Train Crash at Forney

Unknown Newspaper
20 March 1920

TERRELL, TEX., – Except for a slight shaking up no one was hurt when Texas and Pacific westbound passenger train No. 3, ran into an open switch at Forney, 12 miles west of here, today and crashed into four freight cars on a siding. The freight cars were reduced to kindling, and the engine and baggage and mail cars of the passenger train were disabled. The engineer and firemen, who stuck to their posts, were uninjured.

T & P Train Is Wrecked

Dallas Express
Saturday, 10 April 1920

Forney, Texas – Texas & Pacific passenger and mail train No. 3, from St. Louis to Dallas, ran into an open switch while going at the rate of about 40 miles an hour, when an hour and 40 minutes late, just before reaching the station here Monday morning. It crashed into the siding and swashed into a string of box cars, demolishing them into splinters. The passenger engine No. 712 was badly wrecked and the mail and baggage cars and two coaches left the track, tearing up the roadway, twisting the rails and smashing the ties in a frightful manner, but miraculously no one was injured.