The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-27
fRESlLES SET ON Fire.
Eight Central Railroad Bridges
Partly Burned.
THE WORK OF TRAIN
WRECKERS.
All Of the TpStIeS Between Sun
Hill and Ocolee Fired
The Wires Quito Prevent
UlSUUEoiJ.
TIE INCENDIARIES SEEN |
AT THEIR WORK.
Two Brothers Of Express Robbsr
Horton Arrested On Suspicion.
A Trestle Burned Near
Cuthbert.
/ CONSPIRACY TO Blu RN
A Trestle Burned Near
Cuthbert.
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Eight trestles on the Central railroad be-
tween Sun Hill and Oconee, within dis
lance Of about twelve miles, were fred
night before last One hundred and thirty
i've feet of trestling were destroyed. The re-
nainder, about 425 feet. was only partly
surned, the section hands hard work saving
tfrom total destruction. The telegraph wires
we're cut on each side of the trestle so that
communication was cut off.
Will Horton, brother of one of the Collier
Itation express car robbers, has been ar
rested on suspicion of having fred the
srestles. and he is now in Jail at Tennllle.
The officers are after another brother, who
Is thought to have been implicated
The fire delayed the passengers aud mail
from Atlanta aud Macon twelve hours.
Yesterday morning a trestle near Cuth-
bert, on the Fort Gaines division, was set on
ire, aud caused the wreck of freight train
Of seven cars. No one was hurt.
THE BURNED TREsTLEs.
: The burned trestles on the main stem
'un over what is known as the Oconee
iwamp aud are about i've feet in hight.
Train No. | passed over the trestles on
It's way to Savannah Sunday afternoon and
everything was all right. The incendiaries
applied the torck about O'Clock aud were
discovered in their work by oolored Sec
ton hand, which fortunately prevented an
accident to the trains.
The negro had gone out to look I'D soma
other section hands ald saw white man
setting the trestle afre about three miles
from Oconee. He turned back at once and
started on run for the section boss house
20 notify him OF what he had seen.
SETTING THE FIRE.
On his way he saw another white man
setting tire to portion of the trestle which
be had passed over only little
while before Both incsndiaries we're NOV
ing In the direction of Sun Hill. The second
man hailed the negro and tried to stop him,
but ne was thoroughly frightened and only
ran he'faster.
As soon as the section boss was told of the
hre he gathered his forces nnd started out
10 extinguish. it, The S5-foot trestle, which
was the first reached, was burning fercely.
The hands worked hard but didn't succeed
In extinguishing it. Men we're sent In each
direction to warn approaching trains of the
nre. The party which was going in the
direction Of Sun Hill found all the small
SANoOlOS ONCA tuS WhbSE ways
DID THEIR WORK QUICKLY.
The incendiarics had done their work
swiftly and fired the trestlss as they moved
along.
The fire on two 25>foot trestlcs had
gained too much headway to DO exiting
uished, and the section men pushed On as
rapidly as possible and put out the fire on
the others as they went along.
Officers from Tennille started out at once
TO hunt down the ince1daries. The negro
section hand who discovered them starting
the fire gave good description of the
second man he met, and it fitted win Hor-
ton. A tramp also said he had met two
white men beyoAd The fire going east at a
lively walk atIsr dark.
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND.
Fresh footprints at the beginning of tho
trestle were found and showed that the
right shoe of one was broken and the other
must have worn hrogans. The ticket agent
at Sun Hill remembered selling tickets To
two white men Sunday morning for Oconee.
and inquiry at that point developed fact
that the two mea had got off there ana
one of them answered Win Horizons de-
scription.
Yesterday morning a posse under Chief
of Police Hathaway Of Tennille captured
Horton somewhere on the road He was
taken TO where the footprints bad bean
found and his shoes fitted the tracks. Hor-
ton, however, denied he had anything to do
with the fire. He admitted that he had
been ON the train and said his companion
was his brother Horton wanted to give
bail, but It was refused and he was
committed to jail on suspicion His brother
will be arrested to-day if he can be found.
THE WIRES CUT.
The cutting of the wires by the incen-
diaries prevented news of the fire from
reaching either Savannah or Macon until
yesterday morning, and then it mad to De
sent around by Augusta.
Supt. Dill went at once to the scene with
q force of hands on the service train and
another force was sent out from Macon
Detective Basch, who was in Macon, was
wired to 90 TO Ocanee and take charge of
the case and he is there now.
The officials feel satisfied that the In.
cendiarism was the work of the friends
of the Collier station express robbers,
who are adopting the fire method as a re-
veugc on the road fer the part ii took In
hunting down the robbers. Several weeks
ago an anonymous communication was res
ceived by tie officers Of the Richmond and
Dauville in Atlanta, that II the robbers
were not released a. once. and the prosecu-
ton dropped, their friends would organize a
hand and get even with the Central by
burning its bridges, numbering is passen-
gers, aud plundering It's tgains
TRAIN FiRED INTO.
No attention was paid 10 the letter until
few nights later, when the Atlanta-bound
passenger train was fired into near Tenuille
Detective Bosch went up thsfs at that time
bot could get DO tfare % tue miscFsants
Trains Lave been fired a. bet Eeen there
"a oconee seYeral times since and The
rifai employed people for awhile o.
fch tas briages and trssllcs b prevent
ntftempl 81 bnrning. Thass guards
aec dispense4 with . Ehnrt tine
fsisads sefe ace. 90 os 49,