Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-03-28
Dixie Flyer on Atlantic
Coast Line Goes Through
Trestle Into River Drown
ing Passengers.
COACHES ARE TEN
FEET UNDER WATER
Inflated Train Was One Of
Fastest on Line and Car
ried Many Wealthy Tour
lists; 10 Bodies Recovered.

Oscilla, Ca, March 25.-Seven per
sons were killed today and more thar
q dozen injured when the Dixie hyel
on the Atlantic coast line, running be
tween Chicago and Jacksonville, Fla.
was wrecked on trestle over the Al
apaha river, near here, at 1920 O'CLOCK
this morning. The first and SECOND
class coaches and the first Pullman
went into the river, carrying away
about 400 feet of the trestle.
According to reports of some of the
passengers who came to Oscilla, the
crash came without warning. 1t was
caused by the breaking of an axle or
the engine when midway OF the Ions
trestle.
Coaches Under Water.
The coaches in the river are about
ten feet under water and the list o.
dead may be increased when the
debris is cleared. Seven bodies hao
been recovered at noon and the in
jured were brought here and will be
sent to the Atlantic coast line hospital
at Waycross.
First reports of the wreck were to
the effect that the entire train went
into the river and that fifty passen.
gers were killed outright. The scene
OF the wreck Is remote section or
the state and it was several hours be-
fore accurate information was obtain
able. Relief trains have been sent to
the scene from Waycross, Triton and
Willacooche, and it is stated that it
will be thirty-six hours before the
tracks are cleared for traffic.
OFFICIAL Statement on Wreck
Savannah, Ca, March 25.-The At
lantic coast superintendent office
gives out the following account OF the
wreck Of the Dixie flyer:
Train No. IS known as the Dixie
flyer running from Chicago to Jack
sonville, Fla, was wrecked at the
Alapaha trestle, three miles south OF
Alapaha station on the Brunswick &
Western division Of the Atlantic coast
line railway at 1920 o'clock this morn
Ing. The train was carried down with
400 feet of the trestle. The baggage
car was telescoped and the first and
second class coaches and the first
Pullman car fell through the trestle.
Conductor Charles J. Parnell OF
Savannah and negro porter are sup
posed to be under the wreckage. A
number of passengers were injured.
The accident was caused by the en-
CINE driving wheel axle breaking off
although the engine was on the trestle.
Hospital trains were sent from the
Coast line hospital at Waycross to the
scene of the wreck with doctors and
nurses on board. The train left Way
cross at $40 o'clock this morning.
Doctors were also sent from Triton
on a special train and the company
doctors from Willacooche went to the
scene on hand car. It will be thirty.
six hours before the, track is cleared y
The Dead.
w. CULPEPPER, Triton, Ga.
o. F. BOMWART, Henderson, KY.
MRS. w. D. FLETCHER, Rowland,
CONDUCTOR CHARLES S. PAR
NELL, Savannah, Ga.
EXPRESS MESSENGER WOOD
WARD.
FIREMAN LUCIUS ELLIS.
FORTER WIDDEN.
The Injured.
The injured:
Express Messenger and Baggage
Master Powell, serious.
w. T. Perkins, Catletsburg, KY.
Mrs. O. F. Bomwart, Henderson KY.
Nick Van Donmuelen, Grand Rap
ids, Mich.
Peter Gerloff, Holton, Mich.
Mrs. j. P. Klein, and three-year-old
daughter, st. Louis. Mo.
w. F. Francis, Crawfordville, Ind