Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 48
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 6, 1907
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Bad Wreck Near Beaumont.
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Beaumont, Tex., Nov. 1.--Shortly after 3 o'clock this morning two work trains on
the Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western met head-on eleven miles west of this city.
H. G. Kelm, an engineer, and Larrence
Toffier, a fireman are dead.
Toffier was frightfully scalded and crushed
between the engine and tender and died almost instantly.
Kelm was brought to the hospital here and
died about 10 o'clock.
Conductor James Oday, who was riding in the
cab of the west bound engine, was slightly injured.
Fireman J. T. Price on the eastbound engine
was slightly injured.
The eastbound train left South Lake and the
westbound train left Beaumont under orders to meet on the main line.
Each crew was instructed that the other
train was en route and both had orders to keep moving until they met.
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