Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-10-01
OVER SIXTY KILLED IN WRECK
HEAD ON COLLISION OF PASsEN
GER TRAINS IN TENNESSEE.
over $50 Persons Injured, Several of
Whom Will Probably Die-Orders
Had Been Disregarded-The Trains
Come Together on Curve in Broad
Daylight, Running 35 Miles an Hour.


Daylight, Running 35 Miles an Hour.
Knoxville, Tenn.-hunning on a
roadbed in a supposedly high condi-
ton of maintenance and having about
them every safeguard known to a
modern railroad, two trains on the
Southern railway, carrying heavy lists
of passengers, came together in a
frightful head end collision near Hold
ges, Tenn, sending 81 people to death
and injuring 1870, several of whom will
probably die.
Some of the bodies have not yet
been recovered and many remain I'M
identified.
The Known Dead.
Ralph Mountcastle, Knoxville; w. A.
Galbraith, Knoxville; Monroe Ash
more age 10, Knoxville; John Black,
White Pine, Tenn; James King. Knox
vile; two children of James King,
Knoxville; William Kane, Knoxville,
engineer of westbound train; Richard
PARROT, Knoxville, engineer on east
bound train; James Mills, colored New
Market, Tenn; Roscoe King, New
Market, Tenn; E. G. Ernest, Johnson
City, Tenn; G. w. Brown, cambridge,
Tenn; r. B. Goodwin, Jefferson City,
Tenn; J. d. Bird, Jefferson City
Tenn; William Jones, son of James
Jones, South Knoxville, Tenn; Mrs.
r. B. West, Granger county, Tenn;
j. B. Gass, cambridge, Tenn. Mrs. ].
B. Gass, cambridge, Tenn; Miss Gass;
eight Italian immigrants, names I'M
known; John T. Conner, Knoxville;
Mrs. John Pionner, Knoxville, and
daughter; Clayton Heiskell, Cincin-
natl; Mrs Mary Phelps, residence I'M
known; j. H. Stevens, cambridge;
young man. envelope in pocket bear
ing name of 81. W. Daily, Greensburg,
Ind" Miss Mamie Murray, Newport,
Tenn; Mrs. w. o. Hadden. Knoxville;
William Brewer, Knoxville; Mary Eth
ell Ship; j. NJ. Adkins, Jellico, Tenn;
John MollineauX, Glenmary Tenn;
Rev. Isaac Emory, Knoxville; ]. King.
Newport, Tenn. DR.. d. A. Fox. Nash
vile. Miss Hatilow, Birmingham, Ala;
Mrs. Kinzel Knoxville; Mrs. McEwen
Knoxville; John Black, White Pine,
Tenn; Julia w. Haddox, cambridge,
Tenn.
Disobedience of Orders.
This appalling loss of life and MAIN
ing of the living resulted apparently
from the disregarding of orders given
to the two trains to meet at a station
which has for long time been their
regular meeting point. This action on
the part of the engineer of the west
bound train is made more inexplicable
| by the fact that the accident happened
in broad daylight and according to the
| best information Obuainable, he had
the order in little frame in front of
him as his engine rushed by the sta
ton, and mile and half further on
came full upon an east bound passen-
ger train. The possibility exists that
the i'll fated engineer may have been
asleep
The trans were on time and not
making over 80 miles an hour, yet the
| impact do t1SS IOuuu6u Il curve ana
came suddenly upon each other was
frightful. Both engines and the major
portions Of both trains were demol-
ished, and why the orders were disre-
garded or misinterpreted will probab-
ly never be known, as the engineers of
the two trains were crushed, their bod
les remaining for hours under the
wreckage of their locomotives.
The collision was between east
bound passenger No. II and west
| bound passenger No. Is from Bristol
| No. II was a heavy train, carrying
three Pullmans, two day coaches and
mail and baggage cars. No. 10 was
a light local train. The greatest loss
of life occurred in the east bound
train, while in the west bound train
only the engine crew were killed Re-
lief trains were dispatched from Knox
vile within an hour, and all the physi-
clans in the vicinity of the wreck were
doing all they could when the local
corps arrived.
Later.
The death list, as a result of the
fearful wreck on the Southern railway
near Newmarket, Saturday, has grown
to 81, and it probably will exceed 20.
General Funston Goes East.