The record-union., 1898-06-27
One Passenger Coach Completely TeIe-
scopsd With Fatal Results.
Five Members Of Colonel Torrey's
Rough Riders Killed, Another
Fatally and Several Others Seri-
ous1y Injured - The Colonel
Himself Has q Narrow Escape
From Death.

TUPELO (Miss.), June pa rail-
way accident occurred at this place at
$40 o'clock this afternoon, in which
five members Of Colonel Torrey's Rough
Riders from Cheyenne, Wyo, lost their
lives, and one other received fatal IN
juries.
The accident occurred ON the Kansas
City, Memphis and Birmingham Rail-
way. The first section had stopped to
take water, and had whistled to start
on, when the second section
rounded the sharp curve in the
track just before the town is
reached, and dashed into TIN the
rear of the first section was the sleeper
Seville. This car was completely de-
molished. yet, strange to say, every in
mate escaped unscathed.
The chief fatalities occurred in a
coach which stood in the center of the
first section. which carried Troop @
from Laramie, Wyo. This coach was
completely telescoped, and the soldiers
within were jammed and bruised be-
meath timbers, broken seats and other
debris. In the second section one was
thrown into the ditch, but in this train
but few We're hurt, and none seriously.
Immediate action was taken by the
soldiers to save their imperiled COM
rades. and with axes and ropes and
buckets of water they worked like
demons, tearing away the wreckage to
get at the injured and dead and quench
the fire which had started in the sleeper
Seville, which was a mass of broken
wreckage. covering a steaming, kissing
engine. The wounded We're removed TO
a vacant building in the town.
The sections contained Troops A, c..
E, L, G and M, forming part of a regi-
ment being transported to Jacksonville,
Fla. 1t is the second United States
Volunteer Cavalry, and was raised by
Colonel Torrey, its commander, in the
Rocky Mountain region, including the
States of Wyoming. Colorado, Idaho.
Nevada and Utah. Those killed and
mortally wounded are from the first
named States. % ,~'J
The fault of the accident probably lies
with Engineer Rawls of the second Sec
tion. He has disappeared The soldiers
have threatened to lynch him.
!. Not a horse was injured, although
several OF the stock cars We're badly
smashed.
The killed-Willie B<Wallace, Troop
G; Sam Johnson, Troop c.; - Gordon,
coloreds porter; Cornelius Lenihan,
Troop g; Private .Gimmer, Troop l..
Fatally injured-Henry c. Mapes,
Troop G, both legs cut off, punctured
in abdomen. M
Injured-R. Stanley. Troop M, elbow
'dislocated; E. Perkins, Troop L, both
hips jammed; Wallace Hodge, Troop
G, ankle broken; = Gardiner, Troop c,
hip hurt; Rudolph Wid1nar, officers
mess cook, back strained; Hiram E.
Davis, Troop c, ankles sprained; Henry
S. Teltz, Troop c, leg broken; Will
'Grovenor, Troop G, leg bruised; Jos.
Aaron, Troop c, back sprained; w. H..
Robbins, Troop A, ankle dislocated;
Arthur Evans, Troop A, hip dislocated;
Joseph Wilkinson. Troop L, slightly in
jured; - Schenck, Troop G, legs badly
crushed.
Colonel Torrey was in the stateroom
sleeping car, which was separated from
the engine of the second section by
short caboose. The force of the i'm,
pact carried the first section forward
300 yards. When the train stopped
Colonel Torrey found himself outside
beneath the wreckage, and although his
feet were badly bruised, he managed
to Chamber up the embankment. His
other injuries are several bruises about
the head The injured are given all
possible. attention.
Later-The engineer was seen to-
night, but was unable to talk. He re-
ceived internal injuries that have
caused several hemorrhages.