Salt Lake Herald | 1895-02-24 | Page 1 | Fearfut Wreck

I FEARFUT WRECK I r I i SEVE1Wd6ACHES hOSOWM S S EMB1s1EIiLPSFE EIDANIOI 0 I Many Pnasensera Abroad En Route For Ilic Mardl Gras But Only One is Killert Several Quite Badly Injured In-jured Greenville Ala Feb 23The southbound south-bound passenger train on the Louis pssenger louls yule Nashville passing1Greenville at 840 this morning was derailed three miles below here and a fearful wreck resulted The cars rolled down an embankment and caught fire Five of them were burned including two passenger coaches the baggage and express cars and one sleeper The engine tore its way along the roadbed for some distance tearing up the rails A large number of passengers were on board many of them en route to tie Mardi Gras at Mobile and New Orleans The physicians in the city were summoned sum-moned in haste and soon reached the wreck when everything possible was victims done to relieve the sufferings of the When the extent of the damage was ascertained it seems little less than a miracle that only one life was lost that of C R Webb a barber of Birmingham Birm-ingham who was killed outright his neck being broken Several were more or less injured as follows Mrs Armstrong Buffalo N y 11rs BUfnlo arm broken Mrs Schoolcraft of Montgomery badly cut Mrs Wisdom Montgomery badly cutMrs Thompson of Montgomery contusion con-tusion of knee cap Four others were slightly hurt The wounded are being cared for at the Ebert house