Show 1 IViitctyFont E cnp PAm cnsnuno W Va March 17A horrible hor-rible accident has happened twelve miles from here on the Marietta Mineral Railway A heavy mixed train had just passed Vincent station when the train was divided in order to cross more safely a trestle ninety feet high The first section passed all right when the engine bearing Engineer H S Vincent Fireman Albert Bushley Brakeman Brake-man Stewart Conductor Jack MoCook and a passenger named Early returned for the section men When at the highest point of the trestle the engine gave a sudden jerk I and plunged straight down to the abyss I below carrying all on board with it Vincent and Bushley were instantly killed Their bodies were scarcely recognizable Bushley had his head severed I from his body and one leg off while Vincent was cut in two Conductor McCook was 1 under the wreck pinned down by the heavh engine It was nearly half an hour before I he was taken out In the meantime the I escaping steam scalded his head face and body His recovery is considered doubtfnl I Brakeman Stewart was terribly scalded and 1 there are but faint hopes of his recovery I Early the passenger had both legs broken I I and was injured internally He is said to I be dying The place into which the engine plunged is a yawning abyss and the bottom j i of which is a rocky stream The section I I which the engine was returning for had the 1 passenger coaches loaded and the loss of i life would have been frightful had the accident acci-dent happened while returning with them 1 |