Hamblen-Knox County TN Archives News.....Freight Trains Collide. March 30, 1903
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The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, GA. March 30, 1903
Knoxville, Tenn., March 23. -- Two double header freight trains collided at Roe 

Junction, three miles east of Morristown, at 1:05 o'clock this morning.  One 

fireman was killed and three other train men injured.



The dead:  T. E. Woods, fireman.  



The injured:  N. G. Wilkerson, engineer, shoulder dislocated; J. E. Trout, 

brakeman, slight lateral injuries; John Hager, colored, brakeman, arm broken; 



The collision resulted from train "second No. 88" failing to ascertain 

whether "train No. 85" which had the right of way, had passed Roe Junction. 

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