Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-12-14
IS Die In Jim
Crow Cor As
TToin Wrecks


teen Negroes riding Jim Crow In
a passenger baggage coach of the
crack streamliner. the SouIheTner,
northbound Tor Now York, lost
their lives when the engineer al
lcgedly ignored signals which
made his train the target for n
hcad-on collision with south.
bound Spccdstcr headed for this
city
Hcruism abOundrd with three
white physicians, DrS Walter u
Levy. Jr. Gale johnson and Philip
A Hoover, doing everything pos.
sihlo for the relief Of human suf-
CcrinE Mrs Hoover. wife ~ Or
Hunvcr, rendered Invaluable aid
tu suffering Negroes helping her
husband IN tearing sheets and
making tourniqucts for the i'm.
pnsoncd injured
4 New OrlraniRu Louis Crrigh.
tom was among the dead idcnti-
fled The victim. - World War II
veteran. had worked IN the postal
service here since his army dis
charge he was ON his way e. New
York where he expected tu be- re-.
employed IN the government arr.
wee. CT, .ghton was a graduato Of
Xavier university here.
Other Negro dead identified
are; Mrs. Sadie ToliVrr, and her
husband, Leroy ToIiNrr. BIrm-
inEham. Ala.
Mrs. Dolly = Rogers, BIrm-
inghnm; leighton Anderson,
Cno address,; Eugene burton.
CcntrcviIIe. Ala.
Unidentified Negro dead arc
two small children and two va.
men The Rcd Cross reported that
the other unidentified are Negro
men
Injured Negroes are. John T
Brinkloy. Atlanta. Ga. railroad
employee. treated and released
Clarence Thomas. Houston. Tex
treated and released Cpl Sem
mic Harper. ~ jackson. X 6.
fractured left shoulder, condition
fair
y r. Armstrong, Chattanooga.
Tenn, walter. william Robinson.
Chattanooga, Tenn. bruised
stomach, treated and released.
James = Jones headwHiter A..
lanta nnRc lAccrations, Nathaniel
Ricks waiter Atlanta. lrR and
facc bruises
p Davis. cook. Atlanta. back
and right leg injured N Brown
cook. Atlanta. left side and right
hip injured. l. n. TulIvRn. cook
Tocc0a ia treated and 70.
leased
The doctors we're sll 81 IN" 0ptn.
ion that there were . iark 81 s"ha-
tiveH in the train's FIRST AID kits
Morphine they said wDuId hav"
aided much IN the smrliorstiIn ~
intense pain suffered by person
trapped Or Hoover had q small
amount with him and used u eH.
pedirn'Iy
Al thrr" physicians. however,
first attsnded the whit injured
aboard the Crs@crBt Limited.
thru made their Wsy Co the
SouthrrnrT. On FsarhiRE thu
"stssI easksf" Whrrs rs Negroes
hay dsad. Or. H"oyrr said;
When ! got ~ IN" southerrrF
the first thing saw wa desy
Negro woman IN the sd" ~ IN
tracks and = white man with ~
| lrg ~ lDoksd a. him, but fouHd
that ~ was drad TN
7 CfaV1ed into ~" first car
and l,Dpked into the ones tsIn
scor,sd thru them could 80 3 ~
81 Negroes pinnod IN under chair
ara wrorkaRr They we're grDsn
lnR and srrra ming but there wa
No way ~ getting them out !
saw . Btii" chiId all but dscspita.
ted"
Tn n asAi passenger .bsgRaR'
combination car IN which The Ne
Rruss wsTe SEATED The Mississippi
was bshind ths soutberner's diesel
and was trI~Scoped hack upon q
second cnarh said 20 have brru
empty Reservations must b.
made In advance 20 nd IN this
Jim Crvw oOaeh and often times
no SEATS are available for rnDrs
than . ninth
tn sOaros ~ ths crash hsd
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