The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-09-02
A BAD RAILROAD WRECK.
Train Load Of ExeursiOnistS Plunged
Down Embagkment.
THIRTY PERSONS REPORTED KILLED
An OF the Dead Except Three Are
Neuroes-The Number Of Injured
Numbers Eishty-one.

birmingham Ala. September i.-whils
rounding curve on high embankm nj
near Berry. Ala, at $3.50 O'Clock this morn
Inc. the engine and four cars " an eNcur-
/ sion train on the Southern Railway lelpcd
/ from The track aud rolled over aud over,
! smashing the coaches Into kiniiiug wool
! and cnuslng tho iustupt dratb Of twelty-
one persons and the injury OF eighiy-ohe
others Physicians say at least twenty
| nine of the injured can not I've.
| With .ae exception OF II. NJ Dudley
| trstnmaster Of the Southern Railway Nv
luz ne Birmingham, j, W. Cr3ok' en-
4 ripccr. birmingham. and Roscoe shelby Of
\ Cohnpbus. Miss. all Of the dead and IN
jured are negroes who had taken ndVan-
tage n the excursion rates from points Ia
Mississippi to Birmingham
J The dead src
{ wnltcs;
u. N. DUDLEY tralnmaster Southern
Railway BirmIogham
ROSCOE SHELBY, Columbus Miss
3 ". CROOK cnglnccg Birmingham.
Nueroes:
JIM SMITH rsola
LILLE MARTIN child Columbus
CHARLEY CADP. Columbus
. EXCL PATTERSON West Point, Miss.
Ep CLARK. Columbus Miss
RrDE GREEN Columbus, Miss
WILLIE THOMPSON Columbus, Mis-
e Nineteen dead, whose bodies have 10
been identified.
n The fatally injured ON negroes, are
ID Emmett LeRoy Columbus
Johu MrRevcy fireman, Cieuurne, Miss
81 Iohuson, columbus Miss
simon Gotln, Columbus.
William Taylor Columbus
John Thompson. Columbus
Ben Long Columbus Miss
Joe Alexander, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
George Barnett Grecnylle 49,
i. T. w Julian Fayctte. Miss.
,.n Alfred Matthews Columbus.
Albert Phillips Columbus. Miss.
Lee wilson, Waycriy, Miss.
Edmond Young, Columbus.
., Iim Blacl West Point, Miss.
~ George Nelu Greenwood, Miss.
Nellie King Mooney. Miss
,.,. Lula shaw. Greenwood, Miss.
Estru Brown Greenwood. Miss.
.u Lee Williams, West Point.
Ia. Icuu Mcneil columbus.
~. Snlhuiy Mason, Pepeha, Miss,
Nom John Ross, Columbus.
waiter Mason, Hudson Miss.
.a.. willie Brown. West Point.
AIm suow Empola, Miss.
bor f. e. Chandler Columbus
KID Clark Columbus.
ana Tony Bush, Columbus,
MN When she wreck occurred the train
runniug 81 rate OF thirty miles an D
yes. and Just started around curve on tor
slxtyfcot embanlmcnt without W
,,,., Ing the teudrr OF the engine suddenly
the track lerHdug tke engine and the
Il, four cnrs with IT, There were ten car
'.,,n The excursion train, but the fourth b
lonse from the Bfh ana with the h'
engine plunged down the steep Incline
care, which were packed with passcng
..... turned completely over several times
s''' were crushed like egg shells klIius
cr.ppllng tic minutes. Persons who
returned from the scene Of the wreck
1t is ndescrlhublc. The dead bodies of
the negroes we're scattered In every dire,
TENS. ana tho means md appeals for hrip
; oul inc wounded were helrtrcndiug AS
as one accident was reported 60 tho OBI
az the road wrecldng trains carrying p
clans were hurried from Columbus aud
y mngham and everything possible is
hows done 60 alleviate the sunerings OF th
r the iurcd The dead bodies have been pref
for burial