The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-04
FAST TRAIN
 IN A WRECK
  Collision on the Cincinnati
 SoutheYS
 -s TWO nF;ARE KILLED
4. One son Fatally Injured and others Seriously Hurt.
Freight Car Standing Across Track Struck by Passenger-Five Coaches Burned-List of
 Dead and Wounded.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Dec. 3.-In a col lision on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad at Sunbright this morning about g o'clock, the fast passenger train from Cincinnati to Chattanooga was derailed and five coaches burned. Two men we're killed, a negro tramp fatally injured and eight men seriously injured.
 The dead: Frank Elliot, fireman of Chattanooga; Richard Helm, express mes senger, Covington, Ky.
 Fatally injured-Unknown negro tramp.
 Seriously injured-John T. Easson, chief mai, clerk. Danville, Ky. compound fracture of leg and large gashes in head, M. c. Caddell, mail clerk somerset, Ky, leg and arm broken and face badly cut. w. w. Smith, mail clerk, Hartman, back dislocated and hGs 1 and shoulders cut and bruised; J. W. Fowler, engineer, Chattanooga, internally injured in abdo- men and bruised; Frank Connors, en- gineer, Somerset. Ky. left side and leg badly scalded and cut on head. Owen Card, fireman. Somerset, Ky, left arm dislocated and head cut and bruised; J. V. Taylor. baggage master, Chattanooga, right shoulder dislocated.
 No passengers were injured.
 A long freight train in charge of en- gineer John Thomas and Conductor E. J. Ship was on the main line at Sunbright about four minutes before the passenger train was due to pass that point and in order to clear the track the engineer of the freight train ran into a siding just a few hundred feet from Sunbright.
 Owing to the fact that the train was very nearly due the freight engineer ran with more than the ordinary speed and while running at the rate of eight miles per hour the train struck a string of cras that had been left on the siding.
 Fearing that some of their own cars might have become detached Engineer Thomas and Conductor Shipp went the entire length of their train and found tha tit was all right. hut neglected to sec what effect thar' collosion had had on the cars which had been standing on the siding. This neglect was the cause of the disaster. car heavily laden with machinery was detached from these cars and ran down the siding until 1t reached the main track and stopped with about half its entire length across the track.
 The passenger train was drawn by two locomotives and crashed into the freight car while running at great speed.
 The locomotives were demolished and the seven coaches were derailed. Almost Instantly the mail and express cars caught fire from the locomotives and those two cars with the baggage car and two day coaches were completely destroy ed,
 The two Pullman cars were not dam aged.
 Frank Elliott of Chattanooga, who was fireman on the second engine was pinned in the mass of wreckage and Richard Helm, the express messenger was badly injured and both were burned to death. The engineers of both engines and five other members of the train crew were badly injured and an unknown negro tramp was fatally hurt.
 Relief trains from Chattanooga and Somerset hurried to the scene with phy- sicians and the injured were promptly cared for. As soon as possible the ln- jured were taken to their homes. The track was cleared and traffic resumed in a few hours,