Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-07-11
SIXTY PERSONS CRUSHED TO DEATH.
TroIIy Car Punges Down Hundred Foot EN-
bankment- Hundred Passcnscrs on 1t.

TocAMA, WASH, July 4.-Ncarly
hundred people, passengers on a
car bound for this city, were plunged
down gulch at Twenty sixth and
G. streets at 8 Il. III. Those who were
standing OH the platform dropped
off, only to be bruised and wounded
by the heavy body Of the coach,
while others inside were killed and
manned before they knew what had
happened. The car jumped the
track and was smashed to kindling
wood in the bottom of the chasm,
over hundred feet below. The
dead will number nearly three score,
for there are many of the injured
who will never recover and who are
expected to die at any moment, and
there ar" at least sixty Of the pas
scngers Of the car now in the vari-
our hospitals and under the care Of
their own physicians.
Residents of the nearby towns
Edison, Lakcvicw, Falkland, Lake
Park and other placcs-arc coming
to Tacoma to spend the Fourth.
Their journey was nearly at an end
when they met death in a horrible
manner. Crushed, manned and man
gled, the unfortunatcs were dragged
from beneath the wreck of the car
and laid on the grass. 1t was a
spectacle of carnage such as is
scarcely ever observed, even in war,
for carwhccls and trucks and heavy
timbcrs make more horrible wounds
than bullet and shell. The agoniz-
ing cries of the wounded and the
dying as they lay on the sides of the
gulch and on the bottom or were
held down under heavy timbcrs that
once formed part of the wrecked
car, could be heard for blocks away.
Citizens, policemen, tircmcn, guards
men, cx-voluntccrs and women and
children aided. The sides Of the
gulch are steep in fact, so steep
that a goat would hardly venture to
descend them, but the cries OF the
wounded made men forget this and
they plunged down without regard
to their own safety. Ropes were
quickly procured and the victims of
the wreck were drawn carefully to
the top of the gulch. Every physi-
clan in the city was called. The
Fanny Paddock and St Joseph hos
pitfalls were soon crowded with in
jurcd. lacks, express wagons and
all sorts of convcyanccs were pressed
into service. but the dead wagon was
there, and that was in use, too. 1t
1t made journey after journey, and
it was always full. Boys, girls, men
and women were its freight. The
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rooms were scarcely large enough
to hold all When the dead had
been sorted from the living and the
last one had been rcscurcd from the
wreck, excited men and women and
children bcsicgcd the moreucS search
ing for missing friends.
The heavy rains have so injured
crops in the region Of Nicksburg
Miss, that the conditions arc worse
than for years past. Sections OF
Georgia, Alabama and Texas have
been similarly affected.
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