The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-07
NORTH BOUND WAS LATE
South Bound Started to Meet it at
Another Station.
THEY c0LLIDED GONG AT FULL SPEED
The Engineers Leaped For Their Lives. Both
Locomotives Were Wrecked, and Many
Colored Emigrants 10 Texas We're
Among the Injured.
(By the Associated Press }

Malvern. Ark, Dec 5.--Three persons
killed and thirty-eight injured is the re-
suit of a head-end collision between two
passenger trains on the st. Louis Iron
Mountain and Southern Railroad one
and one half miles south of here this
evening. The two trains were the st.
Louis fast mail southwark, leaving St.
Louis at a. m. and the Little Rock and
Eldorado passenger. northoound, due in
Little Rock at p. m.
The killed:
JERRY DICKSON. colored Saginaw.
Arkansas.
Unknown man, colOred.
Unknown woman colored.
The injured:
FRANK M. HENRY. Malvern, inter-
nal injuries, serious.
JUDGE J. Il. MOORE, Arkadelphia,
Ark, head cut, badly injured in back and
hip.
S. T. ROBERTS. Little Rock, arm
broken, head cut, legs sprained, serious.
CHARLES KAUFMAN, Little Rock.
cut about face. not serious.
w. T. YORK, Oklahoma City, face
cut, injured in back.
A. l.. HERRICK, Little Rock, slight
ly injured.
WILLIAM FRIED, st. Louis, face
and breast cut, not serious.
The following injured are negroes:
I, l.. A. MOORE. Landersville, Ala,
back and hip injured.
ELMER STEVENSON, Landersville,
Ala, both legs crushed.
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MELVIN STEVENSON, back strained
MAGGIE STEVENSON, right leg
broken, internal injuries, probably fatal.
THAD STEVENSON, hip dislocated.
JULIA STEVENSON, badly bruised. :.
JASPER WARREN, legs crushed.
JOHN DENSMORE. left leg broken,
injured in back. probably fatal
Two DENSMORE children, not Sc
rious. all of Landersville. Ala.
CHARLES SHEPARD, Shreveport,
La, legs badly crushed.
WILL WALTERS, Mansfield, , La,
foot and arm crushed.
JOHN McNEAL. Fort Smith, Ark,
shoulder dislocated.
NEAL McAULEY, Arkadelphia, Ark,
scalp wound.
HENRY SMITH. Mt. Homer, S. c., hip
dislocated.
JENNIE WARE, Mount Homer, s. c.,
leg broken, internally injured. Prob
ably fatal.
GEORGE YOUNG. LAGRANGE, Ca, leg
and arm broken.
WALLACE PARTE, Fort Smith, Ark.
legs cut.
JAMES INGRAM, Fort Smith, Ark.
face and head cut.
DICK HUTCHINSON, Saginaw, Ark,
leg broken.
JOHN HALL, Little Rock, Ark, legs
and arms injured
HARVEY KNOX, Arkadelphia, Ark,
foot mashed and leg lacerated.
SAMUEL BARNES, train porter, hurt
in hip and knees.
EDWARD WILLIAMS, Memphis, Tenn,
leg and face cut.
HENRY WEATHERFORD, Danville,
Ark, hip dislocated and leg crushed.
Four colored children injured, names
not given.
The southbound train was to meet the
other at Malvern, but the latter train
was late and the former moved ahead
expecting to meet the other train at the
next station. A mile and a half south
of Malvern the two trains met in a ter
rife collision.
Engineer Robert Herriot of the north
bound, jumped in time to save his life.
while Engineer MacCampbell of the
Little Rock train, did likewise. The two
engines were wrecked and the cOlored
coach next to the baggage car on the
,southbound train was badly smashed
1t was crowded with colored emigrants
en- route from North Carolina, Georgia
and Alabama to Texas.
The smoking car of the northbound
train was badly damaged and most of it's
occupants were injured, but the rear
coaches on this train did not suffer. The
dead and injured were brought here as
soon as possible and physicians are at
tending the injured.