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HEAD END COLLISION.
A Frightful Wreck on the Santa +
Near Kinney Friday Morning.

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wreck had occurred one mile north
of Kinney, and for the company sur
geon, DR.. ". A. Lockett, to come
down at once.
A BANNER reporter caught the
same special and went down to the
wreck in company with DR.. Lockett
and upon arrival there found one OF
the worst wrecks that the Santa Fe
has had for some time.
The two trains that had collided
we're south bound freight drawn
| by engine No. rs and a north bound
engine No. 81 and caboose com
ing north.
They were to have passed each
other at Kinney but by some mis-
taxi, supposed to have been a differ
ence in watches, the north bound
came out of Kinney before the ar
rival of the south bound freight and
at curve just one mile this side of
there attempted the disastrous feat
of passing each other on single
track.
The engines collided and No. IS
having the weight of a loaded train
and no brakes knocked the north
bound engine backwards about 200
feet and off the track making COM
plete wreck of both, the loaded
cars driving the tender of engine IS
clear over the engine tearing it all to
ipieces and bursting the next car
to it.
The caboose of No. 81 telescoped
the train, making complete wreck
of it.
Jack H. Costello, engineer on the
south bound, jumped from his en-
CINE Just as the trains collided and
had his right ankle badly crushed
and broken, besides sustaining
numerous other bruises.
A. r. Vaunorman, the fireman of
IS, jumped about the same time the
engineer did and sustained a few
bruises none of which are serious.
Conductor Geo. Harvey and the
brakeman in the caboose at the rear
of the train jumped just before the
collision and were neither of them
seriously hurt.
Engineer Lynes, on the north
bound No. 81, was able to check up
his train and jump off but could not
stop. He nor his fireman were at
all hurt.
The north bound passenger due
here at II a. m. was at Kenny when
the wreck occurred and was conse-
quently sidetracted there to await
clearing of the wreck, and large
crowd of anxious travellers were
unwilling guests at that place until
late Friday afternoon when the
Navasota train went down and tras-
ferred them and brought up.
The party of young folks that at
tended the Jay Bird Association ball
at Richmond Thursday night were
on the delayed train south Of the
wreck.
Two wreckers were sent to the
scene and all the hands Oh this sec
ton transferred there to hasten the
removal of the wreck. but it must
have been late hour Friday night
before it was removed.
1t was regarded by all the railroad
men that looked at it as remarkable
that the crew of both trains escaped
without some one being killed
Both engines will be a total loss to
the company, Judging from their
appearance.
Engineer Costello lost Sits.
knocked out of a box on his engine
Railroad iron was scattered on
each side of the track as it usually
lies around railway shops.
The Sempronius correspondent of
the Austin county Times says: Mrs.
Lynn, who lives in Washington
county, not far from here, will visit
Alabama soon. Mrs. Lynn is widow.
She has seven sisters, who are all
also widows. They will together
spend Christmas at the old home
stead III Alabama"
MR. R. HOFFMAN, who has been
visiting various places in Tennessee
and Kentucky, among other places,
Hamilton, Ky, where he called on
the Houston Post scholarship girls
at College there, has returned home
much improved in health.
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