Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-05-06
TRAIN WRECK
IN MISSISSIPPI
Four of Crew and Twelve
Passengers Killed at
Hattiesburg
FORTY OTHERS WERE INJURED
Special Carrying Aged Confed-
crate Veterans Leaves
Track on Trestle.

(By Special Leased Wire to Now Mexican
New Orleans, La, May 6.-Four
trainmen and six passengers were kill
ed and a number of passengers were
hurt when the first section of spe
cial train carrying Confederate veter.
ans from Texas to the reunion at Ma
con, Ga, was wrecked on the New Or
leans and Northeastern railroad near
Hattiesburg, Miss, today. The engine
and five coaches were derailed and
turned over.
The dead passengers are supposed
to be Confederate veterans.
Engineer W. A. Woods and his negro
fireman were killed Two other en-
ployes of the road who were riding on
the engine were killed.
The train was running 80 miles an
hour when the engine LETT the track,
carrying with it day coach, chair
car and three tourist sleepers. Two
Of the sleepers went through a trestle.
Death List is Growing.
Hattiesburg Miss, May 6.--Six or
more passengers and four trainmen
were killed, and at least 20 passengers
were hurt, when the first section OF
the Texas Confederate reunion spe
cial train enroute to Macon, Ga, was
wrecked at Gunnis Mill on the New
Orleans and Northeastern railroad
six miles north of Hattiesburg today
Five bodies were brought to Hatties.
burg and five Or six other bodies We're
reported under the wreckage.
The engine, baggage car, the day
coach and three tourist sleepers left
the track, and rolled down an EN-
bankment. The six remaining coach
es were quickly transformed into a
morgue and hospital, and as soon as
an engine reached the scene the dead
and injured were brought here. The
injured, some of whom are believed tC
be fatally hurt, filled two local hospi
tails
Sixteen Killed, Twenty-six More Hurt
Atlanta, Ca, May 6.-According tc
dispatches received by the Journal
ten passengers and six trainmen were
killed and twenty-siX passengers in
jured in the wreck of the Confederate
veterans special train, near Hatties
burg, Miss. Three passengers besides
the reported dead are missing.
Hattiesburg, Miss, May 6.-The
known dead are: Mrs Charles Holmes
Bay Springs, Texas; Mrs. James Cam
eron, Henderson, Texas; James Down
ing, Atlanta, president of Downing Lo
comotive Draft Company
Two unidentified girls, aged 3 and )
(parents thought to be under wreck
Engineer BILLY" Wood, Hatties
burg. Fireman C. C. Jones, (colored)
Meridian.
DR.. Boone, Mr.. Denham, and one 9th
er man from Mansfield, La, are miss
ing. Five bodies are positively known
to be under the wreckage.
Mr. Downing was riding on the en-
gire. Doctors and nurses reached the
wreck within half an hour after the
first news reached here. Living com
rades of the dead and injured veter
ans had not forgotten the lessons
learned on the battlefield, and theil
attention to the dead, and ministra
ticps to the wounded were prompt
With the help of the members of the
train crew, the passengers soon hat
all of the injured removed to the cars
that stood on the track and had gath
cred the corpses of as many of the
dead as it was possible to reach be
fore a wrecking derrick arrived to lif
the debris from those pinioned be
reath it. The list of injured numbers
forty.
Four Bodies Removed.
Hattiesburg, May 6.-Four bodies
were removed from the wreck, aftel
the relief train carrying five corpses
and the injured left the scene for Hat
tiesburg. More bodies can be seer
under the wreckage.