The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-12-11
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causes sas! 4 !; the Terrific Explosion 81 50
Naph tina Tank Car fss;s :!s 81 I i
AND s,1sl7l sslETs 'lE.:I' aFIRE To SA 3 TOWN.
The Explosion L 81 hhtterH seyegal Build
se 81 ings, Overtime ! STOVES and rs
started s. swift Eff ) 3 3
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| ssstrean,s OF; Fires.

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A sA town; whs fired !, al whole train OF
cars destroyed |, two menswefe killed, a
score were more or: less siniured. two
perhaps fatally an d RAILROAD Bystem m
was blocked Thursday shortly & after
noon by ollision Of two freight
trains, followed Sby the terrific explo-
sion Of g naphtha: tank car at Dover,
~ The { foil flowing Is q list OF the dead
and tnjured: s {! sI;.3 &,
DEAD -Breakeman Edward J..
Roach, of* Georgetown; infant child
died of heart shock. "a
iii INJURED On. the train, Conductor
q. y. Hall, of Wilmington; Engineer
sB. 1--WE: Sheppard, ,s Wilmingto ton; Fire
man John Barker; Wilmington. Citf-
zens injured Mrs. w. Morris, serious
lly; Mrs. Edward J Jones, Mrs. Cleo Cox,
Mrs. sE, X. Todd, Dr. II. O. johnson,
Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. O. w. Parker,
Mrs. John w. Boswick, Charles An;
drews, $Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Mandy
Howell, Asbury Morris, Edward
Lynch.
A long train of freight cars was
standing on the main track Of the
Delaware Division of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad in the town Of Green
wood, a place of about 1000 inhab-
itants. Directly In front OF Z the
'caboose, or last car, of the stationary
train was tank car filled with
.naphtha. Another heavy freight,
running forty miles an hour, crashed
into the arear of the train at rest, and
then came the roar, Of an explosion
which was heard for thirty miles.
THE sudden blast shattered < every
window in Greenwood, and then there
were the creakipg and crashing OF
tfmbers and shrieks Of wounded or
dying men about the train. Fifteen
cars were piled In mass Of wreck
age, and the locomotive of the second
freight was sunk in hole fifteen feet
deep. RI
FIRE sPREADs TO TOWN.
Before the panic-sticken inbahi-
tants of the place had recovered from
the shock, which many Of them at
first Thought was an earthquake. q
new danger menaced them. Streams
of blazing oil extended from The wreck
and set fire to nearby houses, while
other houses partially wrecked by the
fOIoe Of ttiie tx xpiusion caught IRE from
overturned stoves.
In many instances a small blaze,
which, under ordinary circumstances,
could have been quickly extinguished,
was permitted, because of the general
panic and confusion, to gain unusual
headway. In this manner the. Green
wood HOttl and the Public School
house we're almost totally destroyed,
and other buildings badly injured and
partially burned were the Methodist
Episcopal Church, the Greenwood
Grammar School, the Satterield
stores, the post office, AMI the Penn
sylvania Railroad station, and the
residences of DIR. H. @. johnson, r..
Owens, Frank Porter, ohm Wiley and
Q. w. Ammerman. a,s;.szss ;,.s;.., y ttsSs.s q. i
THE CALL FOR AID. rs
Self-possessed railroa :. s, e,,,,.;-l1 l1rtky
workmer, who toURs stileirGnandS, and
brave citizens set to work to restore
order Out,of the chaos, first byrigging
a special telegraph wire aud summS05in-
Ing railroad wOrkmen from. every
where, together with all the physi-
clans within reach. 1t being evident
That the railroad tracks could not be
cleared at once, special train was
made up at Harrington and hurried
TO the scene with number of doctors
on board. ss.s fsT