It was your typical summer day on July 9th of 1918. The sun had risen over the bustling city of Nashville within the last hour. That morning, the Number 4 train, overcrowded with passengers, departed Nashville heading for Memphis. At the same time, the Number 1 train, was heading inbound towards the city from Memphis. At roughly 7:20 in the morning, the two trains crashed into one another in a head on collision just miles outside Nashville at a place called Dutchman’s Curve.