Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1900-06-26
WRECK MOST FEARFUL
Thirv-fiye Persons Dead from 4
Catastrophe on the Southern.
ONLY FEW ESCAPED.
A Passenger Train Plnnges into 4
Nashoui. the Wreck Takes Fire
and Many Are Drowned or
Cremaied In Georgia.

Atlanta. June % "A passenger traii
on the Macon branch Of the Southern
railway ran intoa washout near MELON
ough. Ga. saturday night aud wa
completely wrecked The wreck caugh
fire and the entire train with the excep
tion oi the sleeper was destroyed. Every
p"r-on on the train except the Pullman
people perished Not member Of tn
;rain crew escaped Thirty.hve in al
were killed.
The following Is list Of the dead:
William A. Barclay. conductor, AZ
lan,a
j 4. Wood. conductor. Atlanta.
J II Huunirut. conductor. Atlanta
-. 7 sullivan. engineer.
" W. Bennett. baggagemaster. 40.
hnta \
I + Mad,s5y cotton buyer. Atlanta.
w j Pate. an nta
Twelve-year-old .oa'N,i W. J. Pate.
Atlanta -, -,-.
u x. Gresham. Pullman conductor.
g W. Flournoy. Atlanta.
u g liightower. Stockbridgc. Ga
w w Ipark. Macon
Elder Henson. travelling man. sup
posed ~ have been burned.
J. Y Trueside. Nashville. Tenn.
w q Ellis. bridgeman. siockbridge.
ID Y Griffith. supervisor.
o J. II Rhodes. fingman.
John Brantley. fireman.
Will Green. extra fireman
W l.. Morrisetie. pump repairer.
W X Lawrence. foreman extra gang.
= Byrd. negro fireman. Atlanta.
Robert Spencer. train porter
-Four bodies unidentified.
Eght negro section hands
The train loft Macon at ,.l0 and was
due in Atlanta o. g.li M,Donough
was reached on time 40 this point con.
nrriiun j. made for Columbus. and here
every night the Columbus train is
coupled on aud hauled through 10 At.
lanta For the first time in many
months. the Columbus train was r..
ported two hours late, on acruunt Of a
washuut on that hmuch aud the Macon
train started on % Atlanta without ITS
COlunhu, connection
Tremendous rains. ~ daily occurrence
Tor the pls' two weeks have SWOLLEN all
stream. aud several wa,hout, have been
reported on the different roads. Camp
Creek, which runs into the Ocmulgee.
river, was over rs banks aud IL waters
had spread 10 all the low lands through
which II runs
About a mile and a half north Of Nc.
Donough the creek comes somewhat
near the SoUthern's tracks aud running
alongside 1t for q distance. finally passes
away under the road bya heavy culvcrt.
a cloudburst broke over that section oi
the country about g O'Clock and pre-.
sumely, shortly after dark. washed out
section of the track nearly 100 feet In
length Into this the swiftly moving
train plunged
The tmin, consisting II baggage
car, second class coach, flrstclass coach
and Pullman sleeper. was knocked in.
to hndling wood by the fall. the wreck
caught fire few minutes after the fall
and al the coaches were burned except
the Pullman car.
Every person on the train exccp, the
occupants Of the Pullman car pershod IN
the disaster There was no escape A.
the heavy Pullman car weighted down
tho others and the few alive In the
sleeper were unable 70 render assistance
90 their fellow passengers
For a brief time there was silence
Then the occupants Of tho Pullman car
recovered from their bcwilderment and
after hard work managed To get out u
their car aud found themselves ON the
track In pouring rain Flames were
already seen coming from that part of
the wrockago not covered bv tho water
As the wreck began 10 % 20 pieces an
der tho destructive work 81 both flames
aud Hood human bodies foatod out NJ
The mass and were carried down stream,
by the swift current Flashes Of light.
ming light up the scene with fearful dis.
tinctness
Flagman Quinlan, ono of the first In
get out. NJ once strrted for the neares,
telegraph station kaking his way a.
rapidly "a possible In the face Of the
binding storm he stumbled into the Of.
hce at McDonough and after telling the
night operator OF the wreck, fell faint.
ing 70 the iioor Word was telegraphed
10 both Atlanta and Macon, but on nc.
count Of another washout no assistance