OCR Text |
Show tuy W. U. Telegraph.) TJRK FReCXCII TILLAGE RAIL.-WAY RAIL.-WAY ACCIJIEST. St. Louis, 4. It appears that the railway accident, which occurred at French village yesterday afternoon, was occasioned by tho carelessness of the oonducter ot the construction train. The passenger train was just about to take a side track and let a freight train pas?, when the construction train, which bad been passed by the passenger passen-ger tram a few minutes before and its conductor must have known of its proximity camo thundering around the curve at a high rate of speed and plunged into the rear passenger coach. The conductor of tho passenger train saw the construction train coming and cried to the passengers to Jump lor their lives. Many did so, but before all could escape the engine of tue dirt train entered the pat-suoger car and being smashed by the collision, the pasoeogcr car was immediately filled with steam and a number of passengers passen-gers more or less scalded. Mrs. John B. Lusk, or Luke , of Morgan county. Mo., while in the act of jumping from the train was caught between tho cars and crushed to death. Her ho band, with an inlant in his arms, succeeded in reaching the platform unhurt. A gentleman supposed to bo James. H. Walts, of Chester, liL, a mo-uber ol the Illinois legislature was caught between be-tween the rear platform and the engine en-gine of the dirt tram and literally torn to pieces. A young daughter of Mrs Gntfin, of McLeaofboro, received a jet of steam fuUin her face and was horribly scalded about the head, and upper pari of the bedy. Her eyes were put out and it is thought she cannot survive- Mr. Stebbins of M il-waukee, il-waukee, was severely cut and bruised about the bead, and several other pa. songers were more or 1cm inured. The engineer of toe dirt train, Michael Fanning, tied an soon as he saw the result re-sult of his carelessness. |