The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-31
A SMASHUP NEAR ALBANY.
Thirty to Fifty Persons Injured, but
No One Killed.

The Last Car Of an Excursion Train
Thrown From the Track by Broken
Rail-It Was Filled With Whites
Bound for AndersonvilIe-The Pas
sengers Pinned Down in the Wrecked
Car so That They Were Extrioated
With Difficulty.
| Albany, Ga, May 30.-A terrible acci-
| dent occurred on the Columbia extension
of the Southwestern railway at an early
hour this morning, in which between
thirty and fifty people were more or less
| injured.
The scene Of the accident was near
Holts, flag station near Leary. The ac-
cident was caused by broken rail
The train was an excursion train bound
| for Andersonville, and consisted of six
! coaches, five of them being devoted to
| colored passengers and the sixth to white
| passengers. The engine and five colored
coaches passed safely over the broken
rail, but when the last coach, which was
crowded with white people, struck it
it few the track, rushed over the ties for
short distance, toppled and rolled down
10 feet eEnbankment. In its wild de-
scent the coach turned over three times
and when it finally reached the bottom
was torn and splintered indescribably.
| One entire end of the coach was knocked
| out and every seat was torn from its fas-
| tening. The passengers agree that the
train was running about twenty-five
miles an hour, but railroad employees as
/ sert that this was not true Atany rate
! the balance of the train was brought to
a standstill very quickly, and the en-
ployes and passengers began the task of
removing the wounded from the wreck.
HORRIBLE SIGHT.
! It was horrible sight, and the cries
| and groans of the injured were appalling.
| Had the accident occurred in the winter
! season there would have been a holocaust
! to record. Men and women were piniOned
in every conceivable position, and many
! of them were extricated with great diff
Guilty. Plenty Of help being present their
! release was accomplished very quickly,
and it was then found that no one had
! been killed outright The injured were
! brought on to this city, where Drs. Hills
| man, Davis, Strother, Bacon and Giles
! pie dispensed medical attention and made
them as comfortable as possible under in
structions from the railroad authorities.
LIST OF THE WOUNDED.
The seriously wounded, as far as was
possible to learn, are as follows:
John Smith, of Blufton, Ga, internal
injuries; thought to be fatal
Annie Jones, of 8luffton, Ca, internal
injuries; thought to be fatal.
w. A. Sperlin, of Williamsburg, Ca,
serious injuries.
Mrs. V. V. Little, of Hilton Station,
seriously cut on the head and badly
! bruised.
Henry Bats, Of Damascus, Ca, badly
cut about the head.
Charlie Lee, of Bluffton, nose mashed
off and badly bruised about the shoulders
| and neck.
! Others who were badly but not seri-
ously, injured are as follows: Zack Jones,
| of Blufton, Ca; Willie Jones, of Bluff
ton, Ca; J. J. and w z. Fulton, of Clay
! county Ga. G. Z. Butler of Arlington,
| Ga f. G. Brown, of Button, Ga; A
T. Sinquefield, of AshvilIe, Ala. Tilden
Watkins, J. F. Mills and c. H. Sheppard,
! of Edison, Ca; G. r. Little and Miss
| Clifford Little of Hilton Station Ga :;
! A. L. Williams, MIR. Holt, John Norris
and Coy Thompson, of Colum bia, Ala. B.
! T. Davis, w. T Hall and G. T. Pinnel, of
Halesburg, Ala; L. Nj. Free, of Early
county, ca. !; Misses Emma aud Nathie
BARNES, of Hilton Station; J. C. Chauncy,
| of Blakely, Ca
All Of these were too badly hurt to con-
tinue the trip to Andersonyille, but there
were a number of others less seriously
injured who went on with the excursion.
WANTED To SHOOT THE ENGINEER.
A few moments after the wreck one of
the excited and exasperated excursion
lists came near shooting engineer Ben
Mathis, who was pulling the train He
seemed to think the accident was entirely
due to the enginer and came in a hairs
breadth of shooting Engineer Mathis in
the face.
Conductor Martin was in charge of the
train.
The road has been in bad condition.
Under orders from the railroad com
mission the company recently changed the
road from a stringer to tie track.