The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-05-22
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bitches q Train Carrying the First
Missouri Volunteers to Camp at
Chickamauga
Associated Press Special wire


CHICKAMAUGA NATIONAL PARK.
May el.-A passenger train on the Chatta-
aooga, Rome ard Southern railroad which
left Chattanooga at $50 o. clock this morn
Ing ran into the third section OF the mill
tary train carrying the First Missouri vol-
unteers, who arrived In Chattanooga last
night, near Rossville, Ca. Killing Private
George NJ. Walker of Company D. and
painfully injuring A. Maynard Lane Of
Company D; Howard Brolaski Of Company
y, and slightly injuring several other &C.
cupants Of both trains. 1t appears that
the passenger train had orders 20 run
through to Rossville, and the second Sec
tion Of the military train, with portion of
the First Missouri, which was expected to
run through to Rossville, was delayed at
switch a mile from Rossvilie on account
Of tho congested condition Of the tracks,
Just beyond the wooded curve. The con-
0uctor OF the military train sent buck a
dngman to warn the passenger train, but
the fiagman did not 10 far enough, and the
passenger train came around the curve at
the rate Of about twenty miles an hour.
The engineer did not see the danger signal
until within a short distance of the mill.
tary train. He reversed his engine, and
put on brakes, but did not have time to
stop his train, which crashed into the rear
Of the military train. The rear was q pal
ace horse car, in which Walker was rid
ing. and was completely demolished. Three
Of the horses were also killed.
Next was a baggage car, in which Bro
laski and Lane were stationed. This car
was badly torn UP. but none of the occu-
pants was seriously hurt. The wreck was
cleared by l o'clock and trains were re-
sumed.
Following are the killed and injured:
GEORGE NJ. WALKER. Company d.
killed.
Howard Brolaski. Company D, left hip
injured.
Ed Taransbury. Company A, multiple
Commissions, not serious
A. M. Lane, Company NJ, left hip dis
located, not serious.
( r. d. Leida. Company H. back sprained
and leg bruised, not serious.
DR.. G. A. Baxter, surgeon of the South
ern railway, was put In charge of the
wounded, and had them taken to st. Vim
cents infirmary of the Catholic Sisters of
Charity. where all were placed in pleasant
surroundings
OF the passenger train were arrested by
Lieutenant Colonel Covends and taken I'M
der guard to the park. They were after
ward turned over to the civil authorities
A trial will be held and judicial investiga-
ton ordered.
General Boynton. John Jacob Astor and
. number of other officers were on the
train, but none Of them was hurt.
81 Alger's Orders
WASHINGTON, May 21.-Upon receiving
the news of the disaster resulting in the
death of and injury to a number Of the
Missouri volunteers near Chattanooga to-
/ day. Secretary Alger sent the following
telegram to Major-General Brooke, COM
manding at Chattanooga.
Washington, May 2.-The Associated
Press reports disaster to the First Mis-
souri, Volunteers this morning near your
camp. reporting the death of five men AMI
the injury of several others. The Secre-
tary of War directs that every care be
taken of the wounded and that the dead
be buried with all the honors of war, and
immediate steps taken to prosecute the
railroad responsible for the disaster.
No advice concerning the accident have
yet reached the department.
The Pride of st. Louis
ST. LOUIS, Mo-. May H.-The First Mis-
souri, Volunteer Infantry. whose train was
wrecked near Chattanooga today, is COM
posed Of the flower of st. Louis young men,
who, to the number of 1850, responded 20
the call of President Mckinley. Thursday
evening the regiment, under command of
Colonel Edwin B. Aldorf, left Jefferson
Barracks. near this city, over the Illinois
Central Railroad in three sections for
Chickamauga.