Wreck of a Train in Alabama.
26 PERSONS BURNT TO DEATH.(Per Mail Steamer.) A passenger train on the Louisville and Mashville branch road, plunged from the rails on December 27th, new Birmiugbam, Alabama, down 110 feet into the Canada canyon. Following the crash came the hisses of escaping steam* the crackling of burning wood, and agonizing screams of the wounded prisoned in the wreckage, who were slowly burning to death. The few who escaped, with neighboring farmers, rescued a few of the injured from the flames, but the heat soon drove them away, and horror stricken they witnessed the holocaust before aid arrived from the nearest town. The mangled bodies of 28 passengers were recovered, and were only charred fragments amid bent rods ana wheels in the smouldering embers. This horror came from an act of train wreckers, who had loosed the rails on the high bridge to destroy the train for the purpose of plundering the passengers.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 182, 4 February 1897, Page 2
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