Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 46
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 30, 1907
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BAD WRECK IN DALLAS.
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Fireman on M. K. T. Train
Killed--Many Wounded.
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       Dallas, Oct. 27.--One dead and some forty or fifty wounded, a part of whom may die, is the result of a head-on collision which occurred between a freight engine and the southbound passenger train No. 7 on the Katy, the scene being about nine miles north of here.  It was about 10 o'clock and the train was one hour late and running at the rate of sixty miles an hour to make up the lost time, when in the double curve one mile north of Fisher the passenger train and the freight engine came together with such violence as to make of each engine a mass of scrap iron and inflict the personal injuries herein named.  The freight engine belonged to a northbound freight which had stopped at Garland, that the engine might go back to Dallas for water, and, having been to Dallas, was returning to Garland to pick up the train and proceed northward when the accident occurred.
       No one had any intimation of wreck until the two engines came together with a tremendous crash.  It was impossible for either engineer to see the other in time to avert the accident.  After the wreck the engineer of the freight train took upon himself the entire blame.  He discovered after the wreck that his watch was just thirty-six minutes too slow, hence he did not have time to reach Garland.

       The dead:

       S. P. FRENCH, Denison, fireman on passenger train, killed instantly.

       Dangerously injured:

       Will Slayden, Denison, engineer on passenger train, both legs broken.
       Adalene Ray, negress, Denison, internal injuries, no doubt fatal.
       D. E. Lusk, of Michigan, head and back injured.
       J. M. Malone, Denison, ankle broken.
       J. E. Gill, Denison, foot and leg broken.

       Other injuries of a less serious nature:

       James Blair, internal.
       S. L. Dalton, Greenville, scalp wound.
       Samuel Noel, Royse, ankle crushed.
       R. B Lee, Caddo Mills, foot and limb so badly crushed that amputation was necessary.
       D. J. Earl, Leonard, cut on back and face.
       H. Bourland, badly hurt about eyes and head.
       D. Luidsepe, leg broken, chest bruised and injured internally.
       A Mexican from Sedalia, Mo., ankle and head injured.
       J. G. Boyce, Denison, compound fracture of left leg.
      
       About thirty others have comparatively slight wounds.

       The train had some 500 excursionists coming to the Dallas Fair, and this fact caused widespread interest throughout the northern part of the state and the local telephone and telegraph officers were flooded with messages of inquiry.

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