The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-10-06
TWO MEN KILLED OUTRIGHT AND
SEVERAL INJURED.
TWO Engines Crash Together With
Fatal Results-The List OF the
Dead and Wounded-How
II Happened.

20 report It has been only week ago
that a similar wreck occurred a mile
or two north OF Red river There one
man was killed and several injured.
The wreck this morning resulted in
the death Of two men and the serious
injury Of six others.
The wreck occurred abou: four
miles north Of this city and was be-
tween a northbound extra, consisting
0f an engine ana caboose. in charge of
Tom Vaughn Q-ong TOM and a south
bound freight in charge OF Conductor
George Deitz.
! Deiz'a train was long one, loaded
with cotton. wheat. etc, with very
heavy engine. and from what your re-
porter could learn received orders at
Purcell 10 meet three freight trains
at Ardmore.
When the sDuthbound train got to
Dougherty Deltz received orders TO
meet the three freight trains at Ber-
wyn instead Of Ardmore
Arriving at Berwyn he noticed two
Of the freight trains standing on the
side track, and some one seeing an
other engine further down took 1t for
granted that II was at the head of the
third and last train, and Deitz pulled
out for Ardmore.
II happened that the engine Deitz
took for the third train, was a dead
engine, and the third train that he was
ordered to meet had not arrived at all.
The two trains met on a curve, and
both must have been going at a pretty
lively gait Both engines creened to
the west side of the track and settled
on their sides completely demolished.
Engineer John Conway Of the north
, bound train must have remained at
his post, as he was pinioned between
, the engine and tender of his train. His
hands and arms could be be seen stick
ing up as If he had thrown them up
when the crash came. His body was
extricated from where he was caught
at $3.50 o'clock this morning, as his
own watch indicated, which had nev.
- er stopped running. His face was ter
ribly mangled and burned.
Jesse Lotus, the fireman of the
It northbound train, must have jumped at
II the time of the collision, but he was
o caught under a lot Of cotton bales and
tlmbers and mashed to death. His
body was found about $3.50 o'clock by
the rescuing party
u The injured men were brought tC
rs the city early and, from the best in
T. formation we could get, were as fol
lows:
Tom Vaughn, conductor of the north
boundtrain, had his foot badly cut, al
- ugly cash over the left eye. and haC
- his nose and face badly skinned. Ton
Is said TO be pretty badly hurt.
John Virgins, brakeman on thu
. southbound train, was scalded OF
his right thigh and leg and bruised
on his right hip.
T. r. r Harvey was on, his way t
c Pauls Valley to work on the new road
III lfeuglyoyenirellynd sfbf ocmi
and was hurt in the back and internal
ly.
' J. NJ Moss fireman of the south
bound train, jumped and struck tn
80 ground with such force as TO knock tn
most Of his teeth out and bruised hi
face up considerably.
~ Ed Williams was brakeman on tn
~ northbound train and had several rib
broken.
Will Clemons. who was on the nortt
- bound train, was pretty badly hur
~ about the head
n Engineer Ruggles OF the southhoun
train jumped and saved his life.
John Conway lived in GainesyiIl
n and had a wife and two children.
Jesse Lotus lived in Gainesville an
was a single man.
n John Virgins is single and lives
n Gainesville.
Tom Vaughn, Harvey and William
are also single and live in Goinesvvill
j. NJ. Moss and VIII Clemons, ma
ried. also live in Gainesville.
. The two dead men were brought
Ardmore at 1890 o'clock and late
taken to Gainesville, where they bot
lived.
From what the section foreman tol
III us It will be some time tonight befoI
y a shoohy track can be installed aroun
n the wreck. Two empty cars wei
ay thrown from the track nearly at tt
v, rear end OF the southbound train, an
e. coal car thrown right across II
of track. and that. too. right in q Gu