Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1910 — ILLINOIS CENTRAL FLYER IS WRECKED [ARTICLE]

ILLINOIS CENTRAL FLYER IS WRECKED

Four Persons .Killed and More Than a Score Injured. Four persons are known to be dead, more than a score were injured, some fatally, in the wreck of No. 2 Illinois Central flyer from New Orleans to Chicago, which occurred near Jackson, Miss. The dead are: W. R. Litt, mail clerk, Memphis; E. V. Howe, mail clerk, Memphis; Jones Treloar, mail clerk, Memphis; A, W.~Woods, negro mail clerk, New Orleans. Th^-wreck occurred two miles from Jackson. The Iccomotive-jtrmped the track and rolled down the steep embankment, three mail cars and as many sleeping cars following it. The coaches which were in the rear of the train alone remained on the track. Following the crash the cars burst into fames. With frenzied desperation the passengers who were not en- - trapped in the <* :s worked to free t'heir cor ] anions from the wreckage. By tie light of the flames men armed with a es nut bars of iron-worked to rc.h. i-s« the victims imprisoned in the ovci:t* pod sleeping coaches. The heavy construction of the sleep- , ers j revcf led the list of fatalities from beirig 4 much huger. Men and women -OE£Xe extricated from the wreck in - time to prevent them being burned tq death only by the,frenzied work of other rrsyengers. ' A~ fast as the injured were* taken out they were lifted to the- side of the track and wrapped in blankets. One man ran all way back to Jackson and told of the Wreck. In a short time the roads leading to the wreck were filled with vehicles bearing rescuing parties. Physicians and nurses were sent to the scene as Boon as a special train was made up.