Evening journal., 1898-06-27
CAVALRY INA WRECK
Colonel Torrey's Rough Riders
Caught In a Collision.
FOUR KILLED AND MANY INJURED.
One Of the wounded Cannot Live-FIrss
Section of the Train Run Into by
the second-Soidiers Threaten
to Lynch the Engineer.

TUPELO, Miss, June PA railway
accident occurred at 3:40 yesterday aft
ernoon in which four soldiers lost their
lives and others received fatal injuries.
Everything possible was done to relieve
the wounded by the local physicians and
citizens, who We're soon upon the scene.
This afternoon Colonel Torrey's regi-
ment Of Rough Riders from Cheyenne,
wy, reached this city via the Kansas
city, Memphis and Birmingham rail-
road. The first section had stopped to
take water and had whistled to start on.
when the second section rounded a
sharp curve in the track just before the
town is reached and dashed into it. In
the rear of the first section was the
sleeper Seville" containing Colonel
Torrey and his regirnental stan. This
car was completely demolished, yet,
strange to say, every inmate escaped
unscathed except the colonel, who is in
jured though not seriously.
Thechief fatalities occurred In coach
in the center of the first section, which
carried Troop c from Laramie, Wy, This
coach was completely telescoped and
the soldiers within were jammed and
bruised beneath the masses Of timbers,
broken car seats and other debris In
the second section one baggage car was
thrown into the ditch, but in this train
few were hurt and none dangerously.
Action on the part of the soldiers was
immediate TO save their imperiled COM
rades, and with axes and ropes and
buckets OF water they worked like de-
mons tearing away the wreckage TO get
at the wounded and dead and quench
the fire which had started in the sleeper
Seville" which was a mass Of broken
wreckage, covering a steaming, kissing
engine. The wounded We're removed to a
vacant building in the town.
The sections contained Troops A, G,
e, /, G and M, forming part of a regi-
ment being transported TO Jacksonville.
1t is the Second United States volun-
teer cavalry and was raised by Colonel
Torrey, its commander. in the Rocky
mountain region, including the states of
Wyoming, Colorado Idaho. Nevada and
Utah. Those soldiers killed and NOR
tally injured are from the first named
state. The regiment had the misfor-
tune to meet with a wreck in the yards
at st. Joseph, Mo, Friday in which
two of the train crew were killed, and
at st. Louis Saturday one of the sol
diers was accidentally killed by being
suffocated and falling from the train in
the long tunnel at that place.
The fault OF yesterdays accident
probably lies with the engineer of the
second section, who was running toe
| fast and near the first section. The
name OF the engineer is Rawls. and he
has disappeared. The soldiers have
threatened to lynch him if found
Not horse was injured, though some
Of the stock cars were badly smashed.
The following is a list of the killed
and injured:
Killed-Willie b. Wallace, Troop A;
Sam Johnson. Troop c; Cornelius Leni-
han, Troop G, and -- Gordan, colorec
porter.
Fatally Injured-Henry S. Mapes
Troop c, both legs cut off; internal in
juries.
Injured-R. d. Staley, Troop NJ. elbow
dislocated q. Perkins, Troop L, both
hips jammed; Wallace Hodge, Troop G
ankle broken; George Gardner, Troor
c, hip hurt; Rudolph Widemar, officers
mess cook, back strained Hiram f
Davis, Troop c, ankle sprained; Henry
Steltz, Troop c, leg broken; viii Gro.
venor, Troop G, leg bruised; JOSEPH
Aaron, Troop c, back sprained; w. II
Robbins. Troop A, ankle dislocated; Ar.
thur Evans Troop e, hip dislocated
Joseph Wilkinson, Troop l. slightly in
jured; - Schenek, Troop c, leg badly
bruised.
Colonel Torrey was in the stateroon
of the sleeping car which was separated
from the engine Of the second section
by a short caboose. The force OF th'
impact carried the first section forward
300 yards When the train stopped. Col
onel Torrey found himself outside be
meath the wreckage, and, although hi
feet We're badly bruised, he managed t,
Chamber up the embankment. His othe
Injuries are several bruises about tn,
head.