Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1889 — FATAL WRECK IN MEXICO. [ARTICLE]

FATAL WRECK IN MEXICO.

A Train Plunges Down an Embankment— Two Killed and Nineteen Injured. Two passengers were instantly, killed and about twenty seriously injured in a wreck on the Mexican Central Hoad, 5 five miles from Chihuahua. Heavy rains in the mountains had turned "a dry arroya, spanned by an iron bridge,* into a raging river, and the waters s had undermined the track by wash- 1 ing away the sand abutment. When* the train reached this abutment, running! at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour,; the track gave way, and the train went over the embankment, falling a distance of twenty feet. Two Mexican passengers were killed outright, and nineteen other passengers, among them eight Americans, are in the hospital seriously injured. Randolph, Wells, Fargo & Co.’s express messenger, was fatally injured.