Show FIFTY FOUR KILLED TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON A SOUTHERN RAILROAD besides those killed one hundred and twenty persons were injured many of whom may die running on a road bed in a supposed i high condition of maintenance band and having about them every safo safe suad sua guz d known to a modern railroad two trains on the southern railway carrying heavy lists of passengers came together in a frightful hand end collision near hodges tenn saturday sending fifty four people to death and injuring several of whom ill ably die somo some of the bodies have not dot yet been recoN recovered ered and many remain unidentified this appalling loss of life and malm ing ot of the living resulted apparently from the disregarding of orders given to the two to trains to meet at a station which has for a long time been their regular meeting point both engines and the major portion of both trains were demolished and why the orders were disregarded 01 misinterpreted will mill probably never be known as aj the engineers of the tac trains were crushed their bodies remaining for hours under the wreckage 0 of f their moir locomotives the collision was between cast bound passenger BADger no 12 and west bound passenger no iso 16 15 from bristol no 12 vas a heavy train carrying three pullmans two dav coaches aul and mall and baggage car no 15 was a light local train ahe greatest loss ot of life occurred in the eastbound cast bound train while in the westbound train only the engine crew was killed congressman yenry venry R gibson from the second district of 0 tennessee was map a passenger in a day coach on the eastbound cast hound train ile ho and another man whose name la is not known were the only persons persona to escape alive from the demolished car j |