The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-25
NEARLY ILL PERlSHtD
Thirty-FWe Persons Killed
on the Macon Branch of
Southern Railroad.
TRAIN DASHED TO PIECES
NO ONE ESCIPED EXCEPT THOSE IN
PULLMAN CAR.

NO ONE ESClpED EXCEPT THOSE IN
PULLMAN CAR.
"A Cloudburst Had Washed Out the
Track for Nearly One Hundred Feet
and the Train Plunged Into It-Then
Caught Fire and All the Coaches but
the pullman Were Destroyed.
Atlanta, Ca, June PA passenger
train on the Macon branch of the South
ern railroad ran into washout one and
a half miles north of McDonough, Ga.
last night and was completely wrecked.
The wreck caught fire and the entire
train, with the exception of the sleeper,
was destroyed. Every person on the
train, except the occupants of the Pull
man car, perished Not a member of
the train crew escaped. Thirty five
people in all We're killed. Following is
list of the dead:
List of Dead.
William A Barclay, Atlanta; j. E.
Wood, conductor, Atlanta; j. H, Hun
nicutt, conductor, Atlanta; ]. Sullivan,
engineer; w. w. Bennett, bagagemas-
ter, Atlanta; T. E. Maddox, cotton buy
er, Atlanta; w. ]. Pate. Atlanta;
twelve-year-old son of w. ]. Pate, At
lanta; H. r. Gresham, Pullman con-
ductor; George W. Tourney, Atlanta
D. C. Hightower, Stockbridge, Ca; w.
w. Park, Macon, Ga; Elder Henson,
travelling man, supposed to have been
from Florida; ]. r. Florida, Nashville;
w. o. Ellis. bridgeman, Stockbridge,
Ga; d. Y. Griffith, SUPERVISOR; j. H
Rhodes, fagman; John Brantley, fire
man; William Green, extra fireman;
w L. Morrisett. pump repairer; W. r.
Lawrence, foreman extra gang; Edward
Byrd, colored, fireman, Atlanta; Rob-
ert Spencer, train porter: four bodies,
unidentified, and eight negro section
hands.
The Rescued.
The following passengers We're res
cued without serious injuries; Jesse l..
L. Rahe, Atlanta, Walter Pope, Allan
ta; Miss Mary B. Merritt, Boston,
Mass. Miss Clara Alden, Boston, Mass;
j. G. Flynn, Atlanta; Z. Schriner, Chat
tanooga, Tenn; E. T. Mack. Chatta-
nooga Tenn: j. J. Quinlan fagman;
T. c. Palmer Pullman porter; Handy
Tomlinson.
Henvy Rains Caused w ashouts.
The train left Macon at 7:19 and was
due in Atlanta at 9;45 last night. Nc
Donough was reached on time. At this
point connection is made for Columbus,
Ga, and here every night the Columbus
train is coupled and hauled through to
Atlanta. Last night, however for the
first time in many months, the Column
bus train was reported two hours late
on account of washout on that branch
and the Macon train started on to At
Ianta without its Columbus connection.
Tremendous rains Of daily occurrence
for the past two weeks have swollen
all the stretms in this part of the south
and several washouts have been report
ed on the different roads. Camps Creek,
which runs into the Ocumulgee, was
over it's banks and it's waters had
spread to all the lowlands through
which it runs. About mile and a half |
north of McDonough the creek comes
near the Southern's tracks, |
and. running alongside it for some dis
tance, finally passes away under the |
road by heavy stone culvert.
Trmtn Dashed 10 Pieces.
A cloudburst broke over that section
of the country about 6 o'clock last night |
and presumably shortly after dark
washed out a section of track nearly I
100 feet in length. Into this the swiftly |
moving train plunged The storm was
still raging and all the car windows |
were closed The passengers secure as
they thought, and sheltered comfortably
from the inclement weather, went to |
death without an instants warning
The train, consisting of a baggage car,
second class coach, first class coach
and Pullman sleeper, was knocked in
to kindling wood by the fall The
wreck caught fire few minutes after
the fall, and all the coaches We're burn
I'd except the Pullman car.
OnIy Pullman Occupants Escapr.
Every person on the train, except the
occupants of the Pullman car perished
n the disaster, There was no escape,
as the heavy Pullman car weighted
Iown the others, and the few alive in
he .s.eeper were unable to render assist
lnce to their fellow passengers. For a
3rief time there was silence. Then the
occupants of the Pullman recovered
rom their bawilderment and after hard |;
work managed TO get out of their car
md found themselves on the track in
he pouring rain. The extensiveness of
le catastrophe was quickly apparent. !.
The Wreck on Flrc.
Flames We're already seen coming !,
rom that part of the Wrecl1age not COW
red by the water. AS the wreck began .
o go to pieces under the destructive +,
work. of both flames and flood, human
,odies flaated out from the mass and
we're carried down stream by the swift =
urrent. The storm did not abate in :
ury. Flashes of lightning added to the :
teady glow of the burning train and ;
it up the scene with fearful distinct
less. |,
FIagmnn's Plucky Trip. c
Flasman Quinlan, who was one of the J
rst to get out, at once started for the !
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