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any.one’s door as yet. It is a most deplorable accident. Two good engineers are mashed and broken to pieces,and one of them perhaps fatallyfinrt. The company loses heavily, as, besides the engines - and cars —which are a total wreck, the engines only fit for old iron• % . * * • f. « *—the loss in freight will be very considerable.Engineer Henry had to be dug out*. •• f . • , , • i • ,from under liis engine, and before it could be accomplished the flames were so near the workers that the heat was... i . • . ■■•...,* i*. ...almost unbearable. He was badly bruised, nnd one leg was brokeu in two places. .It is thought his injuries are not of a serious character,however, and\ • . i •he will ’recover. Engineer Stanton did not escape so easily. He was terribly bruised, has a bad cut across the forehead, and was seriously Injured inter-• % » * «nally. His physicians say he may recover unless internal hemorrhage takes place, in which case he cannot live; they are unable to ascertain the extent oli his injuries at present. It is wonderful how either the engineers or firemen escaped instant death, as the engines and cars were all piled up in a hean beside the track. JSrone of the other train-men werejnjured.The track will probably not be cleared up for the running of trains short of forty-eight-'lwu'rs. - Some trains have-been abandoned and others make a trans-fer at South Bend. Eurther particulars will be given as soon as learned, v;
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Elkhart Monitor
Elkhart, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 04, 1882
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