The age-herald., 1900-06-25
ONLY NINE ESCAPED
All Were Lost Except Those on
 the Pullman.
BODIES TAKEN TO M'DON0UGH
The Few Passengers Who Escaped Give Description of the Horrible Scene Presented as They
 Crawled from the Car

Crawled from the Car
 Atlanta, Ga., June N-A passenger train on the Macon branch of the Southern Rail- way ran into a 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 oc- cupants of the Pullman car perished. Not member of the train crew escaped Thir- ty-five persons in all were killed Following is list of the dead
 WILLIAM A. BARCLAY, conductor, Att lanta
 J. E. WOOD, conductor, Atlanta.
 J. H. HUNNICUTT, conductor Atlanta J. T. SULLIVAN, engineer.
 w. W. BENNETT, baggagemaster, At lanta.
 T. r. MADDOX, cotton buyer, Atlanta w. J. PATE, Atlanta.
 TWELVE- -YEAR-OLD SON of w. J. Pate, Atlanta.
 H. R. GRESHAM Macon, Ga.
 GEORGE w. FLOURNOY, Atlanta
 D. c. HIGHTOWER, stockbridge Ga.
 w. w. SPARKS, Macon Ga
 ELDER HENSON, travelling man, SUD- posed to have been from Florida.
 J. R. FLORIDA, Nashville, Tenn.
 w. o. ELLIS, bridgeman, Stockbridge. D. Y. GRIFFITH, supervisor.
 J. H. RHODES ,fagman.
 JOHN BRANTLEY, white fireman.
 WILL GREEN, extra fireman.
 w. L. MORISSETr, pump repairer.
 W. R. LAWRENCE, foreman extra gang. ED BYRD, colored fireman, Atlanta.
 ROBERT SPENCER, train porter.
 FOUR BODIES unidentified.
 EIGHT NEGRO SECTION HANDS.
 The following passengers were rescued without serious injury:
 Jesse L. Rohr, Baltimore.
 Walter Pope, Atlanta.
 Miss Mary B. Merritt, Boston, Mass. Miss Clara Alden, Boston, Mass.
 J. c. Flynn, Atlanta.
 E. Schryner, Chattanooga.
 F. T. Mac, Chattanooga.
 J. J. Quinlan, flagman.
 Handy Tomlinson
 Left Macon at 7:1O
 The train left Macon at 7:10 and was due in Atlanta at 9:45 last night. McDonough was reached on time.
 At this place connection is made for Co., lumbus, Ga., and here every night the Co., lumbus train is coupled on and hauled through to Atlanta Last night, however, for the first time in many months, the Columbus train was reported two hours late on account of a washout on that branch, and the Macon train started on to Atlanta without the Columbus connection. Tremendous rains, of daily occurrence, 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 it's banks and its waters had spread to all the low lands through which it runs About mile and a half north of McDonough the creek comes somewhat near the Southerns tracks and, running alongside it for some distance, finally passes away under the road by a heavy stone culvert. cloud burst broke over that section of the county about o'clock last night and presumably shortly after dark washed out a section of the track nearly 100 feet in length. Into this the swiftly moving train plunged. There not a note of warm ing. The storm still raging and all the car windows were closed The pas sengers, secure as they thought, and shel- tered comfortably from the indictment weather went to death without an instant's warning.
 The train, consisting of a baggage car, second-class coach, frst-class coach and a Pullman sleeper, knocked into kind ling wood by the fall. The wreck caught fire in a few minutes after the fall and all the coaches were burned except the Pull man car.
 Could Render No Assistance
 Every person on the train except the oc- cupants of the Pullman car perished in the disaster. There was no escape, as the heavy Pullman car weighted down the oth- CTS, 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 their bewilderment, and after hard work managed to get out of their car. and found themselves on the track in the pour ing rain. The extent of the catastrophe was quickly apparent. Flames were al- wreckage not covered by the water. As the wreck began to go to pieces under the destructive work of both flames and flood. human bodies hoated out from the mass,