Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-05 | Page 1 | 23 Injured in Head-on Train Crash in Texas

I I 1 23 28 INJURED INJURED-IN IN ON HEAD-ON TRAIN CRASH ORASH IN TEXAS BRYAN Tex Oct 5 AP AP- AP Twenty p passengers and three trainmen train train- men were injured and many father Ather t er passengers received br bruises l e bg two wo passenger trains on the d Hotra- Hotra ton on Texas Central railroad collided collided col- col on head-on in the yards herO here l late te j yesterday esterday N The Sunbeam No northbound 13 from rom Houston crash into Int train No 16 southbound while the latter was standing still The Th Sunbeam was running behind schedule and a confusion of Is said to have caused the wreck The pilots of both locomotives were smashed and the baggage car express car and diner of one train were badly damaged All of the Injured are Texans A third m man n was missing at 1115 o'clock last night and a search 01 of or orthe the wreckage was bel beh g made Reports reaching here said the freight train had stopped for Or orders and being ready to proceed d. d had called In her flagman when the passenger crashed Into the caboose where a number of ot the crew were sl sleeping The wreck occurred just after niter the passenger train had rounded a n curve traveling at high speed The engine of the passenger train was wasI demolished and ten cars cars of ot the freight train telescoped Several were badly shaken but none w was s report reported seriously injured I