Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-25
HORRIBLE Wreck
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lance. At daylight the bodies that had
fioated from the gorge were gathered up.
One body was found a mile from the
wreck and many were seen along the
banks. Z
A wrecking train was started from At
lanta at midnight, but owing to the
burning w~reckage nothing could be M
until morning. A special train at 6 o'clock
this morning took doctors, minister's,
railorad officials and helpers to the scene,
but nothing could be done ave to gather
up the bodies. IRE
AS the dead were found they were re-
moved to McDonough. There are two
undertakers there. Both establishments
were soon full of mangled remaans 'ef
the passengers. Some of the bodies were
terribly burned, while others were
crushed beyond recognition. The only
means of Identification in the majority OF
the cases were letters and papers in the
pockets of the victims of the catastrophe.
The bodies were prepared for burial as
rapidly as possible. Some may be buried
at McDonough. Others will be sent to
their homes as last as their ope adj
dresses can be ascertained. Only three
women were in the train. Two escaped.
It is presumed that the other persisted,
but the body has not been ound.
Besides the regular crew of the train
several conductors n other employees
were en- route to Atlanta to spend Sun
| day.
John r. Rohr, a travelling salesman
of Baltimore, one of the rescued. said:
II vas in the Pullman with the others
who escaped with their lives, when the
wreck occurred. There was not an in
stant's warning. We heard suddenly
an indistinct crash and the next instant
felt our car pitch forward and drop. The
forward end OF the car filed with water
at nn0n and the iUhfC went n1lf We
heard the roar of rushing waters. We
got down on all fours, felt our way and
crawled to the top of the car and hen
out. The car was hanging by it's rear
trucks to the stone abutment of the
culvert and swayed to Inc fro by the mo-
ton of the water. 1t was pitch dark,
and the rain was coming down in tor
rents. Not a single call for help was
heard. Those in the forward coaches
must have met death instantly. The
Wreckage was on fire when we reached
the top of the car, and it lighted up the
scene brightly. Looking down toward the
middle of our car I saw the head and
her cry Save us, we are alive but we
could do nothing for her. Then came
the struggle to get to the track above.
train came failing down on us, and we
'trai came falling down on us, and we
were nearly buried two or three times.
once fIynn, VINO was one of our little
party, got within grasping distance OF
the top. Suddenly he lost his hold and
down he came. He went into the river
and was carried away by the rush OF
waters. At daylight he walked up to our
party and told us he had managed to
eaten a tree after swimming a mile o,
more in the water"
Macon, Ga, June 24-Superintendent
Jones of the Contra of Georgia railroad
said of the wreck:
1T can be explained as only one 'o1
the inevitable acts of God. It was the
result of a terrible storm and cloudburst
something similar to that which caused
the Youngstown flood. The accident oc.
CURED at a deep, narrow creek, which
hau become SO suddenly and quickly fill
ed that the volume of water washed OH
the masonry of stone and brick from I'm.
der the trestle which spanned the stream
leaving the track itself intact, SO that thu
crew, being unconscious of ANYTIME
amiss, allowed the train to rush On the
unsupported track"