The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-26
ON KILLED AND hANI WtRE HURT A. C. s. Freight Train Runs Into BIocton Accommodation H. M. HkNBURY IS KILLED None of the Injured Hurt So Serl- ousIy That They Are Unable
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H. M. HANsURY IS KILLED

sene man was killed and more than two dozen people were slightly injured yester- day afternoon about 4:3o o'clock when an Alabama Great Southern freight train struck the next to the rear coach on the Bloeton accommodation of the Birming- ham Mineral branch of the Louisville and Nashville, near Woodstock, at what is called Blocton Junction.
 The conductor on the Mineral, Henry M. Hanbury was the only person killed. The Injured are D. P. Jones, head cut: Minso Jones, head cut; Frank Jodewick, body bruised and right arm cut; Mike vodiski. head cut; F. W. Lennon, thigh bruised Robert Atkinson, head cut; J. B. Thompson, shoulder and side bruised; Alex Dunlap, head and back bruised; J. B. Thompson, shoulder and side bruis- ed Alex Dunlap. head and back bruised; J M. Jones, right hand cut; Mrs. M. E. Hart of Fort Wayne, slightly bruised; Miss Berdie Hart of Fort Payne, slightly bruised; R. G. Minor. slight bruises Will Lawley, slight bruises R. c. Merrell, arm, face and head bruised; D. B. Pain- ter. deputy sheriff of Abernant, side hruised Grant Perryman, slight bruises;
 
 F. E. Tildsley, left arm hurt; Louis Ar van, head and legs bruised. All white.
 The negroes injured are Charles Harvis. c. L. Rather, Jim Jones, Martin Mason. Jim Hudson, John Glover. William Wash ington, Peter Wallace and Florence Jones.
 None Badly Injured.
 Not single one of the injuries was so serious that the person sustaining them was unable to walk. All the passengers on the train were inside the cars while it is thought that Conductor Hanbury had just stepped to the platform In going from one car to another. He was caught between the cars and badly mangled. His body was brought to Birmingham and carried to the undertaking establishment of Shaw & Son to be prepared for inter- ment.
 The passenger train was the Blocton ac- commodation, which leaves Birmingham at o'clock in the afternoon. It is said to have left few minutes late yesterday afternoon. The Alabama Great Southern train is the through freight from New Orleans known as the meat train, which runs on passenger schedule.
 Brought to Birmingham.
 As many of the injured people as de- sired to come were brought to Birming- ham on a relief train which was sent to Blocton Junction immediately after the wreck A number of physicians went to the. wreck on the relief train, which reached the place within an hour and half after the wreck. The physicians had bandaged the injuries before the re- lief train returned to Birmingham Four teen of those injured were taken to St vincent's hospital. The others did not require hospital treatment.
 Cause of Wreck.
 The wreck seems to be due to a misun- derstanding about which train had the right of way over the crossing. The Min eral report of the wreck says that It's train, which was going southeast at the time, stopped some distance from the crossing and allowed a passenger to alight. Then the train proceeded, and the next to the rear coach. there being five coaches on the train, was struck by the X. G. s. engine and one car de- molished and another badly damaged They claim that the A. c. s.. train did not stop for the crossing as is re- quired.
 The statement by Engineer Daniels of the A. G. s., which is confirmed by the train crew, is that the train stopped for the crossing about fifty yards from the crossing, and then started ahead. The engineer states that the Mineral train was coming on his left side, or the side of the cab occupied by the fireman, and that he did not see that 1t was attempting to cross until 1t was too late to stop his train.
 The engine and three cars of the Min eral train had passed over the crossing before the train was struck. Engineer Sil- lman was in charge of the Mineral train and Engineer Daniels and Conductor Page in charge of the A. G. s. train.
 Conductor Hanbury had been with the Louisville and Nashville, of which the Birmingham Mineral is a division, for the past ten years, and was considered one of the Best passenger conductors on the road. He leaves wife and two children who live at 9l6 South Fourteenth street. and several brothers. The funeral ar- engagements will be made today