Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — Three Killed and 18 Injured, [ARTICLE]

Three Killed and 18 Injured,

In a wreck on the Iron Mountain railroad, one mile south of Prescott, Ark., three men were killed and eighteen injyred, all negroes. While going backward at a high rate of speed, the engine carrying the men struck a piece of crooked track, left the rails, and threw the men In every direction, some in front of it, some under it, and one man was wrapped around a pole on the side of the track.