Show RAILROAD RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN ARKANSAS ARKAN ARKAN- i SAS SAS A A. Train Backing Away A from the Flood Is Telescoped by Another One of the worst wrecks in the history of the Cotton Belt Del road occurred between 9 and 10 o'clock Friday night on a trestlework between between be be- e- e tween Humphrey and Goldman some t tw twenty enty miles mIes from Pine Bluff BW Arkansas The wreck meek was indirectly due to t the flood oc occasioned occasioned oc- oc oc by the overflow of the Arkansas river Eight persons were killed outright and two twenty-two Injured The colliding colding trains were the so southbound pas passenger enger and lind express which was running backward to t get away from the flood and the te southbound fast freight freigh The trains trans met in the dark on the tle trestle at Ci Crooked Bayou an and came together with terrific force throwing all aU of the passenger passenger passenger ger coaches off ol the track The locomotive crashed Into the rear of the passenger smashing the sleeping car into splinters The Th passengers s who lost their lives with Il one or ora a r 6 |