The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-09-02
30 DEAD AND
Y INJURED
29 of the Latter Fatally
Hurt.
EXCURSION TRAIN WRECK
Cars Plunged Down a 60-F00t
Embankment.
Passenger Coaches Crushed Like
Eggshells, Killing and Main
ing the occupants-Two
White Men Among Dead.

Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 1.-While
rounding curve on a high embank-
ment near Berry, Ala, at $3.50 o'clock
this morning the engine and four cars of
an excursion train on the Southern Rail-
way leaped from the track and rolled over
and over smashing the coaches into kind
ling wood and causing the instant death
of thirty persons and the injury of
seventy-two others. Physicians say that at
least twenty-nine of the injured cannot
live
With the exception of H. NJ. Dudley,
train master of the Southern Railway liv
ing at Birmingham, ]. w. Creek, en-
gineer and Roscoe Shelby of Column
bus. Miss, all ,of the dead and
fatally injured are negroes who had taken
advantage Of excursion rates from points
in Mississippi to Birmingham.
The dead, whites-H. M. Dudley. train
master Southern Railway, Birmingham.
j. w. Creek, engineer; Roscoe Shelby.
Columbus, Miss.
Negroes-Jim Smith. Isola; Lille Mar
tin. child, Columbus, Miss; Charley Crap.
Columbus. Miss; Ezel Paterson, West
Point; Ed Clark. Columbus, Miss. Mute
Green, Columbus, Miss; Willie Thomp-
bodies have not been identified.
Fatally injured, all negroes-Emmett
Leroy, Columbus; John McRevey, fire.
man. Cleburn. Miss: johnson, Columbus,
Miss; johnson, Columbus, Miss; Sim
Ingiton, Columbus. Miss; william Tay-
lor, Columbus, Miss; Ben Long, Column
bus. Miss; Joe Alexander. Tuscaloosa,
Ala; George Barnett. Greenville, Miss. !;
p. w. Julian, Fayette. Miss; Alfred
Matthews, Columbus, Miss; Robert Phil
lips, Columbus. Miss; Lee Wilson.
waverly, Miss; Edmond Young, Column
bus, Miss; JimN Black. West Point, MISS. !;
George ONeil. Greenwood. Miss; Mollie
King, Mooney, Miss; Lula Shaw, Green
wood, Miss; Estella Brown, Greenwood.
Miss; Lee Williams, West Point, Miss;
Lena Mcneil, Columbus, Miss; Salbury
Mason, Pheba, Miss; John Ross, Column
bus, Miss; Walter Mason, Hudson, Miss. :;
Alfred Richardson, hudson. Miss; Willie
Brown, West Point, Miss; Allen Snow,
Euporia, Miss; I. c. Chandler. Column
bus, Miss; Kid Clark. Columbus,
Miss; Tony Bush, Columbus. MISS;
Injured-William Franklin, Columbus,
Miss: Sid Nevil, Columbus. Miss; Hanna
Paine, Columbus, Miss; Clara Green, Co
lrmbus, Miss; Henry Berry. Columbus
Miss; George Lindsey, Columbus. Miss;
George Cunningham, Columbus Miss;
Louisa Hendricks. Columbus. Miss; Will
liam Hood, Columbus, Miss; Jim Miller,
Columbus, Miss; Tony Hooper, Column
bus. Miss; Luther Hudson, Columbus,
Miss. Henry Wells, Waverly, Miss; Anna
Martin, Columbia, Miss; Walter Ward,
Indianola. Miss; VIII Brown. Winona,
Miss; Tom Dickson. Columbus, MISS;
Willie williams. Columbus. Miss; Riley
May Harmon, Columbus. Miss; George
Greer, Columbus, Miss; Laura Carpen-
ter, Columbus, Miss; Willie Kinon, CO.
lumbus, Miss; Juanetta Clay, Columbus,
Miss; Mrs. Mollie Wilson, Columbus.
Miss; Sue Whitfield. ColumhHs, Miss
Chaster Elliott, Columbus Miss; Sam
Barry, Columbus, Miss; William Beard,
Columbus, Miss; A. H. Wilson. Column
bus, Miss; Jim Jackson Columbus, Miss.
Frank Fans, Greenwood, Miss; Ben Har-
ris, Carrollton Miss; Emily Pue, Carroll
ton, Miss; Kessie Ellis. Columbus, Miss;
Early Gregory, Columbus. Miss; A. w.
Fisher; Columbus. Miss; william Cum
ningham, Columbus. Miss; Wedmond
Bell Columbus, Miss; Harrison Harris,
Columbus, Miss: George Brown. Winona,
Miss; Gus Richardson. Columbus. Miss;
Sam Fleming. Fayette Miss; Winnie Cor
don, Columbus, Miss; Lille Morgan. Co
lumbus Miss; William Morgan. Column
bus, Miss; one unknown woman; w. ].
Crooke. white, engineer. injured; Mrs.
Mary White.
When the wreck occurred the train was
running at a rate of thirty miles an hour
and had just started around curve on
top of a sixty foot embankment. With
out warning the tender of the engine sud |
denly left the track. jerking the engine
and the first four cars with it. There |
were ten cars to the excursion train but |
the fourth broke loose from the fifth and |
with the heavy engine. plunged down the
steep incline The cars which were pack |
ed with passengers. turned completely |
over several times and were crushed like |
killing and crippling the in
mates Persons who have returned from /
the scene of the wreck say it is indescrib- |
able. The dead bodies of the negroes |
were scattered in every direction and the !
means and appeals for help from the |
wounded was heart rending.
AS soon as the accident was reported to |
the officials of the road wrecking trains. |
carrying physicians were hurried from
Columbus Miss. and Birmingham and
everything possible is being done to allie
viate the sufferings of the injured.
The dead bodies have been prepared for
burial