Fatal Railroad Accident

Galveston Daily News
Friday, 11 January 1884, Page 1

Forney, January 10 – A freight train, bound east, on the Texas and Pacific railway, was wrecked, about two miles west of Forney, at 2:15 p.m. yesterday. The train left Dallas about 1:30 p.m. for Wills Point, intending to take a train load of cattle from that point west. The engine and seven stock cars were wrecked. The hand brakeman, Nelson Allison, was killed instantly. Engineer Murphy and his fireman were injured seriously, but not fatally. Accommodation train No. 305 was detained about twelve hours, and mail train No. 201 about nine hours. The wreck was cleared up enough for trains to pass at 3 o’clock this morning. The wounded will be conveyed to the company’s hospital at Fort Worth. The deceased brakeman will be interred at this place.