Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-09-23
NOMINEES TRAIN
 WRECKED; ONE IS
 HURT;C0X IS SAFE
Democratic Nominee Shaken Up When Coaches Leave
 Rails
ENGINEER JUMPS
 AND BREAKS LEG
spreading Rails Said to Have Been Cause of Wreck That Occurred While Train En
 Route to Prescott

Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 22.-Governors CoXs presidential campaign train was wrecked late today near here. whilee en route to Prescott Arizona.
 The Democratic presidential can-I dldate and his party were badlyH shaken up when an engine and four cars of the special were ditcned butt all escaped serious injury. The most seriously injured was Charles Al Nichols, engineer of Prescott, whoA had leg broken in jumping from hls cab when the engine toppled over.
 Spreading Rails Cause.
 Spreading rails were assigned byE railroad men as the cause of tho wreck, which compelled the governors and his party to return here tonights and cancel his evening address ats Prescott. His future itinerary alsoE was upset.
 After delivering several speechesS here the train, consisting of six carsE and drawn by two heavy enginesj needed for the upgrade to Prescott, Y left here at o'clock. About a halff hour later, while running at speed estimated at between 35 and 40 niiesE an hour, the train jared suddnly asl| if in collision and then application ofl| the emergency brakes, pumping oyerI' broken rails and ties and careenineI| of cars told passengers the story.
 The four forward cars were dit.A N ched, the governors private car, theI| Federal, at the rear and the adioin-i| ing compartment car of newspaper| ] men, except for it's forward truek.E x remaining on the rails.
 Governor Cox was in the dininRa room of his private car going overt papers with Dr Robert c. GoldsmithsI his assistant on the league of nationaI \ question when the crash occurred. What's that?" he shouted, risink}1 to his feet only to be thrown heavilyu across the car into a steel wall. HeIl was shaken, up, but rushed out toI| assist the injured and soon was non-j chantly viewing the wreckage, sm6ks ing his pipe and waiting for q wreck-S ing train to arrive and take him back to Phoenix. Personal effects of aIl& members of the train were scatteredj ' and broken.
 That Governor Cox escaped injuryI was due, it was said to delay in ' f conference with the Prescott recepE tion committee. J. J. Sinnot, repre5 senting the Democratic national com.l mittee on the compaign trip, and7
 Chairman Norris of the Prescoti committee were en route to the prisE vate car to get the governor to g4y forward to the first coach, where thsI reception committee was riding whsHI the crash came. Most of those bfuissf ed or cut were in the forward coaeh,|
 The railroad track was torn up fox4 a distance of from 300 to 400 feet with bent rails, broken ties and glaa1 strewed about, even in an adjacentJ cotton field. Railroad officials were unanimous in declaring that spreAd ing rail under the two heavy locom0 tives and unusually heavy steel equip4 ment caused the wreck. The line i1 not a main artery but branch o1 the Santa Fe system and the rails, is was said, were not of the heaviee type. A rumor was current anon1 the farm people and others who &et1 cred soon after the wreck that . LII had been seen running along the roa1 beside the track just before the trAi4 left the track, but the rumor VII entirely without confirmation a1y was not credited by Governor Cox members of his party or railroad oI cratives.
 Among the prominent local DeIeS crats who were on the governo1 train to attend the Prescott meeta was United States Senator Henry Ashurst.