The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-05-11
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
TEXAS SPECIAL WRECKED
NINE PEOPLE KILLED AND OVER
FIFTY INJURED-TRAtN
WAS DERAILED.
OLD SOLDIERS TO THE RESCUE
No Confederate Veterans Are Among
the Dead-Many Texas People
Are Reported Among the
Injured.

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dren. were killed and fifty-five per-
sons were injured when the first sec
ton of the Van Zandt Confederate
veterans special" of eleven cars, en-
route from Texas to the annual re-
union at Macon. Ga, was wrecked
| Monday on a treStle one mile east Of
| Abuchie, Miss, on the New Orleans
and Northeastern railway. The loco
motive, baggage Car, one day coach
and three tourists sleepers We're de-
rallied and tumbled down a high en-
bankment, making conglomerate
| mass of wood and iron debris. AL
| though several hundred Confederate
veterans were aboard the train, not
one was numbered among the dead.
Several of the veterans were injured,
though none fatally.
The Dead.
Mrs. ]. l.. Cameron, Henderson, Tex.
Mrs. Charles Holmes, Big Springs,
Texas.
j. S. Downing, Atlanta, Ga, presi-
dent of the Downing Locomotive Draft
Appliance Company.
w. A Wood, Meridian, Miss, engi-
neer.
Two children, aged 3 and 5. un-
identified
One woman, aged about So years,
weight $50, unidentified
One man, aged So, smooth face,
brown hair, unidentified.
C. c. Jones, negro fireman.
The scene Immediately after the
crash was made particularly distress
ing by the cries of the injured. Those
among the aged veterans who were
uninjured Immediately went to work,
willingly assisting in extracting less
fortunate comrades, carrying them to
improvised hospitals in the few
coaches not overturned Many of the
injured veterans did what they could
toward relieving the more seriously
hurt.
When the engine and tender left the
track at the short trestle they were
coaches and three tourist sleepers.
These cars were badly splintered, and
it is regarded as almost marvellous
that any of the occupants escaped
The Injured.
The injured are: Mrs B. H. Pear
son and daughter Dorothy, Charles !
ton, S. c.; Miss Julia Patillo, Dallas,
Texas; B. F. Lester. Midland, Texas;
e. S. Allrey, Pecos, Texas; ]. NJ.
Fletcher, Atlanta, Texas; J. J. Evans,
land, Texas; Mrs. W. w. Fowler.
Paris, Texas; J. S. Draper, Atlanta, |
Texas; NJ. w. Butler, Houston, Texas;
Rev. E. c. Ansley, Queen City, Texas;
r. Harrison, Paris. Texas; Mrs. ]. w.
Harrison; J. J. Ellis, Terrell, Texas;
J. e. Caldwell, Atlanta, Ca; J. E. |
Bomar, Pecos, Texas; John Walldrop, |
Bagby, Ark; Mrs. Elizabeth Hair, |
Wills Point, Texas; John NJ. Dean,
president First National bank, Dallas,
Texas, wife and five children: ]. P.
Griffin. Queen City, Texas; s. c. En-
gland, Commerce, Texas; J. R. Gusto,
Paris, Texas; H. c. Lindsey, Com
tnerce, Texas; ]. A. Kelley, Dallas,
Texas; w. T. Wood, Evans, Texas;
J. w. White, Ennis, Texas; B. F.
Smith, Queen City, Texas; F. M.
Moss, negro porter; Mrs. A. C. Bold
kin, Carthage, Texas; G. W. Walsters,
Wills Point, Texas; w. w. Hunt, Clos
ter, La; R. F. Harrison, Paris, Texas;
II. o. Paulett, Atlanta; NJ O. Roberts,
negro train porter, Ell Paso; Mrs.
Pearson and daughter of Charleston.
8. c.; w M. Denman, Mansfield, La;
B. II. Hancock, Commerce. Texas; B.
w. Stewart, Douglas. Ariz.; Harry
Pomponett, Atlanta, Texas; Mr.. and
Mrs. M. N. Benson, Paris, Texas; Mrs.
Margaret Harley. Waltersboro, S. c.;
J. c. Brady, Long Branch, Texas.
The following are less seriously in
jured: FELTON, Lister, Chattanooga,
Tenn; B. F. Lister, Jasper Lake. Tex.
as; J. A. Kelley, Baylor, Texas; E. S.
Alley, Baylor, Texas; G. G. Phillips,
Commerce, Texas; j. w. Boone, Ben
son, La; Patrick Hagan, Terrell, Tex
as.
Lieutenant Ben M. Van Zandt of
Fort Worth, Texas, commander OF the
Transmississippi department of the
United Confederate Veterans. and the
members of his staff were on the sec
ond section of the veterans special
The ivan Zandt special" followed two
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train, and was detrained via Beau
mont. Miss, to Laurel over the New
Mobile and Chicago road
People in Imminent Dancer.