Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-01
SEVEN MEN KILLED

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KsSsA. Crrr. Mo. Juae - Seven
eofins werc forwarded - ~ Lcuis
yesterday from NissSari city. They
contained the remains - victims oi
Saturday nights wreck ou the wahash
road. A corrected list af the de.l as
.. follows
". :. Mills, rsstai CLERK. - toui~
a " Smith. postal cter<. - LoaiN
Gustare A. smith. PostAl cierk. ~.
Louis
Charles Winters. postal clerk. ~
Louis
o. ". Brink. postal clerk. ~. Louis
Edward Grindrud. barvag~man, ~
Louis
charles L. Grcasley. brakeman. "a
Louis
The conductor Of the train -. e..
Copeland. % - Louis. who was r.
ported among the dead. i sill alive.
lie was removed yesterday morning -
a fractured skull and several broien
ribs. he fingers between life and death.
but the surgeons express a hnpc that
he will recover. Conductor Copeland
was supposed to be dead when taken
from the wreck and his bssiy. with
handkerchief drawn over hts facr. was
ranged ia a row with the seven
evrpses A few minutes later some one
observed sign % life aud hc was
quickly transferred 10 a strctcher and
given every possible attention ot the
70 others injured not one i IN crit
cal condition Among them there =
not Que broken limb. though many
were thrown thrvr-quartcrS OF the
length 81 the coaches in which
they were riding Mrs ". II. Wtikin-
son. Of kansas CITY. i the most s-ri-
ouSly hurt. Two small bones of her
left hand are broken, aud she suffered
a severe laccration % the thigh. A.
we'll aS bruises about the face aud
neck The wounds Of most ~ the oth-
ers are trivial
All indications are that death came
To at least four of the i've unfortunate
mail clerks almost instantly. Their
car pitched end first through the brcas
in the trcstls. and they must have been
drowned IN the raging stream while in
an unconscious eonaltion- The re
mains Of the four Werc carried from
the wreck and were recovered soune
distance down the stream There were
signs of life in the bosly Of the fifth
mail clerk when rcscuers dragged him
from the wreck. bat he died a few min
utes later on the bank % the cr~ek-
Saturday uight IL was fcarvl there
were morr bodies in the stream. but n
search sunday proved tina, the fatalities
were limited a. thos., already named
saturday bat small stream was low
ing b~neath the trvstle - here the wreck
occurred In ordinary weather Il - a
/ dry creek h-d. The storm of Saturday
night. which was aiulsSt eIoad burst.
had swollen the little Strcam 10 torr~n-
tial proportions The fpri carried
away a vagoa bridge short distance,
above the Wabash tr~stls. The wreck
OF this bridge was hurled down upon
the railroad trestle ami carrissl away a
row of woosisu supports IN the center
A neixhboring farmer noticed the
| psriious eonditioa Of the tresttr and
resolved 70 Tag the pasScnger train.
which he knew - b. about due. For
nearly an hour he sto.ns there in the
terrific downpour Of rain. only 10
fail at last in his good intentions.
for when IN. Wabash company >
fast mail came laundering oa the
storm was almost binding. and the en-
/ gineer evidently could not see the sig
nal which the farmer franticaliy
waved across the track The loco
motive struck the trestle. momen, /,
later the disaster was presented in all
its horrors The engine passed over,
but the tender went through with the
tumbling trestle- The baggage car
toppled over on its side. while the mail
car, which followed. pitched into the
stream end drs.- Every life in this
ear was lost The smoker. next be-
hind followed II was IN this car tina,
Conductor Copeland was riding. The
other occupants escaped serious injury.
The chair car. next behind. also
| plunged in upon the mass Of wreei<age
end hrst and all its passengers were
thrown 10 the forward end in an inde
seribable heap. How they escaped
with no more serious IN jGries Is mys
terry which all the passengers in this
coach are puzzled over.
The front end of the sleeper. next in
the rear. jammed into the Protrudins
end of the chair ear and was thus pre-
vented from following the other int
the ehasm- The two Excelsior Springs
coaches in the rear end remained ou
the track
The scene Of the wreck which is but
II miles northeast Of Kansas City. near
Missouri City station was visited yes
terday by many persons 4 wrecking
train worked there all day repairing
the trestle and raising the shattered
coaches. and last night trains were
moving over the road as usual