Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-10-18
MEET AT A CROSSING.
AN ENGINEERS NEGLIGENCE
CAUSES A WRECK.
Excursionists Injured I'm Louisiana
Through Disregard of Rules Many
Badly Hurt-The Engineer Escapes

NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. J6.--Engi-
neer Simpson of the East Louisiana
railroad is responsible for frightful
accident that occurred yesterday morn
ing at the crossing of the Louisville &
Nashville and the Northeastern roads,
about two miles from where the Louis
vile & Nashville road leaves Elysian
Fields street-an accident that will, in
all probability, result in at least one
fatality, while score of passengers on
the Louisville & Nashville railroad re-
ceived severe injuries.
The injured:
CARAMBAT, FRANK, slightly hurt about
left side
CARAMBAT, Mrs. FRANK, injured severely
about the side
CAREY, ROBERT, sugar broker; left leg
broken and head cut.
CosA, Mrs. A. s., badly bruised
COURTNEY, S. c., head slightly injured.
EVANS, f. j., slightly cut about the face.
FLEMING, ID, r., left leg bruised.
HOLMES, R. H., left leg and arm broken
LEE, ANDREW, confusion of the neck
LEHMAN, Mr.. severely hurt about head.
Mcdonnell, NJ, badly bruised about the
left side of the head and right arm.
McKEEMAN, R. L., of Biloxi, slightly
hurt.
MUIR, MRS. JULIA, left leg and ankle in
jured and severe scalp wounds.
SHARP, ELLA, niece of Mrs Carambat,
confusion of the neck.
SPIERs, Mrs. L., badly bruised.
WILLOW, A. c., left knee and hip hurt
YOUNGER, q. s., bruised about the body.
Son OF GEN. A. S. BADGER, badly hurt.
small boy was seriously hurt bout
the head, but Immediately after the
wreck he left the scene in charge of
his father.
The Louisville e Nashville ''across
the lake" excursion train, consisting of
eight coaches well loaded with pleas
ure-seekers, a large proportion of them
being women and children, pulled out
on time. AS the train approached the
crossing of the Northeastern tracks
Engineer Han!ey brought his train to
stop and whistled, as the law re-
quires. He then gave the signal to GO
ahead and proceed across the tracks of
the Northeastern. The East Louisiana
train, carrying eXcursionists to points
in Saint Tammany parish, was boom
ing along its tracks, and with a shrill
shrek from its whistle for down
brakes" it crashed into the sixth coach
of the Louisville q Nashville train.
The collision threw crowded coach
completely into the ditch, while the
lacking engine was derailed and buried
its nose several feet in the soft mud.
Passengers on the East Louisiana
train were uninjured except for
the shock of the collision. Not
SO with the coast excursion, how
ever. Just before the iron monster
struck the coach several of the passen-
gers saw it coming and panic en-
sued. There was wild rush to escape
from the doomed coach, but before one
of the passengers could reach either
platform the approaching engine had
struck and the coach, with its living
freight, was hurled from the tracks
into the ditch.
Women and children shriekcd in
their terror, while men fought their
way blindly for some escape from the
coach. Seats were torn up and hurled
in every direction by the force of the
collision, and after the first wild panic
had subsidized there were piteous means
from different quarters of the wreck
telling of painful injuries Willing
hands went to work, and within a
short time the wounded ones had
been taken from the coach and
made as comfortable as circumstances
would permit. The greatest indigna-
ton and anger prevailed among the
witnesses of the collision against En-
gineer Simpson, who had ruthlessly
disregarded the law requiring him to
stop and whose negligence caused the
frightful wreck. Inquiry developed
the fact that Simpson had escaped to
the swamp. A section foreman on his
hand car brought the news of the col
lision to the city, and the northeastern
officials dispatched special train to
convey the injured to the city.