Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-10-27
50 HURT WHEN
COACHES ROLL
DOWN BICBANK
Sunnyland, Fast Passen-
ger Between St. Louis
and San Francisco De-
rails in Mississippi
(Bv the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated fress-J
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. n.
Twenty dead and more than
80 injured is the total toll
taken when the Sunnyland,
fast st. Louis and San Fran
cisco passenger train, left the
rails today near Victoria,
Miss, and tumbled in a
tangled mass down a forty
foot embankment.
At least twenty persons
were killed outright or died
before a relief train could
reach the scene and possibly
twice that number were IN
jured.
The train, travelling at about SO or
60 miles an hour. apparently spread
the track about three hundred yards
from the station and about 200 feet
from forty-foot trestle. The engine
cleared the trestle, as did the first
baggage coach. The engine did not
cave the track. Three baggage coach
es and nine day coaches and Pullmans
made up the train.
All of the coaches except the last
Pullman rolled down the 4O-foot en-
bankment.
The dead included:
J. w. Ryan. conductor, Memphis.
o. o. Jordan, Carrolton, Ga.
Mrs. o. O. Jordan, Carrollton, Ga.
Fay Jordan, g, Ninekah. Okla
John NJ. Jordan, Ninekah, Okla.
Miss Ollie Webster, oxford, Miss.
DR.. II. G. Hathorn.
j. s. Thompson, Tupelo, Miss.
J. Burrett, News agent.
Floyd Wagner, Tupelo, Miss.
The three day coaches we're tan
gled mass Of wreckage. 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.
Pullman Passengers Escape
Few Of the passengers sleeping in
the last three Pullmans suffered seri-
Gus injury and it was these who direct
ed the rescue and first aid work be-
fore the relief trains arrived.
The injured:
Mrs, Bessie Jordan, 40, Ninekah, Ok,
cut and possible internal injuries.
Arthur Jordan, 10, Ninenkah, Okla.
cuts and bruises.
Young Jordan, IL, Ninnekah, Okla,
cuts and bruises.
Charles Deylin" 20, Topeka, Kans.,
minor cuts and bruises.
Mrs. Charles Devfn, Topeka, Kans.,
minor cuts and bruises.
Mrs. j. W.@Camp, Wynee, Ark, frac~
tured wrist.
Randolph Jackson, II, Macon, Miss,
severe bruises.
J. w. Hewskcde, 20, Dickerson, Ala.
severe bruises about head.
p Anderson, Aberdeen, Miss, bruis-
ed about the body.
e. Hogan, Amory, Miss, both legs
broken.
M. "A. Kelley, 27, Memphis. both legs
broken, backk wrenched.
Louis Heinrich, 80. RusseIIviIle, Ark.
severe bruises, back wrenched. sf1
j. G. Champion, 10, Winfield, Ala,
broken shoulder and back wrenched.
MIS-. d. y. InamplOn. %, inIirius
Ala, severe bruises and cuts about the
body.
Theodore Fullbrigbt, 30, BatesviIle,
Ark. bruises about body and back
wrenched.
II. J. Kellett. collarbone broken and
back wrenched.
Cecil Dossett, SO, Okolona, Mass
status unknown.
Residents Aroused
Passengers who escaped from the
Pullman cars uninjured, reused the
residents Of the village and stopped all
passing vehicles on the roads, COM
Wandering them for rescue work In
d short time d crowd had gathered, and
as the injured were taken from the
wreckage, they were wrapped In bed
ding and carried to the station.
All available ambulances and doctors
from Memphis and towns near Vic
toria were pressed into service, and as
quickly as victims were taken from
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