Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-19
A TRAIN DERAILED.
THREE Cars GO ovER THE SANK
TWO nURxED.
ONE PASSENGER FATALLY ISJURED.
Abous Thirty others Mors or LESS
Seriously Hurs--wrsck the Elrse
One Of serious Nature on sxe
Road.

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KANSAS CITY. MO-. November ~
Train No. 2, on the Kansas City. Voft
Scott and Memphis road. which lsft
birmingham. Ala. last evening for
Kansas City, was derailed Just west ce
Wiiliford. Ark, at O'Clock this morr-
Ing. The combination-coaca chair-c.s..
and sleeper went over the bank. tina
combination-car going into Spring river.
The chair-car and sleeper were both
consumed.
One passenger was fatally injured.
and about thirty others were more or leas
seriously hurt. 1t is believed none cf.
the latter will die. The list Of injured
follows:
Fatally hurt:
J. L. HOOVER. Pleasant Hin, Ne,
More or less seriously injured:
LEOPOLD POLLOCK. Little Rock
Ark
CLARENCE MURPHY, Atwood. Ind.
J. r. NORRIS, Bakersfield Mo-
C. A. RAvENsTEIN, wife. and bsN,>
Atwood. Ind.
c. L. MERRIwErHER, Sulphur Rock.
Ark.
ED. WEBB. Vernon Nook, Mo.
]. ]. ALrZSCHEEL. Little Rock. Arr
w. j. GRANT. Salem. Ark.
Bruised and cut about the head;
M. l.. PRICE, BeaIl, Ark; injured
about the head.
w. b. sTAHI. Cornth. Miss; In
jured about the head and bands.
w. ii. B0ATNER. Lection, No.: In
Jured about the head.
M M. c; ,,,a. HOGAN, GA Oakland. Arf' in-
WESLEY WINS, Atwood. Ind.i in-
jured about the head.
Mrs. A. j. PERKINS, Hiram. Arks
extent OF injuries not known.
X. $. GUY. Monterey. Ind. arms hurt.
]. n. HORTON. Ashtiat. Ark; head
cut and thighs hurt.
JOHN HORTON, son OF the above.
II years old; hurt between the shoulders.
LUTHER HORTON, also son OF J. N.
Horton, years old; bruised about the
knee
s. L. GUTHRIE, Franklin. Ark, hip
bruised.
JOHN L. EADY. Hardy. Ark: head
cut.
J. ID. HILL, Hardy, Ark; head cut.
II. V. HILL. Hardy, Ark; leg hurt
Mrs. PRINCES SON; hurt about the
extent OF injuries not known.
Mrs. PRICES SON; hurt about tt3
face and arm.
Mr.. BAILEY. Fair Play. Mo-; foot in
iured
W. J. sHEsABEL. voldette. Ark; head
injured.
Mrs. ARNETT, Mammoth Springs.
Ark; back sprained.
THE ACCIDENT.
No. 2 Is fast through train from the
South. Between Williford and Hardy the
Memphis tracks parallel the Spring river.
little stream running out OF Mammoth
Springs. The train was composed OF the
engine, mail and express-car, baggaxe-
car, combination-coac chair-car. and
sleeper The combination-car has a par
tition In the middle, one end being rsedl
as a smoker and the other end for color
ed passengers. When near WilIiford tho
engineer felt the train leap forward.
and found that II had parted between the
two day-coaches. The last three cars
bumped over the ties, the chair-car ana
sleeper turning over on their sides, and
the combnation-car finally going into the
river. The engineer backed up the front
part Of the train, and the work OF rescue
was Immediately begun.
The terror OF the passengers who had
gone down into the 1tream with the COM
binatiof-car was heightened by cries OF
alarm from the chair-caP and sleeper
both of which soon took fire. The In
tense darkness added to tho coI.fusions
and 1t was some time before an organized
effort at rescue was put into effect hy
the train crew and those OF the passen-
gers who had been able 10 extricate them
selves without aid. The passengers In tha
burning cars were. luckily. rescued before
the fire had reached its height, and but
few OF those cars were injured. Luckily.
not person was drowned, end IL was
not long before all had been accounted
for.
A telegram to Thayer Mo-, twen,s-uine
miles distant, brought a relief train In
an hour or SO. and the injured were taken
10 that city and placed In a hospital
Shortly before noon to-day Chief-sur-
geon Pettiiohn. OF the Memphis road. and
Claim-Agent Crater left Kansas City for
Thayer, and will bring the injured to this
city.
CAUSE IN DOUBT.
The cause of the accident has not been
ascertained. but II is thought some por-
tion OF the forward truck OF the smoker
gave way. This will not be known posi-
lively until the wreck. which is IN the
river. has been recovered.
The train crew escaped injury.
The wreck Is the first one OF q serious
nature In the history OF the Memphis
road and II Mr.. Hoover dies, he viii,
according TO the statement Of General
Passenger-Agent J. r.. Lockwood. be the
first passenger ever killed while riding en-
a train on that road.