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The Louisville & Nashville Railroad train had picked up speed through the
mountains but wasn't running as smoothly as it had in flatter country. The men,
sleeping or preparing for bed, knew the train was behind schedule. But they
still thought it was going too fast. That's when they heard the crack.
And seconds later, the train was ripped in half. The engine, tender and four
cars plunged 50 feet below. Twelve died instantly.
Many more died in the next few days.
It was the troop train wreck of July 6, 1944, the nation's second worse train
disaster during World War II.
Think of the absolute worst place in the world for a train wreck, and you'll
have a picture of the Jellico Narrows in Campbell County, Tennessee.
(It looks like something out of a model train layout.)
The gorge cuts down 50 feet to the Clear Fork River, a rocky and shallow
current capped in white. Limestone, peppered with trees and scrub and mud, line
the descent. A road follows the gorge up above on one side, with the train
tracks on the other side. The tracks occasionally dart through tunnels or veer
off away from the gorge.
But where the wreck occurred, the tracks are right on top of the gorge.
It is reported that 1,006 fresh recruits were on
the train headed to "points South" the destination was classified
because of the war.
The recruits, having finished basic training, were on their way to their
first assignment to an Army unit at Fort Benning in Georgia. The train stopped
in Corbin, Ky. before starting through the mountains at Jellico, near the
Kentucky-Tennessee border.
The relief engineer was supposed to take over at Corbin, but he never showed
up. The first engineer, Lyle Rollins, was reportedly angry about having to continue with the train.
"He was very mad and possibly under the influence of alcohol," a
witness was quoted. In addition to the engineer's condition, a steep grade before the
Narrows gave trains a boost of speed. Thanks to the engineer and the grade, the
train was speeding by the time it reached the Narrows first sharp curve.
Dave Harkness, then principal of Jellico High School, recalled that a soldier
told him, "One of the fellows on the train said we could never make it,
then we just went off and the cars piled up."
The river was a jumble of twisted metal, smoke, flames, steam and bodies.
When the locomotive plunged over the side of the gorge, it took with it its
tender and four cars. The kitchen and baggage cars burned, and two coach cars
turned over and burned at the gorges brink.
The engineer and others died
because they were pinned underwater. Others burned to death from
the steam. Some bodies were trapped under the cars, other bodies laid-out
over the flat rocks. Some survivors had to cross the river barefoot and stood
there shivering. Those pinned were screaming.
"When we got there it was just an awful mess," a local resident
recalled years later. Leo Lobertini was one of the first on the scene. He and
his brother took their truck to the wreck, picking up as many miners as would
fit in the truck.
Dr. Ned C. Watts didn't know the wreck had occurred until "a young man
wearing only underwear briefs who was shouting" flagged him down. Watts
hospital had only one phone, so staff went to neighboring houses to call other
doctors only to discover that Watts was the only doctor available. He spent
several hours as the lone doctor at the wreck.
The rescue effort was a shoestring affair. Hundreds of Campbell County
residents flocked to the scene to help. They made the first rescues, using block
and tackle slings to hoist the wounded up the side of the gorge to the road. It
often took up to ten men to hoist a body up to the road. Some brought welding
torches to free the trapped soldiers.
A trucker who was passing through stopped to take a load of injured soldiers
to the hospital. He came back and took several more loads. Volunteers continued
to comb the river for dead and wounded.
Later in the night, doctors from nearby towns Corbin, Lafollette, Middlesboro
and Williamsburg joined Watts. They went from car to car giving morphine
injections to the trapped men. One soldier received plasma transfusions. Many
soldiers, their faces bleeding and dirty, waited for their more seriously
injured comrades to be taken away before they received care themselves.
The ambulances joined the rescue effort two hours after the train derailed.
They waited at the road for the injured and took them to hospitals in five
nearby towns.
Early the next morning, an Army major arrived to take over leading the rescue
effort. But the county's work was just beginning. Most of the injured had been
rescued by midnight, but there were still dead to be recovered and wounded to
look after.
