Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-07
MANY KNlE0 WHEN
VETERANS SPECIAL
SMASHES TRESTLE
James S. Downing, President
of Downing Locomotive APP
pIianCe Company, Atlanta Is
Among the Victims

HATTIESBURG, Miss, May 6.-Four
trainmen and six or more passengers
were killed and at least Is passengers
injured when the first section of the
Texas Confederate reunion special, en-
route TO Macon, Ca. was wrecked at
Gums Mill. on the New Orleans and
Northeastern railroad. six miles north
of Hattiesburg, at s:45 a. m.
The dead:
MRS. CHARLES HOLMES. Bay
Springs, Tex.
I. MRS, JAMES CAMERON. Henderson,
Tex.
TWO UNIDENTIFIED GIRLS. aged
and 5. (parents thought to be under
wreck.)
ENGINEER BILLY" WOOD. Hat
FIREMAN c. c. JONES. negro. Meri-
DIR. BOONE.
Mr.. DENHAM and one other man
from Mansfield. La, are missing and
thought to be under the wreckage.
JAMES S. DOWNING, Atlanta. Ga,
president of the Downing Locomotive
Draft Appliance company, who was
riding on the engine.
Injured:
Mrs. B. H. Pearson and daughter.
not seriously.
Miss Julia Patillo. Dallas, Tex, cut
and bruised on head, ankle sprained.
B. +, Lester Midland( Tex, bruised
and cut on head, internal injuries, Sc
rious. Na
e s. AlIrey. Pecos, Tex, badly cut
and bruised, face head and legs
J. M. Fletcher, Atlanta, Tex, slightly
cut in the. face.
]. J. Evans, Kildare. Tex, bruised
and slight cuts.
J. p Hallford. Midland. Tex. leg and
head badly injured.
Mrs w w. Fowler, Paris, Tex, leg
and hip injured
J. S. Draper, Atlanta, Tex, face and
back injured.
NJ. w Butler, Houston, Tex. leg and
face cut and bruised.
Rev B. C. Ansley, Queen City, Tex,
bruised and cut slightly.
F Harrison, Paris, Tex, right eye
badly injured.
Mrs ]. w. Harrison. cut and bruised
about head.
J. A Kelly, Dallas Tex. bruised and
cut slightly
J. J. Ellis. Terrell, Tex, back injured,
serious.
J. E. Caldwell, Atlanta, Ca. head and
back injured
J, 7, Bomar. PeeOs, Tex injured in
ternaTly.
John waldrop. Bagby. Ark. back and
legs.
Mrs. Eslizabeth Hair willspoint,
Tex, shoulder broken.
John NJ. Green. president of the First
National bank. Saline. Tex, badly hurt.
Mrs. Green and five sons also hurt, one
with broken arm.
EvfA3r Cf4u IN,
ternally; serious.
E. S England. Commerce, Tex, intern
ally; serious.
]. R. Justice. Paris. Tex. head bruised
and cut
H. c. Lindsey. Commerce Tex, back
and side and internally. Z
w. T. Wood. Evans, Tex, arms cut and
bruised.
J. W. White Ennis, Tex, back ana
legs bruised.
B F. smith, Queen City, Tex. knees
hurt
F. NJ. Moss. negro porter, hip injured
Mrs. A. c. Boidkin. Carthage, Tex,
head bruised.
Five bodies are positively known to
be under the wreckage
Five bodies were brought to Hat
tiesburg on the cars of the big special
which remained on the track, and five
or six other bodies were reported un-
der the wreckage.
The engine, baggage car, the day
coach and three tourist sleepers left
the track and rolled down an embank-
ment. The six remaining coaches of
the veterans special were hurriedly
transformed into . morgue and hos
pital and as soon as an engine reached
the scene the dead and injured were
brought here. The injured, some of
who are believed to be fatally hurt,
filled the two hospitals of Hattiesburg.
while the dead were taken to an un-
dertaking establishment.
Five doctors and three nurses reach
ed the scene of the terrible accident
within half an hour after the first
news reached here.
VETERANS WERE HEROES!
Living comrades of the dead and in
jured veterans, however, had not for
gotten the lessons they learned on the
field of battle and their attention to
the dead and ministrations to the
wounded were prompt. With the as
sistance of the members of the train
crew whose lives were spared, the pas
sengers soon had all of the injured
removed to the cars that stood on the
tracks and had gathered together the
remains of as many of the dead as it
was possible to reach before a wreck
ing derrick could reach the scene to
lift the debris from those pinioned be-