Show THE BELLE PLAINE ACCIDENT this morning the mall mail brought brough tto to band professor evan stephen letter renaming regarding the railway disaster dimster io ila which he and a party of salt lakers were on the ju I 1 octant pliant as on OB that day in a telegram to the from bello belle plaine iowa tile the letter has baa by some means meana been delayed live five days daya la in transit it reads reade in a wreck yee and fortunately out of it and live but bai one soul moul stepped across the narrow gulf into eternity the rest reat of us ue being perm tied to stand on the bricks brink fo oc arcely eon conscious of the neo ruess i the awful abyss abye only by degress degrees did the situation dawn upon us ua an aa we neared the massive anane en toe lying in a steaming learning heap of metal mud earth and splinters in a ros roa side eide ditch its great body half crouched against the bank like some aou wounded animal on the point of expiring then came upon our half rou roused qed senses the awfulness awful nes and reality of what had taken place As quickly as possible we endured enquired at each section where our brinde were wt re a moment before slumbering if all were safe eafe then as aa quickly ad d tined them to hastily don their raiment and leave ibe ahe car cair lost leaf another calamity might follow another rushing train dash daab upon us be tore fore our bewildered trainmen beli gave gare the signal of danger for fire ake or team atean might be doing deadly work weik as a out our with aia the dai baited how quiet alot wai I 1 thought V ha aught I 1 herd one cry at first b but everything aa still an it if it wr were i only an ordinary halgat bait at a station we alighted rho fhe morn was waa just fast breaking and in the thedia dim light we behold beheld an appalling bight ight the track to our left was waa torn into splinters just beyond the hp heap against the bank and straight across acron the tracia jay the bag gage car on its ito ade aide with the sleeper deeper ut to our own craded luto into it while the coheh that was nady between the two lay the side aide of th track side aide towards a no with only one end broken through thab our own oar car was waa but slightly elight ly dani Aged by being soine ome what thrown the one ali ahead bisti of us ue there was wae a broken window canca a a by the alyta debris of the torn rp track theia wao in it a used by two of our oar party As aa we gazed upon the wreck about abona us ua we listened with dread for of but none were hard board marvelously every one seemed deemed to ht have escaped the engineer came out of bf the heap of debris almost unhurt but wall wail one is IB missing the fireman Is id nowhere to be seen he is in burled buried in the bank with the engine only on but to one fond 10 aduth iother cr one loving wite wife a year ago a happy bride it is almouist the ena as if the whole creation was in that lil olese casp while we in seeing each other safe almost felt for the mo moment meat v as it the whole world should rejoice with us ua io in our pardon able selfish neim perhaps lor for the world to la wide and contains many throb throbbing tAng Itea ruf with but few wi 0 beat in the unison of friendship with our own in about an hour the mangled form of the fireman was taken irom u der the engine death doubt liaa sa had bad been instantaneous the baggage was waft fished out of the battered baggage oar car many trunks contents having been ruined in six eix hours the i was cleared and the uetta undamaged maged cars care drawn by another locomotive carried the belayed passengers toward the white citti as it if nothing had bad happened A flat oar car which had bad not been securely fastened on a side aide track thad rolled its way ou on to the main road during the he night that was given as aa the cuse of the frightful accident |