Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-20
SEVENTEEN ARE
DEAD AND fifteen
DYING IN WRECK
Victims of Troop Train Horror
Taken to Mobile-Seyenty-
four Badly Injured.
CARS HURLED INTO GORGE
BY DERAILED TENDER
Many of Living Were Saved by
Falling on Bodies of
Dead.

MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 20-Nictims or
yesterdays troop train wreck on the
Mobile and Ohio railroad at Bucka-
tunna, Miss, were brought to Mobile
early today on relief trains. The list
of known dead is seventeen. most of
whom were members of the 10th
Coast Artillery There were seventy
four seriously injured soldiers in Mo
bile hospitals. while a number of the
less seriously hurt were taken to the
government hospital at Fort Morgan.
Physicians who arrived on the relief
train said there We're at least fifteen
among the seriously injured who could
not survive.
Investigation of the cause of the
wreck continued today. 1t was be-
lieyed to have resulted from the de-
railing of the locomotive tender.
which dragged the baggage car and
three coaches off the track and over
a twenty-five-foot trestle.
-Four Victims Unidentified.
The victims were members of the
10th Company, the Thirty ninth Com
pany and the Eighth band They
were en- route from Fort Morgan and
Barancas to State fair at Meridian,
Miss.
The known dead are:
Private Joe Leber, 10th Company;
Private Ernest Paquette, 10th; Pri-
vate Clyde Tweel, 10th: Corporal
Fritz Kohler, 10th; Private w. II.
Brin, 10th; Private G. w. Goodies,
10th; Private Van Stebbens, 10th;
Corporal Frank T. Chelewskl, 10th;
Private Grueldruehlki, 10th;
Private g. c. Burleson, 10th: Pri-
vate - Acres, 10th: Private Ed
ward Panek, 10th; Private Virgil
Remsen. Ssth; Corporal Joseph s.
Johnson, Sth band; Private Joseph
Provance. 10th; A. t. Klovinsky,
10th; II. p. Bishop. 10th; unidenti-
fled dead having following marks or
initials about them v A. s.; W. c.
A.; w. c. S.. V. w. c..
The Seriously Injured.
Seriously Injured Private Ostrand-
err 10th, will die: Captain B. Taylor,
3sth; Frank Widman, roth; Lieu
tenant Robert M. Campbell, 10th:
Whiteside, 10th; A. r. Shipley, sth
band; Fred Wilson, Louis D. Stanis.
IL $. Slaughter, George Yerlxe,
10th; Paul A. Rarbity, 39th; Perry
Dabelmott. 10th; T. j. Carey. seth;
Carey H. Grace, 39th; J. e. Edwards,
roth; Walter L. Milbry, 10th, Jerry
Meagher, 10th; G.. w Hunt, 10th:
Private Mennesavage, 10th; John
Ayers, 39th: Walter Finn, 39th: r. d.
Pasquale, Sth band; j. F. Ball. 39th;
Corporal E. H. Creme, 39th; A. d.
Pearson, 39th; w. r. Gilligan, roth:
Edgar Stephenson, 39th; Corporal D.
D. Boles. 39th; Sergeant w. c. Keller,
39th; Corporal T. J. Kirby, 3sth;
David e. Gordon, 10th; T. ]. Shearer,
9Th band; Frank McCreary, 8th band;
Edward L. Gosnell, 3sth; Joseph
Meek, 39th; Donald Ball. 39th; Ga
briel Andrezzi, 39th; Sergeant Fay
Dickson. 39th; A. I'll. Henderson,
10th; Thomas J. Arnold. 39th; Me-
chanic Lawrence A. Watt, 39th; B. Ray
Payne, 39th; John FL. Stoor, 39th; AL
bert >Mersch. Sth band; Amerlcus Lu-
caine, 39th; W. G, Dleibaum, 39th; Pri-
vate Ellis, 10th; Charles Summers,
8th band; w. Fl. Carter. 39th; Arthur
Dukes, seth; w. w. Wells, 10th:
Robert M. Cain, 10th; Private George
Scholes, seth; Wilfred Wheeler, 3sth;
T.. Stephens, 170th Daniel Sanderson.
39th, John T. Tadrick, 39th; H. e.
Kidwell, 39th; A. NJ. Campbell, 39th;
II. b. Houck 39th; V. L. Eutsler, 39th;
George w. Thompson, 10th.
Not Enough Ambuiances.
The ambulances from the hospitals
did not begin to accommodate the in
jured and express wagons, motor
trucks of wholesale houses and big
delivery wagons were called into use.
improvised cots being placed in them.
company of local militia was
called into service and lent their aid
in carrying the wounded from the
coaches of the relief train to the am
balances and wagons.
The artillerymen, who were not in
jured, say they owe their lives to the
fact that the bodies of the dead and
injured made cushions for them to
fall on.
MERIDIAN, Miss, Oct 20.--All
of the victims of the Mobile and Ohio
troop train wreck had not been re-
moved from the wreckage early to-
day, according to travellers arriving
from there. They said that at 8
o'clock this morning twenty-three
bodies had been recovered, but that
they were certain more dead and in
jured still were in the wreckage.
Most of those killed were Padly
and passengers said they be-
lieved many bodies never would be
assembled.
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