Evening star., 1898-05-21
One Killed, Two Fatally and Several
Seriously Wounded.
ACCIDENT Was NEAR CHATTANOOGA
Regiment of Prominent Young
Men of St. Louis.
WAR DEPARTMENT ADVISED

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn. May 21.-One
man is dead and two fatally injured az the
result of a wreck this morning on the Chat
tanooga Rome and Southern railroad be-
tween Chattanooga and the volunteer camp
at Chickamauga. The dead and injured all
belonged to the 1st Regiment Missouri Vol
unteer Infantry.
The list of fatalities is:
George Walker. artifcer, Company D,
dead.
Alfred NJ Lane, private, both legs broken:
will die.
Harvard Barlaski. private leg broken; in
ternal injuries; will die.
E. r. Richards, first lieutenant, Company
H. was badly cut about the arms and shoul-
ders and many others were badly but not
fatally injured.
In addition to the list of injured given
above. the following were badly wounded: :
r. II. FeidelI. private; badly hurt about
the body.
Private Ed Lavinssburg: three ribs
broken.
Newspaper Man Hurt.
William Moffatt. Chattanooga Times re-
porter: badly injured about the body. The
names of a number of other wounded can
not yet be secured. Jack McCade, a sec
ton hand was killed by passing mill
casualty to the 1st Missouri train.
The train on which the most damage was
done was carrying the 1st Missouri from
Chattanooga to the park The last car of
this train was loaded with horses of the
officers.
Ths military train was standing On the
Chattanooga, Rome and Southern track
Just beyond the crossing of the Belt line
about half mile from Rossville. 1t was
crashed into by the regular south-bound
Chattanooga, Rome and Southern passen-
ger train. 1t is said that there was no
fagman on the military train.
Ths shock was very severe. The locomo-
tive of the regular train was jammed into
the horse car and completely wrecked the
baggage car. which was the next one for
ward. The man who was killed and those
badly injured were all on the horse car.
Everything was done to stop the passenger
train when the other was seen. but 1t was
going at 100 great speed. The engineer, w.
C. Whesler, stuck to his post to the last
and escaped with only MANNED ankle.
He and his fireman were at once arrest
ed and placed under a squad of soldiers.
They are gravely censured by the soldiers
for running rapidly with special ahead
of them All the horses of the officers,
valuable animals, were killed. The for
ward coaches of the military train were
badly shaken up. but no injury was d1re
any one in them The damage wouIl 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 regular
order the sleepers would have been in The
rear, and TIE officers who occupied them
would have been killed instead of the
horses. The wounded. about twelve in ali.
were at once taken in charge by Surgeon
Wills of the 1st Battalion of the regiment
Col. Edwin Baldorf, the commander of
the regiment, is doing everything possible
for the sufferers
Lieut. Col John Jacob As.or OF New
York and a numhersof other officers were
on the regular train. but were not injured
Flower of St. Louis Young Men.
ST LOUIS. May 21.-The 1st Missouri
volunteer Infantry. whose train was
wrecked near Chattanooga today, is a st.
Louis regiment. 1t Is composed of the
flower of ST Louis young men, who. to the
number of 1.050. responded to the call of
President Mckinley for volunteers Thurs
day evening the regiment under the COM
mand of Col Edwin Baldorf left jefferson
barracks. near this city. over the Illinois
Central railroad, in three sections for
Chickamausa.
upon receiving news of the disaster re-
suiting In the death and injury of a num-
Der of the Missouri soldiers near ChaI.a-
nooga today. Secretary Alger sent the. fol-
lowing telegram to Maj. Gen. Brooke.
commanding. at Chickamauga:
WASHINGTON. ID. c., May q.
Associated Press reports disaster to the
lst Missouri Volunteers this morning near
Your camp. reporting death of five men
ana 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 this disaster"
The He'll on the New York.