Show A PLUNGE TO DEATH A I crowded excursion train coes goes over an embankment into a river liver I 1 SHIP SEIr OF BLOCK TIL I 1 I 1 shipment from t rom the lines or of sag san bernardino county california with god good results Rt solli RIz jane 15 A horrible accident occurred on the stein A basle railway yesterday through the collapse of a bridge beneath a heavily loaded excursion train crowded with people on their y to attend the musical fete ove over es too persona persons were killed outright hundreds were injured two engines and the first car plunged plunge d into the river and all the passengers in the car were drowned two cars remained au suspended from the bridee bridge all ali the traina trainmen 1 were killed thirteen cars were s elf ed the musical fete at muen c helstien was abandoned as soon as the news of the accident arrived and hundreds of villagers hurried to the scene to assist in rescuing the victims the bridge was an iron skeleton eleton ek structure which was considered well built and substantial the only apparent 11 reason for the collapse of tr the tarent ridge is that the train left the rails rna threw its entire weight on one bidd side ol 01 the bridge the scones in bale t today oday to o day were heartrending when the bodies of a large number of victims were taken there by the sorrowing relatives for representatives representative a of a majority of the best beat famales of bale were among the killed and injured several families were practically wiped out of existence by the disaster the full extent of which is not known even at this hour bale is now the scene of bittar bitter desolation and mourning nearly every family in the city may be said to have been touched by the calamity for those Id families milles who have not actually a ily lost one of their members have dear friends or acquaintances either among the dead or among those who are mourning the loss lose of rila relatives tives those who were woun wounded ded include so many serious injuries that almost each hour bout records another death or another fase case in which the physicians have div given a UD BI all hope of saving the patients bf life to everything the local and municipal authorities can do to help the wounded recover the dead or assist those in distress is being done clergymen priests and physicians a large force of 0 I 1 troops and firemen and scores 0 of I 1 vehicles to be used as ambulances lances have shave been dispatched to the scene of the wreck the troops and fi firemen remen are busily engaged in removing the wreck recovering the bodies bod ie of the dead and transporting the wounded to their homes or to the hospitals oll wo the physicians and ministers of the dispel are doing noble work in abl in ministering ng to the wounded and comforting 1 the he bereaved the neighborhood 9 of the collapsed bridge now resembles in many I 1 features ea the after episodes of a battle the closing acts in some warlike struggle still more eo so was thia this last n night I 1 gh t W when hen the river banks were 11 illuminated I 1 umi bated by large fires I 1 troops a and ad firemen working unceasingly dragging the river for the dead nure nursing i I 1 1 9 the wounded and ard keeping gua guard r d around the spot where it was not thought advisable to admit the crowds a of people who bad had locked flocked to the scene from every village in the canton the work of the soldiers in dragging the river is greatly impeded by the fact that the stream is considerably by the melting snow thus the waters carried away many mapy bodies and rid several days dragging willbe required q a ired before the soldiers work will be completed that somebody is to blame for the accident nobody doubts but people are BO so taken up with the present duty that the question of blame is postponed tor for the present from official consideration the total number of people who their lives yesterday by the co collapse iloa ilos of the railroad bridge on th the a enstein and bale railroad is now placed at with hundreds more or leas injured another account of the disaster bays pays fifty seven bodies have already been recovered and that forty persons person 11 were severely wounded it is feared that many others are dead whose bodies have not been found the victims were mostly leading citizens of bale and its neighborhood I 1 shortly after the first horror borro to of the cra crashing phing of the engines and c cars ars through the bridge and into the swiftly running stream bad died away the survivors saw a scene which rivaled in horror the most heartrending features of the johnstown disaster beneath what remained of the bridge was a hideous mass of broken car wood car wheels engines etc elci intermixed with still quivering heads be spattered with blood and brains protruding arms and legg legs bloody garments of all descriptions a script e r 1 T ions hits and bonnets umbrellas b r e aplas and parasols bands hands and feet while floating down the stream were ere numbers of dead bodies and bud faintly struggling men women and children a few now and then thea uttering horrible crieg abter the first moment of partial which followed the revelation of this horror the survivors did their utmost to rescue 4 whose lives were in danger dang r the work of 0 pulling those who re bained in the two ausbe suspended cars care from the perilous position in which they were 0 placed laced was one of great danger a and bj difficulty and resulted in a number of instances of heroic conduct in the meanwhile passengers were dispatched on all sides for medical relief which waa was most urgently urgently needed by hundreds of wounded people whose distressing cries for help and prayers to god asking him to relieve them them of their sufferings Bufler ingi were most heartrending when the relatives of the dead and wounded began to arrive and iden aided some of the victims there that was another most mot awful series of incidents incidents the wildest grief was expressed on all aides weeping and mourning filled the air and add several people were with difficulty from casting themselves headlong into the stream As night drew dow near enormous enor moua crowds of country people and citizens 0 of I 1 bale gathered around the fatal spot taxing the power of the military to the utmost in the efforts of these pe peaple loto to get a nearer and closer view 0 ot JF the horrors piled beneath the bridge to bac such h extent did this desire prevail that crowds of people imitated soldiers firemen and railroad men and f r the night in the vicinity of the remains of the broken balge BAN SAN june 15 the find first shipment ol 01 block tin consisting eevea tons from the Te mescal tin 1 I 1 in mines ines of this state has been received here |