Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
train Crashes
THROUGH TRESTLE
SEVEN PERSONS KILLED IN AW-
Full PLUNGE OF SEABOARD
AIR LINE EXPRESS.
THE DISASTER OCCURS
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Several Persons Are Injured, Some
seriously-Track Thought to Have
Been Tempered With-Fatal Col
lision at Romeo, Ill.

Charlotte, N. c., Sept. 10.-Seven per-
wreck on the Seaboard Air Line at Ca
tawba Junction S. c., early Friday morn
ing. Passenger train No. Al from Ports
mouth to Atlanta, five cars and sleep
er, went through a high trestle over a
small stream. An extra freight train
following the passenger piled in on top
OF the wreckage few minutes later.
The Dead.
The dead, so far as known, are Engi-
neer Barksdale and Trainman Ferguson,
OF the freight; Ed Robertson (colored),
fireman, and four women who were in
the passenger train. The names of the
latter are yet unknown Conductor
Chapman, of the freight, and Conductor
K. T. West, of the passenger train, and
Engineer Mears, of the passenger, were
hurt. Mrs. Sidney Herbert, of Florida,
was seriously hurt. one leg being
crushed. The dead and injured will be
taken to Monroe.
The train had crossed a bridge over
the Catawba river and was on a trestle
when the trestle fell in. The train, with
the exception Of the Pullman car, fell Is
feet to the ground. A light freight, fol-
lowing close behind the passenger train,
struck the Pullman, and all fell over
onto the wreck, the engine of the freight
and box cars piling up on the Pullman
In its downward rush the train carried
away all telegraph wires. Help was i'm
mediately sent to the scene.
The superintendent office at Allan
ia. Ca, has received information of the
discovery of evidence that the joints in
the track were tempered with, causing
the wreck
Track Tempered With.
1t is believed that joints in the track
had been tempered with and that this
caused the wreck. The length of the
trestle is not known, but it is stated
that about 60 feet of it was carried away.
The locomotive had crossed the place
in the track where it was subsequently
discovered, according to a report from
an officer of the road. that some person
had loosened the rail connections. The
train broke in two. Part of the train
toppled over on the embankment south
of the trestle, while the rest of the train
appears to have gone through the trestle
to the new ground about 20 feet below
This was followed by the light engine
following which fell through the broken
trestle
Fatal Head-On Collision.
Romeo, ILL.,, Sept 10.-In a head-on
collision Friday between two extra
freight trains on the Atchison Topeka
& Santa Fe railroad here, because of
the dense fog of the early morning, one
man was killed and two others severely
injured. The cars of the long west
bound train were piled upon the track
and the tender of the engine was torn
from it's couplings and hurled off the
roadhed. The engine was practically
demolished.
The engineers of the trains were I'M
able to see the danger signal at the
Romeo station, it is asserted, because of
the fog, and could not stop in time to
avert the collision
The dead: Lee CANNED, brakeman,
caught between tender and caboose,
crushed to DEATH
The injured: Engineer Edward Nc
Cornell, cut and body severely bruised;
Conductor Thomas Burns, body bruised
and cut about head.