Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — FOUR KILLED, SEVEN INJURED. [ARTICLE]

FOUR KILLED, SEVEN INJURED.

Head-end Collision Between I-onl* villa Mini Nashville Freight Train*. Birmingham, Ala., dispatch: Four trainmen were killed and seven injured in a head-end collision between two I-ouisville & Nashville freight trains at Hughes' Siding, seven miles from this city. The dead are: William Bell, colored, brakeman; T. A. Cogbill, engineer; Anderson Irving, colored, fireman; J. C. Rattenberry, conductor. Injured: Robert Christian, colored, brakeman; M. H. Everin, engineer; Frank Fancher, colored, brakeman; W. H. Hughes, coal Inspector; Preston Pearce, colored, fireman; W. F. Shannon, conductor; C. Shannon, flagman. Travel was delayed for five hours.