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VTRAS
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FIFTY-FOUR KILLED
AND ONE HUNDRED AND
THIRTY INJUR ED ON PAS
SENGER TRAINS IN
COLLISION.
Scenea About the Wreck . Are Most
Horrible All the Passengers -in
One of the Coaches "
Save Two, Are Killed
Accident in. Ten- ,
nessee Other .
: , News.-' :
Run-
Knoxville, Ten., Sept. 24
cing on a roadbed in a supposedly
high condition of maintenance, and
having about them every safeguard
known to a modern railroad, two
trains on the Southern railway car
rying heavy lists of passengers met
head-on near Hodges, lenD., today,
sending fifty-four people to death
and injuring 130, several .of whom
will probablv die. borne of the
bodies have not yet been recovered,
and many remain unidentified.
This appalling loss of life and
maiming of the living resulted ap
parently from the disregarding of
orders given to the two trains -to
meet at a station which has for a
long time been their regular meet
ing point. -This action on the part
of the engineer of the west-bound
train is made more inexplicable by
the fact that the accident happened
in broad daylight, and according to
the best information obtainable he
had the order in a little frame in
front of him as bis engine rushed
by the station, and a mile and a
half further on came upon an east
bound passenger train. The possi
bility exist3 toat the engineer may
have been asleep. ,
Tbe trains were on time, and were
not makingover 35 miles an hour,
yet the impact as they rounded a
curve and came suddenly upon each
other was frightful. - -Both engines
and the major portions of both
trains were demolished, and why
the orders were disregarded or mis
interpreted will probably never be
known, as the engineers of tbe two
trains were ciushed, their bodies
remaining for hours under the
wreckage of their locomotives.
The collision was between east
bound passenger No. 12, and west
bound passenger No. 15, from Bris
tol. No. 12 WaB a heavy train, car
rying three rullman s, two day
coaches and mail and baggage car.
No. lo was a light local train. The
greatest loss of life occurred on the
eastbound train, while on the west
bound train only the engineer and
fireman were killed.
Relief trains were dispatched
from Knoxville within . an hour,
and all the physicians in the vicin
ity of the wreck We're doing all they
could wben the local corps arrived.
The first train arrived here from
the Bcene of the wreck at 4:20 o'
clock, brit ging about 7o of tbe in
jured. Six of the injured aboard
had died while en route to the city,
and after their bodies were taken
off, the train proceeded to a point
near the general hospital, where a
large force of physicians were ready
to receive the wounded. The next
train from the wreck arrived short
ly after 8 o'clock. It brought the
bodies of 43 dead. The six others
who died en route bring the list up
to 43; and there at least six more at
the Ecene of the wreck, none of the
bodies of the trainmen Laving yet
been recovered-. -
John W. Brown, of Rogersville.,
Tenn.y-a newspaper man, was in
the westbound train. When the'
fearful jolt cam?, he said,, all the
seats ia the car were torn loose and
people and seatswere hurled to the
front end of the car. 'When he re
covered from the shock he heard
the screams and groans of the in
jured and dying in. every direction.
"I left the' car," said Mr, Brown,
"as soon as I could and walked to
the main part of the wreck. It
was the most horrible sight I ever
witnessed. I saw a woman pinion
ed by a. piece of split timber which
had gone completely through her
body. A little child, quivering in
death's agony, lay beneath the wo
man. I saw the child die, and within
a fewfeet of her lay a woman's head,
the decapitated body being several
feet away. Another little girl whose
body was fearfully mangled was
piteously calling for her mother. I
have since learned that she was Lu
cille Connor, of Knoxville, and that
both -of her parents were killed. I
heard one woman, terribly mangled
praying earnestly to be spared for
her children, but death enBuea in a.
few minutes.'- Both engines and all
of the . coaqhes of No. 15 were
demolished, the smoker and bag
gage car completely so. The sleep
ers remained on the track undam
aged. Both engines lay to the north
of the track, Jammed together into
iae mass of ruins, the cars which
were demolished were piled on tbe
wrecked engine."
