The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1896-10-28
WRECK
...t Ever Happenet
o. the Road.
|Iu NO MANY INJURED,

,sdsrsd BY the Health Fire
D.osrin.nts Of ST. Louis
q lie Killed and |
BsdIy Injured.
o,t sa-The most appal-
I, that ever happened on
San Francisco road oe-
'i,r morning at $40 o'clock
'sou q an excursion train,
.,bs second section OF No. l.
~,ous to st. James, Mo,
IN suburban train, bound
a the reversing double
bstween Valley Park and
q dding, not far from
EsAlsnds.
M aboard the excursion
rbsroi women, several men,
Nsrchants' League Repub-
drum corps, a number OF
|, men. bent on enjoying a
sure. The train crew was
liable showed that the VAL
,aommodation should reach
4. d miIss west of St. Louis,
l Theexcursionists reached
l.,gil There was no train
ii the merry crowd aboard
linking about railroads.
aughing, talking, joking,
ulviewing the landscape as
No stop was made. The
vi On.
h Park the crew on the ac-
6su had expected second
thistle BY some time before
Nd for 81. Louis--at $3.50.
upcisl" didn't show up, and
unodation commenced its
lrgular suburban stops were
he crew nonchalantly fig
,hsy would reach the Spring
X nearly on time.
10 y entered the twisting
niles IRON Union station,
are second before the Val
"kb-tailn started into the
II the west-bound train
INTO the siding a few hun
east there would have been
npAe
front Of the telegraph pole
b the li.mile sign Is
NJ trains came together.
vi a terrific crash, an
grinding noise, and
PIE collision had occurred.
band engine battered into
'eono'ive, crushing through
'ftk and piping and buried
NE others vitals. Then the
fouts OF both locomotives
hpugh their metal nostrils.
nck place inside a, fraction
y Pieces Of iron, brass and
: hurled in all directions.
nfuggling monsters back on
nan embrace Of destruction.
lsnr'ionists' accommodation
smashed into splinters.
ground between the awful
the collision and the
pressure Of the ten cars
vas lost In a chaos of de-
Nothing but trucks re-
IDENTIFY it as a ear.
4 Immediately behind-No.
mt a trifle better. In It had
'nl members of the Mer-
que drum corps. The car
INTO midair suddenly and
rly any warming. The
men and women against
\" scattering the panes.
ner breath the coach was
npletely around, bumped
'nlng rapidity against the
.aag combination car and
% cOliquely across.
'pllng was broken at both
NO &c as though IL were
'eleate wire. The coach fol.
vas hurled beside the front
70, and the side was entire.
'aeu. But the most remark.
y Of the occurrence was the
'ne passengers in the fifth,
seventh coaches scarcely
Mere had been an accident
'eeame aware of the awful
= the happening.
40 70 Of the accommodation
= showed around the rear
ngine, the engineers cal
ground into bits, that
.su'ed on either side of the
a'a the wrecking train ar.
N, %sokestack of engine No. st
adlng through the coal in
sa' on the Valley Park ac.
~ was hurled against the
] was partially telescoped.
- remained comparatively
M, sual followed Immediately
!, ,,els OF the disaster was ap.
neartrending in the ex.
streams Of the women and
.siea with the groans ol
ana dying, and the kissing
= seam' The panic-stricken
= 'ne unwrecked coaches
's ,' other under foot in
|. s'u 70 escape from the cars
windows and doors, and
- INJURED in the stampede
~ the effects of the col.
psas, p'suloly short time, how
,os 'ai extent of the disaster
n' and, under the leader.
,saS sw cool heads, a hundred
,,sa, ss We're engaged in the
iug ss;g the injured and tn,
A. "'ag from beneath the
y y wrecked cars.
\ y ~. me wreck reached st
\ MINUTES after it occurred
|,,Is,p were taken to render
nj ssnce ~ possible. Within
4 ,s,,1 sn'er the first report Of
d,,....ssi d,..si train was sent out
AtttlOn oF NJ. ~ n