The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-10
FOUR HURT
 IN A WRECK Passenger Train LeftTrack
 at Siluria. MAIL CLERK WEST DIES Trucks Mounted the Rails
 Sunday Evening. Three Mail Clerks and Negro Fire man Were Injured and Were
 Taken to Hospital
 in Birmingham.
MAIL CLERK WEST DIES

Northoound passenger train No. of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was wrecked at Siluria Sunday night about S:30 o'clock and four members of the train crew were injured. The injured are: W. H. Fischer, w. H. Randle and H. R. West mail clerks and Albert EImore, a negro fireman.
 MT. West died at a Birmingham hos pital yesterday morning. His home was in Nashville, Tenn.
 The negro fireman lives in Montgomery
 The train left Montgomery for Nash vile on time to the minute Sunday even- ing at 6:s2 o'clock. The crew consisted of Engineer John Berry with engine 252, Conductor Andy Corbett, Flagman Will liam Palmer. Baggagemaster Charlie Ham. Express Messenger Barry and mail clerks W. H. Fischer. W. H. Randle and H. R. West.
 At Siluria the double track is being built to Birmingham, and in some man. ner the tracks of the postal car mounted the rails. every car on the train except the rear sleeper going with 1t.
 The engine was so badly crippled that 1t will be out of commission for some time. Engineer Berry got out all right, but his negro fireman had a leg broken and was badly bruised
 In the postal car just behind the engine were three mail clerks, Fischer, RandIe and West Mir. West was the only one that was hurt much. The three clerks live in Nashville. Mir. Randle being nephew of former United States Senator Isham Harris of Tennessee, and Mir. Fischer a brother of the manager of the Nashville baseball team. The three clerks are white men and they have the reputation of being the best postal clerks running out of Montgomery.
 In the next car to the mail car the baggage and express car were Bagge- master Ham and Express Messenger Barrey. The car is a combination af- fair. one end being used for baggage and the other for express. There was an unusually heavy lot of baggage in this car It was piled up to the roof and the escape of Baggagemaster Ham was miraculous. Just few years ago MT. Ham was in a disastrous wreck on the North and South division near aClera, and for a short while it was thought that he was killed. 1t being some months be- fore he recovered from his injuries.
 Express Messenger Barrey In the other end of the car also had a narrow escape. It was his fist trip over the road and his initia ton was g. strenuous experience that he will not soon forget
 Conductor Corbett and Flagmen Palmer are two of the oldest and most reliable men in the employ of the Louisville and Nashville. They were in the rear coaches and their prompt action alone prevented a panic among the passengers.
 The injured were carried to Blrming ham and placed in a hospital
 Every member of the crew lives in Nashville except Engineer Berry, who lives at Decatur and the negro fireman who lives here.
 The most remarkable thing about the wreck Is that there was not a single per- son was killed outright, although the damage was very heavy.
 A coincidence lies in the fact that five cars on the train were in the equipment of train No. that was wrecked at Brew ton Saturday-the dining car. chair car. baggage car and two Pullmans Tho diner was No. 1010 It was badly torn up as, of course, was everything in it. These diners with their handsome equip ment cost $1s0O0 and 1t will take good many hundreds of dollars to get 1t in shape again. Crockery, glassware and everything will have to be restocked. This car went to New Orleans on Saturday morning and came north Sunday night. It was to have passed through Montgom- gomery on train No. 1 yesterday morning en route to New Orleans. but for the first time in many months that train rolled into the Montgomery car shed minus a dining car.
 Chair car 1O54 which was in the Brewton wreck Saturday was in the wreck Sun day night and was almost completely demolished. Baggage car 23S was also in both wrecks and was badly torn up in the last one.
 The two Pullman cars were the Mas come and the Ottoman, the latter being the rear car on the train. Neither of them were damaged, except the trucks. The Ottoman did not leave the rails.
 The engine, 252, was torn up, making the second big passenger engine torn up in the last two days. the 256 being in the wreck at Brewton Saturday.
 There is a superstition among railroad men that whenever there Is a wreck it will be followed by two more. This Is the second wreck on the Louisville and Nashville within three days.
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