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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