The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-09
By Associated Press.

BY Associates Press
Memphis, Tenn, Feb. Stunning
at high rate of spsed. the Chicago
Flyer of the Illinois Central railroad
plunged into an open switch at Cold
water. Miss. early today. Two Fe0-
pie were killed and a score injured,
several OF them probably fatally.
The dead:
MARTIN STANLEY, 1888 Rayburn
boulevard, Memphis
Others may be dead in The wreck,
but their bodies have not been found.
At the scene of the wreck it is re-
sorted that there are three or four
others still under the debris.
The more seriously fzJtUred are:
George Barnett, engineer, 1924 Pat
ton avenue. Memphis, badly scalded
and bruised.
J. A. Mcdonald. postal clerk,
Raines station.
Three or four ether postal clerks
are reported injured.
Relief trains were rushed from
Memphis and Water Valley at first
news of the wreck.
Cars Overturned.
Details of the wreck are nleasre.
The accident happened Immediately
in front of the postoffice at Coldwa-
ter, according 10 reports from there,
the train hitting "a open switch and
every car tarnins eye eSesP1a the last
All of the injured are men except
one woman from Brownsville, Tenn.
On the relief train from Memphis
went surgeons and Robert NJ. Beattie,
whose wife was on the train. Mr.
Beattie was at the depotfto meet his
wife when he learned of the accident
The injured:
George B. Matthews, eKpressmaR,
legs broken.
Musco Victoria, stealing a ride, bad
ly bruised and cut.
George Barnett. Memphis, engineer,
badly scalded, cut.
Hugh Wickley, 4S3 Johnson avenue,
Memphis, badly hurt.
j. +. Stevens, 1876 Union avenue,
Memphis, bruised and Internally in
jured.
J. f. Neuderfer. superintendent of
the Mississippi division of the Illinois
Central, knocked unconscious and
badly cut about the face and head.
E. d. Cameron, baggageman, legs
broken.
AIRS. c. L. Harbert. Brownsville.
Tenn, arm and face cut and teeta
knocked out
Frank Jones, negro porter. slightly
hurt
Frank Malone, negro, badly Jared.
News Spread Rapidly.
News of the wreck spread rapidly
in Memphis. AT first it was reported
that as many as 45 were killed and
people with friends or relatives like
-ly TO be on the train thrOnged the
offices of the Illinois Central and tel
egraph offices trying 10 get word
The Dolice station was notified early
as the round mp Of doctors and offic-
ials was begun. It was a few minutes
after daybreak when a special pulled
out and hurried south 10 the scene.
Two men on the special train who
hurried 10 the scene with frantic in
teFeSt were The engineer and conduct
or The engineer was Dave Barnett
whose brother was engineer of the
wrecked train while Conductor Jack
Order. in charge. knew his fatneT-iB-
Law, Captain Billy Woods. was in
FchaTge of the wrecked train, and fear
ed. his own wife and baby were on il.
Barnett found his brother seriously
hurt, Order learned his wife and baby
had not taken the -Tain and that his
father-in-law escaped uninjUred-
Alr Woods, who i well known
Mississippi politician and former mem
Der of Governor Nardaman's stan. was
IN the rear Of the train end escaped
with nothing more than shaking up
Deliberately Wrecked.
That TIE train was deliberately
wrecked is the assertion of railroad
officials who investigated the derail-
ment today Of the passenger train
from New Orleans TO Chicago. The
train was thirteen minutes late and
vas running at a high rate Of speed.
That the wreck was accomplished by
man VINO was elected from the train
several DAYS ago is the belief OF the
railroad officials