The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
DEATH IN A WIRE OK
Regular Passenger collides with q
Missouri Troop Train Near
Chattanoo1a, &s

Chattanooga, Tenn, May 21.-One man
10 dead and two are fatally injured as the
result Of a wreck this morning on the
Chattanooga, Rome & Southern railway
between Chattanooga and the volunteer
camp at, Chickamauga. The dead and
injured all belong to the .First regiment,
Missouri volunteer infantry. The list of
victims is: ~ -1 -. i
GEORGE WALKER. artiacer. Co. D,
,: AiLERER !l,, n u; LANE, private, both legs
HARVARD ri GRaARLAsK1, private, leg brok.
en-, internal injuries, will die.
r. Il. Richards, first lieutenant, Co. H,
was badly cut about the arms and shout
GERS, anu many others badly, but not ia
In addition to the list of injured given
above the following were badly
wounded: ..s
r. H; Feidell. private, badly hurt about
Private Ed Lavingsburg, three ribs brok.
William Monatt, Chattanooga Times re-
porter, badly injured about the body.
The names Of number of other
wounded cannot be secured
The train on which the most damage
was done was carrying the First Missouri
from Chattanooga to the park. The last
car of the train was loaded with horses
of the officers.
Military Train was Loading.
The military train was loading on the
Chattanooga, Rome & Southern track.
about half mile from Rossvile 1t was
crashed into by the regular southbound
morning Chattanooga, Rome Il Southern
passenger train. 1t is said that there was
no f1agman on the military train.
The shock was very severe. The loco
motive of the regular train was damned
into the head car containing horses, and
this car completely wrecked the baggage
car. which was the next one forward
The man who was killed, and those badly
injured were all on the horse car. Every
thing was done to stop the passenger train
when the other was seen, but it was go
ing at u great speed. The engineer, w.
q. Wheeler. stuck to his post and escaped
with only MANNED ankle. He and his
tiremen were at once arrested and placed
under. squad of soldiers. They are
ming so rapidly, with special ahead of
them. All the horses of the officers, valu-
able animals, were killed.
The forward coaches of the military
train were badly shaken, but no injury
was done anyone in them. The damage
would nave been much greater had the
train not been made up in exactly the re-
verse of the usual order. If it had gone
out in regular order the sleepers would
have been in the rear and the officers who
occupied them would have been killed in
stead of the horses.
The wounded, about twelve in all, were
at once taken in charge by Surgeon Wills
of the First battalion of the regiment
Col. Edwin Baldorf, the commander of
the regiment is doing everything possible
for the sufferers. Lieut.-Col. John Jacob
Astor of New York. as we'll as number
of other officers. were on the regular
train, but were not injured.
Jacob McCabe, a section hand, was
killed by passing military train just a
few minutes before the casualty to the
First Missouri train.
The Flower of St. Louis Military.
St. Louis, Mo-, May 21.-!The First
Missouri Volunteer infantry, whose train
was wrecked near Chattanooga today, is
St. Louis regiment. 1t is composed of
the flower of St. Louis young men, who
to the number of. 1860 responded to the
call of President Mckinley for vOlrln-
teers. Thursday evening the regiment.
under the command of Col. Edwin Bal
dorf, left Jefferson barracks, near this
city, over the Illinois Central railroad in
three sections for Chickamauga.