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THE VERNON DAILY RECORD, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1930 PAGE THREE FATAL CRASH REVIEWED BY TRDCK DRIVER Horace H. Cummings of Duncan, Says Train Wrecked in About One Minute After Boiler Hit Father Tells Same Story. TWO VIEWS OF TRAIN WRECK TELL THEIR GRIM STORY OF TRAGEDY Horace H. Cummings, 21, of Dun- csi was driving the truck carrying the boiler which crashed into the bridge on Highway No. 5 rear Oklaunion early Sunday morning, causing the eastbound passenger train of i.

Denver line to wreck. He was accompanied by his father, C. and they were en route to Littlefield, Texas, with the boiler and other supplies to be installed in a gin there. They came Vernon before noon Sunday and in the presence of officers and an attorney the railroad made almost statements of their version' the crash of the truck into the trestle and the wreck of the train a few seconds later. Horace statement acknowledged before a notary public follows: live Duncan, and work for W.

J. McFarland and have been driving; a tru-k him about one year. night 1 was driving a truck for Kim loaded with a gun boiler sr.d to Littlefield, Texas. left Duncan about 5:30 p. m.

urday. Durcan is about 100 miles Oklaunion. We got to Oklaunion about 2:30 this morning; my father, Cummings, was with, me. We had the boiler on the truck with the dorr.e straight up. I had never over this road before, I had hauled boilers before, and heretofore we had been hauling them with the dome on the side, but recently we had been ordered by some highway officer to turn the dome up.

I had driven the truck ail the way. I did not sleep yesterday. I did not see the sign on the road about the low bridge, 1 a sign. This sign is on the curve turning down Into the I presume 1 was going about c-iehteen miles per hour. When I hit the bridge, the boiler was knocked off.

The boiler was carried by truck and semi-trailer and wa fastened on by a big chain at the front and with a smaller chain on the rear. The impact caused both chains to breal The first thing I knew of a railway track was when discovered the 1 was in fifteen or twenty yards of the trestle when first saw it. 1 do not know what the truck weighs. 1 had stopped about one minute when the train came along. Just as soon as 1 saw the bridge 1 realized that the truck would not clear and then applied my brakes.

After 1 hit the bridge, ar another tru'-k or car coming and began to wave it down and then 1 saw the train coming. I was certain the wreck had torn things The statement of the elder Cummings corroborates in nearly every the. verson his son gave of era-h the boiler into the bridge and th wreck which fallowed. He said in part: remember passing through the litt town (OkU union'), and we were going about 20 miles an hour. There were a few cars on the highway, but the traffic was not heavy.

I had not been sleeping any, but had been helping to watch the road. did not see the sign of warning on the ui derpsss The first sign I remember seeing was the just before we reached briogt 1 told the boy to slowdown, ar-i he We did not notice the bridge until we had hit it. I woud guess that we were going about 12 miles an w-hen he hit the bridge; it. could haye been faster. The impact tore, the boiler from the truck, and it fell to the ground.

The truck went on through the underpass, and neither of us was hurt. would guess that possibly a minute had elapsed, after we had hit the bridge, until the tram came along. 1 mw some timbers falling from the bridge, and is the reason why I Negro Woman Cut. ady Smith, negro woman, was released a hospital here Sunday following treatment for serious cuts received in an affray another negro woman Saturday night. County officer investigating the case.

Blue Tag and Tag is the feed you want. Sold and giar nteed by Glover and Green. ROBINSON RITES TO RE TUEDSAY SERVICES FOR VETERAN ENGINEER TO BE HELD AT WICHITA FALLS Funeral services for P. Ron risen, 67 of Wichita Falls, veteran Fort Worth and Denver engineer who was instantly killed Sunday morning in the train wreck near Oklaunion, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 at his home. Wichita Falls Masons Will have charge of the services.

Immediately after the tragedy, the body of Mr. Robinson was brought to Vernon and taken in charge by the Underwood Funeral Home. The remains were taken to Wichita Tails Sunday afternoon. Mr. Robinson the oldest man from the point of service on the road, worked in and out of Fort Worth.

Amar Ho and Wichita Falls fo the past 46 years. Mr. Robins is the father of Ted Robinson, president of the Fort Worth baseball club. Other survivors include his widow at Wichita a stepdaughter, Mrs. R.

Redin of Pam pa, two brothers, Kd and Watt Robinson, and a si ter, Mrs. Andrews, all of Fort Worth. (Photo by Clifton) Sidelights on Sunday Disastrous Wreck Near Oklaunion Show Freaks of Fortune That Seem Impossible New Fall 'tyles Black kid and patent straps and pumps with high and box 1 Splendid quality. $5 In any great catastrophe there are many freakish features. The wreck of the.

