The Western news., 1904-09-28
OVER SIXTY KILLED IN WRECK
HEAD ON COLLISION OF PASSEN-
GER TRAINS IN TENNESSEE.
Over $50 Persons Injured, Several Of
Whom Will Probably Die-Orders
Had Been Disregarded-The Trains
Come Together on Curve in Broad
Daylight, Running IS Miles an Hour.

Daylight, Running 35 Miles an Hour,
Knoxville, Tenn..-.kunning on a
roadbed in a supposedly high condi.
ton OF maintenance and having about
them every safeguard known to a
modern railroad, two trains on the
Southern railway, carrying heavy lists
OF passengers, came together in a
frlghtful head end collision near Hod.
ges, Tenn, sending 81 people to death
and injuring 12O, several of whom will
probably die.
Some of the bodies have not vet
been recovered and many remain un-
identified.
The Known Dead.
Ralph Mountcastle, Knoxville. w A.
Galbraith. Knoxville; Monroe Ash
more. age 19, Knoxville; John Black,
White Pine, Tenn; James King Knox
vile; two children of James King.
Knoxville; William Kane, Knoxville.
engineer of westbound train; Richard
Parrott, Knoxville, engineer on east.
bound train; James Mills, colored, New
Market, Tenn; Roscoe King. New
Market, Tenn; E. G. Ernest, johnson
City. Tenn; G. w. Brown, cambridge.
Tenn; R. B. Goodwin, Jefferson City
Ienn.; J. D. Bird, Jefferson City,
Tenn; William Jones, son of James
Jones. South Knoxville, Tenn; Mrs.
II. b. West, Granger county, Tenn:
>. b. Gass, cambridge, Tenn; Mrs. J.
b. Gass, cambridge, Tenn; Miss Gass.
eight Italian immigrants, names un.
known; John T. Connor, Knoxville:
Mrs. John Pionner, Knoxville, and
daughter; Clayton Heiskell, Cincin.
natl; Mrs. Mary Phelps, residence un.
known; j. H. Stevens, cambridge:
young man. envelope in pocket bear
ing name of 81. w. DAILY, Greensburg,
Ind; Miss Mamie Murray, Newport,
Tenn; Mrs. w. o. Hadden, Knoxville;
William Brewer, Knoxville; Mary Eth.
ell Shipp; j. M. Adkins, Jellico, Tenn:
John Mollineaux, Glenmary, Tenn;
Rev. Isaac Emory, Knoxville; ]. King
Newport, Tenn; Dr. D. A. Fox, Nash
vile. Miss Hatilow, Birmingham, Ala;
Mrs. kinzell, Knoxville; Mrs. McEwen
Knoxville; John Black, White Pine,
Tenn; Julia w. Haddox, cambridge,
Tenn.
Disobedience of Orders.
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 a station
which has for long time 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 little frame in front of
him as his engine rushed by the sta
tion, and mile and half further on
came full upon an east bound passen-
ger train. The possibility exists that
the i'll fated engineer may have been
asleep.
The trans 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 We're demol-
ished, and why the orders were disre-
garded or misinterpreted will probab-
ly never be known, as the engineers of
the two trains We're crushed, their bod
les remaining for hours under the
wreckage of their locomotives.
The collision was between east
bound passenger No. II and west
bound passenger No. Is from Bristol
No. II was heavy train carrying
three Pullmans, two day coaches and
mail and baggage cars. No Is was
a light local train. The greatest loss
of life occurred in the east bound
train while in the west bound train
only the engine crew were killed Re-
lief trains were dispatched from Knox
Vile within an hour. and all the physi-
clans in the vicinity of the wreck were
doing all they could when the local
corps arrived.
Later.
The death list as result of the