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Show BRIDGE IS LEFT OPEN; US CRASH Passenger train riunges Into Mobile River; No Further Casualties Expected; Relief Party Is Sent Out. MOBILE, Ala., Feb. 25 (UP) --The Cincinnati passenger passen-ger train of the Louisville and Nashville railroad plunged of! the open end of a drawbridge over the Mobile river near here early today. . Four members of the train crew were drowned when the engine en-gine and baggage coach were submerged in the river. The dead were: Arthur R. Ingram, engineer; Ezekial Crumpton, negro fireman; J. Nick Vaughn, baggage muster; L. Wood, negro porter. The train, the crack Pan-American, left New Orleans at 8:30 p .m yesterday and was due here earlj today. Officials were unablo to account ac-count for the drawbridge being open. Details of the wreck were given by Dr. Seldon H. Stephens, Mobllo physician, who headed a reliof party to the scene of the wreck 18 miles northwest of here. , - The accident occurred in on isolated iso-lated section without immediate means of communication. It was two hours before the first relief train bearing doctors, nurses and j medical supplies was dispatched i from Mobile. An hour later, at 3:40 a. m., a second train with a diver, Charles Nelson, on board, left for tho scene of the accident. |