Submitted by 
Marti Graham

Trains collide; One Man Killed
Five Others Hurt In Wreck On The Midland Valley Near Bokoshe

Fort Smith, Ark., May 6 (Special)  One man was instantly killed and five injured when eastbound local passenger train No. 43 of the Midland Valley road en route from Muskogee to Fort Smith and due here at 11 o'clock Saturday morning crashed into a work train of the same road one mile east of Bokoshe, Okla., twenty seven miles west of Fort Smith at 10 o'clock. All of the injured who were brought to Sparks Memorial hospital here, are expected to recover.

The dead: Claude Bryant, Cameron, Okla., crushed to death in wreckage; neck broken.

The injured: John Waites, married, Muskogee, Okla., both legs broken; C. H. Wells, Cameron, Okla. leg and arms wrenched; John Dunovan, Muskogee, Okla., head and body injured; Frank Hudgin, right ankle broken, minor injuries; J. C. Downey, internal injuries. The injured and dead are members of a track gang riding on the work train. None of the crew was injured.

The trains met on a curve in a deep cut. The passenger train running at thirty miles an hour, coming east. Failure on the part of the passenger crew to see the flagman of the work train caused the wreck, it is said.

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