Railway Wrecks

Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 23.- A horrible wreek oucurred on the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville railroad at Flat Gap creek, twenty-two miles trom here, at 10:31) Thursday morning. ïhe train was the first to ffo over the new road and carried a select excursión of the City Council, the Board of Public Works, representatives of the Chamber of Coturaerce, the very flower of the business and professional men of Knoxville. The train of two cars left the track at the crossing:, and the rear car went down a trestle. Only one man was uninjured. It was irapossible to obtain medical aid f or a long time, and untll4:30 p. m., when the train reached Knoxville, scanty attention was rendered. Many had to be brouht back on tlat-cars and the last part of the Journey was made in a drivin(f rain. Three men died from their injuries and others can not live. The dead are: Judgfl George Andrews, the most prominent lawyerlnEast Tennessee; 6. T. Povrers, the leadlng merchant and former president of the East Tennessee Fire Insurance Company; Alexander Reeder, a lead:ntrpollUcian who has held many offices of trust. The in j ure d are: Alexander A. Artlmr, president of the Chamber of Commerce; iEham Young, president of the Board oí Public Works; John T. Hearn, editor of the Sentinel; W. W. VVooüruff, a leadIng Wholesale merchant; Charles S. Rimour, attoruey of ihe Cumberland Gap & Louisville road; A. Wilson, assistant chlef engineer of tho Cumberland Gap & Louisviile road; County Judge Maloney; Alderman Barry; Alderman Hocli'.ngs: General H. S. Chubert, of the Governor's staff ; A. J. Alberts, a Wholesale merchant; Rev. R. J. Coolt, professor of U. S. Grant Universlty; City Physictan West, and Judge Ingersoll. Beveral others wer injured, but not serlously. The total number of injured was forty-one. Intense excitementirevails here. IN WE9T VIRGINIA. Petboleum, W. Va., Kus;. :.'4. - A terrible colusión occurred about 11 o'clock Friday morning on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad betweeu Petroleum and Silver Kun tunnel, abont twenty-three miles east of Parkersburg, In which three men were lnstantly killed and inany wounded. ïhe accommodatlon train coming west, due at J'arkeriburg at Vi o'clock, orashed Into a special train occupied by railroad magnates on a tour of inspection. The cause of the wreek is sald to have been confllcting telegrams. The one received by Conductor Flannagan and Engineer Layman of the accommodation ordered them to pass the special at Petroleum, whlle the special train engineered by Captain Cephus Rowland is said to have had telegiaphic orders to pass the accommodation at Süver Run. IV NEW YOIÏTC. Watektown, N. Y., Aug. 24. - The second train of the Forepaugh show wns wrecked late Thursday night, about two and a halt' miles east of Potsdam, while en route on the liome, Watertown A Ogdensburg railroad, frora Gouveneur to Montrenl. A broken axle was the cause. Two camels and thirty ring horses, inchulincr one of the i'our chariot teams, were killed. Six cars were derailed and two telescoped. Three trains conveyed the show trom Gouveneur. The tirst train, which cairied tents and utensils, passed iuto Canada safely, but the second train, oonveying all the animáis, met with disaster. The scène is one of great contusión. On eilher side of the track are distributed the bodies of the dead horses. Th loss will be Í40.000. The New Hampshiro and Maine delegations of the G. A. IÍ. encampment at Milwaukee are delayed at Norwood on account of the accident. , The trick ponies, which have attracted inuch attention, were among the animáis killed. The Í7.00Ü Btallion, which wu driven by Mrg. Adam Forepaugh, Jr., wu ulso killed. It is said that .Mrs. Forepaugh wept bitterly and would not bo oonsoled when h1i learned of the death of thiR horse. The pretty white mule which periormed reinarkable tricks Is also amoug the lost. Seven of the eight ohariot homes are dead. There are about eighty head of live stock stabled and paetured near the scène of the wreek. MANGLED PASSENliEES. Chicago, Aug. 27. - The vestibule train on the Santa Fe road, in which were several extra coaches carrying Grand Army people to the Milwaukee encumpment, was wrecked at KinRman, about ritteen miles north of Streator, at Sa ta yesterday by the spreading of the rails. Four coaches, two Pullman sleepers, a chaircar and the dining-car were derailed and hurled down a forty-foot embankment. About tifty peoie in all were hurt, the following badly : Mrs. S. S. Dickerman, of Lawrence, Kan., chest and head bndly cut; Mrs. Dickerman's llttle son, hurt about the back and face; Willlam K. Fish, Topeka, s. nous head lnjury: Mrs. Flb, ot Topeka, head, back and arm hurt; S. F. Gould, of Mulvane. Kan., back and face terriblv nut: Mrs. R. K. Tuekerman, Topeka, formerly of Chatsworth, face badly out aad internally injured; Mrs. EUward Audsley, Carrollton, Mo., arm, head and back badly brulsed and lacerated; Mrs. George B. Peters, Emporla, baad and face awfully crushed and cut; Goorge Peters, Kinpona, hurt about the chest and face, also internally injurrd: Mrs. S. S. Johnson, or Norfolk, Conn., badly hurt internally and head and face cut. SEEIOUS ACCIDENT IN NEBRASKA. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 27.- News has been received in Lincoln that a construction train was wrecked late Saturday night on the Burlington & Missouri railway near the Pine Eidge tunnel, about Ö50 miles northwest of this city. The train was backing trom work in the tunnel, and two cara were thrown from the track by a plank. Kleven men were more or less injured, nearly all of the wounds consintinjr of broken lega and dislocated ankles. One or two of the injured men are thought to be in a serious condttion. The road upon which the accident occurred is the Burlington extensión trom Lincoln to the Black Hiüs.