The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-03
LOSS OF LIFE.
Two FAST NAIL TRAINS COLLIDE.
Six Persons Killed and . Number of
Others wounded-A Conductor Mis-
takes Name in . Dispatch.

LEXINGTON, KY, January IA col
lision on the Cincinnati Southern Rail-
road occurred yesterday, one mile south
of Greenwood, on a sixty-foot embank-
ment, midway between tunnels and 8.
KILLED AND WOUNDED.
The following persons were killed:
Lee Withrow, bagyagemaster, Of Lud-
low, KY; James Severns, postal clerk,
of Stan. ord. KY; I. Cardee, fireman, of
Chattanooga, Tenn; Lawrence Callan,
baggagemaster, of Ludlow, KY; w. p.
Powell, express messenger, of Madison
vile, Ohio, and Miss Jessie Greene, of
Chattanooga.
Among the injured are Mr.. and Mrs.
Alvey, of Covington,. KY, who were
scalded and inhaled steam; they will
both probably die. They were taken to
Covington tonight. Sam Shrumm,
conductor, internally injured. s. b.
Gibson, of Cincinnati, en- route home
from Florida, was badly scalded about
the face and hands, probably fatally. Joe
Nolen, a colored porter on train No. 2,
laceration of the hip and hand. VIM. ID.
Michaels, engineer of train No. 2, who
jumped from the engine, sprained his
ancle; his hand was scalded and his
cheek gashed. Pat Taylor, of Somerset,
KY. engineer of train No. /, bruised
and suffering from conclusion, badly
hurt. Pat Murphy. of Junction City,
KY, fireman of train No. 1, leg broken.
w. T. Roberts, of Ryeville, Tenn, of the
mail service, leg and arm broken. w.
f. Jackson. of Ludlow, KY, express
messenger, hand, head and back sprain-
ed and bruised. l.. +. Sackett, of No.
All Richmond street, Cincinnati, news
agent, head, face, back and legs bruised.
j. C. Burch, of Sidney, Ohio, travelling
passenger agent Of the Chicago and Al.
ton Railroad, badly scalded and his
head face and hands cut. Joe Hepp, of
Covington, KY, scalded and bruised.
Dick Patten, of Ludlow, KY, brakeman,
cut and scalded. j. +. Campbell. Of
Hanoverton, Ohio, scalded about his
face, neck and hands.
In addition to the above, train No. 2,
which came north this evening, carried
to Cincinnati five or six badly injured
passengers. These passengers were in
the boudoir car, and the railroad officials
refused to allow the Associated Press
representatives access to them or to give
their names or injuries. DIR. Reddish, of
Frankfort, in charge Of the Greenwood
coal mines, left Greenwood with the
wounded and the body of Miss Green for
Cincinnati. Later train followed,
carrying all the dead except Miss Green,
who was left at Somerset.
TWO CARS BURNED.
Very shortly after the collision q
wrecking train left Somerset in charge
of Superintendent w. w. Wells. carry
ing DIR. A. L. Owens and all the Somer-
aster. Two cars, the mail and baggage
Of No. 1, took fire and burned. At the
time of the crash Withrow and jackson
were talking in the baggage car, when
the car split open from end to end, the
mail car and the smoker shooting over
them, and the other cars cutting loose
and dropping back. 1t is reported that an
unknown passenger was crushed and
burned In the water closet OF q car on
train No. 2. Mr.. Alvey, Of Covington,
threw his wife through the window and
jumped out after her, both rolling down
the embankment.
CAUSE OF THE COLLISION.
The collision was caused by Con-
ductor Shrumm misreading the orders
delivered to him at Winfield. He mis-
and hurried his train down grade at
fifty miles an hour to make that point,
and was probably running at that speed
when the collision occurred. After the
collision Conductor Bennett ran up to
Conductor Shrumm and said: "Tm not
to blame for this; read your orders and
see." Conductor Shrumm took out his
orders, and looking carefully, threw up
his hands, exclaiming: "Oh. my God, /
have made a mistake"
PASSENGERS STATEMENT.
Sharkey withers. formerly OF this
city, but now of Edwards. Miss. was on
the train going south, and made this
statement:
1--WE left Somerset a half hour late,
and were running about thirty miles an
hour, up grade. was in the coach
next in front Of the sleeper, close to the
front door, when the shrill whistling
alarmed me. / ran out on the platform
and was pitched down the embankment
of fifty feet. jumped up and went to
work. We helped to extricate the VIC
tins. helped to take out three alive
and two dead, one Of them Pat Murphy.
helped to dig him out of the mud, into
which he was jammed nearly up to his
armpits. The next man we got out was
the express messenger. who was crushed
under the trucks. The next was a bag
gage man who was under the tender OF
No. /. We could hear his groans an.
dug him out. He died in an hour. Then
we got an injured man out Of the mail
car Of No. 1. Mr.. Withrow died in .
few minutes after hc was put on the re-
lief train. Postal Agent James Sever
ance, who was appointed one month
ago. lay at one end of his car, with
blood streaming from his mouth.
"We reached Somerset at 10 p. m.
Withrow's dead body was laid in the
baggage-room and the injured on our
train were placed in q hotel"
PASSENGERS scALDKD.
The baggage car and smoker Of No. 2
rolled down the embankment, and the
l.dis~, car of tho train was thrown On