Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 16
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 13, 1907
-------
A FREIGHT WRECK ON I. & G. N.
-----
Two Empties Demolished and En-
gines Slightly Damaged.
-----

       Two freight cars demolished, a loaded car half off the track and two engines somewhat disfigured are the results of a collison on the I. & G. N, ten o'clock Monday morning.
       The south bound freight train with twenty-five loaded cars and the two empties was run into by a local switch engine with a long string of cars loaded with coal.  The two empties were next to the engine of the through freight and were hurled from the track to the street.  The south bound was making the curve near the compress, and the engineer states that he could not see the on-coming switch train, which was backing, until it was too late to come to a full stop.
       The crew on the switch engine could not see the freight on account of the curve.  Both trains were running at a slow rate of speed and that probably accounts for the fact that the damage was not more serious.
       A man, who was riding in one of the empties escaped as if by a miracle, unscathed.
        Beyond a vigorous shake-up the crew of neither train were injured.
       The pilot of engine 130 was knocked off and the front axle bent.  The drawhead on the switch engine was put out of commission.
       No serious interruption to traffic resulted.
       Misses Alice Cousins and Annie Mae Cook had a narrow escape from possible injury.  They were driving along the street near the scene of the collison and when the crash came it frightened their horse, which broke a shaft of the buggy in his efforts to run.  The young ladies were within only a few feet of the cars that were knocked from the track.  They consider that they were lucky to escape.

----------

Copyright permission granted to Theresa Carhart and her volunteers for
printing by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas