The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-15
Fourteen Seriously Injured, Some
Manned, Others Bruised, and
Few Possibly Fatally Hurt.
COLLISION ON STEEP GRADE
CONDUCTOR AND TWO BRAKEMEN
LITERALLY TORN TO PIECES.
Six Other Railway Employees Injured,
Four of Whom May Die-Accident
Near the Horseshoe Curve.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Feb. IA. - Seven
men were killed and at least fourteen
seriously injured by huge bowlder, weigh
ing fifteen tons, crashing into the caboose
of a work train on the Choctaw, Oklahoma
& Gulf Railroad twenty miles west of Lit
tie Rock at 10 o'clock this morning. The
dead are:
SAMUEL SIMON, white, Bonneville, Ark.
B. l.. JONES. white. Bonneville, Ark.
ORANGE FOSTER, colored, 3O5 Byrd
street, Little Rock.
JOHN WILLIAMS. colored, O4S East
Washington avenue, North Little Rock
HENRY MGEE. colored. 421 West Eighth
street, Little Rock
TWO UNKNOWN.
The injured are: Bell Penninger. white
foreman of gang, leg broken and internally
injured, serious; William Logan, white
Bonneville hurt internally, injuries serious;
Andrew McGee, colored, Little Rock, in
jured internally. will die; Freeman Davis
white. Alabama, both legs broken; John
badly bruised; Frank Powell. coIored, Lit
tie Rock, hurt about face, hands and legs;
Nose Garrett colored, Little Rock shoul-
der dislocated; Emmett Burnett, colored
Dumas, Ark, arm hurt; John Hollins, col
ored, Little Rock Ark, arm and leg hurt;
Jim Carroll, colored. Little Rock. arm
l. II. W,
white. Bonneville, Ark, injured about face
and legs: d. c. Hardin. colored. North
Little Rock. head and hand hurt; Otto
Raylor, white. Missouri, badly injured
about body.
The work train was headed west, the
engine pushing six cars and a caboose. 1t
was in charge of Conductor ]. r. Gamble,
Engineer MAJOR and Fireman w. H. Evans
AS the train was passing under the high
49, rtx,
of Little Maumelle the crew saw a heavy
rock rolling down the steep declivity. hav-
ing been detached from the hillside by the
rains. The train was going slowly. but was
almost upon the rock when it struck the
track. Engineer MAJOR reversed his engine
at once. but the train struck it with al
most full force. The caboose was at the
head of the train and was shivered into
splnters Most of the men who were killed
and injured were in the caboose. There
was a crew of fifty-four men, white and
colored. Just back of the caboose were
three cars of sand. and many of the men
were buried underneath the sand which
was thrown forward by the terrific impact
Six men are known to have been killed
outright. Three were left on the scene and
three were brought to Little Rock on the
train that was dispatched to the scene as
soon as the news could be sent to the city
Fifteen injured were brought to Little
Rock and are now in st. Vincent's In
firmary. One of the most desperately in
jured died on the way to the hospital from
the depot
1t is believed there are others killed or
buried under the sand at the scene of the
wreck. as there are several missing and
as vet unaccounted for. 4 crew of work
men are clearing the wreck and looking
Sor the bodies. If the engineer had not
stopped the train when he did the entire
train must have been hurled down the en-
bankment and all on board killed. Con-
ductor Gamble had a close call. Two trucks
passed over him, but he stopped down and
the first did not touch him. The second
passed over his foot. crushing il so badly
that IL may have 10 be amputated.