Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 34
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, October 23, 1902
FATAL COLLISION.
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TWO MEN KILLED AND SEVERAL PER-
SONS INJURED.
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Fast Freight Strikes Passenger
Train.
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A fatal collision occurred on the I & G N railroad at 6 o'clock Monday evening
at the crossing of the main line and the Ft. Worth division at Lewis injunction
in which two men were killed outright and twelve or fourteen other persons
injured, some very seriously.
The collided trains were a fast freight
going east on the main line and passenger train No. 101 which left Marlin at
3:20 bound south, Conductor W. J. Branch and Engineer Jim Parrott in charge.
The circumstance of the accident are about
as follows:
Both trains arrived at Lewis Junction at
the same time and both gave signals for the crossing but neither stopped to let
the other pass.
When the engine of the passenger train was on the crossing, the engineer,
(s)eeing that a collision was eminent opened the throttle with the hope of
clearing the crossing before the freight reached it. The engineer of the
freight signaled emergency brakes about the same time, but all to little
purpose, as the engine of the freight struck the chair car of the passenger
about midway, tearing a hole in it and killing the two men and wounding the
others.
The chair car was thrown from the track and
the engine of the freight was careened, but not seriously damaged.
Medical aid was at once summoned from
Hearne and Gause and the wounded given medical attention. The remains of
Howard and Jape were embalmed ready for internment at the respective places of
their residences.
As soon as the information of the accident
reached the office of the company here, a special train was dispatched to the
scene, carrying Superintendent Irvine and Messrs. Sharp, McEntire and Spencer.
THE KILLED.
Jasper Howard, a hotel man of Mart.
Frank Jape, a locomotive engineer on the
Trinity and Sabine.
Among the injured was a young lady, Miss
Mamie Young, of Bryan. Conductor W.
J. Branch and E. H. Earle of Lott.
Miss Young had been visiting Marlin with
her father and they were stopping at Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Dupuy's. The young
lady left Marlin at 3:20 yesterday for home, her father remaining here.
Her injuries are reported quite serious but are not believed to be fatal.
OTHER INJURIES.
Mrs. Mary Ellison, of
Georgetown, spine fractured.
Mr. Paterson, traveling man, Cut in head.
G. Kilpatrick, Georgetown.
J. W. Wood, Franklin.
Miss Edna Hill, Lott.
E. H. Earle, Lott.
A. Munsun and Harry McMahan, Palestine.
G. T. Lewis, La Porte.
E. S. Niece, Hubbard.
W. G. Bailey and wife, Waco.
W.M. Denson, Prairie Hill.
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