Mounds, IL Train Collision, Jan 1929

TWO TRAINMEN DIE IN RAILWAY CRASH.

Mounds, Ill., Jan. 23 -- (AP) -- Two trainmen were killed, two were injured and an undetermined number of passengers suffered minor injuries last night when the Floridan, fast Illinois Central passenger train from Chicago to Florida, crashed into a freight train one mile south of Mounds.
The dead:
LEO WELLINGTON, 50, Paducah, Ky., engineer on the freight train.
MILTON JOHNSON, Negro brakeman, on the freight train, also of Paducah.
The injured taken to a hospital are JOE GRASTY, 25, of Paducah, fireman on the freight train, who suffered a broken leg, and L. W. WORLEY, Centralia, Ill., traveling engineer who was riding on the passenger locomotive.
The accident occurred when the passenger train, 20 minutes late, struck the freight train as it pulled off a siding on to the main line, the crew thinking the Floridan had passed. The engine of the passenger train went into the ditch and several coaches of the all-Pullman train left the rails, but remained upright. Physicians from Cairo attended several passengers.

North Adams Transcript Massachusetts 1929-01-23
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