The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-15
ROLLING STONE KILLSiSEVEN Others May Have Also | Met Death. : BOULDER STRIKES TRAIN Engineers Goodness Saves Lives of Others.
 Conductor Has . Close Call, and Es-
 capped Death Only by the Mar
 rowest Margin--The Killed and Injured.
BOULDER STRIKES TRAIN

Little Rock, Feb. 1L--Seven men were killed and at least fourteen were serious ly injured by 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-SamueI simon, B. L. Jones' white. Bonneville. Ark; Jon. Williams, North Little Rock. white; Orange Foster negro; Henry McGee. colored. Little Rock; two unknown.
 The injured-Bell PenninEer. white. foreman of gang. leg broken and hurt internally; William Logan. white. Boone vile, hurt internally; Andrew McGee. colored. Little Rock. will die; Freeman Davis, white, Alabama. both legs broken; McGinnis, foreman extra gang, badly bruised: Frank Powell. colored, Little Rock. hurt about hands and legs; Nose Garrett, colored, shoulder dislocated; Elm melt Burnet, colored, arm hurt; John Rollins. colored, Little Rock, arm and leg hurt; Jim Carroll colored, arm broken and head hurt: W. H. Bcllew, white, Bonneville, Ark; D. c. Hardin. colored, North Little Rock: Otto Baylor. badly injured.
 engine pushing six cars and caboose. As they were passing along the track under the high bluffs bordering the river. two miles west of Little Maumeile. the crew saw a heavy rock rolling with awful velocity down the steep declivity, having Teen detached frof2 the hillside bs the rains. The train w.s going slowly, but was almost upon the rock when 1t struck the track. Engineer Nazer reversed his engine at once, but it was so close upon the obstacle that it struck the train with full force. The caboose was at the head of the train and was shivered into splin- ters Most of the men who were killed and injured were In the caboose.
 There was a crew of ffty-four men. white and colored, and they were going to l point further up the road to clear q light wreck. There were just back of
 he caboose three cars of sand, and many
 the men were buried beneEch the heap
 sand which was thrown forward by the terrific impact
 Six men are known to have been killed outright. Three were left on the scene and three were brought to Little Rock on the train that was despatched to the scene as soon as the news could be sent to the city. Fifteen injured were brought to Little Rock and are now at St. Vim cents Inflrmary. One of the most des- perately injured died on the way to the hospital from the depot.
 It is believed there are others killed or buried under the sand at the scene of the wreck, as there are several missing and as yet unaccounted for. crew Of workmen are clearing the wreck and looking for the bodies.
 The engineer was compimented by all for the comparatively good stop he made under the circumstances, for otherwise the entire train with it's living freight must have been hurled down the embank- ment and all of them killed. Engineer Nazer and Fireman Evans were not in- iured Conductor Gamble had a close call and escaped death only by the mar rowest margin. Two trucks passed over him. but he stopped down. and the first did not touch him. The second passed over his foot, crushing 1t so badly that it may have to be amputated.
 It is impossible at this time to ascer- tain the names of all the dead, the rail way officials themselves being unaware of their identity.
 OFFICE HOLDER WON'T YIELD.