Pawtucket Tribune

DOWN AN EMBANKMENT.
Passenger Train Takes a Frightful Plunge—Four Persons Killed.

EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 1.—A wreck occurred on the Cannelton branch of the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis railroad yesterday morning, in which four persons were killed, thirteen badly hurt and eighteen slightly injured. The flange of one of the forward trucks of the engine broke while the train was running at the rate of thirty miles an hour, on a trestle two miles from Troy, Ind. The engine passed over the trestle and plunged down the embankment. The passenger coach, containing about thirty people, followed the engine into the ditch and rolled over on top of it. The steam pipes gave way and the scalding steam entered the coach. Many of the passengers were women and children. Their screams were appalling. As soon as those who were slightly injured extricated themselves, they began the work of rescue. All were gotten out, but none escaped injury. Many were so badly burned that their flesh was cooked in places until it came off.

The scene of the wreck is isolated, and the information meagre. Only one telegraph wire reaches it, and that has been down for hours. A physician at the wreck said that the death list would probably reach ten or twelve.