The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-07
NINE KILLED
 IN A WRECK
CONFEDERATE VETERAN SPE. CIAL ON NEW ORLEANS AND
 NORTHERN, IN DITCH.
Nine Killed and Many Injured When Carr Leave the Track-Head- quarters Special Was Follow.
 ing Wrecked Train.

Hattiesburg, Miss, May 6.-Nine | persons, including three women and | two children, were killed and 55 per ! sons injured when the first section of the Wan Zandt Confederate Vet erans Special of ii cars, en route l from Texas to the annual reunion at Macon Ga, was wrecked this morn 1 ing on a trestle a mile south of East Abuchie Miss, on the New Orleans and Northern railroad.
 The locomotive baggage car, one day coach and three tourist sleepers were derailed and tumbled down a high embankment, making a congiom- crate mass of wood and iron debris Although several hundred Confeder. ate veterans were aboard the train, not one was numbered among the dead Several of the veterans were injured, though none fatally.
 The dead:
 MRS. J, L. CAMERON, Henderson, Texas.
 MRS. CHARLES HOLMES, bIs Springs, Texas.
 J. s. DOWNING, Atlanta, Ga, presi- Draft Appliance company.
 w. A WOOD, Medirian. Miss. ell. gineer.
 TWO CHILDREN, aged and 5, un- identified.
 ONE WOMAN, aged about 95 years, weight 150, unidentified.
 ONE MAN, aged 35, 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 extricating the 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 se- riously hurt.
 When the engine and tender left the track at the short trestle, they were followed by the baggage car, day coach and three tourist sleepers
 These cars were badly splintered and it is regarded as almost miracu- lous that any of the occupants es- capped.
 Hattiesburg citizens from every walk of life met the train which brought the dead and injured here The Kings Daughters, T. D. C., the Masons, the Elks and other benevo- lent orders and societies had active representatives on the scene anxious to care for the injured and the vet erans and their wives were made to feel that they were in the hands of friends.
 A band of 40 musicians from Grand Saline, Texas, none of whom was hurt, rendered good service in the work Of rescue. Captain John M. Dean, pres ident of the First State bank, Grand Saline, Texas, Mrs. Dean and fiva sons, were in one of the wrecked cars. He received severe injuries, while Mrs. Dean and her sons were more or less seriously hurt
 One of the boys, aged 9. sustained broken arm.
 Among the injured were the follow ing:
 w. M. Denman, Mansfield, La, face bruised and cut.
 B. R. Hancock, Commerce, Texas, face bruised and cut
 B. W. Stewart, Douglas, Ariz., bruis. ed and cut.
 Harry Pomhonett, Atlanta, Texas artery cut and body bruised
 Mir and Mrs. NJ. N Benson, Paris Texas, both badly cut and bruised.
 Mrs Margaret Harley. Walterboro s. C., collar bone broken, scalp HRd eye cut.
 J. c. Brady, Long Branch, Texas face badly cut | Following are less seriously injured
 Felton Lister. Chattanooga, Tenn.
 R. F. Lister. Jasper Lake, Texas.
 J. A. Kelly, Baylor, Texas
 c. c. Phillips, Commerce, Texas.
 J. w. Boone. Benson, La.
 Patrick Hagan, Terrell. Texas
 Only two or three of the injured fare in serious condition.