The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-09
SEVERAL INJURED
 IN |. & N. WRECK Second Accident of the Kind
 Within the Week NEGRO FIREMAN WILL DIE Cooked Switch Throws Fast Train From Tracks Just Outside Mont eomery and Many Narrowly
 Escape Death.
NEGRO FIREMAN WILL DIE

Louisville and Nashville train No. 1 going south, was wrecked just outside the city at II o'clock today with heavy loss of property, the fatal injury of one man and the painful injury of sev- eral others. The list is as follows:
 Tom Loving. negro fireman, Mont gomery; will die.
 w. IL Fisher. mail clerk, Nashvl1e head and face and arm cut.
 s. J. Blair, Nashville, mail clerk head and face cut.
 H. S. Everette, Nashville, mail clerk; chin split.
 Passenger who refused to give his name; hand hurt slightly.
 None are seriously injured save the negro fireman, who was mashed fear fully under the engine when it turned over, shortly after running into an open switch. The locomotive is lying on it's side, the tender separated and mashed to scrap iron, the mail car en- trely off the track and broken up badly, the baggage car damned into the tender and one of the chair cars off the track.
 IHeTe were SeNtIdl lfdchS, so no ue- lay was experienced in getting the other trains by the wreck, and no dis turbance of the schedule was encount- cred. The wreck will be out of the way by morning al it is.
 Second in a Week.
 For the second time in. a week one of the fast trains of the Louisville and Nashville railroad is in wreck, Mo- 4 having been ditched outside the city limits of Mobile a few days ago. So great was the force of the Humping cars today the big steel rails were snapped off like twigs
 The train was thrown from the main line by what is known a cooked" switch. the point rails being just short of being closed to the main line. En- gineer w. H. Duncan was not able to see that anything was amiss until he was within a few yards of the turn the target showing so little red as to be indistinguishable at distance.
 As soon as he discovered the trouble with the switch the engineer knew that he was in for a crash, so he threw on the emergency brake, reversed the lever and jumped, "joined the bird gang, as the railroad men say. He fell far from the track slightly shaken but not hurt.
 The front trucks of the locomotive split the switch and the big machine following first on one track and then on the other seemingly, until it struck a car of coal on the siding. Then 1t careened to one side and turned over catching the negro fireman under the side of the boiler -
 The tender broken loose from the en- zine, turned across the sidetrack, the mail car, just behind, being lighter than the others following was thrown entirely off all the tracks into the field, being at right angles and almost over its side when it became still.
 Cars Thrown About.
 The baggage car was right behind the mail car, and was pushed by the two-day coaches, two sleepers and diner in the rear, until 1t went round the end of the mail car and damned it's front end into splinters against the side of the prostrate tender.
 The first chair car following was thrown from the track. but remained in an up- right position without special injury. In fact, the baggage car was upright, though badly torn up at the front.
 From the place where the train first left the track to the place where it finally stopped, the S0-pound steel rails were bent
  coal car struck by the engine was ren- dered useless until it is rebuilt, and the mail car will have to be made over so far as much of the inside is concerned. The engine is badly damaged and will require much work to put it In shape for service again. That more people were not killed seems a miracle.
 When the train struck, the mail clerks were busy sorting matter for the lay-off They over and under work tables and about chairs until they were bundle of bruises when allowed to stop Fisher has a bad cut on the forehead, just over the left eye, that bled very much, along with a number of other gashes on the face and cut on the arm. Blair looked as if some one had hit him with a plank flat on the face. His nose was mashed flat and his chin and forehead broken and bruised. Everette had a cut on the chin that was very ugly and painful. The only other person hurt was passenger, who would not tell his name He received an injury to one hand while trying to drag out the negro fireman.
 Wreck Cleared.
 While the wreck was on the Birming- ham division under Superintendent Brooks, 1t was also in the local yards, of which Superintendent Mckinney of the sMobie and Birmingham division has charge. The wrecker of the Louisville and Nashville and that of the Western Alabama was sent out at once, with Tram Master Mizell in charge, and the work of clearing up the debris was gone into quickly. Fortunately, there were other tracks that could be used. Therefore, there was no delay of the other trains The injured were brought to the city on a special train just after the accident and sent to local hospitals. The sleepers and the day coaches not broken up were sent on to the south by another engine and crew.
 The train was in charge of Conductor McDough of Decatur and Engineer w. Il. Duncan of the same city. Sam Berchlell of Nashville was baggage man and Os- car Watts of Nashville the express mes senger. They were shaken up but not hurt.