The age-herald., 1902-02-15
Big Rock Fell from High Bluff and CaboOse Crashed
 Against t
FIFTEEN INJURED MEN
 TAKEN ID LITTLE ROCK
When the Boulder Fell Across Track the Work Train Was Backina and Engineer Hadn't Time to
 Stop-Narrow Escapes.

Little Rock. February 14-Seven men were killed and at least fourteen were seriously injured by a huge boulder, weighing fifteen tons. crashing into the caboose of a work train on the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad. twenty miles west of Little Rock at 10 o'clock this morning.
 THE DEAD.
 Samuel Simon.
 B. l.. Jones, white. Bonneville Ark
 John Williams, Nor.-. Little Rock. white.
 Orange Foster, negro.
 Henry McGee, negro, Little Rock.
 Two unknown.
 THE INJURED.
 Bell Penninger, white, foreman of gang, leg. broken and hurt internally.
 William Logan, white Bonneville, hurt internally.
 Andrew McGee. negro. Little Rock, will die.
 Freeman Davis white. Alabama both legs broken.
 John Conner foreman extra gang badly bruised.
 Frank Powell, negro. Little Rock. hurt about hands and legs.
 Nose Garrett. negro. shoulder dislo- cated
 Emlett Burnett. negro. arm hurt.
 John Hollins negro. Little Rock, arm and leg hurt
 Jim Carroll negro. arm broken and head hurt.
 l w. H. Kelly white, Bonneville, Ark
 D. c. Hardin negro, North Little Rock.
 Otto Baylor. badly injured.
 Passing Under High Bluff. | The work train was headed west, the engine pushing six cars and a caboose. As they were passing along the tracks under the high bluffs bordering the river. two miles west of Little Maumelle, the crew saw a heavy rock rolling with awful velocity 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 Nazer re- versed his engine at once. but 1t was close upon the obstacle that the train struck 1t with full force. The caboose was at the head of the train and was shivered into splinters. Most of those Filled ard injured were in the caboosc. There was crew of 54 men, white and colored. and they were going to a point further up the road to clear a slight wreck. There were back of the caboose three cars of sand, and many of the men were buried beneath the heap of sand. which was thrown forward by the ter rife impact. Six men are known to have been killed outright. Three were left on the scene and three brought to Little Rock the train sent to the scene as soon as the news reached the city.
 Injured Taken to Little Rock.
 Fifteen injured were brought to Little Rock and are now at St. Vincent's In- firmary One of the most desperately injured died on the way to the hospital from the depot.
 It is believed that there are others killed or buried under the sand at the scene of the wreck, as there are several missing and as yet unaccnunted for. An other crew of workmen are clearing Che wreck away and searching for bodies.
 The engineer was complimented by all for the comparatively good stop he made under the circumstances, for otherwise the entire train with its living freight must have been hurled down the em- banbment and all of them killed. En- gineer Nazer and Fireman Evans were not injured. Conductor Gamble had close call and escaped death only by the narrowest margin. Two trucks passed over him. but he stopped down and the first did not touch him. The second passed over hs foot, crushing it so badly that 1t may have to be amputated.
 It is impossible at this time to ascertain the names of the dead, the railroad off cials themselves being unaware of their identify