The age-herald., 1898-08-04
AN ESCAPE MOST
 MIRACULOUS Train Load People Tumble Down Embankment at McAd0ry' THEY PLUGNED TEN FEET Sixteen Passengers Injured, One of
 Whom Mill Die. W. F. TEGNER SKULL FRACTURED Taken to the Infirmary-His Injuries
 Thought To Be Fatal. NO CAUSE HAS BEEN ASSIGNED The Track Found in Good Condition Only the Tender Jumped the
 Track, Carrying With It
 Three Coaches
Taken to the Infirmary-His Injuries
 Thought To Be Fatal.
NO CAUSE HAS BEEN ASSIGNED

What appeared to be one of the most dis astrous railroad accidents in the history of the Birmingham district, but which turned out to be most miraculous escape for a trainload of people, occurred yesterday morning about 9:3O o'clock on the Birming- ham Mineral railroad at McAdory, five mikes below Bessemer.
 Three coaches of an accommodation train were deraied on a curve of the road and pitched down an embankment ten feet high, turning completely over in their descent
 For a wonder, not one of the eighteen passengers was killed outright. w. F. Tegner of Elyton had the base of his skull fractured, and it is thought that he will die
 The following those injured and bruised, most of. the complaints, however, being of a trivial nature:
 List of Injured W. F. TEGNER, skull fractured: prob- ably fatally.
 AMBROSE GABRIEL (colored), Sumter, Ala, sprin of right shoulder and arm. LIZZIE COOPER (coloredD, Bessemer, Ala, slight internal injuries. L. w. JOHNS (white), Belle Ellen. Ala, bruise of hip, shoulder and shin; injuries slight.
 CLINT WELLS (white), Cardiff, Ala, bruse of right side; no ribs broken. JAMIE ANTRY (white), Jonesville, Ala, bruse and laceration of left hip not dan gerous. Left in charge of pr. Robinson at Bessemer
 JORDAN DILLARD (colored), Johns, Ala. sprained back; injuries probably triv- ial.
 MARY WALKER (coloreD, Avondale, Ala, sprain of back and bruise of left hip injuries trivial.
 LULA JOHNSON (colored), Belle Sum ter, Ala. bruise of shoulder and fore head
 MANA TAYLOR (colored), Adger, Ala, !, slight bruises
 W. R. SHIELDS (coIored), Birmingham, Ala, sprained wrist.
 H. J. MONTAGUE (white), mail clerk, Birmingham, Ala, sprain of left ankle.
 ANDREW WILSON (coloredD, Johns. Ala, slight bruise of left hand; sprain of left arm.
 bruise of left knee.
 ALLIE MAI WA1hER tcOlOFeuJ, ANOH- dale Ala, several small scalp wounds. F. M. JACKSON (white). Brookwood. Ala, bruise over left eye and leg and foot
 Only two of them, MT. Tegner and Allie May Walker, are now at the infirmary. Most of the others were returned to their homes on yesterday afternoons train.
 The train, which is known as Mo- 40, was in charge of Conductor G. R. Rutherford and Engineer J. W. Long.
 Story of the Wreck
 The story of the wreck as told by Con- ductor Rutherford is as follows:
 'We left Belle Ellen and Blocton on schedule time to make our regular morn- Ing run to Birmingham. At Zolande we took on the Brookwood passenger coach as we usually do and continued our run.
 "As we neared McAdory, which is a flag station I heard our engines whistle blow a signal to stop at the station and the train began to slacken up in speed. This was about 9:45 o'clock. I stuck my head out of the window to look at the passengers who were waiting at the station and as I did so I saw the wheels of the tender leave the track and begin pumping along the rails. The next thing I knew the car I was in began turning over, and my flag man, Walter Abbott, and I fell all over each other against the sides and top of the car."
 On Very Short Curve
 It seems that the track of the Mineral road as it approaches McAdory is built on a very sharp curve, and also on an em- bankment ten feet high. The cars, as they left the track, rolled over the outer edge of the curve and down the embankment
 The engine didn't even leave the track Only the rear wheels of the tender were off the track. The next three cars, con- sisting of a combination mail, baggage and express car, the car for colored passengers containing the smoking room, and the third coach, known as the ladies' car, had broken loose from the remainder of the train and had rolled down the embank- ment. The fourth and last car which had been taken on at Yolande had, like the engine, remained on the track. The three unfortunate coaches had rolled half over and were lying with their trucks in the air.
 Rescuing the Passengers
 Immediately the work of rescuing the imprisoned passengers began.
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