That morning, more organized efforts were put in place. Boy Scouts went door
to door collecting shoes, clothes and sheets for the soldiers. Red Cross units
served food on the Jellico hospitals lawn. A local restaurant closed in order to
assist in preparing the food. Assembly lines were set up to make sandwiches, and
local volunteers transported the food to the rescue site. Local groceries were
emptied of bread.
Some help was not as organized. Many residents took in soldiers for the
night, giving them food, a place to bathe and a place to sleep.
The volunteers who had worked all night carrying the bodies out of the gorge
eventually built a makeshift dam to lower the water level to retrieve bodies.
They continued to work through the next three days.
In all, 34 men died in the wreck and 75 were injured (some survivors went on
to fight in North Africa, according to Watts). The wreck received scant national
press at the time (the New York Times, for instance, ran three short stories).
There used to be a historical marker at the wreck's site, but that has been
stolen. In 1993, Jellico area residents paid for a monument in downtown Jellico.
The unobtrusive granite block lists the names of all those who died in the
wreck, along with Jellico's other losses from war.
But the people who really remember the wreck are those who saw it and heard
it.
Jim Tidwell, chairman of the organization that built the monument and a
participant in the rescue effort, wrote a letter to the editor of the Jellico
newspaper in which he described what he would remember when he thinks of the
wreck:
"I will see the troop train casualties stretched out on the rocks in
the Clear Fork River and hear the ambulances once again as they wailed out
screams, carrying the injured to the Jellico Hospital. I will see the engineer
who was pinned under water with his hair waving at the surface. I will see a
soldier who was finally freed from the wreck after several hours, sit down on a
rock in the river, ask for a cigarette and then die. I will see the doctors
working from coach to coach injecting morphine to ease the pain of those
trapped."
(Tidwell has since passed away.)
Others who were personally involved in the wreck are dying, their memories
dying with them.
I want to tell their stories before they are all gone!
Kingsport Times Tennessee 1944-07-07
Jellico, Tenn, - AP - At least 17 persons,
all but two of them soldiers, were killed last night when a troop train
plunged into a 50-foot gorge of the Clear River 11 miles South of here.
DR. E. P. MUNCY, resident physician of Knoxville's General Hospital,
said the death toll probably would exceed 40.
The locomotive and four cars were piled at the ravine's bottom, and a
fifth hung over the precipitous edge, where it left the Louisville and
Nashville railroad tracks.
One soldier, identified by Army Public Relations as Pvt. LEONARD BATTAG,
of Evanston, Ill., was still pinned in the bottom of a wrecked car 12
hours after the crash, with four dead men piled on him. He regained
consciousness and talked with rescuers as acetylene torches cut through
twisted steel nearby. The youth, in the Army only 13 days, asked a
doctor if he was in a plane.
"It sure looks like it," he said. "This is a lot better hole than on
that train." He is the son of MR. And MRS. FRANK BATTAG of Evanston.
By noon six bodies had been brought to the government hospital at Oak
Ridge, Tenn., and eight other bodies were reported on the way there.
Army authorities at the hospital said that they had admitted 80 injury
cases and had at least four more on the way and there were nine
additional cases of soldiers given first aid treatment but not requiring
hospitalization.
A partial death list released by the Army included the following
enlisted men, with serial numbers but with home addresses still not
known:
DONALD J. CLARK (35845018), WILLIAM M. GOREY (35845175), DALE MATTIX
(35844937), W. H. McCHESNEY (35844928).
Among the injured were the following three railroad porters, all from
Indianapolis: WILLIAM EUGENE McANULTY, SHERMAN COLLEY and THOMAS E.
JONES, Extent of their injuries was not announced.
JOHN RUGGLES, in charge of the Knoxville office of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, said that possibilities of sabotage in connection with
the wreck were being investigated.
