The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-15
NANCY HANKS WRECKED.
GRORGIA'5 FAST BLUE FLYER
JUMPS THE TRACK.

The Engine and Three Care Wrecked.
An Acrobatic Feat of the Tender-It
Breaks Loose and Turns a Somer-
sault over the Engine - EnRin eer
Ramsey and Two Passengers Hurt.
The New Blue Coaches and the Track
Badly Damaged.
The south-bound Nancy Hanks train from
Atlanta met with an accident yesterday at
S:25 o. N. at the 2O9-mile post, three miles
west OF Bolingbroke, by which the entire
train. with the exception of the parlor car
at the rear was derailed and the two coaches
nesvest the engine we're considerably dam
aRe1.
The train left Atlanta with Conductor W.
b. Beebe and Engineer Ramsey in charge,
and was drawn by one Of the old passenger
engines, as the Nancy Hanks engine which
was to have made the trip was in the
shops. The train was on time
and was running at the usual rate Of about
fifty miles an hour. At the time Of the ac-
cident the train was Just rounding a curve,
when it jumped the track, and ran along
the track for distance Of five car lengths
before it stopped. The tender broke loose
and made a complete somerssult over the
engine, dropping 30 feet away.
THREE INJURED.
No one sustained any serious injuries
from the shock, and only three-Engineer
Ramsey, Miss EvelIna Brooks and W. NJ.
Cooper, New York drummer, were hurt,
shey receiving severe cuts on the head. A
number Of others were considerably bruised
and shaken up by the jar. Physicians were
sent for at Forsyth to attend the injured
and dress such wounds as they received,
and we're on the scene within less than an
hour after the accident occurred.
The new royal blue coaches were badly
damaged, however, three of them, the bag
gage, smoker and flrst-class cars being
violently thrown from the track, and con-
siderably scratched and torn up. The
track for FIVE car lengths was so badly
damaged that several new rails and ties for
the entire distance viii have to be put in.
TAKEN BACK TO MACON.
The passengers were carried back 20
Forsyth, from where they were carried TO
Macon and transferred to another train,
which was made up there.
The Nancy Hanks was due here at s:45
last night, but on account of the accident,
will probably not arrive here until en- early
hour this morning
The accident is supposed 20 have been
caused by the breaking of an axle on one
of the trucks OF the engine.
THE STORY FROM MACON.
The following special In regard TO the &C
eideDt was received from Macon last night:
MACON, Ga, March ID, 1893
The Nancy Hanks train jumped the track and
overturned at $3.50 O'Clock p. m. to-day. near
Bohngbroke, eighteen miles from Macon, de-
molishing the train and injurlng three
people. That the passengers escaped fatality
is regarded as miraculous.
The train was in charge of Engineer John
Ramsey and Fireman ". Fogarty. When one
mile beyondSparr's station, while turning curve
upon an up grade, the engine jumped upon the
crossties on which all the cars bumped until
the crash came. The train was running fifty
miles an hour at the time OF the accident, and
the tender turned a somersault over the loco
motive and landed 80 feet ahead. The baggage
car was demolished, but the sleeper did not
overturn. The smoker was filed with steam
and caught fire, but was soon sHtinguished.
Those injured are Engineer John Ramsey,
who was cut about the head and hip; Evelina
Brooks had her wrist broken and received sew.
eral bruises, and William Cooper, a drummer
Of New York, was cut about the head and face
Ali the passengers we're brought to Macon at
10 O'Clock tonight