Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-16
TRAIN DEMOLISHED
BY FAILING BOWL DER
Fatal Accident on Choctaw,
Oklahoma and Gulf.
SEVEN KILLED; IA INJURED

Huge Rock, Disodged BY Rains, Rolls
Down Mountain Side and Wrecks Ca.
boose of Work Train-List of Dead
and Injured.
Little Rock, Feb. 15.-Seyen men
were killed and at least IA were Sc
riously injured by a huge bowlder
weighing 15 tons crashing into the
caboose of a work train on the Chloe.
taw, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad 20
miles west of Little Rock.
The dead:
Samuel Simon, white, Bonneville,
Ark.
B. L. Jones, white, Bonneville. Ark.
Orange Foster. negro, 800 Byrd
street, Little Rock.
John Williams, negro, 403 East
Washington avenue, north Little Rock.
Henry McGee, negro, 421 West
Eighth street, Little Rock.
Two unknown.
The injured:
Bell Penninger, white, foreman of
gang; leg broken and hurt internally;
injuries serious; William Logan,
white, Bonneville, hurt internally, in.
juries serious; Andrew McGee, negro,
1921 East Eighth street, Little Rock,
injured internally, Will die; Freeman
Davis, white, Alabama, both legs
broken; John Connor, white, Rosedale.
Kans., hurt on head; Ed McGinnis,
foreman extra gang badly bruised;
Frank Powell, negro, Twenty fourth
and George streets, Little Rock, hurt
about face, hands and legs; Nose Gar
rett, negro, 1904 East Eighth street
shoulder dislOcated Emmett Burnet,
negro, Dumas, Ark. arm hurt; John
Hollins, negro, Sixth and Fletcher
streets, Little Rock, arm and leg hurt;
Jim Carroll, negro, Fourteenth and
Commerce streets, Little Rock, arm
broken and head hurt.
w. H. Bellew, white, Bonneville,
Ark, injured about face and legs; D.
G.. Hardin, negro, north Little Rock
head and hand hurt; Otto Raylor,
white, Missouri, badly injured about
body.
The work train was headed west,
the engine pushing six cars and ca
boose. 1t was in charge of Conductor
J. r. Gamble, Engineer MAJOR and
Fireman w. H. Evans. AS they were
passing along the track under the high
bluffs bordering the river miles west
of Little Maumelle, the crew saw a
heavy rock rolling with awful velocity
down the steep declivity, having been
detached from the hillside by the
rains. The train was going slowly,
but was almost upon the rock when it
struck the track. Engineer MAJOR re-
versed the engine at once, but it was
so close upon the obstacle that the
train struck it with almost full force.
The caboose was at the head of the
train and was shivered into splinters
Most of the men who were killed and
injured were in the caboose.
There was a crew of 54 men, white
and negroes, and they were going
to point further up the road to clear
slight wreck. There were just back
of the caboose three cars of sand and
many of the men were buried under.
meath the heap of sand which was
thrown forward by the terrific impact.
Six men are known to have been kill
ed outright Three were left on the
scene and three were brought to Little
Rock on the train that was dispatched
to the scene as soon as the news could
be sent to the city. Fifteen injured
were brought to Little Rock mfr.
mary. One of the most desperately in.
jured died on the way to the hospital
from the depot
1t is believed there are others killed
or buried under the sand at the scene
OF the wreck, as there are seYral miss
ing and as vt unaccounted for. A
crew of workmen are clearing the
wreck and looking for the bodies.