Work of extricating the victims from the locomotive and five cars which
tumbled down the steep 50-foot bank to the shallow stream was slow and
unofficial estimate placed the casualties as high as 25 dead and 250
hurt.
The train was a special carrying only soldiers and the train crew.
An emergency train made up from the twelve cars which did not leave the
track left this morning taking fifty of the injured to Lake City, Tenn.,
en route to the government hospital at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and at least
thirty other injured service men were sent to Oak Ridge Hospital in
ambulances.
State Guard Company C from Knoxville, commanded by Captain BEN SANDERS,
joined military police in patroling the wreck scene this morning as
acetelyne[sic] torches were used to cut away portions of the cars and
slings and pulleys were used to move the injured men up the bank.
The kitchen and baggage cars of the southbound train, reported carrying
more than 1,000 soldiers just out of basic training were burned.
Express Agent C. L. ALLEY of Jellico said first rescues were made by
nearby mountainfolk who tediously hoisted the injured by block and
tackle slings up the shrubbery-lined gorge. Waiting ambulances rushed
the injured to hospitals in Lake City, LaFollette and Jellico, and
Corbin and Williamsburg, Ky.
Rescue Work.
Rescuers worked doggedly early today to free two soldiers trapped in one
of the smashed coaches. Doctors gave blood plasma transfusions to one of
them, pinned down in the gorge wreckage. Two others who had been trapped
were extricated, one of them dead.
The fireman, identified at a Jellico hospital as J. W. TUMMINS, of
Etowah, died in the institution several hours after he was hurled free
of the wreckage.
Capt. KILBURN BROWN, Army public relations officer, said identification
of the dead was proceeding slowly. He explained most of the soldiers
either had been in their berths at the time of the crash, or were in the
wash rooms, preparing for bed. The crash tossed personal belongings
together, and in some cases caused loss of identification tags.
A soldier, treated at Jellico Hospital, whose name was withheld, said
the crash occurred "just after we finished chow," and said he thought
the fire started in the train kitchen.
"I was in an upper berth," he said, “and was almost thrown out when we
went around a curve. Just a moment later she banged off the track."
Jellico and LaFollette (Tenn.) Red Cross Chapters sent canteens to the
wreck area to serve injured and rescue workers.
Reporter WILLARD YARBROUGH of the Knoxville Journal telephoned his paper
what he counted seven dead when he climbed into the engine room and
looked out. He said two more dead were lying in the stream, running two
to four feet at the wreck scene.
Soldiers Hurt.
"One soldier pinned in the wreckage cried, 'Get me out of here or let me
die right here'," YARBROUGH said. "Another soldier being carried across
the stream on a stretcher asked his rescuers to let him die right
there."
The engineer, identified by the railroad as JOHN C. ROLLINS, of Etowah,
Tenn., was "somewhere beneath his engine," YARBROUGH said and the
fireman was picked up from the spot to which he was hurled and brought
to Jellico hospital.
Private WALLACE LEWIS of Canton, Ohio, a passenger on one of the cars
hurled into the gorge, said, "I saw a big flash, and someone said,
'There's going to be a wreck.' There was. I crawled out of the car, fell
into the shallow creek, and then stumbled out."
In this Cumberland Mountain section on the Kentucky-Tennessee line, the
L. and N. tracks traverse numerous trestles over deep gorges and loop
around hairpin turns.
Ten Army doctors and 12 Army ambulances were rushed to the scene from
Clinton. They carried ample supplies of blood plasma.
Express Agent ALLEY, who said the train carried 1,000 soldiers, reported
early today the cars remaining upright had been switched to another
track and were proceeding to their destination.
Army Released Jellico Casualty List
July 6, 1944:
The dead:
RUSSELL J. ALQUIST, Paducah, Kentucky.
ROBERT H. BAIRD, Canton, Ohio.
LEONARD J. BETTAG, Evansville, Indiana.
CHARLES B. BOSWELL, Paducah, Kentucky.
