Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-09
4 TEMPERED SWITCH Causes the Complete Wreck of a
 Vestibule Train
WITH EERRlBLE FATALITY
Two S,l!ed and Many hi jured. Sland Reeds Company . Among the Latter.

BACON, Ga., March S.-Advices from
 SRae, Ga., say; The Florida vestibule 2 in, No. 31, southbound, Conductor Hubbard, Engineer Dave Moore, was wrecked at Scotland, Ga. about o'clock this morning by a tempered switch, the staple being broken. The train consisted of three Pullmans, first and second-class coaches, mail and express car, every one of which was derailed, the Pullmans and first and second-class coaches being thrown on their sides.
 One of the coaches was occupied by the Roland Reed company and the others having full complement of passengers. That there was no greater damage is mrac- ulous. The schedule time is fifty miles an hour and the engine crashed into some cars on the side track, telescopng itself in a box car.
 LIST OF KILLED.
 MRS. 0. H. SUBERS of Pickens, Miss, with a ticket to Ocala, Fla, was killed.
 A FIVE YEAR-OLD daughter Of Mrs. Subers was also killed.
 THE INJURED.
 ROLAND REED, badly injured on the leg and back.
 MRS. MARY MYERS of New York, se- verely wrenched in the back and shoulders.
 JAMES DOUGLASS of Brooklyn, slightly injured.
 Miss IsADoRE RUSH of New York, slightly injured.
 JULIAN REED of Philadelphia. slightly injured.
 W. R. HERMAN of New York, slightly injured.
 All of the above are of the Roland Reed company, who cancelled their dates and returned to Atlanta.
 Mir. Roland Reed distinguished himself at great risk by rescuing three of the la lt-, ..olr 0tah nursing babe escaped uninjured.
 It has developed that the schedule time of the train was thirty-two miles an hour and that the train was running on time. The switch was changed by drawing the spikes out of the track, mak- ing the rails of the track fit the rails of the siding. The lock to the switch had been tempered with, but was not broken. A key found near the switch shows that an effort was made to unlock it. Railroad men ascribe the changing of the switch to some party who, through motives of re- venge, sought to wreck the train.
 All of the cars of the train were thrown off the track, but only the first-class coach Pullman caught fire after being turned over, but the fire was stopped before any damage was done. There were seven men- bers of the .Rolapd Reed company in the overturned sleeper. Mrs. Myers IS probas bly worse hurt than any other member of the company. Her back was injured by having been thrown violently against the end of the berth partition. Miss Roush was thrown through window and her right arm was badly cut. I he injuries to the others were more or less on account of the shock.
 Mrs. Subers, who was killed, was riding in the first-cass coach and held her D year. old child in her arms. They were thrown through the window and both were killed almost instantly. Her S-months- old baby was sleeping on a seat on the opposite side of the coach and escaped without injury.
 Three wrecking trains arrived at the scene few hours after the wreck and travel now goes on as usual. Neither the engineer nor fireman were hurt, and the total damage to the engine will not amount to Sl25