Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-25

fire and the entire train, with the ex-
ception of the sleeper, was destroyed.
Every person on the train except the
occupants of the Pullman car persisted.
Not a member of the train crew escaped.
Thirty-ive people in all were killed.
Following is a list of the dead.
VIM. A. Barclay, conductor, Atlanta.
j. E. Wood, conductor, Atlanta.
J.. H. Hunnicutt. conductor, Atlanta.
j.. T. Sullivan, engineer.
W. w. Bennett, baggage master, At
lanta.
j. E. Maddox, cotton buyer, Atlanta.
". J.. Pate, Atlanta.
Twelve-year-old son of w. J.. Pate,
Atlanta.
H. R. Chessinan, Pullman conductor.
George w. Flournoy Atlanta.
D. c. Hightower, S%tockbridge, Ga.
w. w. Park, Macon, Ga.
Elder Henson, travelling man, suppos-
ed to have been from Florida.
j. R. Florida, Nashville.
". o. Ellis, b%ridgeman, Stockbridge.
d. Y. Griffith, supervisor.
J.. H. Rhodes, fiagman.
John Brantley, white, foreman.
Will Green, extra fireman.
W. l.. Morrissett, pump repairer.
w p Touronoo foranop ovtro rorr
Ed. Byrd, colored, fireman, Atlanta.
Robert Spencer. train porter.
Four bodies unidentified.
Eight negro section hands.
The following passengers were res
cued without serious injury:
Jesse L. Rahe, Baltimore.
Walter Pope, Atlanta.
Miss Mary B. Merritt, Boston, Mass.
Miss Clara Alden, Boston, Mass.
j. c. Flynn, Atlanta.
E. Schryner, Chattanooga, Tenn.
E. T. Mack, Chattanooga, Tenn.
]. J.. Quinlan, f1agman.
T. C. Carter, Pullman porter.
Handy Tomlinson.
The train left Macon at 7:10 and was
due in Atlanta at 9:45 last night. Nc
Donough was
Reached on Time.
AT this point connection is made for
Columbus, Ca, and here every night
the Columbus train is coupled on and
hauled through to Atlanta. Last night,
however, for the first time in many
months, the Columbus train was re-
ported two hours late on account Of a
washout on the branch, and the Macon
train started on to Atlanta without its
Columbus connection.
Tremendous rains, Of daily occur
renee for the past two weeks have
swollen all streams in this part of the
South and several washouts have been
reported on the different roads.
Camps Creek, which runs into the
Ocumulgee, was over its banks and its
waters had spread to all the lowlands
through which it runs. About a mile
and a half north of McDonough the
creek comes somewhat near the South
ern's tracks and running alongside it
for some distance, finally passes away
under the road by a heavy stone cul-
vert. A c~loudburst broke over that
section of the country about 6 o'clock
last night and presumably shortly af-
ter dark washed out a section of the
track nearly one hundred feet in
length. Into this the swiftly moving
train plunged. The storm
Was sill tagging
and all the car windows were closed.
The passengers. secure as they thought,
and sheltered comfortably from the in
clement weather. went to death with
out an instant's warning.
The train, consisting of a baggage
car, second class coach. first class
coach and a Pullman sleeper. was
knocked into kindling wood by the
fall. The wreck caught fire a few min
utes after the fall and all the coaches
were burned except the Pullman car.
Every person on the train except
the occupants of the Pullman car per-
ished in the disaster.
There was no escape as the heavy
Pullman car weighted down the others,
and the few alive in the sleeper were
unable to render assistance to their
fellow passengers.
/. For a brief time there was silence.
Then the occupants of the Pullman car
recovered from the bewilderment and
after hard work managed to get out
of their car and found themselves on
the track in the pouring rain. The
Extent of the catastrophe
was quickly apparent Flames were al
ready e coming from the part OF the
wreckage not covered By the water.