Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14
EIGHT DEAD, "A HURT
AFTER TROOP TRAIN WRECK
Wooden Coach Filled With SOL
dierS Is Hurled Down
Embankment

COLUMBIA, 5. C, May 1O.-E1ve SOL
diers were killed outright, three were so
badly injured that they died en- route
TO the base hospital. four were very
seriously injured and twenty more
or 'ess seriously injured when a wood
Ell passenger coach, loaded with soldiers
OF the Three Hundred and Twenty-first
infantry and the Three Hundred and
Seventeenth machine gun company,
jUmpec a trestle at Camp Jackson this
morning.
The soldiers had just entralned for
Camp SEWER. at Greenville. and the
train vas pulling out of the camp at
3 very low rate of speed. As it APP
preached a trestle a big steel coach
STRUCK a spreading rail. This hurled
the wooden coach Immediately in front
down the embankment. The front part
OF the Steel coach jumped the track,
but the car did not turn over.
The wooden coach was badly demol-
ished. and il is considered very mirac-
ulous that any of the eighty men in
Il escaped alive.
The hospital train at the camp was
called out Immediately after the wreck,
ana IN twenty minutes all OF the men
had beer removed and the injured were
in the base hospital
Following is the official list of the
Dead: Privates Edgar Simmons,
father. William f Simmons. Patmos,
Ark; Philatus c. Swami, mother, Mrs.
Nina Swami. 10 1-2 North Park Square,
Asheville, y. c; Marion o. Hawkins,
father, S. A. Hawkins, r. F. ID. No. 2,
Marion, y. c.; William L. Lowry, faith
er. Samuel Lowry, Olta Pass, \. c., all
of Company h, Three Hundred and
Twenty-first infantry.
Private Jesse Reno, Company 1.
Three Hundred and Twenty-first infan-
try. father. Tom Reno, Soddy, Tenn.
Private Andrew Scoggins, supply
company, Three Hundred and Twenty
first infantry, father, Arch Scoggins, r.
F. ID. 1, Ooltewah, Tenn.
Private James l.. Weatherwood, Com
pany 1. Three Hundred and Twenty-first
infantry, brother, Thurman l.. Leath-
erwood, waynesville, n. c.
Private Benton Goolsby, Company A,
Three Hundred and Twenty-first in
fantry. father, John Goolsby, Pauls Val
ley, Tenn.
The injured: Private Dewey Kilpat-
rick. Company l. Three Hundred and
Twenty-first infantry. Home address,
Ashevine, n. c., 10 Silver street.
slightly injurd.
Private Richard Gray, Company F,
Three hundred ana twenty -ii % ~
fantry. r. F. d. No. 2, Shallette, N. C.,
slightly injured.
private Chester Sirey. Company l,
Three Hundred and Twenty-irst infan-
try. Defeated, Tenn, seriously injured.
Private Robert C. Rogan, Company n,
Three Hundred and Twenty-trst infan-
try. Othello, n. c., seriously injured.
private w. c. Bryson, Company l.,
Three Hundred and Twenty-first in
fantry, r. F. D. No. 3, Gambler, n. c.
seriously injured.
Private Hugh Aldridge, Company q,
Three Hundred and Twenty-frst intan-
try. Baldwin, Miss, slightly injured.
Private Robert A. Moore. headquar-
tiers company, Three hundred anu
-Tuenty-hrst infantry, Trio, ;. q,
slightly injured; emergency ADDRESS, d.
NJ Moore, Clio, S. c.
. Private Roscoe Braswell, company NJ,
Three Hundred and Twenty-frst imam
try. Montezuma, ". c., slightly injured
private Willie South. company X,
Three Hundred and Twenty-hrst imam
try. Ashland City, Tenn, slightly IN
jured.
private Lonnie H. High. company g.
Three Hundred and Twenty-hrst imam
trv. Whitesville. y. c., slightly injured.
private William Ledford, company L.
Three Hundred and Twenty-hrst lntan-
trv. Almond y. c., slightly injured.
CORPORAL Thomas I. Fitzgerald, COM
many E Three Hundred and Twenty
first infantry. r. F. d. No. trenton
Tennessee.
CorporaI L.eftwich p. Ramsey. com
many Three hundred and Twenty
FIRST infantry. Asheville, y. c., 141
Woodfn street. slightly injured.
Private Andrew Shoulders, company l.
Three Hundred and Twenty-hrst intan-
try. Dierks. Ark. slightly injured.
Private Elsie Mckinley Henry, com
d. ny L. Three Hundred and Twenty-nrst
infantry, Willets, y. C., shghty IN
jured.
Private John W. Frost, company A,
Three Hundred and Twenty-second in
fantry, Gillilsin, y. c, slightly injured.
Private George W. Stokes, company
F. Three Hundred and Twenty-hrst in
fantry r. F. d. No. 3, Louisville. Miss,
slightly injured.
Private George s. Thompson, company
4 Three Hundred and Twenty-first in
fantry. r. F. d. d. No. 1, Swany. n. c.,
seriously injured. Emergency address:
Superintendent Cherokee Indian School.
Fla.-N.C.
Corporal Franklin T. PindeXter, com
pany c. Three Hundred and Twenty
hrst infantry. Knoxville, y. c., seri-
iously injured.
Corporal Charles NJ. Deal, company
g.. Three Hundred and Twenty-first in
fantry. Home address GS19), Ninth
avenue Hickory, y. c.. slightly injured.
Cook Jacob VI. l.. Klutt, company c,
Three Hundred and Twenty-first infan-
try. East Spencer. y. c, slightly in
jGred
Private John W. Rock, company g,
three Hundred and Twenty-first infan-
Try. Bethel, y. c., mother Mrs. Stanley
Brown. Robinsonville, y. g, slightly
injured.
Private William A. Brown. CONF any II,
Three Hundred and Twenty-first infan-
-~y, Ramseur, y. c. slightly injured.
Private Robert c. Harris, company
90. Three Hundred and Twenty-first in
fantry, $40 Sunset avenue, Rocky
Mount. y. G. slightly injured.
Private William ]. McKinnon, COM
many II. Three Hundred and Twenty
arst infantry. r. 2. d. No. /. Hender-
-on. Tenn. slightly injured.
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