People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — NEW MEXICO WRECK [ARTICLE]

NEW MEXICO WRECK

MEAGER REPORTS OF A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Disaster on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad —Twelve Person. Reported Killed and Twenty-five Wounded —Relief Train Goes to the Scene. Albuquerque. N. M., Aug. S. —An awful accident occurred on the Atlantic & Pacific railroad, Grant Station, about 6 o’clock last evening. The nearest telegraph station is twenty miles from the point at which the wreck occurred, and it is impossible to get the details at this hour. All that is positively known is that two sleeping cars and two day coaches of the train which left San Francisco Monday evening went into the ditch at the point named, and the railroad confpany sent to Albuquerque for all the physicians who could go. The relief train left here at 9 o’clock, but owing to the condition of the road, on account of frequent washouts, cannot get there in less than four hours. It is reported that twelve people are killed and twenty-five wounded.