Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1917-01-12 | Page 2 | Suicides on Train

SUICIDES ON TRAIN southerner res responsible for death of 0 fellow pa passenger mger and injury of four birmingham ala two men were killed and four badly injured by an explosion n the smoking compartment of the southern railways birmingham special just as the train was en terling birmingham from new york while train officials were unable to establish definitely tho the cause there were indications that a quantity ol of so some me powerful explosive had been set oft off by lewis D walton a birmingham business man as a means of committing suicide eul clde ha was in the lavatory of the car whose st steel eel wall next to the lounging compart compartment mer nt was blown completely away and hla his body was dismembered by the explosion