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Rev. T. W. Young In A Wreck

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
January
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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in which three persons were instantly killed down in Kentucky. Although badly shaken up he preached twice the next day.

Rev. T.W. Young of the Baptist church, who is in Louisville, Ky. this week, was in the bad collision at Caneyville, Kentucky last Saturday, when three people were killed and three badly injured. The through express on the Illinois Central from New Orleans to Louisville, which was going at 50 miles an hour, struck a freight engine with one car and tender attached, smashed the car and engine and seventy-five yards further on careened and fell from the track, carrying with her the three cars following. All that saved the passengers was the lightness of the freight engine.

Dr. Young was not hurt at all, but writes that the crash, grinding and concussion was something horrible beyond description and the scene was something awful. In spite of the shock, Mr. Young preached twice the next day, Sunday, in the Portland Avenue church in Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. Young will return to Ann Arbor this week and Mr. Young will occupy his pulpit next Sunday.

Bad as the wreck was, it might easily have been worse for it occurred only about 100 yards south of a big trestle, 20 feet high. Had it occurred on the trestle very few if any of the passengers would have been saved. There was only one passenger in the day coach and he was badly injured. The other passengers were in the heavy sleepers which did not leave the track.

It is a peculiar fact that last year, when Mr. Young was in Kentucky he was in another bad railroad wreck, but escaped unhurt.