The morning news., 1894-01-18
a CRASH ON A CROSSING.
The Danville's Fast Mail Run Into by
a Freight Train.

a Freight Train.
Columbia, S. c., Jan. 1.-THE United
States fast mail of the Florida Central
and Peninsular road wasIrun into at 1:30
o'clock this morning at Chester, S. c., by
freight train of the Georgia, Carolina
and Northern road, which is part of the
Seaboard Air Line system. The Rich
mond and Danville authorities here give
out the following as the true facts of the
accident: The two roads cross near
Chester The fast mail, with a number
of sleepers attached, stopped at the cross
ing as required by the railroad rules.
The engineer in charge of the freight
train of the other road appears not to
have paid any attention to this rule and
ran down to the crossing at the rate of
thirty-ive miles an hour. He saw the
fast mail, but jumped from his engine and
allowed it to crash into the rear sleeper
of the mail train.
1t is marvellous that anybody in the
sleeper escaped death. The sleeper was
smashed and the sleeper next to it was
thrown off of the track, but nobody was
killed and it is not thought that any of
those injured are fatally hurt.
NAMES OF THE INJURED.
There were only ten passengers on the
wrecked Pullman, and only five of them
were injured.
F. H. Spears, of Pittsburg, received a
scalp wound.
J. H. Hoffman, Of New York, had a
wrist burned.
Mrs M. e. McCarty, Of Washington, D.
c., had an elbow cut.
G. d. McCarty, of Washington, D. c.,
has several bruises.
j. T. Wilson, of Pittsburg, had his back
| hurt.
Pullman Conductor Davis was bruised
about the head and an ear is cut.
No other persons were injured.
Chester is a good size place, and its
physicians there were able to take care
of the wounded.
The wreck was cleared this morning,
and the uniniured passengers were sent
| through to their destinations.
THREE COACHES IN ALL OVERTURNED.
Washington, Jan IA dispatch to the
! Richmond and Danyille officials here has
been received which gives the additional
| information that not only the Jackson
vile sleeper, but a first and second class
! coach on the same train were overturned
! The list of injured already given, it is as
! sumed, included any of the passengers
in these coaches who may have been hurt
| The telegram further says that the Rich
mond and Danville train had stopped at
the crossing as required by law, and had
! again started up, and was nearly across
the tracks of the Georgia, Carolina and
| Northern, when the freight train on the
| latter road collided with it, the conductor
! subsequently explaining that his train
! had got beyond the control Of the engi
neer.
The report received here yesterday
morning that the Florida, Central and
Peninsular through vestibule train from
Washington to Jacksonville had been run
into by freight train north of Columbia
and that twenty-five people had been
killed, created considerable excitement
| The report was sent out by the Associated
| Press and was bulletined by the Morn
ING News Numerous inquiries were
made during the morning for infor-
nation, as it was thought likely
that some Savannah people were
aboard the train. Fortunately the report
was exaggerated.
Roadmaster Virgil Walker, of the
! South Bound railroad, received a dis
I patch during the morning from Train
master Williams, of the Charlotte, Co
| lum mbia and Augusta division of the Rich
mond and Danville, contradicting the re-
port. The dispatch said that Georgia,
| Carolina and Northern freight extra ran
| into No. 35 at Chester, at crossing grade,
at about 1888 O'Clock yesterday morning,
badly damaging some of the sleepers.
Five passengers were slightly injured,
| but no one was killed.
No. 80 was due at Savannah at 80
o'clock yesterday morning, but did not
reach here until noon. A passenger who
was aboard said that they were all badly
scared, but that no one was seriously
! hurt. The conductor was somewhat dis
| figured about the head, but not badly
hurt. AS most of the passengers were
asleep and the accident occurred in the
middle of the night, everybody was
greatly excited. The general opinion was
that they were lucky to get out as well as
they did.