Congressman H. R. Gibson, from
the second congressional district of
Tennessee, teas a passenger in a
day coach o$ the eastbound train.
He and another man, whose name
is not known, were the only per
sons to escape alive from the demol
ished car. f Congressman Gibson
was en rout3 to Rassellville, Tenn.,
to deliver a political address.
Uneioo, bept. lib. Without in
terruption the Japanese are contin
oing their savage onslaught upon
Port Arthur and after fighting for
hours amid a rain of shell, they
have succeeded in capturing six im
portant forts. The assaults upon
these strongholds were made with
an- utter disregard of life and so
soon as . one company had been
wiped out another was moved for
ward and thrown into the breech.
The storming of these forts was
begun Monday last and Tuesday
night the attacked positions were
in the hands of the Japanese. The
assaults upon, the forts were made
simultaneously, the Japanese bat
teries in the rear and the warships
concentrating their fire upon the six
positions and the infantry rushing
up the hills with fixed bayonets.
Tuesday evening a supplementa
ry fort fell after a desperate strug
gle. At Fort Esteshan the furore
of both attack and defense beggars
description. Tbe Japanese attack
ed the fori from all sides, swarm
ing up the bill over the dead and
wounded and meeting the defend
ers on the wail, mere a combat,
such as history has very few to tell
of, developed.
. Rifles and swords were thrown
away, as the men were too near
each other to use any but short
weapons effectively and hand-to-
hand lighting began, lasting tar in
to the night. Tbe number of dead
and wounded ia this attack alone
exceeded several thousand, many
officers being killed on both sides.
Both inside and outside the walls
lay heaps of dead. The fighting
did not cease until nearly all of the
garrison were killed or 'placed out
of the fighting by being wounded.
The massacre of Russians in Fort
Esteshan isjsaid to be the worst of
the war.
There was a let-up in the firing
on Friday, but on Saturday the as
sault was resumed.
Information, believed here to be
thoroughly authentic, is to the ef
fect that the Japanese commanders
have firmly determined to make
this the final attack upon the for
tress and not to cease the bombard
ment and infantry attack until
Port Arthur has fallen or surrender
ed. Butte, Mont., Sept. 24, A Bil
lings (Mont.) special says: Ten
prisoners, among them some of the
most deeperate criminals ever con
fined in the Yellowstone county
prison, made their escape from the
jail last night, and are still at large.
Among the prisoners who escaped
were Edward Grady and Orton Mo
sier, who held up the Owl saloon
here some time ago and killed Offi
cer Hannah, who had attempted to
capture them. '
The iailbreakers worked , with
such great skill and so quietly that
none of tbe prisoners except those
who escaped knew of what was go
ing on. The brehk would probably
have cot been discovered until
morning had not the escaping men
eecured guns and held up J. W
Caughan, a business man who was
returning home. , Caughan report
ed the matter to Sheriff Hubbard's
office, and then the officers discov
ered that ten of their prisoners had
got away. There were 28 inmates
in the jail at the time of the escape.
' A posse was immediately organ
ized and started in pursuit. Sheriff
Potter, of Carbon county, who has
caught so many desperate men,' was
in town and immediatelyjoined the
posse.
' Tokio, Sept. 23. An official tel
egram states that a detachment of
Japanese aetacked a force of Rue.
aians near Heinluchuang on Sept.
zu, ana mat tbe tiuseians were
driven off, leaving 19 dead. The
Japanese losses are repor
ing slight.
JAPS CONTROL WATER
PORT ARTHUR FORT GUARD
ING SUPPLY TAKEN,
Second Fortress Captured Assaults
CoJ.000 Men Russian Troops
Refuse to" Surrender, and
. . Nearly the Entire Force
Is Killed or Wounded.
Chefoo, Sept. 25. As a result of
the battle before Port Arthur, which
began .on September I9, the Japan
ese succeeded in capturing several
important pcsitions, and today the
Kussian tenure of tbe big torts
guarding the north,' northeast and
northwest sides of the town is seri
ously threatened. :J '
Chinese information' places the
Japanese losses under 3,000 for the
three days' fighting, and this com.
paratively small casualty list is due
to the successive care used by the
Japanese in making their prepara
tions for the advance. Russian
sources, however, are said to have
information that the Japanese lo
ses were unusually" severe, amount.
ing to fully three times the number
mentioned above.
