Show MANY DEAD IN WRECK IN LOUISIANA Death List Will ViII Number Fourteen or More i Ninety Are Injured f t FREIGHT PLOWS INTO E EXCURSION TRAIN I WrecKage TaKes Tales Fire and and t tI Many Bodies Are re Cremated Cremated Cre Cre- I I mated by y Flames NEW NEV ORLEANS Nov 11 A 11 A wreck in which fourteen or m more re persons w wore wera r killed two forty seriously injured and anti fifty ft s slightly hurt occurred on they the tho y Yazoo oo Mississippi Valley railroad near Montz Moats La La- twenty seven miles north of N Now w Orleans early today when a a through freight train crashed into the tho rear rea of an excursion train of often ten coach coaches Five of 01 the coaches of or the passenger asnen- asnen ger train burned bunted and many of th tho wreck victims were wore believed to hav have been cr cremated m ted though fourteen bodies bodies have peon been een re recovered Of or the the fourteen bodies recovered nine wore were negroes and five whites The majority of or the time injured are an white Practically all were from rom Louisiana or south Mississippi An An official statement issued b by br the tho railroad company compan placed the tho bla blame e on ona ona a t brakeman named Cunningham who is char charged ed with failure to signal t the e freight ht train Excursion Train Double Header The excursion train hauled by two o o engines left New Orleans a at 11 ii p TV 1 I ni niOn m. m 1 On approaching M Montz ne one ne' ne locomotive brol broke e down nail and the cn engineer signaled to the brak it is ta said ai to go back k and warn the freight train running I It t minutes behind tho the twenty lire sion i n. n This order it is Js cba charged 1 the c iJ b f. f a f failed led to ic o. o c execute e aid aniL ri- ri rii i Abo f freight l t tor tore into t tB J P r rH H crowded d. d pa n r train 1 Jr gb tho t. t Orleans and and Baton Dou r. r 1 ottile ot- ot f the tile injured were taken to Baton t Ji R mc e The d dead u and the seriously shy im In among the te whites whites' ver bro brought b to Now Orleans nf The two re rear r coaches 1 which wore re ret t telescoped 1 by the freight cD engine iD caught fire firo immediately immediate d aleh Passengers cn who hid had escaped rushed into the wrecked re coaches coache and ad dragged cd d dead ad and from the flames' flames reach ri cb Several of or the occupants occum- occum pants Jants of the tho front froot coaches who escaped injury were badly burned in their cf ef forts to ti bavo avo yo tho those c leas fortunate Risk Lives to S Save Savo v Negroes White men mon risk risked i their lives to save s injured ne negroes roes from tho the rapidly spreading flames and ani negro mum men n rushed tl into the steam and flames s to Ie res rescue ue white whito persons as Well as members mem hers bers of their own race r The majo majority ity o of the e excursionists C were rom from points south sooth of Woodville Miss iss which is thirty miles north ot of of Baton nou Rouge Tho Time scene at the time union station when ben the rc relief r train bearing time tho rl dead demid smart and injured arrived in New Orleans was wa ODe one of con confusion Practically o cr every ambulance in time the city it had been sum monell to take the injured to h hospitals and p police patrol wagons were ero used l to tp move mo man of f th the dead to un undertaking under undertaking er tak taking D establishments I Tho Tue rear coach ch of the c excursion curmon tra train n nI I was 55 demolished d. d every e occupant oc or- of this tIn ear car was either cither Killed o c or or injured One o of the time ball bad lv 1 wounded passengers pa said Mid I two trO worn worn- en and nd several JI e children in Ib the rear conch coach were cre killed |