The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-22
ASAD SCENE ON THE RAIL
rUo MEN COLD IN DEATH AND
THREE BADLY INJURED.

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THREE BADLY INJURED.
The Accident Caused by the Tender
- the Engine Jumping the Track
ro,r Miles From Brunswick - The
Iooomotiye and Several Cars
Iz-racked-Ons Of the Injured Sure
20 Die.
.rysw1CK. GA, July 21.-This morn
sbortIv after 10 o'clock terrible acci-
lae+ ooourred on the East Tennessee road
abo,,t four miles from this city by which
49,, man were killed, three badly injured
,d ona fatally hurt, and a passenger engine
- fonr freight cars completely demolished.
The killed are;
GEORGE DOUGLASS, an engineer.
JOSEPH ANEs, a fireman.
The injured are:
YARpMAsTER RoBINBTT.
A. J. ANDERSON, car eleanor.
| DANIEL SCOTT, also car cleaner.
The two car cleaners are colored.
Tha news of the occurrence reached the
citv about l o'clock and spread like wild
THE MORNING NEWS ON DECK.
The local agent and conductor D. G.
smith of the road were soon at work
{ making IN a train to dispatch to the scene
s If tbe disaster. The MORNING NEWS corre-
snondent attempted to go out with the OIL
GAS and Drs. Dana and Botsford, the road
MUSICIANS. but was denied permission to
bosrd the train. He was not to be foiled
however and securing livery team, drove
10 the four mile crossing. Walking back
. l., ,rDk
soon to be forgotten.
WRECK OF THE ENGINE.
Across the track and lying on its side was
engine No. 206 with one pair Of its driving
wheels in the mir and its smoke stack buried
three feet in the earth behind it, and three
or four feet from the track. The coal box
was turned bottom up with fiat car piled
across it. Beneath, these two men were cold
IN death. The engineer lay beneath the
ponderous wheels of the engine and only
his head and shoulders could be seen
through the debris. A few feet back
lay the fireman. crushed and bleeding,
though he had evidently died from suffoca-
ton by steam in the woods.
SUFFERING ON sTREToHER.
Just few feet from the wreck another
man lay on a stretcher, uttering agon1Zin G
groans while the doctor was carefully
DdQId5llR IlLuDS B0dU were bCOTCleQ
bleeding. Even while he worked the flesh
fell from the bones on his lower extremi-
ties. This was Yardnaster Robinett. The
two bodies under the wreck were those of
6 Engineer George Douglass, the hostler and
Fireman Joseph Ames. The two negroes
4 had been brought to town. While the
wounded man was being made as comfort
+ Rble as was possible wreckers were at work
&dggng out the dead. This was at last
accomplished, and the special started back
to Brunswick with its ghastly load.
CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT.
1t is hard to learn the cause Of the acci-
dent, The track from four-mile crossing,
the scene Of the disaster, to town is laid
ATlth chair iron rails, SO called on account
of peculiar clamp they are fastened to the
track with. The engine was being backed
20 town, tender forward, with seven fiat
cars attached. One of the chairs was
broken, and this caused the tender to climb
the rails This rarely happens when an
#engine IS going forward, as It's heavy pres
sure Keeps the rails down, but the tender
being forward and being very light, jumped
On Top OF the rails and from there TO the
ties.
ANOTHER EXPLANATION.
Another reason given for the accident is
that the track was rough and that the sway
ne tender, which had nothing in front OF
y TO support it on the track. Three engines
were at the crossing coalinG up when the
accident occurred. AS No. 206 pulled down
ne East Tennessee track engine No. IA, En-
giheer Grubb, and engine No. 10, Engineer
elmonS, were on the Brunswick and West
er9 track headed for town. When the ac-
claent occurred Engineer Grubb saw it.
ald as engine No. 10 was most con venient,
X&#hoib It tn laarn fha
officials. '-'O
DIED WITH PRAYER ON HIS LIPS.
Engineer Simons reached the scene and
MS fireman. Edward Owens. fastened to the
JuTed. Fireman Ames was still alive and
~s praying. he called Owens and re-
tueeVsa MN to tell his mother that he tried
~ uie Christian. He commenced praying
~ltef nc spoke those words aud died In few
ilinotes 1 after with a prayer on his lips.
1sugI1eer Douglass never uttered a word
H., ne Lel, having evidently died imme-
LEAP FOR LIFE.
Sohn Jacobs (colored) was on the last car
%NeA o' 9he accident occurred, and happening
sros,s sco sle tender leap the track, he sprang
H. t.1I nlS seat When he recovered from
~ lail, he saw Yardmaster Robinett r,ln-
bi,.s i,ins through the woods. He caught him.
ous hooinett implored him TO leave him
4 81 frst u:ip II 1he men under the engine. His
W." t1onght was for thern, and he
itSfr- vGn asked Tor them, moaning as he did so
W. ny poor ooysl My poor boyso Robinett
STnitt Itoing conductors duty for Conductor
sya.i1 ,1,.tL, MS roommate, who asked him to
wsa @ Ior MN to-day. His case tonight
3 |,nsD pronounced hopeless. ALI the white
WAS not not Itlngle; NO inquest was held, as it
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