CHARLES BRITZKE, LaPorte, Indiana.
JACK C. BROWN, Louisville, Ohio.
JAMES W. BUCHANAN, Buttonsville, West Virginia.
WILLIAM R. CATHEY, Paducah, Kentucky.
CHARLES T. CLAPP, Paducah, Kentucky.
DONALD J. CLARK, North Canton, Ohio.
JAMES N. CLARK, Paducah, Kentucky.
WAYNE E. CLEMMENS, Warren, Ohio.
ROBERT C. CLINGERMAN, Elkins, West Virginia.
RAYMOND COLE, Brazil, Indiana.
GEORGE E. EAVES, Orwell, Ohio.
WILLIAM N. GOREY, Pataskala, Ohio.
DONALD E. HILL, Canton, Ohio.
EUGENE L. HILTON, Menett, Missouri.
RAYMOND B. KIESLING, Canton, Ohio.
RAYMOND B. LILLIE, Warren, Ohio.
DON P. MASLINE, North Canton, Ohio.
DALE MATTIX, JR., Akron, Ohio.
WILLIAM E. McCHESNEY, Akron, Ohio.
RICHARD W. MILLER, Toledo, Ohio.
RAY W. PARKER, Trenton, Ohio.
AUSTIN E. PAUMIER, Louisville, Ohio.
HERBERT REICHLE, Bedford, Ohio.
JOSEPH G. SHIPBAUGH, Canton, Ohio.
JOHN R. WICKLINE, Orient, Ohio.
JOHN R. WISBERGER, Akron, Ohio.
RAY WOOD, JR., Kevin, Kentucky.
CLARENCE M. WRIGHT, Minerva, Ohio.
RAYMOND W. YAPP, Paducah, Kentucky.
HARGIS SALYER, Balyersville, Kentucky.
JOHN (LYLE) C. ROLLINS, engineer of train.
JOHN WILLIAM TUMMINS, fireman of train.
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KNOXVILLE JOURNAL SUNDAY,
JULY 9, 1944
Army Releases Jellico Casualty List
Jellico Troop Train Accident
July 6, 1944
NAME
HOME OF RECORD
WAR DEPT. FILES INFO
ALQUIST, Russell J. of Paducah, Kentucky - ID: 35844994, Branch of Service: U.S. Army, Status: DNB
BAIRD, Robert H. of Canton, Ohio - ID: 35845004, U.S. Army, Hometown: Stark County, OH, Status: DNB
BETTAG, Leonard J. of Evansville, Indiana - ID: 35814845, U.S. Army, Vanderburgh County, IN,
Status: DNB
BOSWELL, Charles B. of Paducah, Kentucky - ID: 35844993, U.S.
Army, McCracken County, KY, Status: DNB
BRITZKE, Charles of La Porte, Indiana - ID: 35903820, U.S.
Army, La Porte County, IN, Status: DNB
BROWN, Jack C. of Louisville, Ohio - ID: 35845014, U.S.
Army, Stark County, OH, Status: DNB
BUCHANAN, James W. of Buttonsville, West Virginia - ID:
35845033, Randolph County, WV, Status: DNB
CATHEY, William R. of Paducah, Kentucky - ID: 35844988, US.
