The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-12
WRECK AT LYNNvILLE
L. & N. PASSENGER TRAIN RAN
 THOUGHT SPLIT SWITCH.
Postal Agent Charles R. Hughes was Injured and Passengers Were Bruised--Other News of
 Railroads.

The limited Louisville and Nashville | train No. 1, due in Montgomery at II | a. m., was wrecked at 4:30 o'clock | vest erday morning at Lynnville, Tenn, twelve miles south of Nashville The wreck was caused by the train | seven cars were ditched and three
 turned completely over not a passan- | ger or member of the crew was killed | outright.
 The train was in charge of Conduc- | tor Andy Corbett. Flagman Palmer and Engineer John Fry. on engine 352. As the train split the switch cars began topping over. The tank was wrenched | loose from the engine, that big piece 1 of machinery being badly used up but staying on the tracks. Engineer Fry stuck to his cab but his fireman, | white man. jumped and landed in the | center of the main line track. He was l badly shaken up and his right ankle | was dislocated.
 In the postal car. the first car be- | hind the engine, were three mail agents. This car followed the tank of l the engine in z mad race to reach some | plowed ground outside of the rIght-of- | way, the postal car describing grace | full curve in complete somersault. | Every one of the clerks in the car We're l considerably shaken up. Charles R. | Hughes of Nashville, the letter clerk, | in charge of the car, was so seriously ] injured that it was svme hours before | he regained consciousness.
 General Manager Starke had his pri- 1 vate car on the rear of the train and he detailed force of men to guard the | mail until another postal car was sent | to the scene of the accident. ] In the baggage car. next the mail | car, Baggage Master Harrison was ait- | ting in an arm chair, having just fin- | ished checking up his run out of Nash | vile. His escape was possibly the | most miraculous of anybody on the l train, as his car, like the one in front,
 turned completely over. As he de- | scribes the scene, 1t must have been | an Inferno as the heavy trunks rained
 about his ears, the appalling crashes | making a horrible, babel-like pande-
 monium. His life was saved by the | armchair. He was dashed to the floor
 and the chair piled just over nim, rot
 touching his body. A great trunk vas | hurled down and fell on top of the
 chair. If the chair had not been there l the trunk would have crushed the lie
 out of the bagga agemaster.
 The confusion in the coaches was in
 describable, people being hurled from
 their seats and piled on top of each
 other as if they had been jnanimate |
 scare and a few bruises except a ne-
 gro woman who was sent to a hospi-
 tai in Birmingham, the fireman and
 postal clerks being left in a hospital
 at Pulaski, Tenn.
 There were three Pullman cars on
 the train, one of them being so badly
 damaged as to be lert at Lynnville, the | front trucks of the one next being de-
 railed while the third one with the
 General Managers car, never left the | tracks.
 Most of the passengers were crowd
 ed into the two Pullman cars and the
 General Managers car until other day
 coaches had been picked up at Pulaski | and stations along the line.
 At Decatur Engineer Fry finished Eis
 run, which Is between Nashville and | Decatur, Engineer Cobb bringing the
 train from Decatur to Montgomery.
 getting here at 4:30 o'clock yesterday
 afternoon, five hours and thirty min | utes late.