Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-10-03
Understandable all
ure to oIIoW
Orders
Only Two People Out
Of a Whole Car
load Survive

Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. 26.-Running
on road bed in supposedly high
condition of maintenance and having
about them every safeguard known to
modern railroading, two trains of the
Southern railway carrying heavy lists
of passengers came together in
frightful head-end collision mean
Hodges, Tenn, Saturday, killing 81
people and injuring 12O, several of
whom will probably die.
This appalling loss of life and MAIN
ing of living resulted apparently from
disregarding orders given the two
trains to meet at station which has
long been their regular meeting point.
The claim of failure to see the station
or signals cannot be set up by the en-
gineer of the west-bound train, were
he alive TO enter plea of defense, as
te accident happened in broad day
light, and, according to the best pos
sible information obtainable, he had
the order in little frame in front OF
him as his engine rushed by the sta
EiOn and mile and a half further on
came full upon the eastbound passen-
ger train making for Hodges, in COM
pliance with instructions to meet the
westbOund train. The possibility ex-
lists that the Inflated engineer may
have been asleep or that death had
suddenly taken the sight from his
eyes before Hodges was reached but
nothing is known save that the orders
were not obeyed. The trains were on
time and not making over 35 miles an
hour, yet the impact as they rounded
a curve and came suddenly upon each
other was frightful. Both engines and
the major portions of both trains were
demolished and why the orders were
disregarded or misinterpreted win
probably never be known, as the engi-
neers of both trains were crushed,
their bodies remaining for hours I'M
der the Wreckage of their locomotives.
Some bodies are not yet recovered and
may remain unidentified. The known
dead are:
Names of the Dead.
Ralph Mountcastle.
w. A. Galbraith.
Mrs. W. A. Galbraith.
Monroe Ashmore.
James King.
Two children of James King.
William Kane, engineer of the west
bound train.
Richard PARROT, engineer of the
.eastbOund train.
William Jones.
John T. Connor
Mrs. John P. Conner and daughter.
Mrs. w. o. Haddin.
w. M. Brewer.
Rev Isaac Emory.
All the above are from Knoxville.
John Black, White Pine, Tenn.
James Mills, colored, New Market,
Tenn.
Roscoe King, New Market.
E. G. Ernst, Johnson City, Tenn.
G. w. Brown, cambridge, Tenn.
J. D. Bird and r. r. Goodwin, JEFF
ferson City, Tenn.
Mrs. R. B. West, Granger county,
Tenn.
J. B. Gass, wife and daughter, Dan
deridge, Tenn.
Eight Italian immigrants, names un-
known.
Clayton M. Heiskell, Cincinnati.
Mrs. Mary B. Phelps, residence un-
known.
An unknown man.
Miss Mamie Murray, Newport,
Tenn.
Mary Eethel Ship.
J. Nj. Adkins, Jellico, Tenn.
John Molineaux, General Mary,
Tenn.
j. King, Newport, Tenn.
DR.. D. A. Fox, Nashville, Tenn.
Miss Haylow, Birmingham.
Mrs. Kinhell.
Mrs McEwen, Knoxville.
Julia w. Haddox, cambridge, Tenn.
Mrs. G. A. Russell and two children,
and 5, Knoxville.
J. ]. Dayel, Tampico, Tenn.
D. S. Fox, Birmingham, Ala.
Fatally Injured.
The probably fatally injured are
Mollie ClOwers and child, Admission,
Ala; Mrs. Norris Eubere, New York;
Miss Cary knight, cambridge, Tenn.
Congressman Badly Hurt.
The seriously injured are Paul
Henry, Asheville, N. c.; S. T. Lawyer,
Louisville, KY; Congressman Henry