Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-08-29
TRAIN
TURNS OVER
NO DEATHS BUT MANY PEOPLE
ARE INJURED.
TUG SINKS IN COLLISION
Confusion of Signals to Blame for
Accident in Which Five People
Were Probably Lost-Tranmen
Die in Wreck-Another Victim of
FernIeaf Disaster.

Charlottesville, Va, August 81
Twenty-one people were injured, none
Of them seriously, by the derailment
of northbound train On the Southern
railway at he'd Hill, nine miles south
of here, early yesterday. The entire
train except the engine and tender
turned over. The accident was
caused by a broken rail. The train
fortunately was running at moderate
speed. A special train which was
Immediately made up here carried all
of the injured to Washington. The
train wrecked was the New York ant
Augusta express.
The private car of Bird M. 7
son, the president of the Mobile,
Jackson and Kansas City railway, was
wrecked, but the party aboard the
car escaped uninjured. The same
crew was in the thanksgiving daV
wreck when President Spencer OF
the Southern railway was killed.
Train Has Narrow Escape.
Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. 27.-The
forward truck on one of the passen-
ger coaches attached to the Pottsyille
accommodation train of the Philadel-
phia & Reading railway yesterday
jumped a switch on the west side or
the SchuylkilI river, near the ap-
proach to the falls of Schuylkill
bridge, this city, and the entire train
narrowly escaped plunging over
6O-foot embankment into the river.
After the truck left the track the
train ran a distance of 80 yards be-
fore it could be brought to a stop, the
derailed wheels tearing up the road
bed for the entire distance. The pas
sengers in the derailed car were
thrown from their seats but no one
was injured. The car, which was In
the center of the train, was placed
back On the tracks and the train, af-
ter an hours delay, proceeded
Two Trainmen Killed.
Portsmouth, Ohio, Aug. Gloon
ductor Robert Gilmore of this city and
Engineer ]. G. Purdy of Sardinia,
Ohio, were killed outright and six or
more trainmen seriously injured In a
head-on collision between two Nor
folk and Western freight trains, near
Rarden, yesterday. A relief train
bearing physicians and medical sup
plies was rushed to the scene from
here. Among the injured are Engin-
GERS Cliff Smith and William Nichols
and Fireman G. Workman, all of this
city. Official reports of the wreck
give "dense fog" as the cause.
Another Wreck Victim.
Salida, Colo, Aug. 27.-Mrs. Ara
bella Dolley, aged 68, of Whittier
Cal, died in the Rio Grande hospital
here, of injuries received in the wreck
of the Utah California express on the
Denver and Rio Grande railroad at
Fernleaf, % miles west of Salfda, Sat
urday evening. Mrs. DoIley was &C
companied On the journey by her hus-
band, N. w. DoIley, her son, L. Dolley,
his wife and three children. The
party was on a pleasure trip. The
others injured are recovering. Part
of the running gear of the forward To-
comOtlVe broke, dropping to the track
and derailing the train.
Tug Sinks in Collision.
Baltimore, Md, Aug. 27-The tug
Gerry of Wilmington. Del, was sunk
in collision with the British steam
er Barnstable Sunday night in the
Patapsco river off Sparrows Point.
Five men are believed to have lost
their lives, out of 25 who were on the
tug boat. Six of the survivors clam
bered up the side of the steamer by
means of the anchor chain. The re-
mainder were picked up by the steam
er's boat or swan to a dredge moored
near by. Confusion of signals seems
to have caused the accident, each side
claiming that the other was at fault.