The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-07-09
FAST PASSENGER
TRAINS COLLIDE
Hundred Killed and More Than
Eighty Injured in n, C. &
st. L. Accident.
c o A c H ES TElESCOPED
Railroad Gossip Blames No. 1
for Collision With No. l in
West Nashville.
COACHES TELESCOPED
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Nashville, July 9.-At z o'clock
this afternoon the number of per.
sons killed and injured in the. ter
rible wreck on the Nashville,
Chattanooga & St. Louis railway,
just west of Nashville, this morn
ing, when passenger trains No. I
from Memphis and St. Louis and
No. 4 bound to Memphis, collided,
had not been definitely estab-
lished. 1t was estimated that the
number of killed was 100, Of
whom twenty to twenty-five are
white people. Hospital lists Of
the injured at that time ran over
eighty, mostly negroes. The iden.
tilted white dead include:
Robert Long, United States avi-
alton corps, Nashville.
William Farris, Nashville.
Dave Gardner, Nashville.
John T. Whitfield, Nashville.
Newton M. Vanderbrook, Jack
son, Tenn.
S. J. Vaughn, Greenville, S. c.
Nashville, July 9. - The worst
disaster in the history of the
Nashville, Chattanooga & St.
Louis railway occurred this morn
ing at 7:l5 o'clock when passcn-
ger train No. from Memphis
and st. Louis and passenger train.
NO. 4 bound for Memphis, coli
lided near Nashville, DESTROYING
both engines and demolishing six
coaches crowded with passengers.
Ihe railroad rushed relief trains To
the scene Of the wreck. and in n short
time hundreds of men were working
IKE Trojans to rescue the victims
Automobiles by the hundreds sped 10
the scene and those who escaped nm
hurt in the wreck also assisted in the
| relief work. - VIZ
Mrs. Thomas at Scene.
Mrs. John w. Thomas. widow of
John w. Thomas. president of Tho
Nashville. Chattanooga and st. Louis
railway. arrived on the scene as soon
as news, or the wreck reached her, She
brought bandages and worked hero
lcally with the injured. Many girls
assisted her in the work. The two
trains came together with an impact
heard throughout that end of the city.
Both engines. three baggage cars and
SIX passenger coaches were demoI-
ished Fire started from the engine
Doilers and consumed two coaches,
TWO hundred negroes were on the
Memphis train coming here to work
at the powder plant. Only III of
these had been accounted for at II
O'Clock. The smoker of No. was
telescoped by the baggage car of No.
!. -Four white men were caught be-
tween the walls and their legs
crushed. They were visible from the
to them and they were finally got
ten out
Engineer VIM F. Lloyd and
Fireman Tom Kelly, Of No. 4. both
OF Nashville, were killed. En-
gineer Dace c. Kennedy and
Fireman Luther i. Meadows. of
No. 1, both of Nashville. were
killed. Kennedy had been In the
roads service thirty-five years. A&
Lieut.. J. ID. Andrews, Jr., OF the
United States engineering corps,
and son of a prominent real estate
dealer, was among the first to es-
cape from the wreckage and begin
the work of assisting those pinned
in the shattered cars.
Lieut.. Don Long. Of the United
States Aviation service. son of Lieut..
r. N. Long. of Nashville police force,
was among the seriously injured, be- \
ing caught between two car seats and
his body badly crushed. For more
than two hours he was thus impris-
oned, with three dead men piled across
his lap.
White Passengers Injured.
Among the white passengers in
jured are:
A. G. Musser, Octavia. Pa; cut
on face, scalp wound
r. A. Davis, Hickman, KY; in
ternal injuries; head lacerated.
Lieut.. Don Long, Nashville, avi-
alton corps body crushed
Cecil Grimes, Hohenwald, Tenn;
body and back.
d. M. Heath. Nashville.
Radley Gaskin, Hickman KY;
injured about head; unconscious.
-. -. Carter, Nashville: un-
scious; fractured base OF skull
b. Corbett, fractured skull,
both bones of right leg.
-. -. Martin, engineer; badly
burned.
- -. Kennedy, mail clerk
badly burned.
--. -. Moore. extensive scalp
wound; fr% cured skull.
]. T. Sntmons Jackson, Tenn;
fractured ribs.
Russell Pollock. Carruthers-
Vile. Mo-; slightly injured face
Elton Cook, Centerville, Ark;
slightly bruised right side.
Bert Pierce, Ola. Ark; back in
jured n