Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-16
A MASSACRE IN GEORGIA
TEN KILLED OUTRIGHT AND SIX
FATALLY INJURED

Wh1Ch Death was Oehit-Ahe NtcUm6
scaIded to Death in a Cart Orrible
Scenes and Incidents.
ATLANTA, Dec. 15.-At midnight last
night, on the Georgia Pacific road, seven
teen miles from this city, a Georgia Pa
cific train was run into by an East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
train. Ten persons were killed instantly
and six were fatally injured. OF the lat
ter, one has since died, and the death of
the others IS expected.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, and the Georgia Pacific roads
use the same tracks from Atlanta TO
Austell, where they diverge, one going
west and the other north They, how
ever, leave the city from different depots,
and meet just at the city limits, and from
there they both use the same track to
Austell, sixteen mites from Atlanta. just
one mile east of Austell, toward Atlanta,
is a water tank used by the Georgia Pa
citc railroad.
THE FATAL START.
The Georgia Pacific train pulled out of
the depot last night at 10 o'clock. AT
10:45 O'clock the East Tennessee train
pulled out The Georgia Pacific train
stopped at the water tank, and while
taking on water the East Tennessee train
came up behind and ran into the rear end
of the Georgia Pacific train. The Georgia
Pacific train was composed OF stock cars
and two coaches. The stock cars were
nearest the locomotive, and next was a
coach divided into a baggage car and
smoking coach. The last coach was
divided into apartments, one with Sleep
ing berths and the other containing the
regular seats for frst-class passengers.
A TREMENDOUS CRASH.
The Georgia Pacific train had not yet
| fully stopped, but was still running a
| little, so the conductor stated, when the
East Tennessee train came laundering
along at the rate of about twenty-five or
thirty miles an hour. In the passenger
coach of the Georgia Pacific train some of
the passengers were sleeping and others
were awake and talking. Without warn
! ing there came a terrible crash and
the scene was Immediately trans
| formed into one of confusion, de-
struction and death. Souls were
| hurled into eternity, and the air was
! filed with the grOans of the wounded and
! dying. just this side the water tank
there is trestle, and the rear end OF the
last coach of the Georgia Pacific train
was standing on the edge of the trestle.
|
When the East Tennessee locomotive
struck this coach 1t plOwed its way
through as far as the dividing partition,
splitting the car In half The shock
moved the Georgia Pacific train 10 or 20
Yards, and vi hen IL stopped the escaping
steam from the East Tennessee lOcom0-
| tive filled the rear coach, and
Immediately all the lamps were
eXtingulshed. the darkness making
the scene more dreadful and appalling.
News of the accident was telegraphed
back to Atlanta and special train sent
out. In the meantime the passengers
and railroad hands who were unhurt, re-
moved the dead and wounded into the
baggage cars on the two trains, and
when the special arrived they were sent
on TO Atlanta. The special train arrived
in the city early this morning and the
dead and wounded passengers were
placed temporarily in small house near
the Georgia Pacific depot.
NAMES OF THE DEAD.
The dead bodies carried to the house on
Jones avenue numbered 10, and were as
| follows:
BERNARD PEYToN, of Birmingham,
Ala, attorney for the Georgia Pacific
Railway Co.
NATHAN STANLEY, Of Admission, Ala.
j. w. PIERCE, of San Antonio, Tex,
JACOB BANKS, of Fairburn, Ga. al
MRS. MARY BANKS, the formers wife,
b. BRIGHT, Of Faifburn, Ga.
f.. r. HUE, OF Forest Station, Ga.
A TWO -YEAR-oLD CHILD of b. Bright.
TWO CHILDREN, and years old be-
longing TO j. d, Brown.
THE INJURED.
The injured were: JOHN BRYANT, OF
| Oxford, Ala.
A. b. COOK. OF Fairburn, Ga.
w. j. IRwooD, Of Jackson, Ga.
CARRIE BRIGHT, wife of b. Bright, OF
Fairburn, Ga.
f. N. ELLISON, Of Riverside, Ala.
j. II. SINK, OF Salem, Ala.
G.. w. BELTON, bound for El Paso, Tex
Mrs. JANE E. BROWN, bound for Cleve-
land county, Ala, to see her father.
PETER EDWARDS, JACKSON ROGERS
! (colored).
DEATH OF MRS. BRIGHT.
or the wounded Mrs. Bright has since
died, and Mr. Belton's death is hourly ex-
pected.
The Brights' and Banks were en- route
to Cullman, Ala, where they expected to
live.
Mrs. Banks was the daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Bright. Two Of the dead chill
dren belonged to the Brights. The other
is thought TO be the child OF Mrs. Brown.
Mr.. HUE was on his way TO settle in
Texas.
MIR. Stanly was merchant of Admission,
Ala. and vas returning home.
A. B. Cook was on his way TO Cullman,
Ala.
VIEWING THE cORPsEs.
The dead bodies were removed TO Pat
terson & BOwden's undertaking estab-
lishment, where they were prepared for
lnterment. Here the Coroner empanelled
a Jury and examined into the cause OF
the deaths of the ten persons who were
LAID out before him. The scene at the
undertakers' was horrible. All Of the
unfortunate victims had been killed by
hot water and steam, and their faces aud
hands were terribly scalded and burned.
All OF the bodies were neatly shrouded
and will be kept 10 await orders
from the relatives and friends OF the de-
ceased. A reporter went down 10 the
Central Ivy Street Hospital this morning,
having heard that some of the victims Oi
the wrecked train would be brought
there.
DISTRESSING SCENE.
He did not have long to wait for soon a
mum Der Of covered hacks drove up and
five unfortunate men we're taken out and
carried In under the direction Of DR.. j. IT
Powell, and placed In the operating gr0Om,
where their injuries and burns were
dressed as well and as carefully as the
| auruoon ootIld do H. IhC alRht Of these