New-York tribune., 1908-11-12
COLLISION KILLS II
MANY MORE INJURED.
One Passenger Train Crashes Into
another Near NezU Orleans.

New Orleans, Nov. lit heavy prizes In
human life that paid for the errors of railroad
trainmen to-day when a Great Northern express
crashed into the rear Of a New Orleans & North
eastern local train at Little Woods station. fish
ing and hunting camp Lake Pontchartralh'
twelve miles from New Orleans Eleven dead ana
many more injured OF them fatally. 1s the
record Of the wreck, which attended by un-
usually grewsome scenes in the foggy swamps Oh
the lake shore. To add the horror Of the situa-
ton the wreck caught fire and only the heroic
work of the surviving passengers prevented the
cremation of those pinned in the debris
Among the dead are G. D. Lowry, Of Lexington
KY Southern representative Of the American Creo-
sote Works of Chicago; Professor c. B. Roos OF
New Orleans University. and william A Martin OF
slideD, La, coal merchant OF New Orleans
Between SIidelI and New Orleans the Great Nor
thern trains run over the tracks Of the New Or
leans & Northeastern road A local train OF the
Northeastern from Hattiesburg and other Missis-
sppi points IS due TO arrive in New Orleans twenty
minutes before the fast Great Northern tram
from Covington. This morning the Northeastern
train was late and the difference OF twenty min
utes between the running Of the trains was con-
sderaby reduced
When Blaclman the engineer Of the Great
Northern train, took the Northeastern tracks at
Sliden received usual right Of way signal he
says, and proceeded to move his train toward New
Orleans at forty-hve miles hour As Ltue
Woods was approached the Northeastern local sud
denly doomed up through the fog. Backman ap-
Piled the brakes remained at the throttle while
the ponderous locomotive ploughed its way partly
through the train ahead. leaving behind 1t trail
of corpses and injured passengers
No one on the Great Northern express was ser1-
ousv hurt but those aboard the Northeastern 10
cal were thrown right and left crushed by the
express locomotive 1t tore through the two rear
coaches of the local As Little Woods has no tele-
graph station serious delay experienced In get
ting message to New Orleans. and 1t was two
hours before q rescue train arrived. In the mean
time passengers of the Great Northern train did
all they could to the injured, and Undoubt-
eS1ly saved several lives.
Among the sights that greeted the rescuers was
that of a small boy apparently unable to extri-
cate himself from the wreckage, which was fast
settling on him. score more OF men made a
heroic effort to get the child but the wreckage
and escaping steam from the damaged locomotive
cut off their way, and they were forced to stand
dIv bv while the child called futiley for help until
he died This child proved TO be Willie Attaway.
three wears old. son of Mrs. Alphonse Attaway, OF
Sldell, La
That some one biundered IS admitted by railroad
officers but the delinquent has not been determined
Northeastern Railway officers say that the Great
Northern train should have proceeded cautiously
after receiving warning at slidelI that the local
train was late. The Great Northern trainmen say
that they received warning at Sltdell, and that
even if they had been warned the Northeastern
tYain should have sent hagman back when the
stop was made at Little Woods.