Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-25
HORRIBLE WRECK
THIRTY-FIVE DASHED TO THEIR
DEATH.
WAS CAUSED BY A WAsHouT.

WAS CAUSED BY A WASHOUT.
Only Occupants Of Pullman Car Es-
caped-All Of Train Crew
&.,.. Perished. avfN
Atlanta, June IA passenger train
on the Macon branch Of the Southern
iraaiway q into q washout one and q
nala miles north Of McDon9uEh las
night and wa completely wrecked. The
wreck caught fire and the entire train
with the exception OF the sleeper waz
destroyed. Every person on the train
with the exception of the occupants OF
.he fuilman car persisted. Not a mem
Der of the train crew escaped. Thirty
nve people in all were killed.
following is h list of the dead: II
WILLIAM A. BARCLAY. conductor,
]. E. WOOD. conductor. Atlanta.
J. 7. SULLIVAN, engineer. Atlanta.
ilanta.
7; E. MADDOX. cotton buyer. At
w. J. PATE, Atlanta.
TWELVE YEAR-OLD SON OF W. 7.
Pate. Atlanta.
H. R. GRESHAM, Pullman conduc-
tor. -
GEORGE W. FLoURNEY. Atlanta.
H. G. HIGHWATER, stockbridge, Ga.
w. w. PARK, Macon.
ELDER HENSON, travelling man,
supposed to have been from Florida
]. r. FLORIDA. Nashville.
w. e. ELLIS. b~ridgeman, S~tockbridge,
Ga.
d. Y. GRIFFITH. supervisor.
J.. H. RHODES, fagman.
JOHN BRANTLEY, white fireman.
WILLIAM GREEN, extra fireman.
w. D. MORISETT, pump repairer.
w. r. LAWRENCE. foreman extra
gang.
ED BYRD, colored. foreman. Atlanta.
ROBERT SPENCER, train porter.
FOUR UNIDENTIFIED BODIES.
EIGHT NEGRO SECTION HANDS.
The following passengers We're res
cued without serious injury:
Jessie L. Rahe. Baltimore: Walter
Pope, Atlanta: Miss Mary B. Merritt.
Boston; Miss Clara Alden. Boston: j. c..
Flynn, Atlanta: E. Schriner. Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn; r. T. Mack, Chattanooga,
Tenn: J. j. Quinlan, hagman: T. c. Car
ter. Pullman porter: Andy Tomlinson.
The train left Macon at 7:10 and was
due in Atlanta at $40 last night. Nc
Donough was reached m 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 hight, however. LOT the
first time in many months, the Column
bus train was reported two hours late
on account of a waShOut on that branch
and the Macon train started on to At
lanta without it's Columbus connection.
Tremendous rains of daily occurrence
for the past two weeks have swollen all
in this part of the south n
several ~washouts have been reported on
the different roads. Camps creek. which
runs INTO the Ocmulgee, was over its
banks and it's water had spread to all
lowlands through which it runs. About
a mile and a half north of MeDonough
the creek comes somewhere near the
h tracks, and, running along,
beside 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 6 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. The
storm was still raging and all the car
windows were closed. The passengers
secure, as they thought, and sheltered
from the inclement weather,
went to death without an %instant's
warming.
The train, consisting of a baggage car,
a second class coach, first class coach
and a Pullman sleeper, was Knocked into
kindling wood by the fall.
The wreck caught fire in a few min
utes and after the fall all the coaches
were burned except the Pullman car.
Every person on the train except the
of the Pullman car persisted
in the disaster. There was no escape. as
the heavy Pullman car weighed down
the others and the few alive in the
sleeper were unable to render assist
ance to their fellow passengers.
For a brief time there was silence.
Then the of the Pullman car
e,ovo thair haWi16PrmR ant and
after hard work managed to get out OF
their car and found themselves ton the
track in the pouring rain. The extent Oh
the catastrophe was quickly apparent.
Flames were already seen coming from
that part of the wreck not covered by
the water. AS the wreck began to go to
pieces under the destructive work OF
both flames and flood human bodies float
ed out from the mass and were carried
down stream 10y the swift current. The
storm did not abate in fury. Flashes of
lightning added to the steady glow of
the burning train n lighted up the
scene with fearful distinction. FIagman
Quinan, who was one of the first to get
out at once started for the nearest tele-
graph station. Making his way as rap
idly as possible in the face of the storm,
he stumbled into the office at McDon-
ough and, after telling the night operator
of the wreck, fell fainting to the floor.
Word was quickly sent to both Atlanta
and Macon, but no assistance was to be
had except in the latter city, as the in
terrupted track prevented the arrival of
any train from Atlanta. -
Nearly the entire population of Nc
Donough went to the scene to render as
sistance, but little could he lone by the
rescuers, as the fire kept them at q dis
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