| Show unpleasant experience Uton lana lans on a train that meet with a smash new YORK sept 16 editor demorel news I 1 I 1 your correspondent and family in company with H W richards geo E ellerbeck D K and C A darling all whom came east eastmo to study were joined at kansas city by S H allen alien a fellow student and H ricks W he age J amer ter and F D hay ay faour on missionaries sion aries to Eng england liand and the so southern t ra 8 states tes flie e three last named breth brethren Teu left the party at aar Chatta chattanooga to commence tb chete labors in oe searching Arcing out eat the honest i although we I 1 had the pilvi privilege ege of stopping over a day here to take in the places of historic interest such as missionary klase lookout mo mountain ta and the cemetery where the abo thousands asa ol of brave men eu iq both at sides I 1 who ho fell a E suicidal d struggle he it b buried I 1 we decided clofed to con continue e our journey especially especial lyas as it was tailing at the time it would have been for us as had bad we remained over lor for we had bad not proceeded man many miles when we came to a standi stand any and upon inquiry learned that a train G in advance of us ashad bad been wrecked by a land slide occasioned by the heavy rains of the last few days after a wait of nine found ourselves speeding efing along at a forty mile rate when sudden suddenly jy we felt a jolting that told every one ene in the car we were off the tract track some of the ladles ladies screamed and nearly all sprang to their feet and held on ito the seats faces blanched and a scene of the utmost contusion confusion ensued when the train ceased to move and the excitement subsided almost as quickly asit as it had bad arisen some began askin asking 9 it any onedas one was hurt others thought only of their baggage and wondered it it sad had escaped an investigation showed the engine on its side with the tender on the top the m mall tar ar was standing nearly 0 en o n end d leaning against the embankment r on one side ode and the baggage car occupied a similar position on OIL the opposite side A passenger i coach was badly smashed and turned tuned partly over the krestof the iraln an other passenger coach and a Pail pullman marat remained on the track man and mail agent were but slight ly hurt hart although the ends abboth of both oara cars were knocked completely out oat or rather in the accident happened in a narrow cut and was occasioned by a land slide caused by recent heavy rains when the track was again cleared and the trains began running as usual reached norfolk va in time for the ot of the old dominion line of steamers for new york here the party separated allain going to 10 baltimore ellerbeck and the darling boys to Phil philadelphia adelphi richards and myself remain in new york and kicks goes to england C F W |
