The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-09
A TRAIN WRECK IN TELFAIR.
TWO LIVES lost AND FIFTEEN
PERSONS INJURED.

Reed and Several Members of His
Company Among the Injured-The
Accident Caused BY the Opening
OF n switch By Train Wreckers.
The Passenger Train Crashes Into
Cars Standing on the siding.
Macon, Ga. March s.-The Cincinnati
and Florida special vesibuled train Of the
Southern railway was wrecked yesterday
morning about o'clock at Scotland,
about sixty-ive miles north Of Jesup by
a misplaced switch.
The wreck was a complete one, the en-
tire train being turned over. after which
it caught fire in places, and it was a hard
matter to keep the blaze down. The sched-
ule running time Of the train is 30 miles
an hour. and it was going down grade
at the time Of the accident. Engineer
Dave Moore realized as he approached the
switch that it was misplaced. but when
he reversed his engine. It was too late
to prevent the disaster. The train went
rapidly into the siding and the engine
crashed into some cars on the track, tele-
scoping itself in a box car.
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first and second-class coaches, mail and
express cars. every one of which was
derailed and all but the two last were
thrown on their side. There was no doubt
that the switch was thrown with crimi-
nal intent. This is shown by the condl-
ton in which it was found. the staple
holding the lock being broken, and the
switch thrown over. Two trains passed
this siding and went over the switch all
right a little more than two hours before
the wreck of this passenger train oc-
Cured, which shows that it must have
been changed between o'clock and
o'clock. which was about the time the ac-
cident took place.
The switch was changed by drawing the
spikes out of the track, making the rails
of the track fit rails of the siding. The lock
to the switch had been tampered with, but
was not broken, but 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 revenge, sought
to wreck the train. All of the cars of the
train were thrown off the tracks, but
the hrst-class coach and the
first Pullman were the only
ones that turned over. The Pullman
caught fire after being turned over but the
fire was put out before any material dam.
age was done.
In some way or other the telegraph
wires a that point were broken, and wires
were used through Savannah TO get the
Information to Atlanta. The main line
was blocked for some time, and wrecking
trains were at once ordered out.
foH. 10 tod
with the accident, the killed being Mrs.
c. II. Subers, of Ocala, Fla, and her s.
year old daughter Mrs Subers nursing
babe escaped uninjured. Mrs. Subers and
her two children were on their way home
from Pickens Miss. Her husband was
wired and asked as to what disposition
should be made of the remains.
The cars we're pretty well filed and
fifteen other persons were hurt, though
none of the injuries it is thought will
prove fatal.
The Roland Reed Company occupied
special car and the actor distinguished
himself by rescuing three of the ladies
from the upturned car. The injured in
his company are:
Roland Reed. badly injured, leg and
back and left hand cut.
Mrs. Mary Myers of New York, Sc
verely wrenched back and shoulders.
James Douglass, Brooklyn, slightly in
jured.
Miss Isadore Rush, New York, slightly
injured.
Julian Reed, Philadelphia, slightly in
jured.
W R. Bernan, New York. slightly in
jured.
E. B. Jack, manager, slightly injured.
The others who were injured are:
jeanette Lowry. bruised thigh.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. ID. Hoffman of Elyria
n Mr. Hoffman had hic hack hurt and aar
cut, and Mrs. Hoffman was slightly in
jured.
Fred Wilcox, hand cut and hurt inter-
nally.
Miss Bertha Sargent. Chicago, slightly
injured.
Mrs. r. H. Martin, Cincinnati, wrist
broken.
Alton F. Johnson. Chicago. slightly in
jured.
Sam Rowland, colored, Jacksonville
slightly injured.
Atlanta, Ga, March 8.-Roland Reed.
the actor and his company who were in
the wreck on the Southern railway at
Scotland, this morning, arrived here to-
night at $50 o'clock. Mr.. Reed, Miss
Rush, his leading lady, Mrs. Myers and
Manager Jack are comfortably quartered
at the Aragon hotel, the other members
of the company being scattered about the
city. All dates are cancelled until fur
ther notice on account of the injured
members of the troupe.
Mrs. Myers is hurt more seriously than
any of the others, her knee-cap being
broken and and her back badly injured
She is unable to move.
The comedian himself is only slightly
scratched, while Miss Rush has some
ugly cuts on her face and arms from the
broken glass.
When seen at his rooms tonight by the
Morning News correspondent Mr. Reed
was unusually jolly for man who had
Just come through his experiences.
Miss Rush was present with her arm
bandaged up ano court plaster dishgur-
ing her otherwise pretty face, but with
all her pains and aches she yaliantly re-
fused to be made an invalid of and was
as Jolly as Mark Topley himself could
have been under such circumstances.
The comedian lost one of his shoes in
the snaash-up and received callers tonight
with one foot enclosed in big golash.
Il had been sitting up late" he re-
marked in telling of the wreck. Il smoked
and talked to the company until they all
got tired and left me to the conductor.
Who was a clever fellow, and / kept him
m until only an hour or so before the
crash. Miss Rush occupied the lower
berth Of the section, 1 was on the upper
and next to me was a big fat drummer.
lack then was just across the car, some