Possibly the most important cap
ture during the three days' fighting
was that of Fort Kuropatkm, which,
while of minor value with regard to
preventing tbe entrance into the
town of the Japanese, has been con
structed for tbe purpose of protect
ing the source of the garrison's wa
ter supply. The control of this
water supply is now in the ban Is
of tbe Japanese.
As was announced in these dis
patches September 20, the battle
began before daybreak on Septem
ber 19. At this hour the citizene
and the garrison of Port Arthur, af
ter the enjoyment of weeks of com
parative security, ' awoke to tbe
thunderous reports of artillery along
the Hoe extending from the west of
Iiz Mountains to Rihlung and Ki-
wan mountains, rma - was out a
preface to the assault which was
destined to result in the capture of
three new and important Russian
positions, together with six' small
but annoying forts lying between
Shushiyen and Rivung Mountain.
During the day and night of the
19th and until noon of the 20th the
bombardment continued without
cessation, and many shells falling
from quarters which previously bad
been silent made it obvious that
tbe Japanese had at least succeeded
either in mountain many heavy
guns in new positions or in strength
ening their old positions. The fight
ing during this period was compar
atively trivial.
At noon of September 2O the Jap
anese right and center, the former
being to the west and the latter to
the east of tbe railroad, commenced
to advance. The troops made use
of the trenches and infrequent nat
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oral cover that lay in their way. -
The email forts to the south resist- -
ed this advance but briefly, their ,
garri8ons"0t being strong numeri- '.
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bombardment the artillery fire from .
Fort Kuropatkla had been growing
steadily weaker, and it having be
come apparent that it had been .
practically silenced, the : Japanese ;
assaulted the fort. , '
Fort Knropatkin . is situated to -the
south of Palichuang and to the
northeast of the parade ground, on
a low hill. It derives its name :
from the time when General Kuro-,
patkin inspected it, pointed out the
weakness of the position, and ord-
ered that it be strengthened as far ?
as possible because of the necessity
of protecting the water supply.
WViiln sitnfttpH In the chain nf ;
main forts, Fort Kuropatkin never
has been as strong as them, and af- ,
ter severe fighting it fell into the
hands of the Japanese. This cap
ture lessens further tbe strength of .
the fort, on Rihlung Mountain,
which is now threatein d from a new
quarter as well as fro n Pelk-h ang.
At 5 o'clockjon the afiti noun of the
20th the Japanese captured a sup
plementary fort, which, from the
lower ground, threatens the fort on
Itz mountain. This ended the
heavy fighting for the day, although
the Japanese later were compelled '
to resist Eeveral sorties. i ', - 1
During the night the heavy bom
bard men t of the Russian positions
continued, the Japanese fire being
directed with particular vigor a
gainst another supplementary fort,
3,000 yards to the west of the fort,
on'Itz Mountain, and regarded as
highly important because of its
bearing on the Itz and Anshu
Mountain forts.
The next day, after having
pounded the position unmercifully
and until its fire had slackened vis
ibly, the Japanese delivered their
assault. They met with a stubborn
resistance. They were expoeed to
the fire of machine guns and rifles,
arid they made heroic' effoits to
reach the crest of the slope.
. They leaped over trenches and
embankment and tore down the
entanglements, in their path until
at length they entered the fort. The
Rdssian troops there refused to de
sert their position, even in the face
of superior numbers which confront
ed them and desperate hand-to-hand
fighting occurred inside the
fort.
Eventually almost the entire
Russian garrison was either killed
or wounded.
The foregoing information has
been obtained from a Chinese of
iUi(oauuauig tiuavwui vuiuo
As the Chinese from whom the
correspondent of the Associated
Press obtained his information left
Pott Arthur the night of September
21, he is unable to say whether the
battle was renewed on the 22d or
not, although . junks which have
come in here bring reports of alight
bombardment on that day.
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