Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-20
10 BODIES TAKEN
FROM WRECK Of
TROOP TRAIN
Two More Believed in Debris.
Coaches Plunge Through Tres
tIe-En Route to Fair,

MOBILE. ALA. oct Eighteen
h,dfes from the wreck of the
.rs..aI ,roop train from Buckatunna,
MISS nave arrived here and are in
a.ga-s morgue. and II injured are
the various hospitals Thirty
.r-ss injured slightly. were taken to
..a 1os7ital at Fort Morgan on the
steamer Holabird.
The train went through Mobile
ann ONO bridge near State Line,
MISS II was carrying 1l9 soldiers of
ms United States Coast Artillery TO
Meridian 10 take part in the Missis-
s.pnt state Fair.
The wreck was caused by the en-
gire tender jumping the track about
ooo feet from a trestle. The engine
vas not derailed, and passed over the
rrssrle safely. The tender broke loose
from the engine, however, and
plunged with the baggage car and
taree coaches to the ground, rs feet
below.
a partial list of the victims recov-
cred follows:
Joseph Teben. Ernest Parquette,
CLYDE TeeI. H. B. Bishop, G. c. Burle-
SON. Joseph Provence, w. H. Brim,
Goodies Remsen, Cruckle, Acres,
Captain johnson, Eighth Band; Cor
poraI Kohler Corporal Chelewski,
Van Stebbens. private.
one body unidentified with initials
III t. on cap.
All were privates and members Of
Inc ron Company Coast Artillery,
except Remsen.
officers Tell of Horror.
Those Of the dead unclaimed viii
la buried in the National Cemetery
,ad others claimed viii be sent to
relatives.
captain Geere Of the 10th Com
pany. seen at the Union Station when
"a relief train arrived at 4:30 a. m.
said: "ME God, Don't ask me about
f. 1t was terrible. was luCkier
han most Of them. as only had my
nose broken and some few minor
nrHSes but think of the poor fellows
That are lying back there dead, and
Those that are dying. 1t was one
of The happiest punches that | have
ever seen and the farthest thing from
anEOne's thoughts was death. All at
once there was a crash, and in a sec
md all was confusion, and the entire
D, IL VI,
haved as soldiers. That is as high
compliment as can be paid any man
Lieutenant Barlow said: 81 was in
he third coach, and all at once there
was a crash and we found ourselves
All thrown into a heap. | am hurt
about the head, limbs and face and
am in prett S,NA a. shape
Lieutenapt~.1sa fspIsSll said "T am
slightly injured about but
am all TO pieces and Sansnot talk
now ! neTa7 saw a gamer body of
men Than these men showed them
selves 10 ha. It was awful We were
All As happy as soldiers usually are
when al At once there was a fearful
grinding and crashing sound. and we
were in the bottom ola gully. 1t is
only an act of providence that every
man was not instantly killed. | never
saw such a horrible sight"
Investigation Begins.
As IS usual with troop trains. the
coaches We're well filled and when
me three cars tumbled through the
lestIc the men had little protection.
ne dead and injured were entangled
.h q twisted mass of wreckage. MAX
1ns ID difficult to remove dead bodies
or rescue the injured.
Conductor Pruitt and City Passen-
Esr Agent Harvey e, Jones, of Mo-
one, we're badly injured.
investigation of the wreck of the
special was begun to-day by Division
superintendent Pigford, of the Mobile
snd Ohio Railroad.
DOCTORS who cared for the injured
Iald to- day that no more deaths were
Fspected, although more than score
~. 'le arullerymen were seriously in