The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-23
FOUR MEN IN WRECK
THEY WE'RE SENT TO A MONTGOM-
 ERY HOSPITAL.
IT. E. McDenough, Carl Tally, Tom Walker and c. F. Ward Injured I1e Collision on Atlantic
 Coast Line

l At 12:30 o'clock yesterday train No.
 4S of the Atlantic Coast Line the Do-
 than accommodation, reached Mont.
 gomery bringing 8 hospital car in
 which were four men wounded so bad i ly that the recovery of one is ex- | tremely doubtful
 II The poor maimed and mangled men
 were victims of the terrible headend
 collision near Ozark Wednesday morn- | ing, an account of which was in The
 Advertiser yesterday morning. Swath-
 ed in bandages on rows of cots in | the hospital car were Henry E. Mo- Donough, Carl Tally and Tom Walker
 of this city and c. P. Ward of Pinck- | ard, all white men. As soon as they
 were transferred from the car into several waiting ambulances they were taken to St. Margarets Hospital on Adams Street where every attention possible was given them. Mir. McDonough is the most danger ously injured of any of them, his head being burt. possibly a fractured skull. besides internal injuries that may prove fatal. He is a son of Thomas McDonough who. for number of years. was Master Mechanic of the old Plant Systsm shops before the Att lantic Coast Line absorbed 1t. He was the engineer of the work train, and his NO. ELo, was TeQuC6O 10 a pie of scrap iron. while Carl Tally, his white fireman, who jumped. had both arms broken one of them in two plac- es. His injuries are very serious, though not necessarily fatal. as he landed on his neck he struck the ground after his flying leap through space. r#... 4.s,,.
 Tom Walker was the next most bad ly injured. and strange to say he was the only member of the crew of the westbound freight train to be hurt He was the fireman on the engine, No. PIP. pulling the freight train. He jumped but was caught and three toes on his right foot were cut off besides having the foot badly mashed and being bruised all over his body
 c. P. Ward of Pinckard. was the last man, taken out of the car. He was a brakeman on the work train and had his left arm broken besides being badly bruised.
 The body of James Rhodes, the white brakeman, who was killed on the work train. was taken to Ozark. his home being in that place.
 The freight train which was an ex- tra. was in charge of Engineer Wealth. erford and Conductor Reese. Neither of them were hurt, the only member of the crew of that train to be hurt be- ing Walker.
 The work train was in charge of Engineer McDonough, and Conductor Bird, who was also foreman of the wrecking crew, and nearly everybody on that train except the conductor was dangerously hurt
 In nearly every railroad wreck there is invariably numbered among the fa- | talities a tramp. Sitting on the end of the tank of the work train were four negroes beating their way to Ozark. When the crash came they | made flying leaps. lighting safely and scattering in every direction on re- gaining their balance. number of | loaded cars on the extra freight train were broken up. the most complete | wreck ever seen being a box car load ed with oranges. This car was the | first one behind the engine, and re- | ceived almost as much of the terrific | impact of the collision as did the To- comotive. The entire body of the car down to the floor was cut away as
 clean as if it had been done with a
 saw. The car itself-nothiag but the
 bare floor on a set of trucks-was
 standing straight in the air, Ion it's
 hind legs" so to speak. the sides and
 roof of what had been box car be-
 ing bits of kindling wood.
 Early yesterday morning one of the
 numerous sightseers lowering around
 the wreck holding a round object in
 his hand. being dubious about putting
 it to his lips.
 | What is that?" asked a railroad man.
 ! Hit looks like CT orange, boss" was
 the reply, 'but hits de curiousest
 orange I ever seed"
 That was just about the way the
 entire load looked-at least the ones
 that could be found-and somebody is
 most assuredly shy the freight and
 property value of a car of oranges. l The engine of the eastbound freight
 train was lying on it's side in the ditch
 but 1t is not thought that the ma
 chinery is entirely destroyed. The en-
 zine of the work train is so badly