The Daily Telegraph - Engineer Henry Barkley Crushed Between Two Trains

Date: Mar. 2004
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>




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The Daily Telegraph
Wednesday, November 18, 1885
Page 3, Column 2

A SAD ACCIDENT
Henry Barkley A Well Known and Popular Railroad Engineer Meets His Death
At about 9 p.m., last night, (Tuesday) Henry Barkley, one of the oldest 
and most popular engineers of the V.S. & P.R.R., met with a shocking and 
fatal accident. The facts of the distressing accident gleaned from an 
eye-witness are these.
Engine No. 301 left the round house at about 9 o'clock, Mr. Barkley 
being the engineer in charge. Mr. Barkley was told by the negro 
brakesman to come to the old depot; when up to the old freight depot the 
negro could not make the couplings connect and Mr. Barkley came to his 
assistance. While he had the coupling pin and was in the act of 
coupling the cars, another engine on the same track backed up and ran 
into his (Barkley's) train, and forced Barkley's train against him and 
he was thus mashed between the cars. He lived in intense agony for 
about half an hour after the accident. Mr. Barkley was one of the 
oldest as well as most popular railroad men hereabouts and had been in 
the employ of the V.S. & P.R.R. since 1870. He was universally esteemed 
by all and was a man who was possessed of many admirable traits of 
character which were always turned to good advantage. Mr. Barkley was 
unmarried, was a native of South Carolina and aged about 55 years.

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