Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-25
many k|LL[D|N WRECK
Floods in the South Cause Wreck Of
Train and Thirty Five
Deaths.
Train Plunges Into a Washout and
the Coaches Take Fire Vic
tins Burned,
Survivors Unable to Help lmprison.
ed Fassengers-Bad Wreck in
Wisconsin

Atlanta, Ca. June 25.-Thirty-five
passengers on a Southern railway train
We're killed in q wreck near McDon-
ough, thirty miles south Of this city.
Saturday evening Not one of the train
coach escaped, Ten persons only, the
occupants Of the Pullman coach. the
last car of the train, live to tell the
story.
a cloud-b burst, followed by a flood in
Camps creek, a tributary Of the Ok
muigee, Washed gu. 100 feet of the
track mile and half north Of MIC
sDono,lgh soon after dark that night.
Running at full speed in terriblegrain
storm. with the engineer inviting OF
danger. the train plunged into the gap
iii the road. Baggage car. second-c.ass
coach and the tirst-class coach Mere
smashed into splinters. On top of
them crashed the Pullman coach.
Then III the boltomof a gorge. part
~ covered With water and With tor
rents of rain falling. the wreck of the
train caught fire. The Pullman pas
sengei.s managed to make their way
gput to the track. but no lielp for the
others could be had. In the morning
rescue parties had nothing 10 do but
gather together the ,hirts-fiNe mangled
and burned corI1ses,5 some of which had
been carried by the current a long Way
from the scene of the disaster.
The following are the names Of the
dead:
William Barclay, conductor, Atlanta:
j. f. Wood, conductor, Atlanta, j. H.
Hunnicutt conductor. Atlanta: j. 7.
sullivan engineer, Atlanta: w w.
Bennett, buggag emaster. Atlanta: I.
sE Maddox. cotton buyer. Atlanta: NJ.
iJ Pate Atlanta l2-year-old SON of w
Ia. Pate, Atlanta; III. r. Gresham, Pull
man conductor: George w. Flournoy,
Atlanta: D. G. Hishtower, Stock
bridge Ga W. w. Ipark. Macon. Ga.
Elder Henson, travelling man, supposed
to b. have been from Florida: j. r..
Florida, Nashville: W. O. Ellis. bridge
man. Stocktridge: y. Y Griffith. super
visor: j. II. Rhodes fiagman John
Rrantley twhite). fireman; VIII Green
extra fireman; w. L. Morrisett. pump
Irepairel.: W. r. Lawrence. foreman eS-
tra gang: Ed Byrd tcolored), fireman.
Atlanta. Robert Spencer: train porter.
sfou. bodies Unidentified: eight negro
section hands.
The passengers who We're rescued.
| without serious injury are:
Jesse l.. Rohr. Baltimore: Walter.
| Pope. Atlanta; Miss Mary 3. Merritt.
/ Boston. Mass; Miss Clara Alden. Bos-
ton. Mass: j. G. Flynn, Atlanta; T.
sehrsner. CHATTANOOGA Tam: e, T.
| Mack. Chattanooga. Tenn. j. j Quin-
Han, fagnan; T. c. Carter, Pullman.
porter: Handy Tomlinson.
The wrecked train was one that ran
ION the Macon branch Of the Southern
railway from Macon TO this city. 1t
left Macon I I:ll III the evening and
4 was due in Atlanta at a:4a. McDon-
Tough. where a train from Columbus.
lGia.. connects with it for this ~, was
Preached on time, but the Columbus
train was two hours late on account of
4 a washout on the road.
4 The Macon train did not wait but
vas ordered forward To this city. With
foniy half the usual number Of. cars and
3s*i.h fever passengers than nsuai. To
\ the delay on their own branch of the
road, annoying enough TO them al the
thine. the men and women from Colus-
I bus one their lives.
Heavy rains have been of daily oc-
cnr7;ence in this part of the state for
the past two weeks and all the streams
are swollen Camps creek among the
sfo;flers is over it's banks and its waters
4 have spread upon the lowlands thru
81 which it runs.
Where the wreck occurred the creek
rms along for some distance close to
H the Southern railways tracks, and
j finally passes thru heavy stone cul-
i Vert under the tracks.
Il Here the cloud burst. which came
about o'clock. turned the creek into a
4 tremendous engine of destruction. and
the banks we're quickly torn out.
II The Macon train came forward at
Isfull speed The storm which was rag
Hing outsileal,ad caused the passengers
Ito close all the windows. but inside
4 they felt sheltered and comfortable.
T. Without an irstants warning. they
/ vent down to their death.
The separation of the people In the
4 front coaches all of whom We're killed
Il from the people in the Pullman. not
4 one Of whom was seriously injured, was
the remarkable feature of the wreck.
The Pullman passengers. as soon as
they had recovered from their Devil
q derment forced their way out Of the
car. They reached the track and then
turned to see what help they could rem
I der, but there was nothing they could
do.
Even as they looked flames appeared
II in the wreckage of thee cars. Flood and
fire together kept the rescued at a dis
Il tance. and at the same time FASTENED
the breaking upof what was left of the
n cars. Soon bodies floated out and were
carried down stream. but even they
could not be reached by the little banG
on the tracks.
Z Then followed an awful night ]. j
eQuinlan, a fegman. hut not one of the
crew of the train. ran back thru the
Fl storm to McDonough for help. At tbs
railway station he told the night opera.
tor Of what had happened. and fell
8 fainting to the floor.
Messages were, sent to Atlanta an6
4 Macon for help, and then the operator
stirred up the little town Half 1t.
Il male population was soon on the wa!
Ito the scene, hut when they got there
they found Themselves unable to d.
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