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    1. Re: [TNCAMPBE-L] NEW MARKET TRAIN ACCIDENT
    2. This is a Brown that was on the train: John W. Brown of Rogersville, Tenn., a newspaper editor, was in the rear coach of the westbound train, and as soon as he recovered from the shock went to the main part of the wreck. He said: MOST HORRIBLE SIGHT. "It was the most horrible sight I ever witnessed. I saw a woman pinioned by a piece of split timber which had gone completely through her body. A little child, quivering in death's agony, lay beneath the woman. I saw the child die and within a few feet of her lay a woman's head, while the decapitated body was several feet away. "Another little girl whose body was fearfully mangled, was piteotisly call- Ing for her mother. I have since learned that she was Lucille Conner of Knoxville, and that both her parents were killed. I heard one woman, terribly mangled, praying earnestly to be spared for her children, but death relieved her sufferings in a few minutes." From the Daily Review, Decatur, Illinois 9/25/1904

    12/27/2004 02:59:42