Evening star., 1925-10-27
70 KILLED, 50 HURT
WHEN TRAIN ROLLS
OVER INTO RAV|NE
Three Day Coaches Plunge
Into Tangled Mass as
Track Spreads.
RELIEF PARTIES RUSHED
ISOLATED DISTRICT
Death of Conductor Holds Up In
Observation-Disclosures Sent
From Memphis.
Ry Nh, Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MEMPHIS. Tenn. October IL
Twenty dead and more than 80 in
jured was the known toll taken when
the Sunnyland, fast st. Louis and San
Francisco passenger train. left the
rails today near Victoria. Miss, and
tumbled In Il tangled mass down Az
foot embankment.
At least 20 persons were killed out
right or died before a relief train could
reach the scene, and possibly twice
that number We're injured.
The train, travelling at about so or
60 miles an hour, apparently spread
the track about 200 feet from 40
foot trestle. The engine cleared the
trestle, as did the first baggage coach.
The engine did not leave the track.
Three baggage coaches and nine day
coaches and Pullmans made up the
train.
All coaches except the last Pullman
rolled down the 40-foot embankment.
The three day coaches were a tan
gled mass OF Wrecka ge. One of them
dived headlong into the clay bank by
the side of the track. and the others
rolled and jammed as they struck the
bottom, piling the occupants into the
tops and ends of the cars.
Few of the passengers sleeping in
the last three Pullmans suffered seri-
GUS injury, and it was these who di
rected the rescue and first-aid work
before relief trains arrived.
A partial list of the dead, gathered
from several sources, include:
J. w. Ryan, conductor, Memphis.
o. o. Jordan. Carrollton. Ga.
Mrs. o. o. Jordon. Carrllton. Ga.
Fay Jordan. eight, Ninekah. Okla.
John NJ. Jordan, Ninekah. Okla.
Miss Ollie Webster, oxford. Miss.
DR.. II. G. Hathorn, address not
known.
J. S. Thompson. Tupelo, Miss.
J. Burdett, news agent.
Floyd Wagner, Tupelo, Miss.
Partial List of Injured.
Among the more seriously injured
eekah, Okla; cut and possibly internal
injuries.
P. Anderson, Aberdeen, Miss;
bruised about the body
B. Hogan, Emory, Miss; both legs
broken.
NJ. A. Kelly. q, Memphis; both legs
broken, back wrenched.
Louis w. Heinrich. 80, Russellville,
Ark; severe bruises. back wrenched
y. u. IHotHipiOil, ~, w lHlicIu, AID.
broken shoulder and back wrenched.
Mrs. J. c. Champion. 65, Winfield,
Ala; severe bruises and cut about
the body.
Theodore Fulbright. 80, Batesville
Ark; bruises about the body and back
wrenched.
H. ]. Kellett, IS. Williford, Collar
bone broken, back wrenched.
Cecil Bossett, Okolone, Miss; status
unknown.
Meager reports received here indi-
cate the train was derailed and rolled
down a steep embankment. At the
offices of the railroad 1t was stated
that no official reports as to the num-
Der killed or injured had been re-
ceived.
Relief trains were sent from Mem
phis. and physicians and nurses were
hurried from Amory and Holly
Springs, Miss, to the scene of the
wreck, which occurred in an isolated
section about one and a half miles
from Victoria. Ambulances also
were sent overland from this city.
Rescue Work Underway.
Unofficial reports received here in
dicated that after leaving the rails
the train crashed into a ravine.
The fact that the conductor ana
possibly others of the trainmen were
among the dead or injured delayed
railroad officials in obtaining reports
of the wreck.
One report was that virtually the
entire train left the rails and tumbled
down the embankment. Rescue par
ties, hurriedly organized in Victoria,
began the task of removing the dead
and injured from the wreckage, and
summons was sent to nearby towns
and to Memphis for all available ply
SicianS and nurses