The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-30
SIXTY-TWo KILLED
AND MANY INJURED
Disastrous Result Of an Acct
dent on Southern Railway
in Tennessee.
TWO PASSENGERS COLLIDE
Accident Took Place Thirty Miles East
of knoxville-Due to fragrant
Disobedience of One Of the
Engineers.

Engineers.
Knoxville. Tenn. Sept. 27.-Running
on a roadbed in a supposedly high con-
dition of maintenance, and having
about them every safeguard known to
q modern railroad. two trains on the
Southern railway carrying heavy lists
of passengers came together in a fright
full head-on collision near Hodges.
Tenn. sending So persons to death and
injuring 100. several of whom will prob
ably die.
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 Il station
which for a long time had 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 obtainable he had the
order in a little frame in front of him
as his monster of iron and steel rushed
by the station and a mile and a half
further on came upon an ~eastbound
passenger train. The possibility exists
that the Inflated engineer may have
been asleep.
Running at High Speed.
The trains We're on time and not
making ~th1rty-five miles an hour. yet
the impact as they rounded n curve
and came suddenly upon each other
was frightful. Both engines and the
major portions of both trains We're de-
moltshed. and why the orders We're dis
regarded or mtsinterpreted may prob
ably never be known. as the engineers
Of the two rains were crushed. their
bodies remaining for hours under the
wreckage of their locomotives.
The collision was between e%astbound
passenger train No. 10 and weStbound
passenger train No. Is from Bristol. No.
IL was a heavy train. carrying three
Pullmans, two day coaches and a mail
n baggage car. No. 10 was a light
local train. The greatest loss of life
occurred on the e%astbound train. while
on the westbound train only the en-
CINE crew We're killed.
Relief trains we're dispatched from
Knoxville within an hour. and all
physicians in the vicinity of the wreck
were doing all they could when the To-
cal corps arrived.
The first train reached here from the
scene of the wreck at APO o'clock.
bringing about sixty of the ih1 ured.
Six of the injured aboard had died
while en- route to the city, and after
their bodies were taken off, the train
pio CCeucu W II point near llle general
hospital, where vehicles We're in watt
ing and a large force of physicians
We're ready to receive the wounded. The
next train from the wreck arrived
shortly after 8 o'clock. 1t brought the
bodies of forty-three dead. The six
list up to f~orty-nine, n there are at
least Six more at the scene of the
wreck, none of the bodies of the train
men having yet been recovered.
Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. 27.-The
death list, as a result Of the fearful
wreck on the Southern road neal New
market Saturday, has grown to sixty
two, n 1t will probably exceed seven
ty before Tuesday, as many of the in
jured are in a serious condition and
more deaths will occur at the hospital.
There were six deaths at that institu-
ton. the last n occurring when M.
P. Cant. e prominent resident of Shell
by, N. c. passed away. Others who
died at the hospital were the two col
ored fremen, two little girls and N. p.
Miller, colored, of Johnson City.
To the appended corrected list of
dead there must be added an unknown
infant found at the scene of the wreck,
and two other unidentified bodies.
The list of dead is as follows:
w. a. GALBRIATH, Knoxville.
MRS. w. A. GALBRAITH, Knox
Vile.
W. T. ELLIS, Greensboro. N. c.
RALPH MoUNTcAsTLB. Knox
MISS INEz RUSSELL. Knoxville.
CLYDE RUSSELL. Knoxville.
COREY KNIGHT. cambridge. Tenn.
w. A. STEPHENSON, Omaha, Neb.
JOHN CONNOR, Roanoke. Va.
d.. S. FOX, Birmingham, Ala.
j. M. ADKINS, Jellico. Tenn.
MRS L r. GAS. Knoxville
MRS. w. G. HADDIX, Knoxville.
JAMES BIRD, Jefferson City, Tenn.
MRS. r. B.. WEST, Jefferson, City,
MRS. ALBERT MMAHoN. New
port Tenn
ED DEGROUT. Johnson City. Tenn.
JOHN GLENN, Morristown. Tenn.
DR.. A. CRAWFORD, Bardstown,
Ky.
e. S. HORNER. Morristown, Tenn.
GEORGE LEE. Carrollton, KY.
j. r. PLUMMER. Chapel Hill, n. C.
JOHN BLACK. White Pine, Tenn.
MRS. w. b. CRAWFORD, Mohawk.
Tenn.
j. r. RHEA. whitesburg, Tenn.
w. S. HILL. Jellico, Tenn.
MRS. LAURA HILL. Gaffney, S. C.
- HILL, 7-year-old daughter OF
Mrs. Laura Hill.
MISS SARAH II. HILL. Gaffney,
FIFTEEN MONTHS OLD BOY,
thought to be son OF Mrs. Laura Hill.
MISS FANNIE EWING, Knoxville.
r.. B. GOODWIN. jefferson City, Tenn.
MRS. C. A. RUSSELL. Knoxville.
MONROE ASHMORE, Knoxville.
WILLIAM JONES. Knoxville.
]. ]. DANIEL, Turkeys Mill, MINI.
G. N. PROFIT, Knoxville.
ANNIE MALLORY, Bennington, Ala,
MRS. - GREEN, Sylvia, N. C.
w D EANE Lpoxr;ua a,r;,.o. 81