The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-17
WRECK ON THE SANTA FE.
Fifteen Persons We're Injured. Some
Of Them Fatally.
TRAIN WENT DOWN AN EMBANKMENT.
rrcsuc Mad Bccn washed out ~
liinh Wntcr.-sN Collision Nctwccn
Engines at phelps.

sNumtlts ~ Mus SSNssA
bound Santa Fo passenger train, No. I. In
charge Of Conductor Jack Conlisk, ran Into
a washout about sixteen miles south OF this
place at 5 o'clock this morning, The en-
ftre train except the engine and Pullman
sleeper. left the track and were torn inIo
splinters, The chair car III front OF tho
sleeper was lett with either of Its ends
resting on the banks of tho creek, which
was about twenty feet deep, Tho tender.
mail and oxprcss cara and two coaches are
complete wrecks. That no lives were lost
seems miraculous.
The seriously injured are: s
I. NJ. Order express messenger. Gal
weston. injured Internally and left sheul-
der crushed: will die
Il. IL. Sparks, Oakman. I. T., Internally
injured and left ehoulder crushed; NAY
die.
Others injured are:
l.. Il. Hale. Fort Worth. ,eNas, badly
injured In hip.
w. l.. Irwin. Kansas city, Mo. cut on
neck aud head.
Gene Upton. mall clerk. r.rt Worth.
slightly bruised.
IL, j. Cru,ehncld. Fox, l. r. received
slight injuries
". u. GfiiNiurh OF Ituru, !. =, GpuW
dislocalcd and right arm fractured,
William Forbes. Lebanon lead. hands
and arms cut and hip injured.
q, L.. York. Pslo Pinto. Texas. hip tn-
iurod.
J II. Piper, Ladonia, Texas. Leaf cut.
shoulders dlslocated,
Physicians from Ardmorc AMI Gainesville
We're promptly dispatched to the scscc of
the wreck by special trains and .ho In
iurod passengers given every possible at
trn,ion 10 add TO their comfort aud reeds
The injured were all hrous1t to ,Ms
place In The elceping car that lue' ,ly re-
mained on the track Traffic wa, SCI pend
ed twelve hours aud was resumed only by
means OF SHORTLY track being built
around the wreck.
Dallas. Texas. May ld.--passenser train
No. 1. southbound. went through bridge
on the main liue of the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fo between Marietta and overlook.
/. n. and twenty six miles north OF
Gainesville at o'clock this morning. Tho
train Was a through passenger from Chi
caEo to Galveston and had quite num-
Dor OF passengers on board. The heavy
and almost incosSant rains Of the Inst few
davs had swollen the ltttlo stream four
miles north OF Marietta 10 abnormal pro-
portions and undermined the bridge across
IT. When the train reached there on IT'S
way south tho structure was swinging in
securely IN It's place The engine dashed
across in safety, hut the weight joe,led tho
structure SO that /, gave way with tho
tender. which plunged into tho water be-
low. making Il resting place for The bag
gage aud eNpross cars the smoker aud part
Of the chair car. all OF which rapidly tuin-
hied after. The pullman WAS left with IN
end on either bank, bridging tho chasm'
T u SPARKS an Indian Territory pas.
Ecngor, who was IN The smoker. was caught
between timbers and injured internally. IL
Is though, he VIII die
ESpress Messenger j. V. Glider Of Fcrt
Worth was caught by "A heavy iron sBfo
and fatally injured. His death Is hourly
expected.
Eight others, all passengers. were In
iurcd in the smash-up that followed tho
sinking of tho bridge, but all are expected
tCi recover
Division Superintendent Pendell OF Gle
hurne. with large force OF hands, started
at o'clock for the scene of The wreck.
The wrccknR outfit was picked up by the
special at Gainesville and work at clearing
away the debris was commenced at once.
II was after nightfall before the bridge mad
been repaired aud track sufficiently
cleared for the resumption OF travel.