Army, McCracken County, KY, Status: DNB
CLAPP, Charles T. of Paducah, Kentucky -
CLARK, Donald J. of North Canton, Ohio
CLARK, James N. of Paducah, Kentucky
CLEMMENS, Wayne E. of Warren, Ohio
CLINGERMAN, Robert C. of Elkins, West Virginia
COLE, Raymond of Brazil, Indiana
EAVES, George E. of Orwell, Ohio
GOREY, William N. of Pataskala, Ohio
HILL, Donald E. of Canton, Ohio
HILTON, Eugene L. of Menett, Missouri
KIESLING, Raymond B. of Canton, Ohio
LILLIE, Raymond B. of Warren, Ohio
MASLINE, Don P. of N. Canton, Ohio
MATTIX, Dale Jr. of Akron, Ohio
McCHESNEY, William E. of Akron, Ohio
MILLER, Richard W. of Toledo, Ohio
PARKER, Ray W. of Trenton, Ohio
PAUMIER, Austin E. of Louisville, Ohio
REICHLE, Herbert of Bedford, Ohio
SHIPBAUGH, Joseph G. of Canton, Ohio [ID: 35845027 , U.S. Army, Status:
DNB]
WICKLINE, John R. of Orient, Ohio
WISBERGER, John R. of Akron, Ohio
WOOD, Ray Jr. of Kevin, Kentucky
WRIGHT, Clarence M. of Minerva, Ohio
YAPP , Raymond W. of Paducah, Kentucky
Engineer, John C. (Lyle)
Rollins
(He drowned and it was said you could see his hair just under the water.)
Brakeman, John Wm.
Tummins
(Was scalded by the steam, and spoke the words: "She Jumped the Tracks"
before he died)
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Front Row, left to
right:
Virgil Marshall (died 1999)
Virgil Eversole |
Is is reported that all in this picture were on the train, but in
different cars. Virgil Eversole held his brother-in-law, Jimmy
Lizer, by
the hair of his head out of the water to keep him from
drowning. This pulled all the muscles in his shoulder, causing him to
be discharged from the Army and sent home.
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Back Row, left to right:
Emory George (Jimmy) Lizer (still living)
Bumgard (Baumgard Bomgard Bomguard) (spelling?)
Billy Parker (died in hospital)
Art Wilson |
[NOTE: Are there any more pics of any of these
brave, young men out there??????]
There is one book on this incident:
She jumped the tracks: America's tragic stateside 20th century military
disaster.
by: John P. Ascher, N.p., M.J.A., 1994. 220 pp.
World War II Memorial Website: http://www.wwiimemorial.com
My dad, Edward (H. E.) Lea, was station agent/operator for the L&N at a
nearby depot and walked down to
the wreck site.
My dad: H. E. Lea / Edward Lea
Want to visit the area?
I would first go to downtown Jellico and see the monument.
Then I would drive to the site of the wreck
DRIVING DIRECTIONS:
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(Coming from North of the Tennessee / Kentucky line......) Take
I-75 South
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Cross the Kentucky/Tennessee line
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Take the 25W Jellico Exit 160
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Turn North (West) on Hwy 25W and go approx. 2 miles to
Jellico (the monument is in a parking lot downtown)
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(To go to the wreck site) Go back South (East) on Hwy 25W
approx. 6-10 miles to where the river is narrow, close to the highway on
your left (AND, the railroad tracks are just on the other side of the
river)
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Look for the plaque on the big rock down in the river.
(This road is narrow, curvy and there's not many places to pull over, so
drive slowly and be careful.)
NOTE: If you want a SCENIC DRIVE, get on 25W as soon as you
can!
MAP Of Jellico, Hwy 25W and the Troop Train Wreck site.
Jellico is at the red star on the left side of this map & the wreck site is
on the right side.
(NOTE: If you're driving from South of the Kentucky/Tennessee
line, Go North on I-75 and then follow directions #3 - 6 above)
Click HERE
for online driving directions to Jellico. (fill in your address)
Monument in Jellico Tennessee to those who died in the Troop
Train Wreck.
(The plaque above reads:)
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SHE JUMPED THE
TRACKS
On July 6, 1944,
L&N Train no. 47 carried a U.S. Army troop from Fort Benjamin Harrison
in Indianapolis, IN southward to an unknown destination during World War
II. The train derailed at 9:05 p.m. at this location on R.R. marker 203.4,
hurling the engine and four train cars into the Clearfork River 90 feet
below. The disaster produced 135 casualties leaving 36 dead in the twisted
mass of flesh and steel. The words denoted at the top of this sign, are
the famous last words of the train fireman John Wm. Tummins, who was
aboard the ill-fated train. Badly burned and severely
injured, he was asked
what caused the wreck. "She jumped the track", he said,
"she just... jumped the tracks.". Soon after speaking these
words, Tummins died. The actual cause of the accident remains a mystery to
this day.
