Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1904 — TRAIN ORDERS WENT WRONG [ARTICLE]

TRAIN ORDERS WENT WRONG

Some One Misunderstood and One Man b Dead and Ten Other Person* Hurt. Piedmont Mo., May 20.—One man was killed and ten passengers injured as' the resnlt of a collision between Iron Mountain passenger train No. 8 and freight train No. 97 near here. The dead man Is Andrew Keith, engineer freight train, Memphis, Tenn. Seriously Injured Leonard Griswold and Neal Garrett; St Louis; Iliram Waters, Bismarck, Mo.; Chris Norby, Piedmont, Mo.; James Oliver, St. Louis; Ed. Hull, Piedmont Mo., and four other passengers whose names could not be learned were slightly injured. A misunderstanding of train orders Is given as the cause of the wreck.