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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1913
Page
5
George J. Gould was elected president of the Fort Worth and Little Rock railroad at the annual Fort Smith election. T. B. Pryor was named vice president, A. H. McCales secretary treasurer, W. M. Miles assistant secretary, and F. W. Ireland assistant treasurer.
At First Baptist Church a Sunday School Echo meeting is planned for Friday evening. The program includes short talks by convention speakers and a musical program led by J. H. Wienand and Mrs. F. A. Riley. British coronation hymns will be sung.
Louisville and Nashville passenger trains 104 and 101 collided head on near Carbondale Tennessee early today. One man killed Percy J. Taylor mail clerk Bowling Green Kentucky. Injured engineers Hockersmith Blackwell and fireman Miller. Misreading orders blamed. Both locomotives demolished.
Five men sail on the 66 to 70 ton schooner John Dexter with lumber cargo. Captain Murphy of the British schooner C W Mills reports sighting the Dexter on April 22 about 320 miles southeast of Mobile. The captain refused assistance and aimed for the Mexican coast. the vessel remains adrift with uncertain fate for the crew.
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