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Show FIFTY-FOUR KILLED TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON . A SOUTHERN RAILROAD. Besides Thcie Killed, One Hundred and Tcty Persons Were In JureJ, Vary of Whom Msy Die. Running on a rond bed In a sup posed.y IiIkIi con Ilium of maintenance and having aliout them every safe guard known to a modern railroad two trains on the Southern railway carrying heavy Hate of passenger caina together In a frlxlitful bond end collision near Hodges, Tenn., Saturday sending fifty four people to death and Injuring Ko, auveial of whom w ill probably prob-ably die. Soma of tha bodies Imvo not yet bean recovered, and many remain unidentified. i Thla appalling loss of life and maiming maim-ing of tlie living resulted apparently from tha dlnn-tnrdlng of ordwe given to the two trains to meet at a station which haa for a long time beon their regular meeting point. Iloth engines and the major portion of both tralna were demolished, and why the ordeis were disregarded ot misinterpreted will pmbsbly never bs known ,aa the engineers of the twe tralna were cruahed. their bodies re malnlng for houra under the wreckagt of rtiatr locomotlvea. The collision waa botween east bound passenger No. 12 and west bound psssenger No. lb from Ilrlatol No. 11 waa a heavy train, rarrylni tliree Pullmans, two day roaches an 4 mall and bsKsuge rar. No. IS waa light local train. The greatest loss ol life occurred In the eaalbound train, while In the weatlsiund train only tha engine crew was killed. Congressman Henry H. fllhson. from the Second Coiiki, sslonal district of Tennessee, was a psnaengor In a day coach on the canlliound train. Ho and another man, whose name la not i known, were tho only paraona to escape alive from tho demolished car. |