The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-07-10
Horrible Result of an Alleged
Disobedience Of Running
Train Orders.
SCORE OF WHITE
AND 80 NEGROES
Relief Trains, Automobiles and
Scores Of First-Aid Methods
Ameliorates Suffering.

~ Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. July s.--At 2
e1clock this afternoon. the number of
persons killed and injured In the ter
r1bis wreck on the Nashville, Chat
tmnoswM and st. Louis Railroa' Just
west Of Nashville. this morning when
pass singer trains Nos. 1 from Memphis
and St. Louis. ana No. bound TO
Memphis, collided. had not been def
nitsly established.
II was estimated that the number
of killed was 100. Of whom twenty to
twenty-five are white people. Hos
pftai lists OF the injured at that time
ran over 80. mostly negroes. The
identified white dead include:
Robert Long. u. 8. Aviation corps,
Nashville.
william Farrts. Nashville.
Dave Gardner. Nashville.
John r. whitfield. Nashville.
Newton M. vanderbrook. Jackson.
Tenn.
$. y. Vaughn, Grsenvirle. s. c.
The railroad rushed relief trains
to the scene OF the wreck. and In a
short time hundreds OF men were
working like trojang TO rescue the VIC
TINS. Automobiles by the hundreds
ESCAPED unhurt from the wreck also
assisted In the relief work
MrG John W. Thomas, widow of
the iats Jehn va Thomas. president OF
the Nashville. Chattanooga and St
as soon a. tho nsws of the wreck
reached herr She brought bandages
and worked hsroically with the in
Jureds AGanx girls assisted her in the
work
Tho fwe-eraans came together with
an tuapaot heard throughout that end
OF 2ha city. Both engines. three bag
gage cars and six passenger coaches
were dernoi&shed. Fire starting from
thW engine boilers consumed two
coach ~ Two hundred negroes were
ON the Memphis train coming here to
work nc the powder plant Only 110
CG these had been accounted for at
IL O'Clock.
The smoker OF No. 4 was telescoped
by the bag9ags OF NO. I. Four white
men were caught between the walls
and their legs crushed. They were
visible from the outside. Whiskey
was handed through to chem and they
were nnaIly gotten out
Engineer w. r. Lloyd and fireman
Tcm Ksliey. Of No. 4, both Of Nash
vfile. were Killed Engineer Dave d.
Kennedy. and Fireman Luther L.
Meadows OF No. both OF Nashville,
were kif1sd. Kennedy had been In
fhe roads service ss years.
IAeytsn&ut J. d. Andrews. Jr., OF
the United States engineering corps.
ana son Of a prominent Nashville
real estate dealer, was among the first
% eaeapo frmn the wreolzage and be-
mAm <hs wxxk OF assisting those pinned
in tha mhaxfered cars.
KAsxAauane Robert Long. OF the
Un9esl States aviation service. son OF
xAsuhx nan4 n N. Long. Of the Nash
v3i1a police furces was among the ser
nww@1y injured, being caught between
ewo- cara eea4s and his body badly
xuaAed- FOR more xhan two hours he
was thus innpriscned with three dead
mem xfisd aoroes his hap
I'm the two coaches and two sleepers
c9 train DO. 3 that rematned on the
tracsx an ehs passengers escaped in
jury sxosua GfsA& two ladies IN one OF
tn@ adssper@ were badly shaken up.
Axnnng thsWAits passengers injured
A. a Musser. ocA&vta. Pa. cut on
fAcas aca2r wound
lied. "A. D@xfB. EcanAn. KY. internal
RnsuxfosL head fAcsraAsd-
xAAG& Long. Nashville. aviation
ccwp& body crushed QAter died).
A tn0 ceky hospttal are thirty eight
iu9EHDf uagress. no from Memphis. At
ans9A6e hespffAl are four negroes Sc
rfous1r injured and seventeen with
nnfnae 1n5uraes., Twsuxy-ewo white and
neRrw pmwaon@ are af st. Thomas hos
pata4 mostly seriously injured
RaxfroaA gossip about the cause of
the wreck was that train No. vio-
lated 3tm ordexs and passed the meet
Ing point. said 90 have been the roads
shops, some distance nearer the city.
One OF the passengers on the train
from Memphis. w. e. Hutton, of Dick
son. said his train was making about
so mflss an hour af the time.
NY coach was crowded. and ! was
unable to get Seat" he said. "The
aisle was jammed and many OF the
passengers in our car were injured.
was unaware of the impending disas-.
ter until the crash came. There was