The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-13
FROM MOVING TRAIN
MANY INJURED BY JUMPING FROM
CAR WORKS SPECIAL.
FEARED HEAD-ON COLLISION.
SPRANG FROM PLATFORMS AND
THROUGH CAR WINDOWS.

THROUGH CAR WINDOWS.
Threatened Collision Between the
Train and Const Line Freight
Frightened the Passengers-Trains
Were Each on Branch of n Y at
Southover junction md Headed
for Main Track-Freight Looked as
If 1t Couldn't Stop and Car Works
Passengers Jumped-RepOrt That
Freight Refused to Recognize Sig
mails Giving Car Works Train
Right of Way, Denied by Railroad
Men.
Half a dozen or more people were
injured by jumping from a Georgia
Car Works train at Southover juno
ton on the Atlantic Coast Line yester-
day afternoon about $50 O'Clock. The
men jumped because a collision be-
tween their train and freight train No.
BOG seemed imminent.
None of the men are seriously in
jured, though several received painful
bruises. The confusion at the scene
of the accident was such that nobody
yet knows just how many have been
injured, their names, or the exact
nature of their injuries. Among those
who were injured are:
j. B. Cox, foreman of car works,
slight bruises.
J. r. Bradshaw, cut on the scalp,
nose supposed to be broken.
w. C. Perry, knee injured.
C. S. Westcott, five-inch cut on left
arm.
Manuel Silva arm wrenched.
William Morrell, colored, both legs
reported broken.
1t is known that several other col
ored men were injured, but either
their injuries were of so trifltng a ma
ture that they went home without re-
porting them or they were taken home
by their friends. At least one in
jured man was taken from the scene
of the accident and brought to the
city by his friends who in so doing
made a wide detour fearing arrest.
they said.
Cause of the Accident.
Stories of why the men jumped from
the train differ widely. Possibly as
plausible one from the view of the
men on the Car Works train as has
been told is that of Mr.. c. S. West
colt, who did not jump, but who was
pushed off by some of the panic strick-
en- passengers.
1t Is customary, Mr.. Westcott said,
for the Car Works train to slow up
or to stop altogether to allow the
Waycross train to go by Yesterday,
however, it seems the Waycross train
was already ahead when the train
| from the car works reached
the usual stopping place, and
was signaled clear track" About
this time, though, the freight train was
sighted and several signals by whistle
were exchanged between the two
trains. One was on each of the
branches of the Y that terminates in
| the main line for the old Plant System
depot.
A Collision Imminent
1t could readily be seen by the pas
| sengers of the Car Works train that
both trains were going at speed that
the tracks Joined and as this point
drew nearer and nearer and neither
train slowed up or showed a disposition
| to do so. several of the men jumped
| eff the platform and others jumped
| through windows. Some craWled
| through the windows but did not
jump, preferring simply to hold to the
outside of the coaches until the expect
| ed crash came.
Mr.. Westcott was pushed from the
| train in the scramble of some of The
| others to get off. He was not injured
| except for the cut on the arm and the
jar of the contact with the ground.
That the fears of the men causing
them to jump were we'll founded is
shown, he says, in the fact that though
the engineer of the work train in
creased his speed as the other drew
near, the work train managed TO bare
ly get on the main track some ten or
fifteen feet ahead of the other train.
Railroad Surgeon on the Scene.
As soon as the news of the trouble
reached the city the railroad officials
dispatched an ambulance and DIR. I. S.
Clay to the scene. Only one Colored
man was found, however, VINO ne eded
or rather who had waited for aid
Supt. w. H. Wright of the Coast Line
was out of the city last night, but at
his office 1t was stated that there had
been no reason whatever for the people
to fear a collision; that the freight
train not only had plenty of time to
stop before reaching the junction of the
Y, but that 1t was stopped. Neither
at this office nor at any of the other
offices of the railroad could be secured
list of those injured, and 1t is prob