Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-26
DEAD NUMBER slxTY-rWo.
Mnay of Injured in the Southern
Wreck Are Dying.

Southern road near Newmarket Satur-
day had grown today to sixty-two and
1t will probably exceed seventy before
Tuesday, as many of the injured are
in serious condition, and more deaths
are expected at the hospitals.
Sunday there were six deaths at that
institution, the last one occurring at
o'clock last night, when M. p. Cant,
of Shelby, N. c., passed away. Others
who died Sunday at the hospital We're
the two colored firemen two little girls
and Nep Miller, colored, of Johnson
City.
The collision was between eastbound
passenger train No. IL and westbound
passenger train No. Is, from Bristol.
No. IL was carrying a heavy train,
carrying three Pullmans, two day
coaches and a mail and baggage car.
No. 15 was a light local train. The
greatest loss of life occurred on the
eastbound train, while on the west
bound train only the engine crew were
killed.
Relief trains were dispatched from
Knoxville within an hour and all ply
sicians in the vicinity of the wreck
were doing all they could when the
local corps arrived.
The first train arrived here from
the scene Of the wreck at 4:20 o'clock
bringing about sixty of the injured.
Six of the injured aboard had died
while en- route to the city, and after
their bodies were taken off, the train
proceeded to a point near the general
hospital, where vehicles were in wait
ing and large force of physicians
was ready to receive the wounded. The
next train from the wreck arrived
shortly after 5 o'clock. 1t brought the
bodies of forty three dead. The six
others who died en- route brings the
list up to forty-nine, and there are
at least six more at the scene Of the
wreck, none of the bodies of the train
men having yet been recovered.
Story of Survivor.
J. W. Brown, of Rogersville, Tenn,
newspaper editor, was in the rear
coach of the westbound train. When
the fearful jolt came he said all the
seats in the car were torn loose, and
people and seats were hurled to the
front end of the car. When he recov-
cred from the shock he heard the
screams and groans of the injured and
dying in every direction.
Il left the car" said Mr.. Brown,
"as soon as l could, and walked to the
main part of the wreck. 1t was the
most horrible sight / ever witnessed.
saw woman pinioned by a piece of
split timber, which had gone COM
pletely thru her body. A little child,
quivering in it's death agonies, lay
caught beneath the woman. saw the
child die, and within few feet Of
her lay woman's head, while the de-
capitated body was several feet away.
Another little girl, whose body was
fearfully mangled, was piteously calling
for her mother. / have since learned
that she was Lucille Conner, of Knox
killed. / heard one woman, terribly
mangled, praying earnestly to be
spared to her children, but death en-
sued in few minutes"
Both engines and the coaches of
No. Is were literally demolished, the
smoker and baggage car completely so;
the sleepers remained on the track UNI
damaged. Both engines lay to the
north of the track jammed together l1-
to one mass of ruins. The cars which
were demolished, were piled on the
wrecked engines.
Congressman Henry r. Gibson, from
the Second congressional district of
Tennessee, was passenger IN the day
coach on the eastbound train. He and
another man, whose name is not known
We're the only persons to escape alive
from the demolished car. Congress
man Gibson was en- route to Russell
vile. Tenn, to deliver political ad-
dress.