The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-16
DETAILS LACKING YESTERDAY
SHOW EXTENT OF HORROR.
When Passenger Train on ", c. a.
Sc. l.. Crashes Into Freight
at Pegram.
ONE PADUcAH MAN ON TRAIN.
The Killed.

NAAA NAOhanH A6Ah'NA
227 Fourteenth avenue, North, dead
aud body burned.
Joe Cover. engineer on passenger
train. S04 Eighteenth avenue, North.
killed and body burned.
Jess Harrington. engineer on
freight SO7 Eighteenth avenue
North. killed and body burned.
Walter Roach, messenger, $40
Berryhlll street, killed and body
burned.
Sam whited. 1913 Grundy street
fireman on freight, killed and
burned
S. b welp. Burns. Tenn, head
brakeman on freight. killed.
w. S. Stalcup, mail clerk OF Mar
tin, Tenn. killed and burned.
l.. c. Bailey. mail clerk, Martin
killed and burned.
The Injured.
Bob HALEY. fireman No. 4. Nash
Vile. two ribs broken and left side
injured.
Ellis Martin. conductor No. 81.
l117 McGavock street. Nashville in.
jured In head and internally (may
dle).
Capt. 7. lobe. Burton. n. c.. right
side and back injured
VIM. Lunsford, Peachtree. y. c.
right arm and shoulder bruised.
w. L. Thomasson. Peachtree, n. G.
left shoulder and arm hurt.
r. W. Boyd. Almond. ~ c.. right
shoulder and head hurt.
Mrs l.. NJ Lee, Tullahoma, right
shoulder hurt.
Mrs. Temple, Lunsford. Murphy
n. c.. shoulder and neck hurt.
Mrs. A. c. Thomasson. Murphy. n
C.. left ankle and shoulder and neck
hurt
May Thomasson. Murphy. ~ c..
riFht arm hurt.
Mrs. Mary ]. Jackson, Mclean
Branch. Tenn. right arm and back
hurt
Mrs. Joseph 5. Lively. McMlnn-
Vile. sprained knee.
Are. John Dunn. Cumberland Furn
ace. nose hurt
Mr. John Dunn, Cumberland Furn-
ace. noee hurt.
Mrs Sam Warren. Nashville
scratched under right eye.
Mrs NJ. J Gillem. Nashville. slight
bruise ON hip
Nashville. Sept. 16.-Eleht dead
and fifteen passengers Injured two
fatally. perhaps). ~ the result OF the
head-on collision on the ~. c. a. 81
l.. railway yesterday 2h miles west
of Pegram station. between No. 4
passenger train. west-bound, and No
81 fast freight, east-bound
The wreckage caught ere follow
ing the impact and the baggage
mail. express and smoker we're
burned.
work Like Trojans.
Through the almost superhuman
strength exerted by the nassengers
who we're rallied by the cooler heads
the three day coaches and the Pull
man were pushed back from the IRE
and the equipment saved.
Assisting in the work were: Attor-
ney-Genoral Charles r Gates. Jr.
DR. ! c. Franklin. OF Nashville. W.
l. Mitchell. OF Nashville. John w.
Neal. OF Houston. Tex. j. Il. Agee
postmaster az Pegram. J. n. and J
VI. Whitsett OF Nashville. J A. Co
BILE. OF Union City. ]. c. Cook. Jr.. OF
Nashville. Max Isaacs, news butch. of
Nashville. Flagman c. +. Tucker. of
No. 4, A. r. Hogen. of Waverly. Il
Y. Jones. of Detroit. and all other
men who were not attending 20 dead
and injured.
Passenger Crew Blamed.
While the railroad authorities are
endoavorlng TO place the blame II Il
the general impression among pas
sengers. and trainmen that the fault
was with the passenger crew, as or
ders to meet at Pegram had been IS
sued aud the wreck occurred west OF
that station.
Assistant Superintendent j. A
Boyers. who went out on the relief
train. said he thought passing orders
had been issued for Pegram station
although the investigation would re-
veal the facts.
Horrible Sight.
The scene OF the wreck Is one thai
sickens. as the bodies of several EN-
ployes are beneath the tangled mas
and burned the rescuers being un
able to get the bodies OF VIII Mogan
Jesse Harrington. Sam Whted ant
Ben Warp. All that was secured o
Mogan was an arm. while the left LEI
Of one OF the mail clerks was pullet