Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-25
DEATH LIST IS FORTY-ONE
APPALLING ACCIDENT ON SOUTHERN
ROAD IN GEORGIA.
Train PIunSes Into a WashOut Sixty
Feet Deep-Fire Adds to
the Horror.

ATLANTA, Ga, June 25.-Additional re-
ports received here today from the scene of
the wreck on the Macon branch of the
Southern railway at McDonough show that
the list of the dead probably number forty
one. The number Of the gang of sec
ton hands on 'the wrecked train, all of
whom were killed. is not known. Several
Of the bodies have been removed from the
wreckage. but they have not been identified.
Six dead passengers were brought here.
Traffic probably will be resumed today.
In an interview, Superintendent w.
Vaughn Of the Atlanta division of the
Southern said last night:
superintendent Jones wired me, at my
request, the list of casualties as reported to
him. 1t shows the names of seven passen-
gers, fifteen employees of the road and three
bodies unidentified The name of Elder
Henson. supposed to have been a travelling
man from Florida, does not appear on the
list, nor have l heard anything about the
eight negro section hands reported to have
been killed.
A late dispatch from McDonough says
that two of the unidentified whites are said
to be Robert Buchanan Of Atlanta and R..
NJ. Seewalt Of Chicago.
A passenger train on the Macon branch
of the Southern railway ran into a washout
one and half miles north of McDonough,
Ga. Saturday 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, persisted Not member of the
train crew escaped. Thirty-fve people in
all were killed. Following is a Est of the
dead:
William A. Barclay, conductor Atlanta.
j. f. Wood, conductor. Atlanta.
j. H. Hunnicutt. conductor, Atlanta.
J. T. Sullivan, engineer, Atlanta.
w. w. Bennett, baggage master. Atlanta.
T. F. Maddox, cotton buyer, Atlanta.
w. ]. Pate. Atlanta.
Twelve-year-old son of w. J. Pate, At
lanta.
II. R. Gresham. Pullman conductor.
George w. Flournoy, Atlanta.
d. c. Hightower Stockbridge, Ga.
w. W. Ipark, Macon, Ga.
Elder Nelson, travelling man, supposed to
have been from Florida.
]. r. Florida, Nashville, Tenn.
w. o. Ellis. bridgeman. Stockbridge.
d. Y. Griffith, supervisor.
j. H. Rhodes. f1agman.
John Brantley, white, fireman.
Will Green extra fireman.
w. H. Morriset, pump repairer.
w. II. Lawrence, foreman extra gang.
Ed Byrd, colored. fireman, Atlanta.
Robert Spencer train porter.
Four bodies yet unidentified.
Eight negro section hands.
The following passengers were rescued
without serious injury: Jesse L. Rohr.
Baltimore; Walter Pope. Atlanta; Miss
Mary Merritt, Boston, Mass; Miss Clara
Alden. Boston; j. c. Finn, Atlanta; E.
Shriper, Chattanooga; f. T. Mack, Chatta-
nooga: J. ]. Quinlan flagman: T. c. Car
ter. Pullman porter; Handy Tomlinson.
Tremendous rains of daily occurrence for
the past few weeks have swollen all
streams in this part of the south. and sew
eral 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 a mile and
a half north of McDonough the creek comes
somewhat near the Southern's tracks, and,
running alongside it for some distance.
finally passes away under the road by a
heavy stone culvert. A cloudburst broke
over that section of the country about u
o'clock Saturday night, and presumably
shortly after dark washed out a section of
the track nearly 100 feet in length. Into
this this swiftly moving train plunged.
There was no note of warning The storm
was still raging, and all the car windows
were closed.
The train. consisting of a baggage car.
second-class coach, first-cass coach and a
Pullman sleeper. was knocked into kindling
wood by the fall. The wreck caught fire a
few minutes after the fall and all the
coaches were burned except the Pullman
car. The heavy Pullman car weighted
down the others. and those in the sleeper
were unable to render assistance to their
fellow passengers.