Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-29
SERI0USL. WRECK
THREE TRRmPS KILLED AND a
:. FOURTH FATALLY iNJURE0'
Trainmen. Express Messenger and Postal
Clerks Uurt-The Crash Braught About
by Design Undoubtedly.
INV telegrnpn 20 the pispatch.l

MOBILE. ALA.. September ga Gulf
por, CAflss) special TO the Daily Register
says: The worst wreck in the history OF
the Mobile and New orleans Division OF
the Louisville and Nashville railroad was
that which occurred here this morning at
o'clock. Passenger train No. 2, con-
sisting OF three sleepers. passenger ana
smoking-coaches, mail and baggage and
express-car and engine and tender. went
into an open switch. The train was
runnin, forty-hvc miles an hour when the
accident occurred. Investigation by the
railroad officials after the accident
showed that the switch. which had been
properly set and locked, had been opened.
The lock had been burst of with large
rine knot and thrown away. Three
negro tramps riding between the tender
and the baggage-car were killed. Another
tramp was probably fatally injured. The
engineer and the fireman were danger
ousy hurt and two postal CLERKS the
express messenger. and the baggage mas
ter were slightly wounded.
THE CASUALTIES.
The casualties arc:
Krued-John Allison. George Anderson,
and William Robinson. negro tramps.
Wounded-Frank Coffin. engineer OF
Mobile. serious internal injuries head ana
face badly cut; George Morgan, hreman,
tncgro). New Orleans, La, LETT 1907
crushed and amputatcd, severe scalp
wounds: Louis Robinson. tramp. danger
Gus internal INJURIES. Joseph Hughes. Al
giers La, postal clerk. T.. c. caro- New
Orleans postal clerk. william Lock.
Grocnv.llr. Ala. express messenger and
Henry Kingston. Greenvile. Ala, bag
gage master, the last four slightly
hu~t.
The escape Of the passengers from in
jury seems almost miraculous.
THE ACCIDENT.
Tho train left Mississippi city ten
minutes late. and the engineer was run
nug To- make up lost time When the
engine struck the switch-frog it jumped
so that the nanges rode on top or the
rail thirty or forty yards. then LEFT the
track % the right. and plunged through
an empty boX-Car on the siding. EnEi-
n.er Coffin and Fireman Morgan CALAMITY
stuck To- their posts, and attempted 10
apply the alr-brakos.
The shock unc0uped the tender, which
kept on the main track riding on lis
| whecl-nanges to- point hundred yards
beyond whcr. the engin. was wrecked,
.
/ pletely The baggage and eXpress-car
I followed tho engine, and collapsed along
I side OF H. The mall-car left the track
20 the left, and was shattered into
splintcrs. The smoker and the passeng,
1 coaches followed the wrecked engine and
[ baggalc-car. ana the hrst-class coach
| Was piled on top OF the smoker. The
/ first sleeper lect the rails, but remained
on the roaG-bel. The other ! two
/ sleopers did not leave the rails.
/ FATALITY 40 l.
| The train reached Mobile at u;i5 \. NJ
} The wounded negro tramp win lie. The
clans think that no other persons i'm
i1rei IRE mort1ly hurt.
physicians think that 10 other persons In
4 Mississippi city and Handshoro were
! sent to Gulfpo-t by the railroad officials
! As soon as news of the accident was
received In Mobile and Newt Orleans
this morning early % wreckiug train
from Mobile and another from NeN
Orleans were sent out. arriving at Gulf
port before daylight. and the wounded
men were given every attention.