The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-09-05
HEAD-0N COLLISION ON
L. & n. HERE FRIDAY.
Passenger Trains Come Together
With Crash close to Depot
Only Damage to En-
zines.


With n crash heard for several
blocks, followed by a cloud of steam
that mounted to the heavens, west
bound l.. 4 N, through tram from
Knoxville to Louisville, due to pass
Stanford at 5 40 A. NJ, met the X.
c, leaving for Richmond, Winchester
and MaysvilIe head on a few hun
drej yards east of the depot here
last Friday morning. Both engines
were badly battered up, and they
with their entire trains would pro-
badly have been buried down the
embankment ut that point of the
track had not No. "a the west bound
train, been slowly pulling mp the hill
from Rowland. while the X. c. had
almost been brought to n standstill
by Engineer Tom Rice who Saw
the west bound train pulling around
a turn ahead of him, but too
late 10 stop and back his train ont
of the way. Engineer Rice and
his fireman aud the express mes
eonccr Jumped off the train before
the collision occurred, Engineer
Wright suffering the fracture Of
three ribs. lie was the only one
hurt in the wreck except an old
lady VINO was slightly Jared. by be-
ing thrown against seat when the
impact came. George Gentry, the
well known colored man Of Stanford
was ON the X. G., and leaped off
with agility when he saw that there
was going to I've collision.
The cause of the head-on collision
is said to have been that the dis
patcher at Livingston forgot to have
the X. G.. held here to wait for the
through train to pass going west be-
lore turning the *. G.. loose on the
tracks to Rowland. His orders gave
the Is. G.. right of way over all
trains to Rowland. It'll 5:10 \. NJ.
and at that very time the west bound
train was pulling out of Rowland
coming up the hill toward Stanford.
The west bound train was about ID
minutes late and the operators who
| took the order thought that the Il. {.
had ample time to set to Rowland
and then switch off toward Lancas-
ter and Richmond before the other
train would be due.
The wrecker was immediately sum
moned from Livingston and it was
well on toward noon before it had the
smashed engines out of the way and
on to siding at Rowland, so that
freight engine could take the pas
senger coaches of No. "a on to Louis
vile. about eight or nine hours late.
The X. {. engine, No. Al, well known
here. where it has served on this run
for many years, was almost shatter-
ed to kindling wood from the heavy
impast OF the bic locomotive which
bit it. The front of the other engines
boiler was dented in little and the
water tank put to leaking, which
| was about all the damage done to it.
Had not the engine crew of the X. C.,
jumped. they would have undoubted-
ly been killed in their cab. for the
front of the tender was damned into
the forward part Of the engine in
q way which would have smashed
the life out of anything living IN
the cab. I
, Mail Clerk Z. c. Garman gamety
stuck to his ear and was uniniured.
The wreck tSok place almost di-
rect'y in front of the Elms, the old
Helm place. and big crowd of peo-
pile gathered there to watch the wreck
er at work.
This accident clearly demonstrates
the need of double track from
Stanford to Rowland for the use OF
the X. c., and ii is believed that the
officials will see the necessity and
set busy. 1t has been argued that
by double tracking from here to Row
land. the necessity of maintaining
an operating force there could be
COMPLETELY eliminated. and thus
much extra expense be saved.
HANNA