The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-16
:, TELESCOPED.
A Terrible and Fatal Collision
of Passenger Trains on a
Georgia Railway.
Eleven Persons scalded to DEATH
by Escaping Steam Two
Texans Among Them.
Many Persons scriously Injurcd
-Pitiful Scenes as the wreck
THE Causc ~ II.
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what They are Doing Across
the Briny Deep Russia's As.
sassiDation Intrigue.
a TERRIBLE Accrnnsr.
Eleven Persons KILLED ana Man
SerlnnalN LIN ured-TMa Gexnna.


Eleven Persons Killed and Many
Seriously InIured-Two Texans.
ATLANTA, Ga, December 15.-One
of the most terrible railroad acct
dents ever known In Georgia oc-
CURED last night at midnight, fifteen
miles from here on tho Georgia Pa
citlc road. The Fast Tennessee anu
the Georgia Pacific road use the same
track 10 Austell, and last night the
Georgia Pacific mixed train, with u
coach and one sleeper, stopped at a
tank TO get water, the coach and
sleeper being ON trestle thirty feet
high. The East Tennessee fast pas
seneer train, going at speed of
thirty miles an hour, struck the
sleeper, and the engine went half
way through II. The wreck was ter
rible. The fireman sprang overheard
and received but slight injury. The
engineer held to the throttle and was
uuhurt. The following persons on
the Georgia Pacific were killed; Ber-
nard Peyton, of Charlottesville, Va;
Nathan Hartly, OF Admission, Ala:
Jacobs and Mary Banks and their
infant child, of Jonesboro, Ga; b.
Bright and wife and two children, OF
Jonesboro, Ga, tg
Also wealthy Texan, J. w Pierce,
OF Abilene, Tex, and l.. Y. IIeisse, of
East Point, Ga. Two children, who
are dead, are unknown. The follow
ing are fatally injured:
Mrs. Eliza Brown, home unknown;
William Cook, Of Fairburn, Ga, and a
Texan, home unknown, who was in
company with Pierce, and about ten
others were more or less seriously
hurt. The dead and wounded have
been brought to Atlanta.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT
The East Tennessee passenger train
/ came flying around the curve near
the water tank aud without mo.
ments warning went crashing into
the rear of the Georgia Pacific train
Engineer Owen the fireman of the
East Tennessee train, saw the Georgia
Pacific train, but 1t was too late tC
avoid a collision.
The engine tore its way into thu
rear of the coach. and the rear coaci
tclescoped the one in front Of II, which
was forced into the one ahead of that
The rear coach was filled with pas
sengers, many of whom were S,
pinned down by the wreck they wer,
unable to stir and the escaping steam
soon caused the death of five or six
The cries of the injured rent the ait
All was darkness, aud the statement
of those who hastenod TO the scene
I are to the effect that words cannot dc
scribe the awfulncss of the situation
y AS soon as possible the Fast Ten
nessee train was backed from tn
wreck and the work of removing tn
dead and wounded was commenced
From Auslill, message was sent 4
Atlanta. apprising the officials of tn
road of the accident, and asking 70
help. AT 2:25 u. m. train left her
bearing physicians and several of IN
railroad officials. The latter imInt
diately set to work to have the trac
cleared, aud at $50 this morning thl
had been completed. About $50 ,
m. a train left Austill for Atlanta wit
the dead aud injured. arriving here q
$50 a. IN. The Killed were placed o
biers In an uniertaker's establish
meut, and hundreds of people hay
crowded its doors all day.
The injured, whose names were nc
given In the previous dispatch, ar,
John Bryant, of Oxford, Ala; A.
Cooke, OF Fairburn. Ca; w. j. Ii
wood, of jackson, Ga; Mrs. CARR
Bright, wife of Is. Bright, of Fail
burn, Ga; l.. N. Ellison, of Riverside
, Ala; b. ii Sink, of Salem, Bla.; Z. "
Bolton, bound for FL Paso, Tex; Mr.
Jane Eliza Brown, going to Cleve
!, land county. Ala. and colored ma
; named Jack Rogers. Mrs. Brigh
, died this afternoon, and Brown
, rapidly sinking, Ms Is, also, Mr.
Brown.
ahe blame for the accident canno
be yet placed, and an vesligatio
win be necessary TO settle II. Tn
: East Tennessee conductor says he wa
, on time aud following the schedul
and his directions in full. The Gcoi
/ gia passenger conductor says he ha'
! no Official knowledge of the night pas
senger train on the East Tennessee
Q and ran out at he had always done.
: The curoner's inquest has been go
ing on all day. In the examination ID
Lay, surgeon of the Georgia Pacit'
said that when he arrived on tn
scene the engine had telescoped th
sleeping-co passing through III
entire lcugth of the car, within fe'
|. feet of the end, and water and steat
I from the boiler gushed through an
I. flooded the whole train. Accordin
Z 10 his examination not single one