Nashville, Tennessee Train Wreck
May
30, 1899
NINE HURT IN A COLLISION.
NASHVILLE, TENN., May 31. – Nine people were
injured, two of them seriously, in a head-end
collision of local passenger trains on the
Louisville & Nashville road twenty-five miles
south of here at 6 o’clock last evening. Both
engines and the baggage cars were smashed, while
Engineers Burns and
Shugart received serious internal
injuries.
Seven passengers were slightly hurt, as
follows:
Pickens, W. H.
Chicago.
Howard, J. E., Thompson Station,
Tenn.
Sowell, W. J., Columbia, Tenn.
Lawrence, J. W., Burwood, Tenn.
Bowers, J. H., Macon, Ga.
Coles, Henry, and daughter,
Nashville.
The trains came together on the main track,
half way between West Harpeth and Thompson
Station, but who is at fault has not been
determined.
Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne, IN 31 May
1899
Transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
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