Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1908 — FOUR DIE IN A CRASH [ARTICLE]

FOUR DIE IN A CRASH

Twenty-Six Others Injured, Some Very Badly, in a Railway Wreck tn Mississippi. Qarkesdale, Miss., Sept 15.—Four persons are known to have been killed and twenty-six were Injured in a wreck on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad, two miles south of here when two coaches of a passenger train rolled down an embankment. Two or three passengers are unaccounted for and it is possible their bodies will be found under the wreckage. Tlie known dead are: Mrs. Virgie Graham, Glendora, Miss.; Miss Amber Russell, Andlng, Miss.; Mrs. Robert M. Gay. Glendora, Miss.; unknown white woman, under debris. The most seriously injured are: Mrs A. J. Jackmore. Mattson. Miss., internal and severe cuts; two small children. seriously cut and bruised; J. H. Perkins, Memphis, internally; O. E. Harris, district attorney of Sumner, Miss., probably fatally; Conductor E. S. Sharp, two fractures of arm; Miss Sharp, his daughter, seriously cut; child, badly cut on body; Miss Raynor, Lexington. Miss., internal.