The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-12
HORROR DOWN SOUTH.
Eleven Persons Killed in Railway
Disaster Near New Orleans.

New Orleans, La, Nov. 11.-Eleven
persons are known TO be dead and a
score or more are injured as a result of
wreck this morning on the New Or
leans & Northeastern railroad at Lit
tie Woods, twelve miles from New Or
leans
Between Slidell and New Orleans the
tracks of the New Orleans & North
eastern are used by the Great North
ern, and it was suburban train of this
road from Covington that crashed into
the rear of q local Northeastern train
from Hattiesburg, Miss, telescoping the
four rear coaches.
The Dead.
c. 3. Lowry of Lexington KY. south
ern representative OF the American
Creosote works of Chica go.
Professor c. Z. Rosen of New Or
leans university
William A. Martin. Sliden, La, coal
merchant in New Orleans
William Atteway s-year-old son of
Mrs. Alphonse Atteway. SlideIl.
Homer Harrison. Slidell, representing
Bradstreet's.
O. w. Travis. address unknown
J. p. Shows. delegate 10 convention
Of Farmers Union from Florida.
Mac 4. Crawford, Seminary, Miss.
August Heitkamp, Slidell.
Two unidentified men.
Relief Train Rushed Out
Little Woods. a fishing and hunting
camp on Lake Ponchartain. is so sur
rounded by swamp that the only access
70 the scene is by way of the railroad.
1t was some time before the news of
the catastrophe reached the city. but as
soon as it was learned. a relief train
Woods. When the rescue party reached
Little Woods. the scene was one of ter
ror. desolation and death The wreck
had caught fire and the first efforts of
the passengers and the loungers about
the camp had been directed toward
subdu1ng the flames In this they had
been partially successful, but little sue
cor had been given to the badly in
iured, 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 later examination of the surgeons
showed that more than one life had
been saved in this manner.
Heroism of the Women.
None worked harder than the women
passengers in this crude surgery With
torn-up underskirts. they hastily bathed
the wounds of the injured and swathed
them in bandages that stopped the flow
of blood. 1t was the men who tore the
cushions from the seats of the wrecked
coaches. but il was the women who
tenderiy laid out the injured upon them
and gave their attention to nursing I'M
til the relief train arrived
Such was the state of affairs that was
found when the first train arrived from
New Orleans with surgeons. nurses and
medical stores.
Only one physician was among the
passengers of the trains, DIR. Henry
Tartleton of Covington. La. who
worked beroically In administering to
the most seriously injured and con-
,nended the efforts OF others in making
the wounded comfortable as possible
under the circumstances
In New Orleans conflicting reports
became current about an hour after the
wreck occurred. This was followed nv
extra editions OF the afternoon papers
announcing that many were killed and
injured. Some of those who reached
the wreck assigned themselves 10 the
task of compiling list of the dead and
injured, but in some instances the
bodies could not be identified