On the "Old 97" sidetrack - Guest TJ in San Diego's story of Bill Vann's father assisting at the crash rang a bell with me. Sure enough, the name is confirmed by Katie Letcher Lyle in her book "Scalded to Death by the Steam".

"One eye-witness, a Danville weaver named Chappell, remembered a Dr L L Vann of Danville moving among the victims with a hypodermic needle adminstering morphine to the suffering."

Phil