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Show ujnnwir-OfTiM m m m siinesiii nr-isn iln ..nmnr TOUH1ST3 PfeHlbH BY FIRK. Wr-rk nn IM Ninitt, rrn I'-rlflo la Teios iifl lnlh i.( liru. n. A broken rail or fast running caued a wreck ou the Houlheru Ps. ilic near Mnon Btntion, twenly-llve mllea west of Sandemon, Texas, nt 3 o'clock I rl-day rl-day morning. From tbe latent accounts ac-counts received fifteen persona were kilted outright and tnenly-rlg.it were .more or less injured. All the pafcsenpera were asleep and tbe fthock thnt followed waa the drat intimation they bad of Ihe danger. The train waa going at aueh a rate of Bpeed that the tender and engine landed land-ed seventy five feet from where they left the rails. The cars behind piled up against the engine, caiifhl H,ld ; ftll were consumed .xcept the sleepere. A private ear owned by Thomas Uy-ftn Uy-ftn of New York City, with his family aboard, waa attached to the rear of tho train, but it waa pulled aeny before the fire rtached it, aud no one In It woe Injured. All the Injured In the coaches jnat behtud the express and baggage cms were cremated, J he people In the aleepera were nsvtd with the assistance of Ihe uninjured panirngfift. Tho wrecked train waft the Gnlvea-ton, Gnlvea-ton, Ilarrlnhurg A San Antonio westbound west-bound )nstunger No. it, and consisted of an rnirine. mull cur. ItHQiairo cnr. one coach, one chair car, three tourist aleepera, one Pullman sleeper and one private car. The mull car, thu baggnge car and the day coaches were piled together to-gether behind the engine, and were ablaze In ft few seconds. It wna Impossible Im-possible tc move any of the conches of the tourist cars, aa they were all off the ralla and wore Boon consumed by Ihe fin men. Aa anon as It wee possible to get In communication with the division head-quartern, head-quartern, trains with Burgeons end phyalctana were atarted from Kl Paso, Del Klo end Sandersoa, picking up along the line ftll the Burgeons thftt eould be found. All of the Injured who were lo ft condition con-dition to lie moved were eent to Kl Paso, where they received careful attention. at-tention. W. (J. Vanvlecn, general manager of the (Jalveston, Harrlsburg it Nan Antonio railroad, waa ftt Hun Antonio, and left at once on ft special train for the scene of the wreck. Conductor IStockwell, who was only slightly Injured, upon finding hie crew were killed and disabled, started out for Tabor to warn the erst-bound train. For two hotire he dragged himself him-self through the darkness, arriving in time to slop the approaching train. |