The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-07-05
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~ DELAYS TRAFFIC.
MINI Dry Freight Of All Kinds Scattered
Way Over the Tracks.
His Assistant Illinois Central Has Ten
With Dollar wreck Near Clay
by Broken Truck.
Freight of All Kinds Scattered
Over the Tracks.
Illinois Central Has Ten Thousand
Dollar Wreck Near Clay Swith
by Broken Truck.
WOUNDED. GATHERING UP THE DEBRIS.

}, One man injured and $40, 900 dam
I age done, is the result of a freight
{ wreck at Clay Switch, few miles
y south of Mayheld, on the Illinois
I Central yesterday afternoon shortly
! after 1 O'Clock, Freight of every de-
a scription was strewn along the right
n of way for several hundred wards. |
rolling stock smashed to pieces and
Il a delay caused to passenger and |
b. freight trains, the fast through pas
b senger from Cincinnati to New Or
k cans having to detour via East Cairo. |
& IL required ten hours for the Padu-
II cab wrecking crew to clear the track. |
k The first section of manifest
n freight train. No. l55. .est Paducah
J. at 1885 o'clock. II was pulled by
d lengine.' No. 692, the heaviest type
D. freight engine on the system, IN
, charge OF Engineman John Cassell
and Fireman c. c. Cox, this city, and
n Conductor w. l.. Weatherspoon, of
= Memphis. While bowling along att
I, 35 miles an hour at Clay Switch
<. there was a sudden checking OF the
Is train and before the crew was aware
p the cars were leaving the track.
lie While II is not definitely known, 1t
At is presumed a truck broke, causing
d. the first car to leave the rails Thir-
'r teen cars followed II. and but for the
rs timely action of Engineer Cassell.
IN who applied brakes. at once when he
lie felt the train check, the entire line
of cars might have ben wrecked.
George AIDE Hurt.
ty George AIDE, colored brakeman,
Of was on one of the fourteen cars de-
c, rallied. and started to jump but was
Id not quick enough. With a crash the
m ear jammed into the other and buck
d. ed-uf.- He was-thrown clear of the
r wreckage and in allghtlng injured
Id his back and cut his right leg open
In above the knee. He was brought to
In Paducah and placed in the Illinois
Central hospital and is thought not
TO to be seriously injured.
~ The local wrecker was dispatched
G to the scene and began working it
I. about 1880 o'clock IL required un-
,e IA 10 O'Clock for the debris to be
j. cleared away and the track repaired
q, for traffic. Freight of every kind
Pr was lying about Pianos. sewing ma
IN chimes, anvils. whisky, collins. dry
g. goods. clothing. beer, shoes, tobacco
is ard many other classes of freight
r. we're ruined. The railroad company
n dispatched persons to the scene to
s. protect the freight. and many watch
men were patrOling the wreckage
n until Il was gathered up and placed
pr in relief cars. Il is not known how
Is much damage was done, but SIC. 600
~ is a safe estimate in freight and roll
m ing stock.
n The fast passenger train. No. t01,
Of due into Paducah at o'clock from
X Louisville. was detoured via East
L, Cairo. No. l21, the Louisville Full
ton accommodation, arrived at 1870
and was held here until the 1Ol ar
rived. and all passengers for Mayfield
y. and Fulton sent down on e. The
IL morning trains. No. 1914 and 1OS,
n were delayed but slightly, having to
y. proceed slowly over the new laid
ne tracks
70 Wrccker Out Again.
This morning at 7:45 o'clock the
W wrecker left Paducah for Nortonville
d, TO pick up several derailed coal cars
~ II started TO Nortonyille yesterday to
~ work the derailment, when the Clay
- Switch wreck called Il south.