The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-17
TWO MEN KILLED
 IN |. & N. WRECK Passenger Train Runs Into Open Switch at CastIeberry NO MESSENGERS WERE HURT List of Injured Is Almost unobtain- able, But Jack Wright, the En-
 sineer, Is Said to Be Fa-
 tally Hurt.
NO PASSENGERS WERE HURT

Montgomery, April 6.-(Special )-South- bound Louisville and Nashville train No 9, which left Montgomery at l2:SO o'clock this morning for New Orleans, was wrecked at Castleberry about ninety-fve miles south of Montgomery. An open switch caused the wreck. Two persons were killed and several wounded.
 The dead:
 II. L. Donovan of Mobile. mail clerk.
 Major Knox, colored, fireman, of Mont gomery.
 It has been impossible to obtain a cor rect list of the injured, but it appears that there is but one fatal injury. Jack Wright, engineer, of Montgomery. had his skull fractured and cannot live. He has been brought to his home here.
 A. D. Eaton and Jim Byars. mail clerks sustained serious injuries.
 An Open Switch.
 The wreck was caused by an open switch at the Castleberry station. The switch is what is known as a ''cross- over" switch, and is of such great curva- ture that if train ever strikes one of them 1t Is doomed to destruction.
 Freight train No. 13 was at the south end of the ''cross-over" switch, and If the passenger train had not been wrecked by the open switch an awful collision would have occurred between the two trains.
 When the wreck occurred the passen- ger train was ging at a terrific speed. The train consisted of eight cars. The n al re f1-ar ,IafaI ,I, molished. The wreckage caught fire and the engine, mail and baggage cars were burned.
 wrecking crew left Montgomery at 4:l5 this morning with Superintendent J l. Mckinney and Drs. J. l.. Gaston and Robert Goldthwaite aboard the train.
 A wrecking crew was also sent out from Mobile and medical aid was sent to the scene from Evergreen, which is ten miles from Casteberry. Train No. 97 which left here at BPS a. m. for New Orleans, and train No 2 from New Orleans, due here at 6:30 a. m., met at Castleberry, transferring passengers and retracing their runs back to Montgomery and New Orleans.
 The road was reported clear tonight
 Dr. Gaston returned from the wreck to- night, and he states that none of the passengers was injured. The mail clerks
 
 sustain painful or serious injury.
 Description of the Wreck.
 The following special from the scene of the wreck was received by the Evening Journal:
 The fast mail train No. 8, on the Louis vile and Nashville railroad, due in New Orleans this morning, ran into an open switch at 3:15 and was badly wrecked The engine plowed through a freight car, and the mail and baggage cars were en- tirely demolished. Mail Clerk Donovan was killed. His body Is still under the wreck. The negro fireman was also kill ed The engineer was badly, but it Is not believed fatally injured Mail Clerks Eyer, Eaton and Station were painfully injured The passengers on the train were badly shaken up, but escaped injury oth- erwise.
 The dead are H. L. Donovan, Mobile railway mail clerk; Major Knox, Mont gomery, negro fireman. Jack Wright of Montgomery was seriously injured.
 The ill-fated train which was wrecked was running as the second section of No B. which left Louisville at 2:35 Wednesday morning and was scheduled to have ar rived in New Orleans this morning at 7:25 The train left Montgomery at 12:30. AL most in front of the station at Castle berry the engine struck an open switch The mail and baggage cars which fol- lowed were entirely demolished and the wreckage took fire Mall Clerk Donovan who was standing in the door of his car when the crash came. was hurled under meath the train, dying instantly A spe- cial relief train has gone to the point.