Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1905-06-14 | Page 1 | Engine Struck a Spread Rail

ENGINE STRUCK I 1 IA A SPREAD RAILI I Disastrous Wreck on the Southern J in Illinois THREE KILLED 29 INJURED I VICTIMS VERE EN ROUTE TO J CONFEDERATE REUNION Ill iu June persons ALBION were killed and twentynine in injured injured in the wreck of an eastbound p passenger enger train on the Southern rail railroad railroad road at Golden Gate Ill today The train was a a cotton special carrying confederate veterans to the reunion at I Louisville Ky While running at n a I speed of fifty miles a an hour the engine I struck a spread rail on a trestle twenty feet high and the engine and four coaches were overturned and fell to the bottom of the ravine Dead J J Greenway Ark J D Johnson fireman Princeton md Ind Otto en engineer neer Princeton md IntI Injured W t C Peeler district passenger agent of the Cotton Belt road Memphis Tens Tenn chest Injured will recover Captain John S Bell Pine BlUff Ark arm fractured and internallY In Injured Injured General James Jordan Pine Bluff Ark serIously Injured in chest nod and arms G B Hayes Paragould Ark Injured about head Care carey T Cone kone Ark cut about head Mrs LoUis oon Campbell Io scalp wounds W H Wilson Vii son Janesville Ark ear cut off Mrs Maggie Grogg Nettleton Ark cut about face J J Armstrong Jonesboro Ark scalp wounds J 3 P Needham Ark in injured Injured about h head and arms H M lI Lancaster Paragould Ark head cut and foot badly burned J S Jonesboro Ark shoulder shoulder der dislocated L I Steedman Paragould Ark eye and head cut Miss Kate S Paragould Ark internally Injured JO Joseph eph Paragould Ark leg D Fol Foley Pine Bluff Ark hip In Injured injured aI S David V rg ft Paragould Ark seri sari serious Otis ous internal J 1 S Miller Pine Bluff Ark head and arms anns slightly cut Alvin Baird Huntington md Ind seri seriously seriously s scalded about arms and le leR legs R H A Poole PIne Bluff Ark internal injuries J M Lytle Paragould Ark leg and arrit arni broken H Fr C Diner St Louis hands and arms cut R S Hancock Piggott Ark side and legs badly Injured J M lI Rogers Jonesboro Ark side and legs cut R 11 A Pine Bluff Ark slight internal Injuries M 1 Crowley Paragould Ark cut about head I James Timer Walcott Ark internal injuries Mrs James Timer Walcott Ark rk head and arms injured Dr Howell Rector Ark seriously Internally S The train consisted of three Pullmans and four coaches Two of the sleepers were derailed hut but did not go over the trestle The third sleeper remained on the track Most of the injured were taken to Louisville