The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-26
Every Person on the Train Killed Ex-
cept Those in the Pullman.
Died Without Warning.
INTO THE WASHOUT AT DEAD or NIGHT
The Train Took Fire and The Flames Added
Horror 10 the Ghastly and Heartrending
Spectacle. Relief Train Sent From
Atlanta and the Bodies COL
lected as Rapidly as
Possible.
Possible.
(By the Associated Press.)

Atlanta, Ca. June PA passenger
ern ra lway ran into a washout one and a
half miles north of McDonough. Ca. Sat-
urday 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, perished Not a member of the
train crew escaped. Thirty-seven people
in all have been recovered from the
wreck. Following is list Of the dead:
William A. Barclay, conductor, At
lanta.
j. f. Wood, conductor. Atlanta
j. H. Hunnicutt, conductor, Atlanta.
j. 7. Sullivan, engineer, Atlanta.
W. w. Bennett, baggagemaster, Atlanta.
T. ID. Maddox, cotton buyer, Atlanta.
w. j. Pate, Atlanta.
Twelve year old son of w. J. Pate,
Atlanta.
ii. r. Gresham, Pullman conductor.
George w. Flournoy, Atlanta.
d. c. Hightower, Stockbridge, Ga.
w. w. Ipark, Macon, Ga.
Elder Henron, travelling man, supposed
to have been from Florida.
j. r. Florida, Nashville, Tenn.
w. o. Ellis, bridgeman, Stockbridge.
ID. Y. Griffith, supervisor.
j. H. Rhodes, fiagman.
John Brantley, white, fireman.
Will Green, extra fireman.
w. l.. Morrisette, pump repairer.
w. X. 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 B. Merritt, Boston, Mass.
Miss Clara Alden, Boston, Mass.
j. G.. Flynn. Atlanta.
T.. Schreiner, Chattanooga.
f. T. Mack, Chattanooga.
j. j. Quinlan, fagman.
It. c. Carter, Pullman porter.
Handy Tomlinson.
Three bodies were found today. They
were:
ID. S. Griffith, supervisor.
w. L. Morrissette, superintendent
pumping station.
j. II. Hunnicutt, freight conductor and
the charred pieces of two other bodies.
The injured were sent to McDonough
Macon and Atlanta.
Many bodies of the dead have not been
identified and these remain at the under
taking establishments waiting to be
claimed by relatives or friends. The
latter are principally bodies of negro
hands, who were killed. The number
in the gang which was making it's way
to do repair work on the Georgia Mid
land and Gulf Railroad is not known. AL
of them perished. 1t is supposed tC
have numbered about fifteen which will
make the total casualties about forty
1t is believed that some bodies still re-
main under the debris which will, be
thoroughly cleared away by tomorrow
Traffic will likely be resumed in twelve
hours Trains from Macon to Atlanta
are now operating over the Georgia Mid
land and Gulf Railroad. During the re-
cent heavy rains vigilance has been ex-
ercised by railroad officials in watching
the roadbed and it is said that the cul-
vert over Camp Creek where the wreck
occurred was inspected and reported 80.
X" thirty minutes before the train ran
into the gulch The culvert over Camp
Creek gave way because the water rose
to q height sufficient to get in between
the abutment walls and the earthen en-
bankment.
1t was constructed of stone and brick.
The embankment is about fifty feet high
at this point and quite long.
The train left Macon at 710 and was
due in Atlanta at 9:45 Saturday night. Nc
Donough was reached on time At this
point connection is made for Columbus,
and here every night the Columbus
train is coupled on and hauled through
TO Atlanta. That night, however, for
the first time in many months. the Co.
lumbus train was reported two hours
late on account of a washout on that
branch and the Macon train started on
to Atlanta without it's Columbus con-
ncetion.
Tremendous rains Of daily occurrence