Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-12
OVER FIFTY KILLED
Or HURT IN WRECK
OF EXCURSION TRAIN
Fourteen Bodies RecOvered-42
Seriously Injured and 30
Others Hurt When Rear of
Train Is Demolished
Isy Associated Prsss.)


and about so slightly hurt. Oc-
CURED on the Yazoo and Mis-
sissippi Valley railroad near MONTE.
La, twenty-seevn miles north of New
Orleans. at midnight when a through
freight crashed into the rear Of an ex-
cursion train OF ten coaches.
Five of the coaches OF the excursion
train were burned and many Of the
bodies OF the victims are believed to
have been cremated.
Most OF the injured are white.
BRAKEMAN BLAMED.
An. official statement issued by the
railroad company places the blame for
the disaster on a brakeman named Cum
ningham. who is charged with failure
to obey orders and signal the fright
train.
The Excursion train which left New
Orleans north bound at II p. m. was
drawn by two engines. On approaching
MONTE one engine broke down and the
engineer signalled TO the brakeman. IT is
said. 10 go back and signal the freight
train. which was running twenty-five
minutes behind the excursion This or
der, IL is declared. the brakeman failed
to comply with and the freight tore into
the rear OF the crowded passenger train
at a speed of about thirty miles an
hour. Soc
Relief trains were sent from New Or
leans and Baton Rouge. Thirty OF the
injured. all negroes, were taken TO
Baton Rouge The dead and the more
seriously injured among the whites were
brought TO New Orleans and placed in
hospitals
THIRTEEN BODIES RECOVERED.
OF the thirteen bodies recovered from
the wreck up to o'clock this morning.
nine were negroes and four white per-
sons.
Another body. that OF an unidenti
fed white child. making the four
tenth. was taken from the wreckage
later this morning
The majority OF the excursionists were
from points south Of wOOdville. Miss
which is % miles north OF Baton Rouge
PATROL WAGONS FOR DEAD.
The scene at the union station here
when the relief train bearing the dead
and injured arrived was one Of cOnfu-
sion Practically every ambulance in
the city had been summoned TO take
the injured 70 the hospitals. and police
patrol wagons were used to help move
the dead to undertaking establishments.
The rear coach Of the excursion train
"a
caIy every occupant OF this car was
either killed or seriously injured One
OF the badly wounded victims brought
here stated that two women and sew
eraI small children in the rear coach
we're killed
THE DEAD.
The dead;
MRS VICTORIA MONTTEGUDO,
Seachary. La Cwhite.)
MRS. CHARLES GRECO. Seachary.
La Cwhite9
MRS. THMoAs MGUNNESs. New
Orleans Cwhite.)
WHITE CHILD. unidentified
MRS. JENNIE CoMEAUX. Seachary.
La (white).
Two white women. unidentified. one
from Seachary.
OF the nine negroes whose bodies
were removed from the wreckage, three
were wimen, one girl, fourteen years
old. and i've men.
INJURED WHITE PASSENGERS.
Among the injured white passengers
are:
Samuel Green. wife and two children
Slaughter, La
p. H Howard. Baton Rouge. La
Ben Garvey. wife and child, Baton
f. e Scott, Baton Rouge.
Lula Louphier. Baton Rouge.
Bessie Carpenter Zachary, La
Nora Wilson. WOodville. Miss.
T. McGinnis and two children, New
Orleans.
r. Z Anderson. Secretary, La.
C. D. Martinez. Baton Rouge.
W. n. Upton. Baton Rouge.
Fred Leasing. New Orleans.
Mrs. A l. Wier and boy, New Or
leans
Mrs. r Barrow. Bayou sara. La.
l. Theriot. Baton Rouge.
Mrs. Ricau. Baton Rouge
AIiSs Ida Flower. Baton Rouge
Miss clara Flower. Baton Rouge.
Merceline Vallery. Burnside, La
Miss L. Douglas. WOOdville, Miss.
Benjamin Suarez, wife and child.
Woodville. Miss
Mrs Rosa Grecia and two children,
SlAW@MAeEs La
Frank Grecia. Slaughter. Ia
Victor StoltZ. New Orleans.
Oscar Cambrabe. student at Louis
lana State University, hurt on head and
limbs: taken to Baton Rouge santa
rum
Henry BOde. painter. Baton Rouge,
hurt on head and Leg taken TO Baton
Rouge sanitarium-
COACHES CATCH FIRE
Almost as soon as the collision oc-
CURED the two rear coaches, which were
telescoped by the freight engine, caught
FIRE. The passengers who escaped In
jury. rushed into the wrecked coaches
and dragged dead and injured from
the reach OF the flames Several OF
the occupants OF the front coaches who
escaped injury were badly burned in
their efforts TO save those less FORUM
ate. The heartrending means OF the
injured and dying were added to by
cries and shrieking Of the excited wom-
en- and children who ran wildly about
searching for relatives and friends.
DEEDS OF HEROISM.