The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-25
OF 100 Badly Hurt
Several More
Will Die.
Crowded Passenger Trains
Crash Together in
Tennessee.
Accident Occurs in Broad Daylight and
Is Result Of Engineer, Who Is
Dead, DiSTegarding Orders.

KNOXVILLE. Tenn. Sept. 24.-Run-
ming on a roadbed in a supposedly
high condition Of maintenance and hav-
ing about them every safeguard known
TO a modern railroad. two trains on the
Southern Railway carrying heavy lists
of passengers came together in a fright
ful head-on collision near Hodges
Tenn, to-day. sending hfty-four per-
sons to their death and injuring 12O
several Of whom probably will die
Some Of the bodies have not yet been
recovered and. many remain unidenti-
fed. The known dead:
RALPH MOUNTCASTLE. Knoxville.
W. @. GALBRAITH, Knoxville.
MONROE ASHMORE, aged 10 years,
Knoxville.
JOHN BLACK, White Pine, Tenn.
JAMES KING, Knoxville.
WILLIAM KANE, Knoxville, engineer
Of westbound train.
TWO CHILDREN OF JAMES KING
Knoxville.
RICHARD PARROT. Knoxville, en-
gineer Of eastbound train.
JAMES MILLS, colored, Newmarket
Tenn.
ROSCOE KING. Newmarket, Tenn.
r. q. ERNEST. johnson City, Tenn.
@. ". BROWN. cambridge. Tenn
RIB. GOODWIN. Jefferson City, Tenn.
J. D. BIRD, JEFFERSON City.
WILLIAM JONES, son of James
Jones, South Knoxville.
MRS. r. B. WEST. Granger County,
Tennessee.
J.B. GASS, cambridge, Tenn.
MRS. j. B. GASS. cambridge, Tenn.
MISS GASS.
EIGHT ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS
names unknown
JOHN 7. CONNORS. Knoxville.
MRS. JOHN P. CONNORS AND
DAUGHTER. Knoxville.
CLAYTON HEISKELL, Cincinnai.
MRS. MARY PHELPS residence un-
known.
]. H. STEVENS. cambridge, Tenn
YOUNG NAN, envelope in pocket
bearing name j. W. DAILY, Greensburg
Ind"
MISS MAMIE MURRAY, Newport
Tenn.
MRS. W. o. MADDEN, Knoxville.
WILLIAM BREWER, Knoxville.
MISS ETHEL SHIP.
J. II. ADKINS. Jellico. Tenn
JOHN MOLINEAUX, Glenmary,
Tenn
REV. ISAAC EMORY. Knoxville.
J. KING. Newport Tenn.
DIR. D. A FOX, Nashville.
MISS HARLOW, Birmingham,
Ala.
MRS. KINZELL, Knoxville.
MRS. McEWEN, Knoxville.
JOHN BLACK. White Pine, Tenn.
JULIA ". HADDOX, cambridge,
Tenn.
LONG LIST OF INJURED.
The injured-J. c. Welsh. Swannanoa,
X. c, painfully: Paul Henry, Asheville,
X. c., seriously. g. w. Robinson, Co
umBus. s. c., slightly; William F. Hay,
Wilmington, y. c, slightly; Miss Mary
Brown, Louisville. KY. bruised; S. T.
Lawyer. Louisville, seriously; B. c.
Prince. division freight agent, Central
Of Georgia, Atlanta, badly bruised;
Mrs. George BroughtOn, Jackson. III.
Rev. J. X. Montgomery, Charlotte, n.
G: c. B. Peacand and J. H. Miller
negro Pullman porters; T. w. Ellis
Jersey City, \. J.; Congressman Henry
r. Gibson, Knoxville, bruised about
legs and shoulders; Mrs. Nichols
cambridge. Tenn, fatally injured;
j. \. Smith. Knoxville, express
messenger; J. S. Shellms, Knoxville;
]. II. Free. Newmarket, Tenn; Mrs J.
Jones, Union. S. c: j. c. White, Straw
berry Plains. Tenn; Mrs. ]. W. White
Strawberry Plains, Tenn; Oscar
Dalton, Knoxville. Miss Lucy Gray
Greenville. Tenn; William Livingston
Louisville; A A Park, Columbus, S. c.
C. c. Groves, AsheviIle. n. c.; B. c.
Trenton. Chattanooga; MoIlie CIowers
and child, Admission, Ala, probably IA
tally; Emery Moore, Dandridge, Tenn:
J. NJ. Anderson, MorristOwn. bruised:
Mrs. James N. Campbell. Knoxville:
Mrs. g. C. Nance, Knoxville, Tenn.
Mrs Norie Tuber, New York. rerhaps
fatally: Mrs. Lucy Barbin, Morristown.
seriously: Mr.. and Mrs. Hey. Burling-
ton. n c.: Mrs Will Jones. South
Knoxville: W. B. Heaton. Jefferson
City. Tenn; c. Z. Wright, Jefferson
City; Mrs. l. c. Blankenship. South
Knoxville; Mrs. T. c. McCaIlie. Knox
ville back injured.
ORDERS DISREGARDED.
This appalling loss of life and
manning of the living resulted appar-
entity from the disregard of orders
given to the two trains TO meet at a
station which has for long time been