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Show jU. S.Troofc Train Wreck Kills Fireman, Hurts 50 Soldiers I SANDERSVILLE, Miss., Jan. 29 (AP) An estimated 50 national guardsmen from Indiana were severely injured and a railroad fireman killed Wednesday when a special troop train overturned near here while en route to Camp Shelby. The locomotive and six cars of the train overturned about noon on the main line of the Southern railway a mile north of here, and a seventh car was left leaning precariously pre-cariously from the tracks. Ambulances were summoned hastily from Laurel, eight miles away, and from Camp Shelby at Hattiesburg, about 35 miles to the southwest. The injured were tnken to the Laurel General hospital and ambulance- doctors reported that Fireman A. V. Smith of Meridian, Miss., was killed In the wreck. There apparently were no fatalities fatali-ties among the troops. Estimates by ambulance drivers and a hasty hospital check indicated indi-cated 25 of the several hundred soldiers aboard the train were hurt badly enough to require hospital treatment. Injuries of one soldier were reported as severe and several sev-eral suffered bone fractures. First reports of the accident came from Miss Dallie Perkins, proprietor of a Sandersville drug store, and most of this town's 600 inhabitants turned out to help in the rescue work. The soldiers were part of the recently re-cently mobilized 38th division, but the names and regimental identification identi-fication of the injured were not Immediately available in the rush of emergency work at the hospital. hos-pital. , All were hound for a year of Intensive training at Camp Shelby, big base which eventually will have a garrison of 50,000. The 37th division from Ohio already Is at the camp and the 38th began be-gan arriving Sunday in 3.1 special trains and many truck caravans. |