The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-07-18
FREIGHT WRECK,
One MAN DEAD.
n ead-End Collision on the L. & N.
Railroad.
Trains Going Thirty Miles an Hour
Crash Together Near Bowling
Green, Ky, and Brakeman
Flippin Is Killed.

Bowling Green. KY, July ID
There was a disastrous and fatal
wreck on the Louisville q Nashville.
one mile north of this city, last night
at IL AS o clock between the third Sec
ton of freight train No. Is, north
bound, and the first section of No. ID.
southbound.
KILLED.
Thos. Flippln, head brakeman on
No. 13. of Louisville, head severed
from body, leg broken and scalded.
INJURED.
Mike Crosby, engineer of No ID,
dition serious.
f. Hayden, fireman of No. ID, ankle
broken and otherwise bruised.
VIM. Follise, engineer No. IL, face
and chin cut, not serious.
Burch Fink, brakeman of No ID,
right shoulder and left side hurt.
Will recover.
Ben L. Newton, fireman of No. 1S,
bruised but not dangerously hurt Tom
Locke of Glasgow, vino was stealing
ride, ankle sprained.
Conductor Campbell and Engineer
Follise had charge of No. IL and Coz
ductor Peter Soners and Engineer
Mike Crosby, of No. 3.
1t was head-en collision with
both trains going at a rate OF about
thirty miles an hour. The southbound
train rounded a curve coming down
grade and the trains were upon each
other before either knew of the other s
presence.
There was not time for all the train
men to jump and the big engines, two
of the largest Oh the system, crashed
together with frightful effect. Both
engines were demolished while TWEEN
ty-two cars were wrecked. Some of
them being demolished beyond repair,
while the scene of the collision was
strewn for yards around with lime,
-four cement. etc., with which the
cars were loaded.
Another train came along few
minutes after the wreck ana It's crew
went to the assistance of those who
were hurt. The injured were given
immediate attention and removed to
the Webb Hotel, where they were Civ
On medical attention. 1t was thought
that Engineer CROSBY, who is large
man. weighing 2S5 pounds, and who
was fearfully hurt, would die In a
short while and it was reported that
he mad died, but this turned out to be a
mistake and his physicians now think
he has chance for recovery
Brakeman Thos Flippin had to be
dug out from under the wreckage and
1t was 8 O. clock this morning when his
body was recovered. His head was
entirely severed from the body, one leg
was broken and he was otherwise very
much bruised and badly scalded. The
remains were shipped to his home in
Louisville this afternoon. He was
about 30 years of age and had wife
and two children.
The officials of the company here say
that the collision was caused by the
operator at Smiths Grove inserting the
wrong time in the order. The south
bound train was to wait at Numa, the
first station olt of the city, north, un-
til II go, but the operator got it II 100,
and at the latter time the train pull
ed out south and in few minutes the
collision occurred. The passengers
from the - o'clock south bound train
were transferred in wagons this after
noon from the scene of the wreck to
this city.
1t is said the loss to the Louisville &
Nashville Will be in the neighDorhood
of hundred thousand dollars. All of
the trainmen who were hurt live in
Louisville.