Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1912-01-17

HE WAS IN COLLISION
Vas asleep at the Time OF Accident.
Car Caught Fire and Was
Destroyed.

The body or rather the unreCo.,~
nizable remains Of Guy H. Stewart, Sc
years old, Industrial and agricultuf-
al commissioner FOR the Cotton Belt
railroad, who net u tragic death in
his private car two miles South o.
kelso. Mo-, early yesta rday morning.
have been taken 10 St Louis for inter
ment. The remains may be sent to his
old home in Michigan as a permanent
resting place
Mr.. Stewart was killed Instantly
when an Iron Mountain freight train.
Engine No 456, crashed into the rear
Of Cotton Belt passenger train Mo. !.
at kelso at 3:15 o'clock yesterday
morning. Mr.. Stewart was asleep in
his car, 05, when the crash came and
his cody was ground to pieces in the
wreckagt. The freight train plough
ed through the private car and par
TALLY through the st. Louis Pullman
ear. Mr.. Stewards car being attach
ed to the Pullman at the rear # tha
train.
According TO information received
at the office of Superinte ndent e. A.
Peck in this city yesterday morning.
No. q which was running two hours
late and which picked up MY. Stew
art in his car here at 1:12 O'Clock
Monday afternoon. had stopped tvs
miles South of Kelso to take a sid
ing. The Iron Mountain uses the
Cotton Belt tracks into limo, Mo,
and an Iron Mountain fr light train
was following the passenger into Kel-
50. 1t was tW1 or three miles back
and when the passenger stopped for
the siding Conductor Judy, of the
Cotton Belt aeryie who formerly liy-
ed in Pine Bluff, mad his brak man pun
out a signal about thirty car lengths
back, in order to hold t1e appr aching
freight until the track was cleared
The flag was stationed properly, but
freight train ran past the flag II Il
cloud of steam, which pr vented him
from seeing the signal Before he
could be warned of the danger the
freight train was ploughing through
the Cotton Belt passenger train at the
rear, in g-dng round IA curve. 1t
struck the Stewart private car fuil
force and smashed it to splinters. The
engineer tried to stop his Ia.n, but
ii was too late. The private car was
demolished completely and Mr.. Stew
arts body could not be found for se7-
eral hours. and then in pi ees. The
Pullman ear and the wreckage OF the
private car caught fire from the
freight engine and were q implicitly
destroyed, ORIGINATING Mr.. stewart'a
r. mains.
just how w Ham Osborne, the II =
gro porter on Mr. Stewards private
car, escaped death has not been fully
explained. He escaped with only {
few slight injuries. There were nc
passengers in the Pullman and It is
reported that the conductor and por.
ter in the Pullman car also escaped
Mr.. Stewart Here NJ inday.
Guy Stewart was familiar aud
popular character in Pine Bluff aud
spent much of his Tine here in ais
official work. He was here Monday az
ranging some details for the institute
train that Is soon to be sent out by
the Cotton Belt In the interest of ag-
riculture and stock raising. When
he was here Monday he had planned
to go to Texas on official business,
but it is reported that be received a
,w.re from st. Louis telling him to re-
turn there and attend an important
meeting at which some of his WORK
was to be discussed He was grad
tate of the Michigan University and
unmarried, member of the Camden
lodge of Elks and enjoyed great popn-
1arity over the entire Cotton Belt
system.
Mr.. Peck Poes to Scene.
Superintendent Peck left yessers.s
for Kelso to investigate the wreck and
to take charge OF Mr.. Stewards body
for shipment He and Mr. Stewart