This sign has been
dedicated November 11, 2001 by Boy Scout Troop 456 from Jellico, TN in
honor and memory of those who tragically lost their lives in this horrible
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1944 Newspaper clipping on Luther Case
July 8, 1944 Newspaper clipping
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SURVIVORS
(There were almost 1,000 Survivors and I would
like the names and photos of each one.)
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- Pvt. Robert L. Andrew, Mercer County,
Celina, OH
- Jack Arnett from Royalton, KY
- Cooper Balbridge, Akron Oh
- Paul Barlow, Kingwood, W Va
- Clarence Bates (no address listed)
- Bob Baynes, 7517 Quail Vista Lane, Citrus Heights, CA 95610,
916 723 8001 - (Click HERE
to read his 09-13-2005 email to me.)
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Homer Beacer / Homer Beaver / Homer Beever, (sp?) Columbus, OH
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Pvt. Lester Billings (injured), R 2
Sidney, OH
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Pvt. Harley Bernard "Bernie" Blakely, Sidney, OH 45365
- Pvt. Floyd E. Brehm, R.1, Celina, Ohio, (current: 419-942-1647, 1401 State Route 29, Celina, OH 45822)
- LeRoy Breitenstein
(no address listed)
- Howard Broeman, Louisville Ky
- Bumgard / Bumguard (sp????)
- Arthur (Art) Burns, Minerva, Ohio
- Charles Carroll, Minerva Ohio
- Luther E. Case, Wilshire, Ohio -
(click HERE to see a clipping)
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R. B. Casey, Louisville, KY
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Robert Charles Chaney
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Dave Clay, Greenfield, OH
- James Mitchell Cline, 1205 Hampton Ave,
Paducah Ky (son of Mr & Mrs Henry Cline of 14th & Monroe Sts)
- Chester R. Collins, Huntington WV
- Lester A. Cobb, Rockford, Ill
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Raymond Combs - (Click HERE
to read his story.)
- Roy Cooper (seriously injured),
(son of Mr & Mrs Roy H. Cooper), 233 S. 31st St. Paducah, Ky
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Pvt. Ivan Corverston (injured), (husband of:
Virginia Howell Converston (sp?), RR 2 Sidney, OH
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Jay Creamer, Orient, OH
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Pvt. Richard L. Crouch, R. 1
Coldwater, Ohio
- Louis DeWitt, Wabash Ind
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Pvt. Walter W. Diller, Coldwater, Ohio
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Pvt. Clarence E. Donovan, Celina, Ohio
- Thomas Downs (no
address listed)
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Clarence L. Eckstein, Mercer County, Ohio (Click HERE
for his story)
- Pvt. John W. Elliot, Minerva, Ohio
- Virgil Eversole, (husband of Beatrice,
brother-in-law to Jimmy) No Industry?/Lizer, Oh (Virgil passed away in 1999
- Click HERE
to see his story)
- Chalmer E. Fields (husband of Virginia Schiff Fields)
S. Ohio Ave. Sidney, OH
- Forest Findley, R. 3
Celina, Ohio
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Paul P. Fischer, Massillon, OH
- James Fricker (no address listed)
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Robert J. Funk, Wood County, Ohio (Click
HERE
for email story)
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Pvt. Daniel H. Goettemoeller, R.1
St. Henry, Ohio
- Joe P. Hackworth, Charleston Oh
- Marvin R. Hamm, (no address
listed)
- Alva Hanna, Columbia Ohio
- James C. Henke (no address
listed)
- Fred Hughes (no address listed)
- Everett Johnson, Chesapeake Ohio
- Fred W. Jones, Steanes? Valley Ky
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Houston Butler Kelley, Ashland, Ky (Click HERE
for his story)
- Wesley Krantz, Gary , Ind
- Melvin Sylvester Kroeger, 23,
Delphos Ohio
(Click
HERE
for his story)
- Robert Lewis / Robie Lewis / Robbie
Lewis (sp?) (no address listed)
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Pvt. Wallace Lewis, Canton Ohio
- John Lightfritz, Canton Oh
- Burnett Little, Middlesport, Ohio
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Emory George "Jimmy" Lizer, Canton Ohio, (Brother-in-law to Virgil Eversole) (Click HERE
to see his story)
- Joe Malano (no address listed)
- Elmer Marshall, Fullerton Ky
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Virgil Marshall, Parkersburg, WV
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Harold McCombs, Quincey, OH / Quincy Ohio (sp?)
