People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — TWO FATAL COLLISIONS. [ARTICLE]

TWO FATAL COLLISIONS.

A Disaster on the Big Foot —Six Killed In Texas. Cincinnati, July 25.—There was a head-end collision on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (Big Four) railway at Griffith’s station, 15 miles from this city, at 7 o’clock a. m. Three people were killed and ten injured. The express from Chicago, due here at 7:30 was on time, but the St. Louis express, which runs fifteen minutes ahead of the Chicago incoming train, was an hour late. . At Griffiths a light engine was running down to the gravel bank in charge of Engineer Hart. He forgot his orders. Knowing the St. Louis express was late, he pulled out and was met by the Chicago express. Hart will die, probably, without telling how he made the mistake in orders. His fireman, Frank Taylor, of Indianapolis, was killed outright, also Charles Sherman and another tramp who was stealing a ride. There are ten reported injured, none fatally except Engineer Hart. Atlanta, Tex., July 25. —A collision occurred Monday evening on the Texas & Pacific road, 9 miles north of here, near Forest Station. Six persons were killed and several wounded. They were Engineer Gremm, Fireman Marshall, two express messengers, the baggagemaster and a passenger,whose, names are unknown. Two of the bodies are still in the wreck and a third was torn up and the remains scattered in the debris. One engine is completely wrecked and the other badly disabled. The baggage, express, mail and smoker of both trains were shattered into a mass of splinters.