Millard County Chronicle | 1913-10-23 | Page 5 | Train Crashes through Trestle

TRAIN CRASHES TUHHITESB5 SCORES OF SOLDIERS CRUSHED TO DEATH A REULT OF ACCIDENT AC-CIDENT IN MISSISSIPPI. De..d and Injured Entangled In a Twisted Mass o Wrecks')-, Making Mak-ing It Difficult to Remove Dead Bodies or Rescue Injured. Meridian. Mb . Twenty soldiers of companies thirty-nine and 170, fnlted States const artillery, e,re killed, and about 100 others Injured Sunday afternoon when a sjeda: troop train on the Mobile & Ohio ruil-road ruil-road crashed throvigt a trci.re near State Line, Mis. Division Stipe! in-tendent in-tendent Pigford of the Mobile & Ohio, In a report sent to headquarters of the road at Mobile, give this number as the extent of the casualties. The wreck was caused by the engine en-gine tender Jumping he track when about 200 feet from a trestle. The engine was not derailed and pasted over the treatle. The tender broke loose from the engine, however, and with the baggage car and three conches conch-es plunged twnety flve fee to the ground. The coaches were well filled, and when the three cars plunged through the trestle, the men nad little chance to escape. The dead and Injured were entangled In a twisted mass of wreckage, wreck-age, making It difficult to remove dead bodies or rescue Injured.