Chattanooga, Tennessee
Train Wreck
May
16, 1907
Unusual and Fatal
Accident Near Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tenn.,
Dispatch, 16th,
Three men were killed
outright, two so seriously injured that they
will die and three others badly injured in
addition to the crashing of a freight engine and
11 cars through a bridge into Chattanooga creek;
the destruction of three residences and a pile
driver nearby, as a result of a premature
explosion of a blast about 4 o’clock this
afternoon at the foot of Lookout mountain on the
Stevenson extension.
The bridge was crushed by
several tons of rock hurled by the blast just as
the freight train was going on the bridge.
Other pieces of rock hurled for 400 yards
crashed through the pilot of the pile driver of
the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad,
which was at work driving piles in Chattanooga
creek for a new viaduct, killing
Engineer SHAFER
and Fireman HYDER instantly. The third man killed was
a negro fireman on the Southern railway. Other
pieces of rock hurled 500 and 600 yards struck
residences on the side of Lookout mountain,
crashing through the roofs and floors of the
buildings.
The blast was set off, it
is said, by J. Foard,
a powder man, employed by the contractors.
The Landmark,
Statesville, NC 21 May 1907
Transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
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