Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-05-25
DEATH IN A WRECK.
Regular Passenger Collides with a
Missouri Troop Train Near
Chattanooga.

Chattanooga, Tenn, May 21.-One man
is 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:
GEORGE WALKER, artifcer. Co. D,
dead.
ALFRED N; LANE, private, both legs
HARVARD BARLASKI, private. leg brok-
en-, internal injuries, will die.
r. Z. Richards, first lieutenant, Co. II,
was badly cut about the arms and Shout
ders, and many others badly, but not IA
tally injured.
In addition to the list of injured given
above the following were badly
wounded:
r. H. Feidell. private, badly hurt about
the body.
Private Ed Lavingsburg, three ribs brok-
en-.
William Moffatt, Chattanooga Times re-
porter, badly injured about the body.
The names of a 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,
just beyond the crossing of the belt line,
about a half mile from Rossville. 1t was
crashed into by the regular sOuthbound
morning Chattanooga, Rome & Southern
passenger train. 1t is said that there was
no fagman on the military train.
The shock was very severe. The loco
motive of the regular train was jammed
into the head car containing horses, and
this car completely wrecked the baggage
car, which was the next one forwa I'd.
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 great speed. The engineer, w.
T.. Wheeler, stuck to his post and escaped
with only a MANNED ankle. He and his
fremen were at once arrested and placed
under a squad of soldiers They are
gravely censured by the soldiers for run
ming so rapidly with special ahead of
them. All the horses of the officers, Yalu
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 have 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 sieepers 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 a 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
a st. Louis regiment. 1t is composed of
the flower of st. Louis young men, who
to the number of 1850 responded to the
call of President Mckinley for volun-
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.