Horse Cave, Kentucky Train Wreck
August
3, 1904
A BAD WRECK IN KENTUCKY
Two Fast Trains Meet and Thirty-seven People
Injured
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 4 – Southbound
passenger train No. 1 on the Louisville &
Nashville, which left Cincinnati at 6 o’clock
last night, collided early today near Norse
Cave, Ky., with northbound passenger train No.
2, which left Nashville about 8:30. Thirty-three
passengers and four trainmen were injured, but
none, it is thought, will die. The condition of
Engineer Rehm on No. 1 is serious. According to
information received here Rehm either
disregarded orders or was asleep as his train
was going 40 miles an hour when it struck the
northbound passenger train. None of the coaches
left the track.
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno, NV 4 Aug 1904
 TRAINS
Came Together on L. & N., Thirty People Being
Injured.
Louisville, Ky., Aug. 4. – One trainman
fatally injured, 29 passengers hurt, two
engines, their tenders and mail and baggage cars
demolished is the result of a head-on collision
last night one mile south of Horse Cave, between
two Louisville and Nashville through passenger
trains.
Joseph Rehm
of Louisville, engineer of train No. 1,
southbound, is unconscious and probably fatally
hurt. The wreck was due to misapprehension on
the part of the engineer of the southbound train
who mistook the headlight of a freight engine on
the siding at Horse Cave for No. 2 passenger
train, which he had been ordered to meet at that
place. A short distance beyond the switch he
beheld the headlight of No. 2, and realizing the
mistake reversed his engine. Fortunately No. 2
was moving rather slowly and this fact is
believed to have prevented a terrible loss of
life.
The Newark Advocate, Newark, OH 4 Aug 1904
Transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
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