The age-herald., 1898-01-11
MANY PEOPLE WERE INJURED
Conductor IaH Has Fatally Hurt, and
 Died Monday Morning.
THE ACCIDENT CAUSED BY A MULE
5 The Animal Struck By the Engine and Thrown On the Bridge-L List of the Wounded and the Extent of Their
 Injuries.
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Special to The. Age-Herald.
 Montgomery, Jan. 10.-The Western rail- way suffered a wreck last night which in point of the number of injured, rivals the recent Cahaba horror, although the death rate was very much less. Part of pas senger train went through a bridge. A trifiing s20 mule caused all the trouble. One man, Conductor Law, was killed and twenty-two passengers were injured.
 A freight wreck near LaGrange, Ga, yesterday morning passenger the early morning passenger train from here and the passenger from Atlanta to swap the passengers at the point of the wreck and the trains started back in the same direc- tion from which they had come. The Montgomery train dispensed with the bag gage, mail and express cars, the engine was hftched to the rear end of the sleeper and the sleeper and two passenger coaches were drawn backwards toward Montgom- cry
 Caused By Mule.
 Just as the train reached Cubahatchie Creek, twenty-one miles east of this city, about o'clock in the afternoon, mule ran up the embankment and attempted to cross the track at the edge of the bridge. The locomotive caught the animal and threw it several yards ahead on the bridge, but a little to one side of the track. The engine and the sleeper passed over without injury, but just the first coach came even with the mule, the animal struggled back on the track. The wheels of the coach flew the track, throwing the coach against the upright of the bridge, knocking the span out of place and precipitating the coach to the ground, twenty feet below. The second-class coach plunged in behind and almost on top of the first-class coach, and remained in an almost vertical posi- ton, the rear end being held aloft by what was left of the east span of the bridge. There were about twenty passengers in the first-class coach and seven or eight whites and about a dozen negroes in the second-class coach. In the latter coach all of the passengers, stove and number of car seats, valises, etc., were piled to- gether in the lower end of the car. After the crash only one man in this coach was able to extricate himself
 Many Were Injured.
 Almost everybody in each coach was in- 5ured more or less, both coaches being shat tered by the fall and crushed by falling tim bers. A relief train was quickly sent from this city. As soon as an unfortunate was released from the debris he was stretched upon the ground and carefully examined by the physicians, and when the inspec- tions had been completed the physicians were amazed that the result of the wreck was not many times worse.
 The relief train reached here with most of the injured at 10 o'clock last night. Con- ductor Law, of Atlanta; Fagman w. W. Pope, of Atlanta; Mark Rom, an Italian, his wife and two children, and all of the negroes who were injured were removed to the hospital here, where the physicians remained with them during the night. Con- ductor Law was injured internally, and died about daylight The condition of MT. Pope, of Dick Jackson, the colored Pullman DOT ter, and one of the Italian children is in each case regarded as serious. Law was one of the most popular men in the service of the road
 The bridge across Cubahatchee swamp was believed to be a strong iron structure. constructed one year ago, along with six others of like kind, by the Louisville Bridge and Iron company The work was done under the supervision of MT. E. Thatcher, one of the best engineers of the country, and was inspected few months since and was considered to be in perfect condition.
 The company has arranged to send its passenger trains over the Central and Co., lumbus and Western, via Union Springs, Columbus and Opelika. Freight trains will be suspended until temporary bridge can be constructed. The wrecked bridge was put there at cost of several thousand dollars, and was as handsome as any bridge on the company's line
 The Dead.
 The following are the dead and injured: H. M Law, aged SS years, conductor, Att lanta.
 The Injured.
 2 w. w. Pope, fagman, Atlanta, severely injured about the head; Richard J. Jack son, colored Pullman porter. injured in- formally and right leg bruised; J. B. Wood- son. Louisville, Va, slightly bruised B. Hamilton, Houston, Tex, slightly hurt; George Howard, Baltimore, slightly hurt; L. B. Whitfield, 52O South Court street, slightly bruised; J. D. and Edward Gull pepper, Troy slightly injured on the head and leg; J. A. Mann and A. A. Mooty. Roanoke, hurt on the head; R. Vain wright, West Point, slightly bruised on the body; Mark Ram. Fresno, Cal, badly
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