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Show 'M '".. ". '.' 'f V i TD0ZEN KILLED. '1 An Excursion Train Goes Tlirongh a limning Bridge. Another Catastrophe in Which a Throng-of Throng-of Happy People go Down to a Sudden Sud-den Death. Charleston', W. Ya.. July 5. The worst week ever known in this part of the state occurred about S o'clock this morning on the Kanewha A Michigan railway, eight miles west of here. The passenger train for Columbus pulled out of here with two car loads of excursionists. ex-cursionists. The wreck occurred on a high trestle. The cross ties had caught tire during the night and burned so the rails spread under the train. The engine and baggage and mail car passed over safely, but two coaches were thrown fnun the track. After running forty feet on the ties, the forward car toouled to the left, the rear one to the right; the forward car turned completely over and landed right side uji; the other fell twenty feet, turning upside dow n and one set of trucks fell on top of it, crushing the car to splinters. Under this place most of the dead were found. Surgeons and a relief train were sent at once. The scenes among the dead and dying were heart-rending. One little baby lost its father and mother; one man's head was severed at the mouth and the remainder of the head was fished out from under the wreck, several hours after the body was found. It is fearrd there are one or two bodies yet under the w reck. The dead, so far as know 11, are: W. E. Fife, Buffalo, W. Va. ; T. X. Wilson. Gallipolis, Ohio; Charles Huffman, Blue Creek, W. Ya.: Jasper Dougertv. New Martineville. W. a.; W. Webber, Charleston: Mrs. W. Welcher, Charleston: Ella Cleary. Charleston; Amos Coulter, Red House. W. Ya.; Orville Robinson, Midway, W. Va. ; Thomas Thornton, conductor. Middleport, O.; Polly Sullivan, Mason CUy; James White, Middleport, O. Fifty-eight persons were counted who are injured and a number walked aw ay before they could be seen. Of the entire en-tire number of passengers but one, John N'orvell, of this city, escaped without a scratch. He was in the mail car. What caused the burning of th trestle tres-tle is not known, but it is supj.osed to have caught by cinders dropjied by an engine. The engineer of the excursion train saw the smoke, but thinking it was foam rising from the creek, went on. Persons in the neighborhood saw the smoke, but thought it was from the camp of persona who had been fishing there. The wreck was a fearful one and the horrors of it cannot be realized by one who was not at the scene. The city is practically in mourning to-night. What promised to be one of the brightest bright-est days in its history has become the baddest it has ever known. Charleston, W. Ya.. July o. To deaths occurred to-day among those wounded in yesterday's wreck. The sene of the wreck to-day was the mecca of hundreds of pilgrims, all curious cur-ious to see the sjiot where so many lives were lost and so much ruin done. The road has been rejiaired and trains are now running regularly. General Ferris is expected to-night to look into the matter of the wreck. |