Fort Worth A crack passenger train, West Texas," No. early yesterday morning near Oklaunion produced a ot unurual features. When the news of the disaster reached Vernon, physicians were summoned, ambulances rushed to the scene, and along with them many spectators Within a short time after the crash a considerable number people wen at the scene. Some came from places and in some in tame- were not fully dressed. According to railroad m- ployes, the crash came about Sunday morning The train was due out of Vernon at 2:22 and w.is running on time.

It passed the northbound Te.van,” Vo which is also due out of Vernon at 2:22. The latter train passed over the bridge where the fatal accident occurred just a short time, probably not more than 35 minute before the giant locorotive of No. plowed its wav hrough a siding and carried two men to their One of freak uf the was that the headlight, mounted on the front of the loco- was undamaged. Neither nor the electric light bulb wa- broken, whi'- just a short distance to the rear of headlight, the smokestack of heavy iron ecu truction was sheared off smooth with the top of the boiler. Inside the engine reb, where Engineer F.

P. Robinson met his death, huge pieces of iron and steel were broken and twisted, the tee! crushed in by the Impact, of the glass on the instrument panel was still intact. Some idea of the force of the impact may be gained from the- fact that front truck c.f the baggage car was stripped loose and somewhere in the wreckage. On the rear truck of this same car one of the wheels was in us if it have been glass or so- other frag le substancc. The locomotive, No, one of the crack engines of the Burlington System, came to rest on its right after plunging down the emba just east of the bridge.

The tender, in which the fuel oil and water for the operation of the locomotive were carried, was upside, down, with both trucks missing. Escaping steam probably prevented ignition of the fuel oil and a disastrous fire that would have added horror to the disaster -------It was interesting to see how' quickly railroad en.ployes set about to restore traffic, A wrecker from Wichita Falls, belonging to Missouri-Kan System, with crews of men workmen shortly niter 7 only about four hours after the accident occurred. A few minutes later a wrecker of the Burlington System, with scores of men, arrived from Childress. The two crews began work immediately the of cle-'- ing the wreckage. Within a short time two Pullmans on the rear of the ill.fated train, were back on the rails.

In fact the rear car never left: the rails. With tv working on the wreckage from both ende, track were bringing up materials for laying new track. ------O-----Shortly after 12:30 o'clock pas- singer train No. 2, eastbound from Denver to Dallas, moved slowly across the bridge and past the A little later No. 7, from Dallas to Denver, VANCE BURIAL AT AMARILLO FIREMAN ON TRAIN IN WRECK WAS SCALDED AND BURNED I a i i N.

Ander gram mi Mr. A. R. Vance, an on the Fort wreckage. I westbound ed th pas late wrpek about 1 was due The dy Vmarillo, fii and Denver passenger wreck near Ok la un ton earl mori; ine and one- of the tw ix hours i of the trag Am; Kro ram cket re agent Engineer Robinson was an Road.

It was. learned from other employes and officials of the railway that he had been with the Denver about forty and was known among railroad men as Robinson. He was a small man and those who knew him probably did not weight more than 1.10 pounds. He had -i good record as an engineer and regarded one of the best men in the service. No one from Vernon got on the lay morning, the the station said.

T1 re re a bou 1 00 pass nge on the train, most of whom were riding in the two day coaches immediately behind the two baggage cars. The baggage cars both day coaches and two Pullman left the track, Willie May Bryan, a teacher at Borger and a former resident of Seymour, was a passenger on the train. She was en route to Wirhita Falls to visit a brother had ju-t taken off mv shoes when the wreck Bryan said, after crash, all of the lights went off, and the think I thought of 1 was sure I had been was my shoes, I had i hard finding them in the Bryan was brought to Vernon vas the guest, at the Bailey until relatives arrive i Ri era! sen ic Mr. about two was badly escaped fre ed ensripe. jum the cab found cleat trainmen crash, Mr.

Van ver since moled 1:0, 1927. Mr. Brot herb neers an that ori' at the s. His one son in, of Worth in the Sunday whs forwarded to d'rv afternoon by the nsey Funeral Horne. will be held Tuesday', died in a hospital here ou: after the crash.

He scalded by steam which it 1 It was thought that he ed or was thrown fiorii the engine as be was o' the wreckage by nd passengers a (Photo by Clifton) The picture on the left shows the two rear Pullmans of the fast Fort Worth Denver Texan standing on the bridge near Oklaunion after the fatal crash early Sunday Under the bridge is the huge gin boiler which crashed into a bridge girder, syringing the rails out of line and causing the train to crash into the ditch. By observing closely one may see the dent made in the girder by the impact when the boiler struck the bridge supports. In the picture on the right the huge locomotive So. 551, one of the Denver crack passenger engines lying on its side a tangled mass of tivist- ed steel and iron after plowing some feet along and down the embankment. Ilnptist Women Meet Today Members of the Baptist W.

