The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-17
A BAD WRECK IN ALABAMA.
A Negro Burned TO Death and a White
Woman Missing.

Smashup-Ten Freight Cars. Two
Passenger Coaches, and Smoking
Car and Mail and Baggage Car Go
over an Embankment-Firs Breaks
Out in the Wreck.
Opelika, Ala, Nov. 16.--A horrifying
wreck, which resulted in the death of one
man and the injury of thiry-fve people, oc-
Cured on the East Alabama branch OF
the Central railroad, within one mile Of
Lafayette last night at 7.30 o'clock.
Ten freight ears, two passenger
coaches, smoking car and mail and bag
gage car jumped the track and tumbled
over an embaukment.
A broken rail was the cause Of the cat-
astrophe.
The mail and baggage car caught fire
instantly
Toss Driver, a negro passenger who
was in the front end of the
smoker, was burned to crisp
before the eyes of half a hundred
passengers who were powerless to render
him assistance.
The smoker was the first to catch fire,
and those in this car, some fifteen IN num-
Der, were all injured, many of them
badly.
Driver was under the influence Of
liquor, and was too drunk TO get out with
the others, He was unconscious before
he realized his awful doom
An unknown white woman who pur-
chased a ticket here for Lafayette is
missing, and it is thought she too per-
ished in the flames.
JUDGE DowDELL INJURED.
Among those injured are Judge j. r.
Dowdell, of Lafayette, prominent attor-
ney and an ex-circuit Judge. Judge Dow
dell sustained very serious injuries. His
right arm, nose and jaws are broken, aud
il is feared he received internal injuries
that will prove fatal. He is at his home
in Lafayette and had not regained con-
sciOusness this morning.
j. +. Mitchell, of Five Points, passeu-
ger, was cut badly over the eye, his head
hurt and hand broken
f.. j. Mitchell, of Five Points, passeu-
ger, had his skull fractured and shoulder
dislOcated.
j. H. Lowe, of Stroud, had an eye
knocked out and was otherwise badly
hurt
Conductor ]. H. Flahrity was hurt i'm
the hand and arm, and badly bruised in
several places about the body.
Express Messenger Sims had a leg
broken and shoulder dislocated
w. G. Hunter, Of Chambers county,
passenger, was fatally hurt internally.
B. +. Weathers, OF Roanoke, a passen-
ger, is hurt internally, but not fatally.
Jesse Osborne, a train hand, had an
arm broken and is badly bruised about
the body.
The infant child Of Mrs. Roberts, OF
California, had Its shoulder broken and
will die.
The rest of thoee injured are not
seriously hurt.
CARING FOR THE INJURED.
All the injured passengers were carried,
as soon as possible, to Lafayette, and DIR.
G. B. Mccoy, of Opelika, the company's
surgeon, left with the wrecking train al
II o'clock last night, and is now in Lafay-
cite rendering medical assistance.
The debris was removed and the broken
rail replaced this morning.
The loss TO the road W i'll be heavy. The
smoking car was entirely consumed by
The flames, and the rear end Of passeh-
ger coach and the mail car were badly
damaged
Engineer John Ray did not see the
broken rail, and the engine passed over
safely. The hind trucks of the tender
were the first to leave the track. A Mo-
gul engine was put in this branch yester-
day, and the wreck occurred with the
first trip 1t made.
Engineer Ray has been pulling the
throttle on this road for the past twenty
years and this is the first wreck of any
description that has occurred during this
time.
Gen. Supt. Kline, Of the Central rail-
road, received a report of the accident on
the East Alabama railroad from Supt.
T. S. Noise, of Columbus, yesterday Tho
report was not as full, however as that
received in the telegraphic dispatches Of
the MORNING News. and Supt Kline did
not consider the accident as serious as the
report published above shows il to have
been. The East Alabama railroad belongs
10 the Savannah and Western division Of
the Central. Passenger coach, No. $50
was burned and coacL No. 275 badly dam
aged by fire.
Supt. Noise reported the track clear
yesterday morning and trains running
on time. His report said that the ma
jorlty Of the passengers vino were only
slightly injured had scattered TO their
homes. All the seriously injured he said
were taken TO Lafayette. where they were
attended by the company's S physicians.
NO RACE AT BOSTON.
The Track Frozen and the Event De-
olared OF for This Year.
Boston, Mass, Nov. 1G.-The Directum-
Alix race has been declared OFF. The
track conditions were such that it was
not deemed advisable to attempt to race