The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-12
Trains Crash in Dense i. Fog.
WRECKAGE FIRED
 FROM AN ENGINE
Catastrophe tn Swamp Near New
 Orleans.
Rescue Psrty ,Hsaehes Scene Some Time After Accident-Exestement in Littie Towns and in City
 Over AppaIlins News.

New Orleans, La. Nov. 1i.--It was q heavy price in human flesh and blood that paid for the errors of railroad trainmen when . Louisiana Great Northern Express crashed into the rear end of New Orleans and Northeastern local shortly before 9 o'clock this morning at Little Woods station, fishing and hunting camp on Lake Pontchartrain, twelve miles from this city '..',".
 Eleven dead and many more injured. some of them fatally. is tl1e record of the wreck, which was attended by unusually gruasome sceens 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 pre- vented the cremation Of those pinned down in the debris.
 Of the eleven persans believed to have been killed, the following have c. A. Crawford, Seminary. Miss.
 William Attaway. years old' SlideL' c. B. Lowry. Southern representa- tive of American Creosote works.
 William A. Martin. slidell, La.
 JAH. Shows. Morriston, Miss.
 Ora Travis Hattiesburg Miss.
 Augustus HeitxamDf, Pearl River, Professor c. E. ROos. New orleans University.
 The injured:
 Jake Saimen. of the salmen Brick and Lumber Company. probably fatally hurt. Peter Mccarthy. fregaan of New Orleans and North Eastern; c. B. Har- ris, aged As, of McGee, Miss; D. B. Calhoun, aged 5s. of Folsom. LaS Mrs. Aiphonse Attaway. of slideIl. La. cut and bruised; Miss Florence Lyde. of Lumberton, Miss; Mra. Robert Hinton, Er.. of Lumberton. Misa.; Miss Robert Hinton, =; J. A. Quick. of Hatties- bnrg,N e4tsg.. badly bFuissd; MaFys Aitve naoTthafpla daughtar of Mrs. Attawayi $. Ngxoh, sefistnary. Mtaas Milton spltxfaden, New 0fIeanss cut and bruised; Peter Rush. txave9ing sales- man, Cincinnati, cut and bruised: w. J. Dickson, Slidel1. La, cut about legs; Robert Hinton. Lumberton. Miss,s leg broken.
 Between slideil and New Orleans the Louisiana Great Northern trains run over the tracks of the New Orr leans and Northeastern Railroad. A local train of the Northeastern from Hattiesburg and other Mississippi points Is due to arrive in New Orleans at S:20 a. m, and this is followed by a from Covingtou and other points In st. Tanfnany parish, which is sched- uled to reach here at $40 e. m. This morning the Northeastern train was late and the difference of twenty min. utes between the running of the trains was considerably reduced.
 When Engineer Biaekman. of the Louisiana Crest Northern train, took the Northeastern tracks at slideli, he says he was given the usual right of way signal and proceeded to shove his train toward New Orleans at fortye five-mile- an hour clip. As the station at Little Woods was approached, he discerned the Northeastern local which suddenly loomed up from beneath the canopy of the fog. Fireman Mccarthy leaped from the engine as soon as he saw the local, but Engineer Black man applied his brakes and remained at the throttle while the ponderous lo' eomottve plowed it's way through the train ahead, leaving behind 1t chan nel of death and destruction. Black man crawled out practically un- scathed, while his fireman sustained painful injuries in his leap.
 Walls and GrOans.
 No one on the Great Northern Ex- press was seriously hurt. but those aboard the North eastern local were not so fortunate. The nose of the big Ex- press engine udO Lutu 4Ao N0y AAASNeAA the two rear coaches of the local and the crash and sound of splitting tim. bers was followed by tho walls and groans of those pinned down in the wreckage wrought by the passage or the huge machine
 Little Woods has no telegraph sta tion and serious delay was experienced in getting telephone message to New Orleans. Even then 1t was two hours before a rescue train arrived and in the meantime the scene around the smouldering wreck was heartrending. One of the passengers who rushed forward from the Great Northern train saw little golden haired boy with hls 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 of them stained with their own blood. made an heroic effort to get to the child. but the wreckage and escaping steam from the partially demolished locomotive cut off their way, and they were forced to stand idly by as the little voice. call ing feebly for help, grew weaker and and was finally hushed.
 This child proved later to be Willie Attaway, the 3-year-old son of Mrs. :. Alphonse Attaway. of slidell La. His little body was taken out of the wreck several hours later, horribly 4nutilated, and placed beside those of six or seven full grown men whose lives were also sacrificed in the ca tastrophe.
 Who erred? That is a question which officials of the two roads con- cerned are asking each other tonight. Some one blundered. This they all agree. but the Northeasteyn officials says that the Great Northern train should have proceeded cautiously after receiving warning at Sltdell and that even if they had been warned. the Northeastern train should have sent a fIagman back when the stop was made at Little Wood&
 The cause of the wreck will be defi- nitely determined in an ofictal inves- tigation by the authorities.
 In New orleans the first report of the wreck became current about 10 1 o'clock, an hour or more after the wreck occurred. This was followed by