M. U. meet this afternoon at 4 at the church for their monthly S. F. Smith, will talk 01 Mr Mrs.

Aubrey With a duet if Mrs. L. is leader of the Native Christians." K. Cavne will discuss in Afrt-a," while will ed by Mrs. Mi A Floyd in South D.

ulton and ter will entertain FINAL RETURNS ARE ANNOUNCED RECORD VOTE POLLED JULY PRIMARY, SAYS ELECTION BUREAU IN rial turns Aug. 1- official re pie ted by lexers I lection ad been wit! 1. 19le and of neer member of th notjve Eng: Engineer Robinson to funeral parlor here, Mr. I nderwood saw that the lower plate of his false teeth set was mining. Friends of the ill-fated man found the teeth early Sunday morning in the wreckage of the engine, Einplo.xe*- hnd not been sble to find the indicator which would haw recorded exactly the speed at which the train was traveling.

ther Bureau in its tabulation of in the the July primaries showed that ttie ilota! reached 833,041, exceeding by the previous record of pro- j--R 7 cast in July, 11)26. The unreported vote was less than 2,000, due from the counties of Cottle, Jeff ve Oak, Wheeler and Yoakum. Returns were received complete from 24B counties in the Democrat primaries and substantially complete returns from the other five. Returns from yl counties accounted for approximately 0,253 votes in the primary. It- was cor- dered le that primaries were held in er counties but returns were ailahle when the Bureau tafiulation, bureau announced it would be to tell whether the Re in party would find run-off in August necessary, until i Harris, llarve II.

Governor- Oe- rge Butte, li. Kxu i. 1,7 ry I John Grant, 847; John Pollard Gaines, 82 Governor Mike H. I hont as R. J.

McMillan, 1, II B. Tanner, 471, Attorney George b. At- Hundreds Visit Scene of Train Wreck Yesterday kin -an, 1,241, Comptroller RDi; A. Welty. M2.

State I Kd Superintendent lion- Mr R. Halle? Rayitobi Baker Rea. tnVS. umilili Broi-k, 1 ,1 Land Com W.ivlaml Sanford. barh Dor st Reck, 2, 1,543.

hnson, In ruc- Mrs. Alma Jtrmpx to Death Sete, I4 ranee, Aug. 4. he had with his girl, Jean Casterand, aviator, jumped to death from plane near Peyrade. He fell into the garden of his home, the plane crashing to earth a hundred yards further on, Casterand left note to the girl telling her that he wa killing him- selt a proof of his affection for her.

Aar? OKI, Vat -P. 1," A pp I). Result race? wert I pu 0 111 proba i 50 ot not a ed itr i The im pos prima follo i Di John C. Bo Di B. 10 Hil riet West, I Congressi a in Di Rayburn, II, CH) Di J.

iitt ot it- it C. A. afte hur timi Mis and Hotel Thou over ero acene a et pouring persons remains from all ri ed to the light i (j 4 Earl carrying eirrg the wi take her to Wichita Fall, ,1. E. Shackleford, an employe of the Denver System at hII- dresH, claimed to be the only person on the train injured before the wreck.

He was on his way to Fort Worth to enter the railroad hospital there to have a badly cut thumb treated. Mr, Shackelford said that he was one of the first men to extricate himseif from the wreckage and to reach the ground. His left arm i was badly bruised and his back I was slightly sprained, lie said that he heard a woman cream. She had been riding in the same coach with him. -----MI dug her out and put her on my shoulder and carried up on the road and laid her he said.

I carried a little Kiri from one of the By this time I was fainty. I had to ait down to keep from over. In a few I a)! right and was able to help with the S. Cropton, sn employe of the Sante Fe at Amarillo, was seated across, the aisle from a woman with two small children. The impact i of the wreck threw one of the I rlren directly into his arms, and the youngster was uninjured.

