Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 51
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, November 16, 1907
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TRAIN GOES INTO DITCH.
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Express Messenger Gets a Broken
Leg--Passengers Unhurt.
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(Houston Chronicle.)
Southbound train No. 101
on the Fort Worth branch of the Inter-national and Great Northern broke a rail
near Cross Timbers Tuesday morning about 2:30 o'clock, with the result that the
entire train, with the exception of the engine and chair car, rolled down the
slight embankment.
Henry Peebles, express messenger, sustained
a broken leg and other bodily injuries, some of them of an internal character.
He was picked up unconscious and brought to Houston for treatment.
Some of the passengers, the majority of
whom were asleep at the time, were bruised and cut when the train tured (sic)
over, but the wounds were of only a superficial nature.
Train No. 5, the St. Louis-Houston fast
mail, is held back of the wreck, and was slated to arrive in Houston about 3
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. It was due here at 2:35 a.m.
At Cross Timbers, just a few miles out of
Houston, the engine broke a rail in crossing. The tener passed safely
over, but the express and baggage car (t)urned, carrying with it three day
coaches. All cars turned practically over, Peebles, the express messenger,
being caught in his car. The tail-end chair car remained on the right of
way, although all its wheels are off the rails.
For distance of several hundred yards the
track is torn up, and forces from the wrecking gang and the maintenance of way
department are hard at work. The right of way was expected to be cleared
by 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and the delayed No. 5 will then be brought in.
Passengers on both No. 101 and No. 5 were transferred Tuesday morning and
brought to the city, arriving about 8 o'clock.
The wreck, while causing some delay in
train operation, was not of a serious character, no serious injuries being
received by any with the exception of the express messenger. One
passenger, who was asleep in the smoking compartment of a day coach, remained
asleep when the car rolled over and had to be waked and told of the accident.
Northbound trains on the International were
held back some by the wreck, the local trains on the Palestine line and the Fort
Worth branch not leaving until several hours after their scheduled time, Tuesday
afternoon, however, the track was all right for the departure of the fast mail
at 3:30 p.m. and for later trains.
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