The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-10-12
TRAIN WRECKED.
Three Men Fatally Injured and Thir-
teen More or less injured.
The rrain Takes Fire and Is burned With
the Exception Of One Cara Holt on
the Track Caused the Wreck
Financial Loss l. sGO,OOO,


BRlsror, Tenn, Oct. s-The west
bound Washington 4 Chattanooga YES
tibule limited. over the Southern Rail-
way, was dashed to destruction at
vance's station, four and half miles
west OF this city at 1915 Sunday after
noon. The injured nre:
Engineer Samuel Smith, Knoxville,
legs broken, sides, hips and shoulders
mashed, fatally.
Fireman Vim. Holmes, Bristol. seald-
ed over the body seriously.
German, name unknown, enroute
70 San Francisco, head and body badly
mashed.
All threeof them win die.
The train men injured seriously hut
II Is thought not fatally, are;
Henry Simpson, Jonesboro, baggage
master arm and body injured.
II. Rogers, express messenger.
A. J. Tucker. Newport postal clerk.
C. H. Markwood, Jonesboro, postal
clerk.
Union News agent, name unknown.
- Harmon, train porter.
The passengers more or less injured
arc. Mike Coleman. Tom Mcdonald,
Thomas Dnnsficld, X. J. McKcagh, Sol.
Gantz. II. l., McNeer, J r. strarher
The train consisted Of ycstibulc cars,
as follows: oac mail, one baggage, one
smoker and second-class coach, one
frst-ciass coach, one Pullman dining
ear, one Pullman sleeper en- route from
/ New York 10 Memphis, one Pullman
sleeper en- route from New York TO
New Orleans
/ The train left Bristol on time at p,
m II was drawn by compound passen-
gcr engine No. 254, the finest on the
line. with samuel Smith, a veteran
engineer, at the throttle, and Capt n.
/ j. Bell, the oldest conductor ON the
road, in charge AT the place men
toned the engine struck large bolt
placed on the track by some unknown
person, and was thrown headlong on
rs side. Every car, with the exception
Of the rear sleeper, left the track and
piled in shapeless mass on top Of the
engine Minculously 70 say, only the
train crew and eight passengers were
seriously injured. The other passcn
gers were only bruised slightly and
badly shnlien ~.
Hardly bad the passengers regained
their senses and escaped from the train
before fire from the engine and dining
car set Gre % the ruins, ana In les
time thnu It takes to tell II, the blazC
. from the wreck was shooting heaven
ward. There was no means to CHECK
! the mad progress of the hre and th'
/ entire train, with the exception Of th'
New Orleans sleeper, was reduced 4
ashes, together with the cantcuts 0
the cars, consisting of mail baggage
and express The only marks left q
! tell the tale were the eharred- an.
/. blnckened pieces Of wood and the irol
wheels and steel fixtures about tn
\ ears and engine.
A Immediately after the receipt Of Oh
information az headquarters here
h special train was made mp, which cor
> yeyod General Manager lihdson. sur
intendent llurcr. General Roadmaste
a Lum, Assistant General Passenge
Agent Bcnsroicr and Chief Surgco
Drake to the scene of the aceidcnt Al
riving there the chief surgeon gather
4 ed a score Of assistants about him, an
after attending 10 the wants OF the il
4 jured and bleeding, removed them I
1 Bristol. The loss on the train wi
rcach 500. .O0O