Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-12-10
DOWN EMBANKMENT
CENTRAL TRAIN GOES
Serious Wreck on That Line
Near Macon.
TWO KILLED; FORTY INJURED
Accident Was Caused by the Train
Running Into Defective Switch
Fire Followed the intellectually
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Macon, Ca, Dec 9.-Two dead, one
fatally injured, seven seriously injur-
ed and about 40 painfully so, is the
sum total of a wreck on the Central
of Georgia railway at the Southern
railway culvert, near Ocmulgee river
bridge, in the city limits of Macon at
3:33 o'clock yesterday morning. The
wreck was caused by a defective
switch, portion of the train going
on one track and another part on a
different track.
At the point where the wreck occur
red there is high embankment and
when the train struck the switch sew
eral of the cars turned over and rolled
down the bank, among them the Pull
man sleeper.
The wreck then took fire and the
sleeper and baggage car were burned
The passengers in the sleeper were all
rescued before the fire had gained
much headway.
The dead:
Two negro women whose names can
not be learned. One killed instant
ly, the other died at o'clock yester-
day morning.
Fatally injured: Unknown negro
woman, unconscious now in Macon
hospital. Will die
Seriously injured: James Freeman,
travelling passenger agent Southern
railway. Forehead cut about inches
and right elbow badly mashed.
F. A. Stafford, mail clerk, Atlanta
to Savannah, of BarnesvIlle, thrown
against stove in mail car. Right shoul-
der, thigh and knee burned and body
bruised considerably.
Judge r. B. Kelley, of Admission,
Ala, lip cut and right arm badly torn.
R. P. Burke, baggagemaster; mus,
cles of leg lacerated and injured in
ternally.
Miss Julia Peri, Chicago; suffering
from shock and probably injured in
ternally
Miss Amy Peri, Chicago; painful
scalp wound and badly shaken up.
Painfully injured:
DR.. William Mitchell, a negro physi.
clan, Atlanta; badly bruised about the
body.
John Blount, travelling passenger
agent Central Of Georgia railway;
painfully bruised.
w. G. Mcmillan, travelling passen-
ger agent Georgia railroad, bruised
about body.
/ Alfred stearn, Savannah, bruised
about body.
W. G. Hughes, Atlanta, hip and arm
cut
Lee Jackson, Lafayette, Ind, right
arm and hand cut.
J. s. Berger, manager Berger Car
nival company, Macon; badly bruised
and cut.
G. A. Johnson, Macon, hand sprain.
ed and body cut.
Sarah Cole, negro, Savannah; hand
and ankle cut and bruised.
B. s. Tomlinson, Detroit, Mich;
right arm badly cut
l.. G. Fletcher, Atlanta, slightly cut
and bruised.
About 70 members of the Walter
Main circus were badly bruised and
cut, but they were taken through on
a special train sent out by the Cen.
trail railroad to make their connections
for the north.
The scene around the wreck was an
appalling one. The groans of the dy.
ing woman and OF the other injured
caused many brave hearts to shudder
and the glare caused by the burning
coaches lit up the surrounding coun
try, making wild and weird sight.
The train was slowed down to about
6 miles an hour at the time of the ac.
cident, and but for this fact there
would have been many more killed,
as the bank is a high one and every
car would have gone over