The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-25
Fifty-four Humans Sent To Unexpected
 Death. HODGES, TENN., SCENE OF TERRIBLE ACCIDENT Most Disastrous Wreck in History of Southern
 Railway. Dead and Injured Taken to Knox vile, Where Hospitals are over flowing With Childless Par ents and Motheriess
 Babes-southern Of-
 hcials Talk.

ming on roadbed in supposed hisp condition of maintenance ana haV'hs about them every safeguard known to mof,ern railroading, two trains on the Southern Railroad, carrying heavy lists of messengers. came together in frightful head-end collision near Hodges, Tenn, today, sending nity- four people to death and injuring one hundred and twenty, several or whom probably will die.
 This appalling loss of life and maim- ing of the living. resulted apparently from the disregarding of orders gwen to the two trains to meet at station .vhich has for a long time been their regular meeting point. The claim or failure to see either the station or signals cannot be set up by the engi- neer of the westbound train were ne alive to enter a plea of defense, as the accident happened in broad daylight and according to the best information obtainable, he had the orders In ilt- tie frame in front of him as his moh- ster of iron and steel rushed by New market and soon after came upon an sastbound passenger train muking Tor Newmarket in compliance with ln- structions, to meet the westbound train which carried the sleepers from the east for Knoxville, Chattanooga ard other Southern cities.
 The possibility exists that the ill., fated engineer may have been asleep or that death had suddenly taken the sight from his eyes before Newmarket was reached. But nothing Is known save that the orders were not obeyed- The trains were on time and not mak- ing over thirty five miles an hour, yet the impact as they rounded 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 mfsinterpreted probably never will be known as the engineers of the two trains were crushed, their bodies re- maining for hours under the wreckage of the monster locomotives, which but a short time before had leaped for ward at the touch of their strong hands upon the throttle.
 Some of the bodies have not been re- covered yet, and many remain uniden- tifed.
 List of the Dead.
 The known dead are:
 Ralph Mountcastle of Knoxville Tenn; w. A. Galbraith. Knoxville; Mrs w. A. Galbraith. Knoxville; Monroe Ashmore aged 19, Knoxville; John Black, White Pine. Tenn; James King. Knoxville two children of James King, Knoxville; William Kane, Knoxville, engineer of westbound train; Richard Parrott, Knoxville, engineer of east bound train; James Mills, colored, New market. Tenn; Roscoe King, Newman ket, Tenn; E. G. Ernest, Johnson City; G. W. Brown, Dandridge, Tenn; R. B. Goodwin, Jefferson City, Tenn; J. D. Bird Jefferson City. Tenn; M. Jones. son of James Jones, South Knoxville; Mrs. R. B. West. Grainger County, Tenn; J. B. Gass, Dandridge, Tenn. i; Mrs. J. B. Gass. Dandridge. Tenn; Miss Gass, daughter of J. B. Gass' eight Italian immigrants, names un- known; John T. Connor. Knoxville. night foreman at Lohsdale round house; Mrs John P. Connor, Knoxville; daughter of John P Connor; Clayton NJ Heskell. Cincinnati; Mrs. Mary Phelps, residence unknown; J. H. Ste vens, Dandridge, Tenn; one man was found with an envelope in his pocket bearing the name of J. w. Daly, Greens burg, Ind. Miss Mamie Murray. New port, Tenn; Mrs. W. O. Aladdin. Knox vile, and a daughter of Mrs. Gass.i w. M. Brewer, Knoxville; Mary Ethel Shipp. J. NJ. Adkins, Jellico, Tenn; John Molyneux, Glen Mary, Tenn; Rev Isaac Emory, Knoxville. Tenn; J. P King, Newport Tenn; pr. D. A. Fox Nashville. Tenn; Miss Haylow, Birm- ingham. Mrs. Kinsell. Knoxville; Mrs MrEwen, Knoxville; John Black, White Pine Tenn; Julia W. Haddox, Dand- ridge. Tenn.
 Congressman Gibson Hurt.
 Those known to be injured are Congressman Henry R. Gibson oi Knoxville bruised about legs ant shoulders and back wrenched; Mrs Jones Gass of Dandridge, Tenn, fatal. ly injured Mrs Nicols of Dandridge fatally injured; J. x. Smith. of Knox. ville. express messenger; J. T. Saur. rev. of Morristown. Tenn, slightly face bruised not serious; J. S Helms of Knoxville. J Hare of Newmarket rem; Mrs. J Jones of Union. s. c. F Arthur of Union. s. C.; J. w White and wife of Strawberry Plains Tenn; oscar Dalton of Knoxville Tenn;. Miss Lucy Gray of Knoxville Tenn. C. NJ. Livingston of Louisville Ky; s. S. Park and E. W. Robinson of Columbia, s, C.; q. H. Graves oi Asheville, N. C.; E. c. Trent of Chat tanooga, Tenn; Mollie Clowers anC child of Anniston Ala. fatally injured Bert Moore. oi Dandridge. Tenn; J NJ. Anderson of Morristown, bruised Mrs James McCampbell of Knoxville slight. Mrs c. G. Nance of Knoxville Mrs Norrie Eubere of New York, ser ious. perhaps fatal; Mrs. Lucy Harbir of Morristown. Tenn: Mir. and Mrs Hey of Burlington. N. C.; Mrs. VII Iones of South Knoxville. slight; w B Seaton of Jefferson City, Tenn. C. E. Wright, of Jefferson City Tenn; Mrs. l. C. Blankenship O. south Knoxville. both lImbS hroken