Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-09-02 | Page 7 | Twenty-One Killed

TWENTYONE KILLED Eighty Others Injured by the Wreck of n Train on Southern Railway Rail-way Near Berry Ala Birmingham Ala Sept L While rounding a curve on a high embankment embank-ment near Berry Ala this morning the engine and four cars of an excursion train on a branch of the Southern railway rail-way leaped from the track and rolled over and over smashing the coaches and causing the Instant death of twen tyone persons and the Injury of eighty others Physicians say at least twen tynine of the Injured cannot live With the exception of 11 H Dudley trainmaster of the Southern Railway living at Cunningham and Roscoe Shelby of Columbus Miss all of the dead and Injured are negroes who had taken advantage of the excursion rates of points In Mississippi to Birmingham Birming-ham All lived In Mississippi The train was running at a rate of thirty miles an hour At a curve on top of a sixtyfoot embankment the driver of the engine left the track jerking Jerk-ing Cue engine and first four cars with Il There were ten cans In the excursion excur-sion train but the fourth broke loonc from the fifth and with the heavy engine en-gine plunged down the steep Incline I The cars which were packed with passengers turned over several times and wero crushed like eggshells killing and crippling the Inmates Dead bodies ivcre scattered In every direction and the moana and appeals for help from Ute wounded were sickening Wrecking trains carrying physlclanr were hurried from Columbus Miss and Birmingham Birming-ham and everything possible Is being done Injured to alleviate the sufferings of the