The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-02
Thirty-six Persons Killed and
EIghty-One Injured in Wreck
on the Southern
PASSENGER COACHES ARE
TORN TO KINDLING WOOD
II. N. Dudley, Trainmaster, and J. w.
Crook, Engineer, Were the Only
White Men killed-InJured
Are Being Cared For.

While rounding a curved embankment
at speed of thirty miles per hour an
excursion train on the Southern railroad
was wrecked yesterday morning at
o'clock one mile west of Berry, a station
sixty miles from Birmingham. Twenty
six were killed and eighty-one injured,
many of the latter's wounds being of a
fatal character. Nearly all of the pas
sengers were negroes.
The Dead.
H. M. Dudley white. trainmaster
Southern railway at Birmingham.
J. w. Crook. white. engineer, Birring-
ham.
Negroes:
Roscoe Shelby, Columbus, Miss.
Jim Smith. Isola, Miss.
Lille Martin and child, Columbus.
Charley Carp, Columbus, Miss.
EXCL Paterson, West Point, Miss.
Ed Clark, Columbus, Miss.
Mute Green. Columbus, Miss.
Willie Thompson, Columbus, Miss
Fifteen dead whose bodies have not been
identified.
A late report states two or three other
unknown negroes are dead.
Fatally injured-Negroes: Emmett Le-
Roy, Columbus Miss; John McRevey
fireman; Cleburn Johnson. Columbus,
Miss; Simon Giton, Columbus. Miss;
William Taylor. Columbus, Miss; John
Thompson, Columbus, Miss; Ben Long,
Columbus, Miss; Joe Alexander, Tusca-
loosa; George Barnett, Greenville; Lee
Wilson, waverly; Edmond Young, Co
lunbus; Jim Black. West Point: George
O'Neil, Greenwood Mollie King, Mooney;
Lula Shaw, Greenwood; Estella Brown,
Greenwood: Lee Williams West Point;
Lena McNeal Columbus; Salbury Ma
son, Pheba; John Ross, Columbus; Walter
Mason, Hudson; Alfred Richardson, Hud-
son; Willie Brown, West Point; John
Beasley, West Point; Martin Harris,
West Point; Dan Hood, West Point Allen
Snow, Eupora: L c. Chandler. Columbus;
Kid Clark, Columbus and Tony Bush,
Columbus.
The Injured.
Injured-Negroes.
William Franklin, Columbus; Sid Ne
Clara Green. Columbus; Henry Berry,
Columbus; George Lindsey, Columbus;
George Cunningham, Columbus; Tony
Hooper Columbus; Luther Hudson, Co
lumbus; Emma Wells, waverly; Anna
Martin, Columbus; Walter Ward. Indian
ola; VIII Brown, Winona; Tom Dickson,
Columbus; Willie Williams. Columbus;
Riley May Harmon, CoIumpus; George
Greer, Columbus; Laura Carpenter, Co.
lumbus; Willie Kinon, Columbus; juan
eta Clay, Columbus; Mrs. Mo11ie Wilson,
Columbus; Sue Whitfield Columbus;
Chaster Elliott Columbus; Sam Barry,
Columbus; william Beard, Columbus; A.
H. Wilson, Columbus; Jim Jackson, Co
lumbus; Frank Fans, Greenwood; Ben
Harris. Carrolltcn; Emily Pue, Carroll
ton; Kessie Ellis, Columbus, Early Greg
ory, Columbus; A. w. Fisher. Columbus;
William Cunningham, Columbus We'd
mond Bell, Columbus; Harrison Harris,
Columbus; George Grown. Winona; Gus
Richardson, Colurubus; Sam Fleming,
Fayette; Winnie Gordon, Columbus Lii
lie Morgan, Columbus; William Morgan
Columbus; one unknown woman fatally
5ured and Mrs. Marie Cox, white, in
cured and back srraired.
Coming to Birmingham.
The wrecked train was packed and
damned with excursionists bound for
Birmingham to spend the holiday. They
came from points all along the line from
Greenville, Miss, where the train was
made up, though the majority were from
Columbus, Miss. In charge were Con-
ductor A. M. Vebber and Engineer ]. w.
Crook, with Trainmaster II. M. Dudley.
Engine No. 410 was pulling the line Of
cars. numbering ten.
The train was running smoothly and
descending a slight grade about one mile
from Berry when the wreck occurred.
las the engine swung to the right around
O. curved embankment it's tender left the
track. This pulled the engine and the
first five cars from the track and turned
them over completely. The sixth car was
pulled from the track but did not tumble
down the embankment as did the first
ones. Four cars remained on the track
AS the cars turned over the passengers
were thrown into renzy and panic
relgned everywhere Women, children
and men cried and yelled in mysteries for
a moment Then their cries were sue
ceeded by means and prayers or the In
iured and dying as limbs were broken
and bodies crushed by the wergnty cars.
Was Instantly Killed.
Trainmaster Dudley was instantly
killed. Engineer Crook and his fireman,
John McRevey, a negro were thrown un-
der the engine and both badly scalded.
They were taken out alive, but Engineer
crook died later. The negro fireman is
yet alive.
member of the crew was hurried to Berry
IN wire for aid while all those on board,
not scared out of their wits or injured,
were called to the work of extricating
the dead and injurued from under the
cars and removing the wreckage. Every
where splirtered cars, dead bodies and
bodies of those injured lay mixed and
,ommineled In a jumbled fashion.
All that could be done to comfort the
,niured and relieve them from their
ufferings was accomplished. Shortly af-