The i other child, a little girl, was thrown through an open window. She was found a few minutes later by her frantic mother, standing in the i unharmed. 0 After bringing the body of A farmer who lives about a of a mile of fhe of the wreck (and who incidentally refused to give a newspaper reporter hi name) said that he beard the train whistle and that he heard the crash. He did not get up to sec what had happened, thinking, he that he bad beard the train pas. He did not know about the wreck until after daylight and was attracted to it by the large number of gathered around.

of the tragedy wa dis pate lied all over news; aper press special papers in the fit Newspaper men abb get art account of the dead arid injured early day due to the fact that the of the tort Worth and Denver in Vernon and authorities at all of the Vernon and funeral homes furnished every aid On numerous occasions when information nought not. at hand, efforts were made to supply it accurately and speedily. Such co-operation is always appreciated by newspaper people the ation by andby to th ading ate. the Republican C-oror va the offit'i'ii return Aug. 11 in Browi Following is t.he final ta the Democratic primary: orris a i Roberty Henry, 170,7 39,654.

Miriam A Ferguson, Ross S. Sterling, 17'v J(J Clint C. Small, Thomas Love, Jame.s Young, Barry Her, C. ody, Paul Coven, Frank Putnam, 2.53H; C. K.

Walker, 2,026, a tenant Sterling P. Strong, Edgar Witt, 171.553 D. Parnell, Ja r.i*. Rog era, H. Darwin, 75.7<5'.*; Virgil t.

Arnold 42,994, J. F. Hair, 41,995. Attorney V. Robert L.

Bobbitt, Cecil Storey, Krnest Becker, 71.432. II. f.heppard, 169.386; Arthur State Charley Lockhart, R. Ball, Walter Clark, Kd. A.

Christian, Commissioner of K. McDonald, 1S5.510; A. H. King, 136, 242; Robert A. Freeman, M.

West, H. 79, 154; Edwin alter, 67,139. Land H. Wa ker, G. E.

Johnton, Jok- Barks, 106,443. Railroad Commissioner Pat M. Neff, Gregory Hatcher, H. O. Johnson, Nat Patton, Supreme Court Chief' Justice M.

ureton, Covey C. Thomas, 259,267. RepublP-an primary results were tabulated j. John 2 15H. Ninth Leo C.

Tenth 22 110; 11 a rr W. Hornsby W. D. Fi Smith, tel Harry Wur has- 196. Fifteenth rar, inori (hu i.i J.

J. temperature of 111 degrees, continuing in Vernon from 10 I Sunday morning to 3 in the. afternoon, failed to stop thousands of curious of Northwest I in rushing to Vernon and Oklaunion to view the wreckage of the Houthbound F. W. D.

C. railway pnssengr train No. 6. eiight miles en-tt of town. Large of people had jrath ere-I at the scene of the wreak at underpass eight miles east of Ri ar Vermm within a few hours the State and local traffic of- fii-ers had their hands full in hand- jlinii the crowd and in keeping high- traffic moving.

Much traffic wa- detoured south of Oklaunion. Attracted by the tragedy which 'took t.w lives and injured more 5fi. than a of cheers, stea ls L. streams of curious climbed over and around the nets, erl coach and engtrie. Hay Automobiles from Childress, Quan- ah, htll -t ho Thai a Crowell, Seymour and other cities were checked pas mg through Vernon throughout the day Ab- ut a score of automobiles were parked near the scene of the wrick at, Sunday Pepkins Tm lake DRESS OXFORDS ria 7,183: 24, i t- J.

Nolan il, R. ine, Buchanan, John Human, 640 ntt I tin, 11, John Le strict an Je Johf N. Gar- A. 32 H. I ph; i 03 i 18: himp ft E.

Ti nt (Re Booh De L. E. E. Mi rkhead, aldn A. 41,6 B1 300.

Eighteenti Jam Returns i Civil Appea Distr O. Cade, Mavin 14,91 i a Jorjes, GDI th Will ith A. for Court of were as foi P. A an- ord, 29,331. Railroad ete ran Dies Galveston, Aug.

It Frank Merritt, 74, for ntnrs than years chief engineer of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa ru.lway, died suddenly yesterday at home He had been in the employ of the Santa Fe for almo? 5(i years. local Delegates at Short Course Make Return Trip and John Smith of the i herwood boya 4 club of North i ilbarger County returned liorne bin bay after attending the A. M. College annual course we They aceompamod t-y R. 1.

L. Pattillo, County Agent. Wilbarger County won third the terra- ing team at the College. women and gtrls i Mi Dons Leggitt, horne agent, jtendtd the short course and have horne. i The women and girljs attending the courso iticluded Mr- M.

Dunson of the Northftidw club, Mrs. 1 i W. Martin of the Southwest club, 1 Mrs. W. H.

Johnson of Ver non, 'Mr J. Rose Haney, lis. Martha and Nevtt Lawlia of Eiliott, jlf. ba he rer of Fargo, Mrs. C.

H. Pr Iof Haney, Mrs. C.dyde Smitb of ti- I vtt, Mrs. L. E.

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