- Junior A. McGirr, Alliance Ohio
- Charles McKay, Sylvania Oh
- Loran McKee, Alliance, Ohio
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Pvt. Paul J. Moeller, Rt 6 Celina, Ohio
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Thomas Moore, Frener, KY
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Ray Murphy, Sidney, OH
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Richard J. (Dick) Murtz, Alliance, OH , (Sad news. Dick passed away
11-25-2005 at 4:32 PM)
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Pvt. James F. Nevergall, Rt 1, Mendon, Ohio
- Harry N. Orihood, New Holland Ohio
- Owen Oswald (Oswald Owen ?), Hartfield, Ohio
- Corporal James C. Page, 12275 South Springboro
Road, Battle Ground Indiana 47920 (Click HERE
for his story)
- Ray Parker, Jr., Trenton, Ohio
- Pvt. Oscar Paumier, Louisville, Ohio
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Stanley Pawlikowski (no address listed)
- Nevel F. Phelps (no address
listed)
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Robert Prindle, Ashville, OH
- Paul Probst, Circleville, Ohio
- Thester Proctor, Lewtown Ky
- Robert Reed, Alliance, Ohio
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Elvis H. Renfrow (no address listed)
- Frank Reynolds, Florence Ohio
- Charles Rhodes, Jr., son of Mr
& Mrs Charles Rhode, Sr., Rt. 5 Paducah Ky
- Lt. Duncan Robertson, New York
- James S. Rosignola, Toledo Ohio (Click
HERE
for his story)
- Jack Ruff, Minerva Ohio escaped
injury
- Joseph Scott, Covington Kentucky
- Golden Shaffer
(no address listed)
- Robert (Bob) Shaub, Johnston Ohio
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William E. Sherman, Pataskala, OH
- Lester Sickafosse, Canton, Ohio
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Edgar M. Smalley,
1919-1989, , (son of Mr &
Mrs D R Smalley) Celina, Ohio (Click HERE
for his story)
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Francis W. Smith (no
address listed)
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Charles Spears,
Proctorsville, OH (alt: Proctorville, Ohio)
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Earl C. Stewart, 123 Plantation
Way, Hawthorne FL 32640, 1-532-481-3238 (Click HERE
for his story)
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Dan Struble, Gary,
Indiana
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Orville Swigart, Dayton
Oh
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Charles Tangi, Alliance
Oh
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Austin Taunier of
Louisville (Ohio?) (critically injured)
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James Tucker, Jr.
(seriously injured) (son of James Tucker, Sr.) Rt 6 Paducah, Ky
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William C. Vaughn,
Huntington WV
- Pvt. Harold Vantilburg, (son of Mr.
