Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-03-05
TRAIN WRECK.
Three Trainmen Killed and Twenty
-Four Persons Injured Near
Lenoir City, Tenn.
WRECK CAUSED BY SPREADING RAILS.
-Four of the Coaches Were Tele-
scoped and Three burned Out
right-Timely Arrival of Another
Train Saved the Two Rear Sleep
ers From Destruction.

Train Saved the Two Rear Steep
ers From Destruction.
Knoxville, Tenn, March 1.-The
fast Cincinnati Southern passenger
train, Chattanooga to Salisbury, leav-
ing Chattanooga at 11:45 Friday
night, was wrecked on the tracks of
the Southern railway, about three
and a half miles west of Lenoir City,
Tenn, Saturday morning about two
o'clock. The wreck was caused by
spreading of the rails. Three deaths
are reported and "a injured.
Following is a list of the killed and
injured:
The Killed.
John Bib, of Knoxville; engineer.
A. j. Tucker, of Newport; mail
clerk.
Alfred Best, Knoxville; colored por-
ter.
Trainmen I'M ured.
r. A. Tompkins, express messenger,
Bristol, Tenn; shoulder and neck
bruised.
G. M. Betty, Knoxville, mail clerk;
arm and wrist bruised.
w. Il. Klutz, Knoxville, baggage
master; back injured.
w. S. 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, Rogersville, Tenn;
arm broken and head bruised.
p. H. Guice, Fletcher, N. c.; back,
shoulder and head injured.
Mrs. P. Fl. Guice; back and head in
jured.
w. B. Holt, Leonidas, Tenn; chest
badly bruised and injured internally.
II. c. Toms, Knoxville; shoulder
and arm injured.
Mrs. H. c. Toms, injured internally.
Mrs. M. 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.
+. L. Fisher, Knoxville; head
bruised.
William Whitehead, Maryville,
Tenn; both hands and head injured.
j. w. Toohey, Greenville, N. c.; leg
broken.
r. P. Harsh, Muskogee, l. T.; head
and right hand injured.
H. B. Sargent, New Orleans; slight
ly injured.
The wreck occurred on the top of a
steep embankment and the train
plunged down this. The locomotive
went within 80 feet of the Tennessee
river. Four of the coaches were tel
escoped and partially piled up on the
engine. Three coaches were burned
outright. The Cincinnati Southern
train, from Chattanooga to Cincin-
natl, 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 Hartman.
This train was awaiting orders at
Loudon when it was advised of the
wreck. The engineer of the Cincir-,
natl 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 saw
ing them from destruction by fire.
The w%recking train, with physicians
and railroad officials, left this city i'm
mediately after the wreck.
1t is stated that the wreck was
caused by two landslides. In the first,
it is thought, a big boulder came
down the side of a 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 Lenoir 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.