The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-05-21
FATAL MISTAKE
MADE BY ENGINEER
Former Paducah Man Killed in
Missouri Yesterday.
Enigueer Marion Keith Meets Death
ina Wreck Near Pied
mont.
SEVERAL BADLY HURT
SEVERAL

known and most popular engineers on
the division, was killed in wreck on
the Iron Mountain at Piedmont, Mo.
yesterday. Last night his friends here
were notified.
Yesterdays Globe Democrat gives
the following account of the wreck:
A headend collision between north
bound Iron Mountain passenger train
No. and southoound freight train
No. 81, between Clearwater and Car
ter's switch, three miles south of Pied
mont, resulted in the death of one
man, NJ Keith, engineer Of the freight
train. Four persons were severely
injured ana three others slightly.
The fault of the wreck seems 70 lie
with the dead engineer and the con-
ductor of the freight train. who had
orders to leave the Piedmont yards
after the passenger train left Pied
mont Instead OF obey ing this order,
or thinking the passenger had come,
the train pulled out.
The baggage car was turned com.
pletely over and landed right side up
in Mckenzie creek.
All the officials of the Missouri di-
vision of the road were at the scene
Of the disaster supervising the clear
ing Of the track. A gang Of more
than hundred men worked without
eating for hours, in order to let
passing trains by.
The central part of the wreck where
the engines came together, was locked
together and packed so solidly that the
combined strength of two of the Iron
Mountains largest engines could not
badge them. 9atu.
Both trains were running st full
speed and met at sharp curve on n
high embankment. Both engine crews
jumped as soon as they saw the danger
and escaped with injnries. except
Keith, who was buried beneath sew
eral feet of wreckage and was not
rescued until five hours later. All
hope Of finding the corpse had been
abandoned and search had stopped
for more than an hour, when
farmer happened to run his hand
under q side of a car and felt a
foot. The body was rescued imme-
diately.
The Iron Mountain lost heavily in
the wreck. Both engines were almost
totally destroyed. being crosswise on
the track. The mail car was thrown
over the engine and totally destroyed.
Four cars OF beer were wrecked and
barrels and bottles were strewn for
hundreds Of feet on both sides of the
rack.
Dead: M. Keith, aged 20 years,
IF Memphis, Tenn, engineer on pas
'enger train.
Injured: James Greer, rs, single,
ZIG Lafayette avenue, st. Louis, fire.
nan on passenger train; left leg, |
,nkle and knee severely injured; not
Ierious. Leonard Griswold, 20, news
agent, 416 South 10th street, st.
louis left leg fractured and side bad
y hurt; not serious.
Hiram Waters, 46, Bismark, Mo-,
I'D ON left side fractured and head
tut not serious. Mel Garrett. negro.
Pullman porter. 20o4 Stoddard street
light eye badly cut and right side
lurt. Edward o. Hull, 30, De Soto.
No.. engineer on passenger train; left
eg injured and right knee cut. Charles
}. Norby, rs, Little Rock. Ark. Gre
nan on freight train; left eye bruised
md cut and head bruised. William
Hall, Benton, conductor on passenger
INJURIES to head and face; slight.
The remains Of Engineer Keith
we're taken to his home In Newbern,
Tenn, for burial. He has wife and
.wo children there. Engineer Keith
, ad been an engineer for five years,
md until a year ago ran into Paducah
IN the Illinois Central. Lately he
rad been running out of Little Rock,
Ark, on the Iron Mountain. He
was "a member of the local brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers, and