The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-05-26
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First Missouri Volunteers Train
Rear-Ended On the ChattanOO-
ga, Rome& Southern Road.
En- ROUTE FROM CHATTANOOGA TOGlHP.

George Walker, Artiacer Of Co, u, Killed
Alfred Lane aud Howard Brolaskt.
PrIyates, Fatally InIarsd-Lioat. RlCb-
ards, Co H., Badly Cat and Several 9th
ers InIured-0mesrst Horses An Killed.
CHATTANOOGA Tenn. May sI-One
man is dead and two fatally injured
as the result Of a wreck on the Chatta-
uooga, Rome & Southern railroad, be-
tween Chattanooga and the volunteer
camp at Chickamauga, The dead and
injured all belonged to the First regi-
ment Missouri volunteer infantry The
list Of casualties are:
Dead,
George Walker, artifcer, Go. D.
Fatally Injured
Alfred NJ. Lane, private: both legs
broken,
Howard Brolaski, private; leg broken
and internal injuries,
Others Injured.
Z. r. Richards, first lieutenant Co.
II; badly cut about arms and Shout
ders.
R. II. Feidell, priyate3 badly cut
about body.
Ed L~aginsburg, private three ribs
broken.
VIM Moffatt, Chattanooga Times re-
porter; badly injured about the body
The m of a number of other
wounded can not yet be secured.
Jack MeCabe, a section hand, was
killed by a passing military train just
a few minutes before the casualty to
the FIRST Missouri train.
There were many others badly, but
not fatally injured.
The train on which the damage was
done, was carrying the Missouriaus
from Chattanooga to the park, The
last car of this train was loaded with
horses of the officers.
The military train was standing on
the Chattanooga, Rome & southern
track, Just beyond the crossing Of the
belt line, about a half mile from Ross,
vile. It was crashed into By the reg
ular south bound morning chattanooga,
Rome s. Southern passenger train. 1t
is said that there was no hagman on
the military train,
The shock was very severe. The l0-
comotive Of the regular train was
iammed into the horse car, which was
the next one forward, The mar who
was killed and those badly injured
were all on the horse ear. Everything
was done to stop the passenger train
when the other was seen, but it was
going at great speed.
The engineer, w, c. Wheeler, stuck
to his post to the last and escaped with
only a MANNED ankle. He and his fire
man were at once arrested and placed
under a squad Of soldiers. They are
gravely censured by the soldiers for
running so rapidly with a special ahead
o them. All the horses of the officers,
valuable animals, were killed The
forward coaches of the military train
were badly shaken, but no injury was
done anyone in them. The damage
would have been much greater had
the train not been made up in
exactly the reverse Of the usual
order. If it had gone out in reg
ular order the sIeepers would have been
in the rear and the officers who occu-
pied them would have been killed in.
stead of horses. The wounded, about
| twelve in all, were taken at once IN
charge by Surgeon Wills Of the FIRST
battalion Of the regiment Col. Edwin
Batdorf, commanding the regiment,
was doing everything possible for the
sufferers.
Lieut.. Col. John Jacob hstor, Of New
York, as wen as a number Of officers,
were on the regular train, but We're
not injured.