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the tender will* the baggage car was snapped like paper, and the car, clearing the track, ran into the bluff and Ja badly stove up and its trucks displaced, the two coaches crowded full of passengers following it, the rear part of the trucks of the rear coach being left on the track.Xone of the passengers were hurt. One lady swooned at the thought of the danger she had escaped. But Engineer Harvey and Fireman Vogel wore not as fortunate. The danger came and went like a flash. Fireman Vogel says he did not know anything about the motions of the engine until he saw it lying in the water and found himself crawling up the embankment. And the cool contact or .Mississippi water with his face was the next realization Harvey woke up to after he saw the condition of the track, and lie found himself in the river some way entangled in the fixtures of the engine, and it bottom aide up; a inan front the boatyard saw bis feet protruding above the water, und helped him out; he was but little hurt—the skin was peeled frcm his elbows and hands, and he received bruises on other parts of his body, t’oor Vogel, the physician said last night, bad received internal injuries,at the lower part of the spinal culumn,und his recovery is Uouhtfui.The engine is not entirely under water. The cab flouted off and landed forty Icet below; the contents of the tender were dumped in the river bottom, a wrecking train went up last night to clear away the debris and repair the track, und trains will leave on time this morning. It is a generally expressed opinion IhaL the falling or these rocks is caused by the vibrations of approaching trains.eoCi:cVV1'tstrtnn:n0aie:it:tvn01aCj'SbVVCircuit Court.
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Dubuque Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sat, Apr 05, 1873
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