The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-06-29
The Wreck Took Fire and Many of the
Bodies of the Unfortunate Vic
tins We're Cremated.
Every Person on the Entire Train,
Except the Occupants of the
Pullman Car, Perished in
the Disaster.


stroyed. Every person on the train
except the occupants of the Pullman
car perished. Not member OF the
train crew escaped. Thirty five per-
sons in all were killed. Following is
q list of the dead:
VIM. y. Barclay, conductor, Atlanta.
j. +. Wood, conductor, Atlanta.
j. II. Hunnicutt, conductor, Atlanta.
j. I. Sullivan, engineer.
w. w. Bennett, baggage master, At
lanta.
I. E. Maddox, cotton buyer, At
lanta.
w. ] PATE, Atlanta.
Twelve-year-old son of w. j. Pate.
ii. Il. Gresham, Pullman conductor.
George w. Flournoy. Atlanta.
ID. C. Hightower, Stocllbridge, Ga.
w. W. Ipark, Macon, Ga,
Elder Henson, travelling man, sup
posed to have been from Florida.
j. r. Florida, Nashville, Tenn.
w. o. Ellis, bridgeman, Stockbridge.
~. L. urllutn, SupclNlSOH'
j. II. Rhodes, fagman.
John Brantley, white, fireman.
Will Green, extra fireman,
w. l.. Morrisett, pump repairer.
w. II. Lawrence, foreman Of extra
gang.
Ed Byrd, colored, fireman, Atlanta.
Robert Spencer, train porter.
-Four bodies, unidentified.
Eight Negro section hands.
The train left Macon at 7:t0 and
was due in Atlanta at 9:45. McDon-
ough was reached on time. At this
point connection is made for Colum-
bus, Ga, and here every night the
Columbus train is coupled on and
hauled through to Atlanta. Saturday
night, however, for the first time in
many months, the Columbus train
was reported two hours late on ac-
count of washout on that branch,
and the Macon train started to At
| lanta without it's Columbus connec-
ton. Tremendous rains of daily oc-
currence 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
Ocmulgee, was over its banks and its
waters had spread to all the lowlands
through which it runs, About mile
and a half north of McDonough the
creek comes somewhat near the
Southern tracks, and, running along
side it for some distance, finally passes
away under the road by heavy stone
culvert. A cloudburst broke over that
section of the country about O'CLOCK
Saturday night, and, presumably
shortly after dark washed out a sec
ton of the track nearly 100 feet il
length. Into this the swiftly moving
train plunged. The storm was still
raging and all the car windows were
closed The passengers went to deatl
without an instant's warning.
The train. consisting of baggage
car, second-class coach, first-eas
coach and Pullman sleeper, wa
knocked into kindling wood by tn
fall. The wreck caught fire fev
minutes after the fall. and all tn
,, coaches were burned except the Pull
man ear. Every person on the trail
except the occupants of the Pullman
: ear perished in the disaster. Their
} was no escape, as the heavy Pullman
ear weighed down the Others, and tn
few alive in the sleeper were unabl
E 10 render assistance to their fellow
messengers. For a brief time ther
, was silence. Then the occupants @
! the Pullman car recovered from thei
4 bewaderment, and after hard wor
managed to get out of their car an
r found themselves on the track in tn
pouring rain. The extent of the CT
] tastrophe was quickly apparen
Planes were already coming frol
!. that part of the wreckage not CO.
> cred by the water. As the wreck b
. gan TO go to pieces under the destru
z tive work of both flames and foo
!, human bodies fioated out from II
8 mass and were carried down streaI
q by the swift current. The storm d
: not abate in fury. e..
Atlanta, Ga. June 26.-Addltion
I reports received here Monday fro
the scene OF the wreck on the Mace
lbraneh of the Southern railway
: Marlborough show thai the list
!. the dead win probably number 4
) The number Of the gang of sectiS
n hands which was on the wreck'
train Is not known. As the wrecks