labour Outrage.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 191, 12 February 1887, Page 5

labour Outrage.

A Passengor Train Wrecked, The south-bound passenger train on the Missouri Paqiiio extension, which left Omaha for Kansas City on January 11th, and w«3 due here this morning, was wreoted near DunW, Neb,, about midnight. The wreck vra cwsed by

the loopening of a* rail, which was dono by partiep unknown, Several fpikea and fiah plafee had been removed, and the train coming along at. the rate of thirty niilca an hour, plunt^-d fifteen feet duwn an embankment and landed in a snowdrift. James De Wit,t of Wyandotte, Kan?., the engineer, vra° cnugbt uader the boiler and killed. Hia b>viy had not been recovered at last accountn. Frank Mensworth, <ho express mefvonger, whose h-. me is in <hia city, whs internally hurt and may dis. A lady, whoso name waa not learned, wa« badJy hurt;, but the other patirengers wi re not f>erioueJy fcjjured, sen tar as known here. All were bkaken up, however, and more or lees bruiaed. Tha entire train left the track, and the probable loss of lite would have been gT'jai except for tho snowbank, which broke the force of the plunge. Tiio MiPFonri Pacific officials here state? that the wiock )Vtho result oi" a third attempt upon the life of De Witt, the engineer. They cay some of the men engaged in the strikes la»t epring cherished a grudge against i)e Witt, because be wa9 an active supporter of the company during the great strike. They assert that the wreck near Wyandottofor which Hamilton had juetbeflOt tried waa the result of a plot against D& Witt's Jife ; but his train was not tho fiirefe to pasa over the track, ac they expected. Subsequently, they Bay, a second attempt was made, and lust night was the third. Several euspioious-looking men, it is said, were seen loitoring about the station afr Dunbar on tho evening of the wreclr, Tracks were found leading from the pcene of tho wreck, which furnish a clueThe Sheriff and several others areEearchuiß the neighbourhood, and a reward will ba offered for the apprehension of the wreckers. A number of California excursionißtß were among the party on tho train. D. S. Wilson, conductor of the wrecked train, cays that fifty-two passengers were aboard tho train, and that their escape from death was almost miraculous.