The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-02-15
SEVEN SNUFPED OUT
Boulder Strikes a Train and Kills
Seven Of the Men.
A Score or More Injured BY the
Awful Crash on the
Choetaw.
THE ACCIDENT WAS UNAVOIDABLE

Little Rock, Ark. Feb ia fear.
fol accident occurred ON the Choctaw
railroad. two milea west Of Little
Maumelle, about twenty miles above
Little Rock, a. . result Of which sew
en- men are known to have been killed
outright. and nearly . score, more
or less, seriously injuied. 1t is tn
frss great catastrophe of the kind
that has ever occurred on the Choo-
taw.
Tho dead are Samuel Simon,
Boonville. Ark. B. L. Jones, Boone
VILE, Ark; Orange Fustu, colored.
sos Byrd street. Little Rock; John
williams, colored, 400 East Washing.
ton avenue. North Little Rock. Hen
~ MCGEE, colored, 4ai West Eighth
street, Little Rock; two unknown.
There were seven ambulance loads
Of wounded taken to the infirmary.
The injured are Bill Penniger.
white, foreman Of gang; leg broke
and hurt internally, injuries serious.
Will Logan, white, Bonneville, hurt
internally. injuries serious. Andrew
H,0ee. colored, Little Rock, injured
internally; will die. Freeman Davis,
white. Alabama. both legs broken.
John Conner. white. Rosedale, Kas.
hurt on. head. Ed Mctsinnis, foreman
extra gang. general bruising up
Frank Powell, colored. Little Rock,
hurt about face, hands and legs.
Nose Garrett, colored, Little Rock,
shoulder dislocated. Emmett Bur.
nett, colored, Dumas. Ark, arm hurt.
John Holins, colored, Little Rock,
arm and leg hurt Jim Carroll, col
ored. Little Rock, arm and leg hurt.
W. II. Ballew, white, Bonneville.
Ark. injuredlabout. fsce-and legs d.
O. Hardin. colored, North Little Rock,
head and hand hurt b. Otto Raylor,
white, Missouri, body injuries.
A work train was headed west, the
sneine pushing six cars and a caboose.
u was In charge Of Conductor J. Il.
Engineer MAJOR and Fireman I
W. II. Evans. As they were passing =
Alons the track under the high bluffs a
,ordering the river at that point, the @
rev saw . heavy rock rolling with s
Iwfui velocity down the steep decliv.
ty, having been detached from the a
hillside by the rains. The train was I
Ioing slowly. but was almost upon c
he rock when 1t struck the track. h
Engineer MAJOR reversed mis- engine,
tut IL was 20 close upon the obstacle
hat the train struck IL almost full
orcs. The cAboose was at the head S
{ the train and was shivered into
plinters
Most Of the men who were killed
nd injured were In the caboose
there was crew Of 81 men. white {,
nd colored, and they were going to a al
oint further mp tho road to clear a al
light wreck. There were just back Of Il
he oaboose three cars Of sand, and W
,any Of the men were buried under. W
cath the heap Of sand thrown for III
ard by the terrific impact. III
Five cars and the oaboose were COM re
lstely wrecked, and only one car and IL
se engine left practically uninjured. tn
be engineer was complimentcd by as
Z for the comparatively good stop he dc
ade under the circumstances, for an
'herwise the entire train with its liv- in
e freight must have been hurled rel
,wn the embankment and all Of ",
Iem killed. Conductor Gamble hal
close call and escaped death only ty vi
% narrowest margin. The trucks
'ssed over him, but he stopped down
ID the first did not touch him. The tn
cond passed over his foot, crushing pr
90 badly that 1t may have to Be am. lel
mated. Sa