The log cabin Democrat., 1921-08-20

tArkansas Gazette, August 20)
 Six persons lost their lives in a grade crossing collision between an automobile and a Missouri Pacific passenger train at Austin, 2S miles northeast of Little Rock, about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Four were killed outright, one died on train enroute to Little Rock, and the sixth, the mayor of Austin, died at the railroad ward of the Baptist hos pital at 6:55 last night
 The dead are:
 H. E. Haguewood, aged IS, of Oak Grove.
 Mrs. H. E. Haguewood, aged 45.
 Mrs. Charles Pearson, aged 30, of Lonoke.
 Mrs. Pearson's seven year old daughter.
 Mrs. J. D. Duffy, aged 45, of Oak Grove.
 Dr. J. B. Curry, aged 50, mayor of Austin.
 Mrs. Pearson was the wife of the Rev. Charles Pearson of Lonoke, who has been conducting a revival at McRae for some time.
 The members of the auto party had driven to the station several hours before to send John Duffey, husband of Mrs. Duffy, to a Little Rock hos pital, and were returning to Oak Grove.
 It is believed that Haguewood, who was driving the auto, an Overland, failed to see the approaching train. He drove around turn in the road and sent his car directly in the path of the train, No. 219, fast passenger from St. Louis 10 Hot Springs, with Engineer c. P. Leopard, HOO McAl- mont street, Little Rock, in charge.
 Every occupant of the car was killed outright or fatally injured.
 NJ. A. Trail of Oklahoma City, who with Sheriff B. w. Durham of Lon oke county and two other men was i first to reach the scene of the sextuple tragedy at Austin yesterday after noon and to attempt to aid the vic tins, last night gave the Gazette a vivid account of the collision. Mir. Trail and his party were in another automobile, just across the track on the road which the doomed car was i following, and not more than 100 feet from the point where the train crash ed into the automobile. They believe they were the only eyewitnesses of the tragedy.
 At the scene of the accident there are three tracks, a double track main 1 line and side track The highway runs beside the railroad tracks for some distance beyond the crossing, then turns abruptly and crosses the tracks. The side track is nearest of the three to the road The Hague wood car, MT. Trail said, was trav- cling slowly beside the track, in the opposite direction to that of the train, and thus the drivers nearest view was of the side track. Only 50 feet from the crossing, in the direction from which the speeding train was bearing down upon the party, was string of three gondola cars full of chat, to be used in building roads. Since the road and the tracks are so close together, Mir. Trail said, it is very probable that Mir. Haguewood could not see the approaching train.
 The train, MT. Trail said, failed to whistle at the village; at least it failed to whistle at the crossing. His own car had stopped, of coure, to await the passing of the train, which he could see clearly, and he believes he could have heard the whistle easily if it had been blown. The train, he ' said, was bearing down at a rate of at least 40 miles an hour, since it does not stop at Austin. : Until the very moment of the acci- } dent, Mir Trail said, he and the men with him paid only casual attention to the doomed car across the tracks expecting to see it stop at any mo- ment, since it was travelling slowly and apparently intending to halt just before reaching the crossing. The au- tomobile, however, kept on its way apparently unmindful of the crossing 1. and just as it had partly crossed the i, track the train, emerging from be , hind the string of flat cars, crashed ? into it.
 .. The automobile was struck square Q ly, and was splintered and twisted in. to shapelessness. The six occupants were hurled far down the right ot way. One body fell 75 feet away, or the station platform; that of the lit tie gir! fell close by, under the wheels of a mail truck Two of the bodies MT. Trail believes, fell on the tracks and were struck a second time.
 Mr. Trail and the men with him al