The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-09-29
Terrible Result Of a Collision Be-
tween Passenger Trains on
Southern in Tennessee.
SIXTY-TwO PERSONS ARE DEAD,
Death List May Exceed 20 as Many
Of she 1852 Injured Are in
Serions Condition.
The Crowded Coaches Of One Train
Were Crushed Like Egsshells-
one Of the Engineers Evident
~ pisobeyed Orders.


Knoxville. Tenn. Sept cs-Running
on a railroad IN a supposedly high con
dition % maintenance and having /
about them every safeguard known % T
modern raiiroadlng two trains on tho +
Southern railway carrying heavy lists .
Of passengers. came together IN a
frightful head-end collision near /
Hodges. Tenn. Saturday.
The appalling loss % life and MAIN /
ing OF the living resulted apparently .
from the disreEarding OF orders given |
90 che two trains 20 meet at station /
which has for a long time been their /
regular meeting point
The claim az failure TO sec either the
station or signals can not be set up by
the engineer OF the wcstbound train
were he alive Co enter a plea o. de-
Tense. as Che accident happened IN
broad daylight. and. according 90 fhc
best Information obtainabie. he had
+ the order in a little frame in front ot
him as HIS monster OF iron and steel
rushed by Newmarket Station and
soon after came FUN upon an
eastbound passenger train making Tor
Newmarket. in compliance with in-
structons Co meet the wcstbound train
which carried tho slocpcrs from the
east Tor Knoxville. Chattanooga and
other southern cities
Tho possibility exists that the ill-
afcd engineer may have been asleep.
or that death had suddenly taken the
sight from his eyes before Newmarket
WAS reached BUT nothing is known
save that the orders were not ohcycd
The trains we're on time and not MAX
ing over 80 miles am hour. yet tho im-
pact as thcy rounded d curve and
came suddenly upon each other was
friphfful Roth engines and the major
portions Of both trains were domohsh-
co. and why the orders were disre
earicd OF misinterpreted viii ncvN
be- known. as the engineers of the two
trains were crushed. their bodies re-
manning for hours under the wreckase
OF the monster locomotives
The death ilst az r. result OF the fear
ful wreck had grown Sunday nicht 90
go and it will probably exceed 1o be-
fore Tuesday as many Of the injured
are lu q serious condition and more
deaths will occur az the hospital sun
dlv there were SIX deaths at that in-
b s'iuuon. the last one occurring az
/ o'clock Sunday night. when ~ r. Gant.
O prominent North Carolinian. residing
20 at shelby n c.. passed away Others
70 who died Sunday OF the hospital were
9 the two coiored nremen two iiulo
Girls and Ncp Miller. colorcd. OF John
] SON city To the ust OF dead there
e must Dee added an unknown infant
3 found Sunday az the scene az the
% wreck and two other unidentified
@ bodies
e Engineers Parrott aud Kane were
found beneath their engines. but thei'
bodies were not badly crushed. Small
fragments OF bodies were found ia
. many instances Sunday. but 70 &,
thought that they belong To- bodies al
ready found and brought 90 this city
The cause OF the terrible loss OF 40,
On the heavy castbound train was OK
7, planned Sunday II seems that IN
second coach plouehed SIS way into
bank in such a manner that the othe
cars we're jammed into it and pushed
on by the weight OF the heavy Pull
= mans. were crushed like eggshcls.
Physicians az the hospital statel
g.. Sunday night that OF the long list O
3d.. injured WniCN tneN nave IN thelE car
" il is probable that not more than fou
viii die The complete list OF injure
as given by the railroad officials show
total Of l62, but this includes an pei
sons who were only slightly hurt O
scratched.
b. Columbia. s C.. Sept pa teI
gram has been received at Gaffne!
this state. announcing the death q
20 Lee Hill az Jellico. Tenn. who wa
~ killed In an explosion in powder mil
- The body was expected at Carney Sa
=. urday night but instead a teiegrai
- was received stating that the body. n
~ companieG by Scott Hin. his fathe
IL Lee Hiil's wife and four children an
"A a single sister we're all on the ill-fate
i Southern train which was wreeke
=, Saturday and that all we're killed. tn
: bodies Of ala seven OF the family al
expected to reach Carney Monda
morning