The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-01
PINNED UNDER HEAVY ENGINE. Flagman McDonald Dies
 of Injuries. TRAIN WRECK ON THEL. &N. In Darkness Locomotive Crashes
 into CabooSe. TafI-End Collision of Freight Trains Eighty Miles south of Mont gomery-NO others ser-
 iousIy Injured.

AL lZs4U O CLOCK NcStGFQdy the most disastrous wreck that the Mo- bile and Montgomery div:s on of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad has had in some time, occurred between south of Montgomery. It was q tall end collision between freight trains going south, the engine of the fourth section of No. lS, crashing into the ca Melville Mcdonald, a f.agman. sus- tained injuries from which he died at St. Margaret's hospital at o'clock yes-
 Train No. is is through freight train, which leaves the South and North yards in North Montgomery at 12:3) ?. m. It is invariably an unusually six sections. Thursday atternon it left Montgomery in four sections, the two last sections getting out very late, Conducor Nat Cook and Engineer J. ]. Frazer The third section wh ch left the yards 2 short whi before. was tn charge of Conductor Gardner and Engi- Donald was one of the crew of this train as was R. Tate, a new flagman who was learning the road and was making his first trip.
 When the third section reached Ever green. eigALy vniles south of Mo1tgom- cry, the two flagmen went a good dis tance up the. track to flag the. fourth section which was just behind them.
 
 green the third section had gone sn they got on the engine with Engineer Frazer intending to catch their train
 Just how the collision occurred, seems to be in doubt. The moon which had made the early part of the night almost as bright as day, had gone down. and in addition to the d ,rikness; there was a heavy fog. With fearful suddenness the trains came together The. yellow g,ow from the head light of engine No. 9S5 which was pu ling the fourth. section of No. IS, had scarcely lighted up the guard railing and back door Of a caboose only a few feet In front when the deafening crash came.
 When he saw that the collision wasi inevitable Engineer Frazier. w.lA his negro fireman and Fl gman Tate, leap- ed from the side of the cab. The wild jump Of the three into the darkness was not made one moment too soon for, with roar, the heavy engine struck the eaboose. Mr, McDona d d q not have time to jump and was caught biow almost m tuTnsd the big pGree meeoie oc ine around after which 1t fell over on it's side Fiagman Mcdonald being buried
 Besides the caboose in the train of the section of No 13, six cars were demolished. three cars loaded with ex- port cotton and three empties.
 The work of rescue was begun at once and frantically the crews of both trains tried to get at the unfortunate fiagman who was pinned beneath the Nsayy locomotive. All thf woodwork ing short of the machinery carried on the wrecking train could budge the heavy engine. That the life was not engine first fell on him is marvel, put he was not killed outright. Almost within touching distance the friends of the doomed man were forced to stand by utterly powerless to do anything In the meanwhile traflc was complete " blocked and trains were tied up on either side of the wreck.
 Train No. which leaves Montgom- cry. for New. Orleans at 9:35 p. m, and trains No. s6 and 2, due in Montgomery from New Orleans at a. m, and 6:3O a. m., respC1tively, had to wait until from Montgomery, could clear the track.
 It was nearly o'clock yesterday morning before the wrecker succeeded body of Mir. Mcdonald who was uncon- scious when lifted tenderly from out the mass of wreckage. Besides being badly mashed. he was terribly sealded by the hot steam and water gushing from the overturned engine. Every thing possible was done for him by the surgeon who went from Mont gomery on the wrecking and relief brought back to consciousness.
 Train No. 2, which Is due in Mont gomery thirty minutes behind No. 96. left she scene of the wreck ahead Of that train, which followed to Mont gomery closely. Engineer Frazier came to Montgomery in one of the Pullman cars of train No. 2, while MT McDonald was made as comfortable as possible on a stretcher in the baggage car of No. 96. Train No. reached Montgomery at 1910 o'clock yesterday directly to his home. None of his in- juries is serious. At 12:40 o'clock yes terday afternoon train No. 96 reached Montgomery, and the Injured hagman was sent at once to St Margarets Hos pital, where he lived for four hours, breathing his last at o'clock yester- day afternoon. His agonized mother left her home 1T DeFuniak, Fla, as soon as she heard the news of the wreck and accident to her son, but ar rived here too late to be at the death- bed of her son. She reached Montg gom- cry. on train No. from Mobile. That ?. m., but was forty minutes late yes- terday afternoon.
 A pathetic incident of her sad jour ney to Montgomery was that when the train she vas on reaCned the scene of the wreck the details of the accident were again told her. Up the road ten miles was Evergreen and when the train reached there a telegram was handed her telling of the death of Mir. Mcdonald in Montgomery.
 Melville McDonald was a splendid type or young AIheriCah hndhuoou, HS was the sole support of his widowed mother. He had been employed by the Mobile and Montgomery division some thing over two years, sCarting as a daRman on the Geneva accommodation train, serving for some time as one of the gatemen at the union railway sta lion, and then in the union station bag gage room. Finally he was put on one Of the through train runs between here and Mobile and by his exemplary habits and strict attention to business, was to have been promoted in the near future.
 As soon as the news of his death was learned at the union station, a number of his friends at once ordered a hand some floral design. The remains were sent to DeFuniak, Fla. on train No, 3 last night, Station Master Berry Grant, Homer McLane and R. P. Sharp of the union station accompanying Mrs. Me- Donald on her return to her Florida home. The funeral will be held in