The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24
FORGOT THE TRAIN AHEAD
Engineers Wall and Stewart, Firemen
Bonds and Brewer, All White,
Mest Death as Two En-
ginss Rush Madly
Together.
Especial TO News and Observer.)

| Southern Pines. N. c., June 23-The
first wreck which has happened in this
section for many years occurred at 10
o'clock this morning about 200 yards
north of Niagara station and three miles
north of Southern Pines.
From the best information at hand it
appears that a flying engine left the sta
tion of yass, a small station still further
north, about three miles of this place
without orders, going south, and attempted
to make the siding at Manly, a hallway
ara. Local freight train No. S. north
bound, left Southern Pines on time and
was running on regular orders under full
headway down grade and was run into by
the flying engine going at the rate of for
ty-five miles an hour.
1t was head-on collision which oc-
Cured on a sharp curve and in deep cut.
Both boilers exploded and the scene il
horrible beyond description. Engineer
VIM. Wall was killed on train No. 6,
though his fireman, named Wright, es-
capped by jumping, though he is seriously
injured. Engineer f. T. Stewart and his
fireman, Walter Bond, on the shifting en-
CINE, weer both killed, also Charlie Brew
er, Of Aberdeen, who. it is said, was MAX
ing the trip up on No. to accept the
position OF fireman on the road
Drs Edwin Gladman, X. M. Ferguson
and A. I'll. Mcleod were on hand and re-
lieved the injured men and looked after
the dead bodies. which were taken to
Niagara station. from which point they
will be carried to Raleigh some time to-
night.
Fireman Bond had a piece Of 2x4 scant-
ling driven through his body, which had
to be sawed off back and front before he
could be dressed. while Mr. Wall was
thoroughly disemboweled, his leg broke
and his head smashed. Mr. Brewer was
found with his face directly in front of
the big fire box of engine No. 6 with his
hands burned off and his flesh cooked in
steam and burning Goals.
The track is terribly blocked and torn
up and parts Of the engines were found
several hundred yards away, while the ten
der to the flying engine backed away
about two miles after the collision. Two
wrecking trains are ON the scene and a
large force Of men are tracking around
the wreck so that it is expected to get
trains through by midnight, or possibly
an hour or two later The railroad com
pany will be fortunate if they can find
room enough in this deep cut for an extra
track, as it is very narrow and one Of their
largest freight engines is lying directly
crossways the cut
The frnioht in xx,oe Yoa5oI ,,,.,.4Ivr
with lumber and cross-ties and was carry
ing few well built steel cars. which are
almost total wreck Train No 3S, the
Atlanta Special, got through before the
wreck, but the Seaboard Limited from
Jacksonville, Florida, in charge Of Con-
ductor Shannonnouse. is tied up at South
ern Pines.
1t must not be overlooked that in this
great disaster that Conductor r. M Rose
and his fiagnan Bancom displayed the
coolest nerve known in railroading, as told
by DR.. w. O. Ruggles. who was on the
scene three minutes after the collision oe-
CURED. Being the only survivors of the
two crews they at once attended to send
ing flags, one in one direction and the
other in the opposite. and the doctor says
there was no delay in so doing.
Three bodies, mangled, torn, burnt and
bloody were brought to Raleigh last night
On a special train There were all that
IS mortal Of three men who went to death
while on duty.
Another body was still wedged tight in
.he terrible wreck. which took place yes
-erday morning between ten and eleven
o'clock on the Seaboard Air Line at
Niagara, sixty-ive miles south OF Raleigh,
md three miles north of Southern Pines
Another was brought to, but it had the
breath Of life in it, This was the Are
nan jumped in time as the monsters OF
ron and steam dashed wildly at each
'ther. T. r. Wright is his name, and he
$ severely injured.
The dead men are s. r. Stewart and
NJ P. Wall, engineers; Walter Bond, fire.
nan, whose remains were brought here
nd Charlie Brewer. whose dead body was;
till tightly wedged in the wreck at
Niagara when the special left the scene
{ the tragedy last night.
Great crowds were at the Union depot
ast night when she funeral train reached