Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-07-05
COACHES ARE SMASHED;
TIMBERS HURLED IN AIR
While the Freight Is Attempting to
Switch Big Four" Flashes Around
Curve at Fifty Miles an Hour and
Crash is On-Crews Jump 10 Safe
ty-Misunderstandin Of Orders.

dozen more seriously injured IN a
head-ou collision between = Teight
and passenger train on the { ncinnau
Hamilton & Dayton railroad today
or the killed Is were passengers, the
other victim being a member OF the
train crew.
Nearly all of the dead and injured
were from various parts Of Ohio.
Southern people injured were;
James L. Kennedy. Louisville, KY
right leg and ribs broken.
w. :. Erskine. Memphis, Tenn. back
injured. seriously hurt.
Will Litzey, Harrodsburg. Ky, badly
burned condition doubtful.
A. +. Dayton. Latonia, Ky, condi-
ton serious.
Frank Edwards. Latonia, Ky.
Scene of Wreck.
The trains were the Cincinnati sec
opd section of the Twentieth Century
Limited. on the Cleveland. Cincinnati
Chicago x St Louis railroad tBig
Four and the second section of q
fire -ght train on the Cincinnati, Hamll
ton & Dayton road.
The latter wss attempting to make
a siding to give the passenger train
a clear track, when the flying limited
travelling 80 miles an hour. flashed
around a curve and crashed into t.
The Pig Four" train had been de
toured to avoid a blocked track on
that road at Genoa. a few miles south
of here. caused by freight wreck
earlier in the day.
s.igunderstsnd Orders.
A misunderstanding Of orders caus-
ed the disaster. which was one of the
worst that this section Of the county
has ever experienced
Pilot Engineer George Waid had re-
coived orders to wait at Post Town
a siding three miles north OF this c.ty
according to officials.
The freight train was to have pass
ed there but was late In pulling out
Of Aliddletown. Instead OF the seven
minutes margin which Eald thought
he had 70 reach MiGdletown, the time
VS. less than five minutes. The mrs.
SECTION of the freight had taken the
siding here and Conductor John
Weaver. in charge Of the second sec
ton, tried to reach he north end Ct
the sid Before his tran mad
clea. cd the switch point the passenger
train rounded the curve. screened Dy
he thickly wooded lots on each side
Of the track. The engine crews aad
time to jump and escaped injury.
Crash is Terrific.
The crash. when the trains met. was
teri fic. The freight was made up
of gondola cars. fiat cars and box
cars. loaded with lumber
Directly behind the passenger loco
motive and the tender was a combL
nation baggage and smoking car. foi-
lowed BY day coach and a chair
car. All the DEAF and injured were
in the first two cars. there be ng ~
passengers in the smoker and Il IN
the day cc~ch-
The engines lockezi into a mass OF
smashed steel and iron. The heavy
passenger locomotive teiescOping IT,
smaller fellow As far ss The cab. rirs'
n the freight train We're a steel coal
car and a box car loaded with So
inch timbers. The heavy eoudOla car
ripped The floor cut 81 the combine
ticn car and tossed IL and the iocomo
tive tender down q ten zoo; cmbank'
ment into a corn field.
The timbcrs in the car following
were driven with terrific force into
tch day coach. which mounted ths
gcndola car and split Il ia twain.
Every Seat Torn Up.
Every seat in ms coach was TORI
from itsefsstcninrs. che roof Ma
thrown 20 one side and the hoavi
weirh; Of massive t.mbers huricd viii
awfu! force. struck among the mel
ana women IN the coach.
Every surgeon in town was sum
moncd 70 :hc place and calls for a.
slsiancc were sent TO Dayton ant
Hamilton
Relief trains were made up AZ eacl
q these places and the injured ver