Newport weekly independent., 1903-03-06
Three Trainmen Killed and Twenty Four Persons Injured Near
 Lenoir City, Tenn.
WRECK CAUSED BY SPREADING RAILS.
Four of the Coaches Were TcIc- scoped and Three Burned Out rfEht-Timely Arrival of Another Train Saved the Two Rear SIeep- CTS From DestructiOn

Knoxville, Tenn. March 1.-The fast Cincinnati Southern passenger train, Chattanooga to Salisbury. leav- Ing Chattanooga at l1:45 Friday night, was wrecked on the tracks of the Southern railway, about three and half miles west of Lenoir City, Tenn. Saturday morning abont two o'clock. The wreck was caused by spreading of the rails. Three deaths are reported and 24 injured.
 Following is list of the killed and iniured:
 John Hbb. of Knoxville; engineer.
 A. J. Tucker, of Newport: mail clerk.
 Alfred Best, Knoxville; colored DOT ter.
 Trainmen Insured.
 R. A. TompkinS, express messenger Bristol, Tenn; shoulder and neck bruised.
 G. NJ. Betty, Knoxville, mail clerk; arm and wrist bruised
 W. T. kIutz. Knoxville, baggage master; back injured
 W. $. Overton, Knoxville; conduc- tor.
 Thomas Mills. Knoxville, colored fireman. both legs broken
 Passengers Injured.
 J. l.. Falcett, Chattanooga: shoulder bruised and right leg broken.
 R. F. Wanison, RogersvIle Tenn; arm broken and head bruised.
 P. II. Guice. Fletcher. \. C.; back, shoulder and head in jured
 Mrs. r. II. Guice; back and head in- iured.
 W. B. Holt. Leonidas. Tenn; chest badly bruised and injured internaly II. C. Toms, Knoxville: shoulder and arm injured.
 Mrs. II. C. Toms injured internally. Mrs. NJ. Lee. Rogersvilie. Tenn: head hurt and internal injuries.
 Two children of Mrs. Lee, one of whom may die.
 Mrs. Sarah Emerson. Rogersville, Tenn; spine injured; will die.
 L. A. Hughes, of Lone Mountain, Tenn.
 J. B. Troppolin, New York; in ternally injured.
 Jack Nalley, Alexandria, Va.; head hurt.
 Samuel L. Kelley, Alexandria; head and chest injured.
 F. L. Fisher, Knoxville; head bruised.
 William Whitehead, Maryville, Tenn; both hands and head injured. J. w. Toohey, Greenville, \. C.; leg broken.
 R. P. Harsh, Musllogee, I. T.; head and right hand injured.
 H. B. Sargent, New Orleans; slight ly injured.
 The wreck occurred on the top of a steep embanhment and the train plunged down this. The locomotive went within 30 feet of the Tennessee river. Four of the coaches were tel escaped and partially piled up on the engine. Three coaches were burned outright. The Cincinnati Southern train, from Chattanooga to Cincn- nati was travelling behind the ill-fat- ed train, it having to come by way of Knoxville on account of damage to tracks of the Cincinnati Southern be- tween Chattanooga and Harrinan. This train was awaiting orders at Loudon when it was advised of the wreck. The engineer of the Cincin- nati train ran up to the scene of the wreck, and by pulling two of the rear sleeperS back on the track and away from the wreckage, succeeded in sav- ing them from destruction by fire. The wrecking train, with physicians and railroad officials, left this city inn mediately after the wreck.
 It is stated that the wreck was caused by two laudsldes. In the first, it is thought, a big boulder came down the side of bluff and fell on the track. These landslides spread the track, and when the locomotive struck the boulder it was thrown from the ties and down the embank- ment. Several coaches followed. The scene of the wreck is between Loudon and Lcnoir City, Tenn, where the railroad parallels the Tennessee river for a considerable distance. The con struction of the road at this point was very difficult engineering, and it is the most unfavorable place for a wreck.