The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-14
THIRTEEN KILLED:
HUNDRED INJURED
IN TRAIN WRECK
Three Crowded Cars
Plunge Down En-
bankment.
ACCIDENT CAUSED
BY BROK EN- RAIL
Disaster on Central of Georgia
Railway Occurs Near Eufaula,
Where Suffering Survivors Are
Taken for Treatment-Homes
at Clayton Turned Into
Emergency Hospitals.

Eufaula. Ala. November 13-Thirtce1l
persons were killed and moro than a
hundred Injured. some of them fatally
early to-day. when three coaches OF a
Central OF Georgia passenger train
left the rails at a point seventeen miles
south of here and plunged down n
steep embankment The train, which,
consisted of ivo cars crowded with ex-
cursionists. was en- route from Ozark
Ala, to Eufauin, where n fair 10 be-
ing held.
Identified Dead
The Identified dead are:
Pomp Outsey, aged sixty, Clayton
Ain.
Monroe Floyd. aged sixty, Clayton,
Ain.
Miss Bonnie brock. aged eighteen,
Clio, Ala.
Son of Curb BELL. Clayton, Ala.
Miss Annie Wilkinson, Clio, Ala.
Mrs. Wilbur Mclean, Clio, Ala
Lois Brock. Clio, AIa.
Mrs. Alto Admins, EInmytIle, Ala.
Znck Peak. Clayton, Ain.
Mnude McRnc. negro. clio, Ala.
- brown, negro, Clio. Ala.
Sam Underwood, negro. Clayton, Ain.
John Glover. Clio, AIn.
The fatally injured were:
Wash McRae, Clio. Ala
Ienaie t'rter. negro, Clio, Ala
Mrs. j. W. kendrick. Clayton. Ala.
irene Roundtree, age two years
Louisville, Ala
Albert Lewis Clio. Ala
William Teal. Clio. Ala
MISS Laura Wilkerson. Clio. Ala.
Clayton, Escapes.
Among those who ESCAPED with yninor
injuries was Jefferson D. CLAYTON. a
wealth yAlabamaian and brother OF
United States Representative Henry n
Clayton. of this State
Among the injured were:
Sherin Teal and WIN Teal, CLAYTON
Ala; Mrs. NJ. McGilvary, Clayton. Ala
=. Z. Teal, and wife. Clayton, Ala: An
drew Teal, Clio. Ala: Mrs Fannie Nc.
rae. Clio, Ala; Herman McRae. Louis
Vile Ala. ]. NJ. Wilson Eufnula, Ala.
Henry Johnson. Clayton, Ala.
broken rail is said to have been
.ne cause OF tho accident AS the
crowded excursion train rounded
a curve. the three cars at the rear
literally packed with passengers. sud.
oenly left the track and. breaking away
from the others, dashed down the steen
cmbankment The wrecked coaches
We're practically demolished
occupants OF the two coaches, which
remained on the rails immediately bent
their efforts TO rescuing the hundreds
caught In the tangled wreckage. Word
OF the disaster quickly reached CLAY
ton, Ala. three miles away, and re-
iieA trains Desring surgeons and nurses
were quickly dispatched from OzarI,
an Eufaula. where most of the dead
and injured later were taken.
Physicians Hurry TO Scene.
MANY or the victims were cared for
at Clayton. where the citizens turned
their residences into emergency hos
pitals. Every physician within a
radius OF many miles hurried TO the
scene Of the wreck.
Recausc OF the isolation of the nlace
where the wreck occurred identifica-
tion of the dead and wounded was SLOW.
Not until tonight were tho names of
n majority OF those killed known with
certainty.
Tonight many OF the injured were
brought here from Clayton, those suf-
ferirg most being rushed to local hos
pitals by special train. majority
OF the injured sustained painful
scratches and bruises from splintered
woodwork and cuts from flying glass.
There We're many. however who suf-
lered broken bones and similar in
juries of a dangerous nature.
Railroad officials tonight issued n
statement here in which they ascribed
the wreck TO broken rail.