Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-09-17
TERRIBLE WRECK !
The Worst Railroad
Wreck on Record.
Hon Nm. j. Bryan on Board.

Hon Nm. j. Bryan on Board
New Castle, Colo, Sept. 10
The most disastrous railway wreck
that has ever happened in Colorado
occurred at l2:t5 this morning, a
mile and Il half west of this town.
The Denver and Rio Grand passen.
ger train No. ] west bound, collided
with the Colorado Midland stock
train, going east, wrecking both en-.
gines and several cars in both trains.
Shortly after the collision fire broke
out in the ruins. The mail, baggage
and express cars, smokers, day coach
and tourist sleeper were burned.
y number of passengers who were
not killed outright, but who were
pinned in the wreck and could not
be eXlricated, perished in the flames.
There were about two hundred
passengers. 1t is estimated that
twenty-five were killed and as many
more bruised, scaldcd and burned.
Of whom six are likely TO die
Times. (Bristol)
MIR. BRYAN JUMPS THROUGH
A WINDOW.
Iowa, Kansas, sept. I0-Mr Bry
an had spoken at Birliugame yester
day afternoon and was en- route to
lola, riding in he middle of the for
ward car. The train was more than
an hour behind time, and after Usage
City had been passed, the speed
was increased so visibly that Dave
Leahy, one of the reporters, who
was riding with Mr.. Bryan, leaned
over and shouted TO him above the
clamCr; She's hitting a sixty-mile
clip"
An instant more and there was a
irightful bursting shock that tore
the lamps from their fastenings and
hurled seats about. The crash was
deafenins, stunning.
It seemed, said Mr.. Bryan after
waid that the car would never stop
pitching and humping and bound.
ing ahead. The passengers were
hurled from their seats. The lights
went out, screams of frantic men
and women sounded through the
darkness, amid the breaking and
crunching Of the cars, and then the
car stood nearly still, although rock.
ing up and down on the apex of a
pile of debris fully twenty feet high
Through the smashed forward
end the steam poured in, filling the
car. Men aud women rushed fol
the doors and others stood up on
car seats and kicked out windows.
1t was through one Of the windows
that Mr.. Bry an escaped.
1t was a drop of ten feet to foot
ing on the wreck below, but Mr..
Bryan landed without the slightest
injury. Without loosing a moment
Mr.. Bryan plunged into the work OF
rescue, and for nearly three hours
rendered invaluable service, not only
by the direction of a cool head. but
by The strength of his williag arms
as well, for he lifted and carried
while experimenting the work of the
more excited men.
SAVED MANY LIVES.
1t is not too much credit for Mr..
Bryan, to say that lie undoubtedly
saved many lives last night: how
many no one can know, but it is
morally certain that but for his
magnificent energy and generals hip
some Of the injured men would
have been left beneath the debris OF
the wreck until the fire had reached
them and finished the work the col
lision began.
1t was known in Emporia that
MIR. Bryan was TO arrive on the first
mail from Burlingame and was to
S tay here through the night. More
than 1000 people were gathered at
the depot to welcome him when they
heard the news Of the wreck. Every
one thought of Bryan. More than
a thousand people shook hands with
him In front Of the telegraph office
last night.
Mr.. Bryan said TO a Journal cor.
respondent this afternoon: 81 have
Travelled thousands upon thousands
of miles on railroads, and / never
was in q wreck before I did not