The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
ERROR KILLS MANY
ELEVEN KILLED AND MANY IN. JUREp, SOME FATALLY,
 NEAR NEW ORLEANS.
SOMEBODY MADE AN AWFUL MISTAKE
Express Flows Through Local Pas scneer Train in Fog-6ound swsmps Near Lake ponchartrain, La-Pss- senpers Made Heroic Efforts to Save Wounded-Each Road 5lames Other.

1 New Orleans, La, Nov 13.--A heavy
 price in human flesh and blood was paid for the errors of trainmen when l Great Northern express crashed into l the rear of New Orleans & North eastern local shortly before nine o'clock Wednesday morning at Little Woods station. fishing and hunting camp on Lake Ponchartrain, f2 miles { from this city.
 Eleven dead and many more in. 1 iured. some of them fatally, is the record of the wreck, which was at tended by unusually gruesome scenes in the fog-bound swamps of the lake shore. To add to the horror of the situation, the wreck caught fire and only the heroic work of the surviving passengers prevented the cremation of those pinned down in the debris.
 Between Slidell and New orleans the Great Northern trains run over the tracks of the New Orleans & Northeastern road. A local train of the Northeastern from Hattiesburg and other Mississippi points is due to L., and this is followed by fast Great Northern train from Covington sched- uled to reach here at $40 a. m Wednesday morning the Northeastern train was late and the difference of 20 minutes between the running of the trains was considerably reduced
 When Engineer Blackman, of the l . eastern tracks at Slidell, he says he was given the usual right of way signal and proceeded 10 shove his train toward New Orleans at a 45-mie-an- hour clip. As the station of Little Woods was approached the Northeast. ern local suddenly loomed up through the fog Engineer Blackman applied his brakes and remained at the throttle while the ponderous locomo tive plowed it's way through the train ahead, leaving behind il a trail of dead and injured passengers.
 No one on the Great Northern ex- press was seriously hurt, but the nose If the big express engine tore its way entirely through the two rear coaches Oi the iOcaf
 Little Woods has no telegraph sta tion and serious delay was expert enced in getting a telephone message to New Orleans. Even then it was two hours before a rescue train ar rived. and in the meantime the scenes around the smoIdering wreck were heartrending. One of the passengers who rushed forward from the Great Northern train saw golden-haired boy with his hands waving piteously above his head. apparently unable to extricate himself from the wreckage. which was fast settling down upon him. A score or more of men, some made an heroic effort to get the child, but the wreckage and escaping steam from the partially demolished locomo- l tive interfered and they were forced to stand helpless as the little voice, calling feebly for help, grew weaker and weaker and was finally hushed. This child proved later to be Willie Attaway, the three-year-old son of Mrs. Alphonse Attaway of Slidell, La. His body was taken out of the wreck sev- eral hours later. horribly mutilated and placed beside those of six or seven men, whose lives were also sacrificed in the catastrophe.
 The Northeastern officials say that the Great Northern train should have proceeded cautiously after receiving warning at Slidell that the local train was running ahead of them late. The Great Northern trian crew claim they received no warning at Slidell and that even if they had been warned, the Northeastern train should have sent iagman back when the stop was made ;-s Little Woods.