& Mrs. Boyd Vantilburg), Center Township, OH
- Pvt. Lewis C. Wallace, Canton, Ohio
- Franklin Wattere
(no address listed)
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Anthony Weber (no address
listed)
- James Wesner, Alliance, OH
- Herbert Wheeler, Liberty, KY
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Arthur Leroy Wilson,
Waynesburg, O - (Click HERE
for his story)
- William Yellic (alt. spellings: Yelic & Yelle), Massillon, OH
(Click HERE
for his story)
- Pvt. Jerome H. Zehringer, Fort
Recovery, OH. (Sep 16 1925 -Aug 4, 2003)
- George Zimmerman, husband of: Ruth
Alice Zimmreman) (sp?), Port Jefferson Rd. Sidney, OH
- Pvt. Leonard Zumberger, (son of: John
Zumberger), Ft. Loramie, OH
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Survivor:
Jack Arnett
Royalton, KY
2006 contact info:
Jack Arnett
P.O. Box 4
Wheatfield, IN 46392
219-956-3012 (1944 photo of
Jack wanted) |
Survivor:
Bob Baynes
7517 Quail Vista Lane
Citrus Heights, CA 95610
916 723 8001
Click HERE
to read his 09-13-2005 email to me.
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Survivor:
Pvt. Harley Bernard "Bernie" Blakely
Sidney, Ohio 45365Click
HERE
to read his account of the wreck.
Pvt. Blakely was 25 and severely
injured in the wreck, but survived.
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Survivor:
"Bumgard"Does anyone know
this man?? |
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Survivor:
Robert Charles Chaney
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Survivor:
Clarence L. Eckstein
Mercer County, Ohio
Click HERE
for his story
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Injured
Survivor:
Virgil Eversole
Husband of Beatrice Eversole
Brother-in-law to Jimmy Lizer
Ohio
(Virgil passed away in 1999)
Click HERE
to see his story
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Survivor:
Chalmer Fields
Sidney, Ohio
(As of 8-23-2006 he was still
living and still in Sidney OH) Click
HERE
for his story
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Survivor:
Robert J. Funk
originally from Wood County, Ohio Click
HERE
for email story
Click
HERE
to see a transcription of a 2007 recording he made for me.
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Survivor:
Houston Butler Kelley
Ashland, Kentucky
Click HERE
for his story
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Survivor:
Melvin Sylvester Kroeger
23 years old
Delphos, Ohio(Melvin passed
away in 1991)
Click
HERE
for his story
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Survivor:
Emory George "Jimmy" Lizer
Canton, Ohio
Husband to Hazel Lizer
Brother-in-law to Virgil Eversole
Click HERE
to see his story
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Survivor:
Virgil Marshall |
Survivor:
Richard J. (Dick) Murtz
Alliance, OH
(Sad news. Dick passed away
11-25-2005 at 4:32 PM)
Click HERE
to read his 02-24-2005 email to me.
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Survivor:
Corporal James C. Page
12275 South Springboro Road
Battle Ground, Indiana 47920Click HERE
to read a 2008 letter about Corporal Page |
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James S. Rosignola
Toledo, Ohiodied 2003
Click
HERE to read about him |
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Survivor:
Edgar M. Smalley
1919-1989
(son of Mr &
Mrs D R Smalley)
Celina, Ohio
Click HERE
for his story
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Survivor:
Earl C. Stewart
123 Plantation Way
Hawthorne FL 32640
1-532-481-3238
Click HERE
for his story
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Survivor:
Arthur Leroy Wilson
Click HERE
for his story
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Survivor:
William Yelic
Click HERE
for his story
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Click
HERE
to see a copy of a I.C.C. Report on the wreck
at http://www.drwebman.com/trooptrainwreck/icc_report
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Click
HERE
to see Emails & Letters from
Soldiers who were in the Troop Train Wreck,
their families and others. |
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Click
HERE
to see newspaper accounts and website posts
on the Troop Train Wreck |
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www.PhotosOfCleveland.com
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Click
HERE to see my
Tribute To Bob Brandy
John Bean
1951-1984
(the REAL, the one, the only true Leroy Mercer)
www.LeroyMercerCD.com
Click
HERE to see my
Tribute To the REAL Leroy Mercer
The BAT CREEK STONE
www.euchee.com/yuchi
My tribute to the Yuchi Indians
(Could the Yuchi be one of the lost tribes of Israel???)
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