The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-06-30
TERRIBLE GEORGIA DISASTER.
Thirty Five Killed ina Wreck o

Thirty Five Killed in. Wreck on
Southern Railway.
Atlanta, Ca, June 26.-A passenger
tr.sin on the Macon branch of the
Southern railway ran into a washont
one and one-half miles north of Me-
Donough, Ca, Saturday night, and
was completely wrecked. The wreck
caught fire and the entire train, with
the exception of the sleeper, was de-
stroy.d. Every person on the train
except the occupants of the. Pullman
car persisted. Not Il member of the
train crew escaped. Following is q
list of the dead:
WILLIAM A. BARCLAY, conductor,
Atlanta.
j. e. WOOD, conductor, Atlanta.
j. II. HUNNICUTT, conductor, At
lantu.
J. T. SULLIVAN, engineer.
w. W. BENNETT, naggagemaster,
Atlanta.
T. I. MADDOX, cotton buyer, At.
lanta.
w. j. PATE, Atlanta.
Twelve-year-old son of w. j. Pate.
II, r. GRESHAM, Pullman con-
ductor.
GEORGE w. FLoURNOY, Atlanta.
D. G. HIGHTOWER, Stockbridge,
Ga.
w. w. PARK, Macon, Ga.
ELDER HENSEN, travelling man,
supposed to have been from Florida.
j. II. FLORIDA, Nashville.
w. O. ELLIS, bridgemnn, Stock
bridge.
D.Y. GRIFFITH, supervisor.
j. H. Rhodes, flagman.
JOHN BRANTLEG (whitc), fire.
man.
WILL GREEN, extra fireman.
WI. MORRISETT, pump repaircr.
w. r. LAWRENCE, foreman extra
gang.
ED BYRD (colored). fireman, At
lanta.
ROBERT SPENCER, train porter.
-Four bodies unidentified.
Eight negro section hands.
The following passengers were res
cned without serious injury.
Jessie L. Rahe, Baltimore.
Walter Pope, Atlanta.
Miss Mary b. Merritt, Boston, Mass,
Miss Clara Alden, Boston, Mass.
j. G. Flynn, Atlanta.
Z. Schryner, Chattanooga, Tenn.
i. I. Muck, Chattanooga.
j. j. Quinlun, fagman.
I. G. Carter, Pullman porter.
The train left Macon Mt 7:15, and
was due in Atlanta at GAS p: m. Nc
Donough was reached on time. AT
this point connection is made for Co
lumbus, Ca, and here every night the
Columbus train is coupled on and
hauled through to Atlanta. Saturday
night, however, for the first time in
many months, the Columbus train
was reported two hours late on nc
count of a washout ON that branch,
and the Macon train started on to At
lanta without its Columbus connec-
ton.
Tremendous rains of daily occur
renee 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.
Cramps creek, which runs into The
Ocmulgee, was over its banks, and its
waters had spread to all the lowlands
through which it runs. About a mile
and u half north of McDonough the
creek comes somewhere near the
Ssonthern's track, and running along,
side of it for some distance finally
passed under the road by a henvy
stone %culvert. A cloudburst broke over
that section of the country about
o'clock Saturday night, and presum.
ably 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 comfortably
from the inclement wentber, went to
death without an instant's warning
The train. consisting of baggage car
second class coach, first class coach
and a Pullman sleeper, was knocked
into kindling wood by the fall. The
wreck caught fire, a few minutes after
the fnll, and all the coaches were
burned except the Pullman car.
Every person on the train, except
the occupants OF the Pullman car,
persisted in the disaster. There was nc
escape. as the heavy Pullman car
weighed down the others, and til.
few alive in the sleeper were nnabl
to render assistance to their felloS.