Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-13
TRAINS CRASH
ON LOUISIANA
ROAD. Il DEAD
MEET IN REAR-END COLLISION,
THE HEAD TRAIN TAKING FIRE
AFTER WRECK.
ALL COACHES ARE DERAlLED.
Relief Cars Are Made Up in New Or
leans and Rushed to Scene
of the Accident.


NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov 11.-Elev-
en- persons are known to be dead and a
score or more injured as result of a
wreck today on the New Orleans and
Northeastern railroad, at Little Woods,
twelve miles from New Orleans.
Between Slidell and New Orleans the
tracks of the New Orleans & North
eastern railroad are used by the Great
Northern railroad and it was a suburban
train of this road from Covington that
crashed into the rear of a local North
eastern train from Hattiesburg, Miss,
telescoping the four rear coaches.
Partial List of Dead.
A partial list of the dead follows:
ROOS, CHARLES, teacher, 40 years old.
Alton, La.
MARTIN, WILLIAM, 80, home in Slidell,
in coal business in New Orleans.
EDLESSON, GEORGE, 40 Slidell.
LOWRY, c. B., Chicago, drummer for
American Creosote works
GETAWAY, -, little child, home in
SlidelI.
List of Injured.
Among the injured are:
EodILueI, luluDeTHldD
A. Quick, aged 3d. farmer, Hattiesburg,
severely bruised about head, body and hips
and legs.
Milton Spitzfaden, Algiers, La, badly
bruised
About twelve miles from New Orleans,
Little Woods, fishing and hunting
camp ON Lake Pontchartrain, is so sur
rounded by swamps that the only ap-
oh J. e IL IL L,
way of the railroad. 1t was some time
before the news of the catastrophe
reached the city, but as soon as it was
learned the relief train was hastily made
up and rushed to the aid of the passen-
gers and their dead and dying.
Wreck Catches Fire
When the rescue party reached Lit
tie Woods, the wreck had caught fire
and the first efforts of the passengers
and the few fishermen and hunters were
directed toward subduing the flames In
this they had been partly successful but
little succOr had been given to the
badly injured and several of these died
while lying about the Smouldering debris
Rude bandages had been bound about
their wounds in an effort to stop the
flow of blood and in many instances
the latter examination of the railroad
surgeons showed that more than one life
had been saved III this manner.
Women Work Hard.
None worked harder than the women
passengers in taking care of the injured
Tearing up underskirts, they bound
wounds, thus stopping the flow of blood.
Only one physician was among the
passengers of the trains, DIR. Henry Tar
Teton of Covington, La, who worked
heroically in administering to the most
seriously injured and directing the eff
forts of others in making'the wounded
as comfortable as possible under the cir
cumStances.
Cause Is Unknown.
Exactly why the catastrophe occurred
is not yet known. The New Orleans
and Great Northern and New OrleaIs
and Northeastern run on the same tracks
from Slidell to New Orleans. III ere is
only slight difference in the sci edule
Of the arrival here of the two trains.
From information obtainable, il a3-
pears that the Great Northern must have
been II few minutes late, as, according
To schedule, il would have preceded the
Northeastern into the city by about
twenty minutes.