tried to wreck a Southern railway train
near Henryellcn. fifteen miles east of here,
five days ago. by removing a rail on a
trestle ninety feet high. The fast express
left the track, but the engineer managed
by superhuman efforts to stop II before IL
tore down the trestle. This was regarded
es most remarkable escape. In this case
three men were seen running from the place
and a crowbar with which the spikes had
been withdrawn. was found
The scenes of both accidents are In a
wild, mountainous country