The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-26
SAKS &
THREE MORE RECOVERED
THIRTY-sEvEN BODIES FOUND IN
wRECkAGE AT M'DONOUGH.
Total Victims of the Railway Accident
Probably ~Forty-Heavy Rains
Throughout the south.

ATLANTA, Ca, June 25.-Thirty-seven
bodies have been recovered from the wreck
age of the Southern train which went into
a washout one mile and a half from Nc
Donough on Saturday night. Three bodies
were found to-day. They were:
d. Y. GRIFFITH. supervisor.
W.. L. MORRISETTE, superintendent
pumping station.
j. IL. H~UNNICUTT, freight conductor.
The charred pieces of two other bodies
were also found. The injured who were
sent TO McDonough or Macon and those
brought here have left for their homes.
Many bodies of the dead hav not been
identified and these remain at the under
taking establishments, waiting TO be
claimed by relatives or friends. These
bodies are principally those Of negro sec
ton hands who were killed. The number
in the gang. which was on its way to do re-
pairing work on the Georgia Midland &
Gulf road. is not known. All of them per-
ished. 1t is supposed to have numbered
about fifteen, which will make the total
casualties forty. 1t is believed that some
bodies still remain under the debris, which
will be thoroughly cleared away by to-mor-
row.
A dispatch from McDonough, o-night
| says one of the unidentified bodies is be-
| lieved to be that of W. H.. Jensen. sr.. Of
| Sugar Postofhce, Salt Lake county. Utah.
Traffic will likely be resumed in twelve
hours. Trains from Macon to Atlanta are
now operating over the Georgia Midland &
Gulf Railroad. During the recent heavy
rains vigilance has been exercised by rail-
road officials In watching the roadbcd, and
it is said the culvert over Camp creek.
where the wreck occurred, was inspected
and reported 20. K" thirty minutes before
the train ran into the gulch- The culvert
gave way because the water rose TO a
height sufficient TO get in between the abut-
ment walls and the earthen embankments.
1t was constructed of stone and brick. The
embankment is about fifty feet high at this
point and quite long.
Reports received here from many points
in Georgia and portions OF Alabama and
| South Carolina show that the recent
heavy rains have inundated a vast terri
tory and caused enormous damage TO
bridges and farming properties. Crops. in
Guiding cotton, corn and especially fruit,
which was nearing maturity when the wet
season began, have been greatly injured
farmers of the Southeastern States. The
rainfall has been unprecedented. All the
streams are out of their banks and carry
ing away bridges and ferries In large num-
bers. The substructure of the handsome
new bridge over the Ocmulgee at Macon
was carried away to-day. Reports say the
| twenty-nine feet at noon and rising two
| inches per hour. The mills there are closed
| down on account Of back water In the
canal. At Rome. Ga. the river is eighteen
feet above low water mark and rising one
inch per hour. At West Point the Chatta-
hootchie river reached twenty feet above
| low water to-day.
A tornado was reported near Huntsville.
/ Ale cU-ooDfpO tho country but no loss Of
life is known. The low lands have been
devastated and only the higher farming
lands are untouched. Indications are for a
| cessation of the rain. which will cause the
l streams to fall rapidly.