Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1891 — A DEADLY WRECK. [ARTICLE]

A DEADLY WRECK.

Two Men Killed and Many Other Person. Badly Injured. A portion of the Baltimore and Ohio fast mail No 8, from Chicago to New York, jumped the track near Hicksville, Ohio, killing two passengers, wounding five others fatally and twenty others less seriously. The train consisted of baggage car, smoker, day coach, sleeper and private car of Vice President King. The smoker and baggage car remained attached to the locomotive, but the private car and the ladies’ coach went over the embankment and were wrecked. The day coach, which was well filled, turned over once and bounded right side up. In its aerial maneuver it straddled two of the telegraph lines, and the cross timbers were wrenched from seveial poles. The sleeper fared better, ancj after sliding off its trucks It lay right side up on the ground. Those in the smoker escaped with a severe shaking up and many bruises. Neither the smoker nor the baggage car left the track, but the former must nave escaped very narrowly, the coach being tilted to one side ffi a threatening attitude The most serious injuries were received by the occupants of' the day coach. Nearly all thq seats were wrenched from their places, as were the lamps, racks, and other furniture of the car, and the windows were a 1 shattered. The train was running fully sixty miles au hour at the time, and as near as can be ascerta ned the accident was caused by one of the drive wheels of the engine leaving the track at the switch near the water tank. This wheel spread the rails and all the cars excepting the baggage and smoker left the irack. For a space of 800 feet the rails wero absolutely swept off the ties The locomotive, baggage and smoking cars remained on the grade, which, all along this place, is about eight feet high. After the coaches left the grade and went into the ditch the locomotive, baggage car and smoker went on several hundred feet, but did not leave the grade, flthough off the (rack. In addition to threa steel batt’e ships of 4,278 tons each and one torpedo vessel, nearly finished in France for JapaD, the Japanese Marine Ministry will soon submit tp Parliament a plan for building eleven heavy ircnclads; at a cost of 845,000,000. The c“lls of the human lungs are 75,000,000 in number, covering a surface from two and a half to three and a half times greater than the whole body surface of ten full grown men. A Richland iMo.) girl hiccoughed fourteen hours a day for nearly a month.