The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-09-28
DEATHS AWFUL HARVEST
SIXTY=TWO LIVES SACRIFICED
IN FRIGHTFUL TRAIN WRECK
ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY. E

a mail and baggage car NO. 10 Is .
light local train.
The greatest loss of life occurred III
the heavy eastbound train.
The trains were to have passed at
New Market, but Engineer Kane ran
through that place without stopping
and had gone nearly two miles whsn
the collision occurred.
Relief trains were dispatched from
Knoxville within an hour. All physl-
cianf in the vicinity of the wreck were
ding what they could in the mean
time
Horror lndescribabis
Johr w. Brown, of RogersY'Iie'
Tenn. a. newspaper man, tells most
graphic story of the Wreck He was
in the rear coach of the westpeuna
train and had no intimation OF the
wreck until the terrible crash came
accompanied by fearful jolt. All the
seats in the car we're torn loose Dy
the momentum and people and seats
were hurled to the front end OF the
ear. When he recovered from the
Shock he heard the screams ana
eroans of the dying and injured COM
iug from the front of the train
q left the car" said Mr.. Brown, az
soon as could and walked to the
main part of the wreck. 1t was me
most horrible sight l ever WITNESSED
in nv life. | saw a woman plnloned
nv a niece of split timber which hau
gone completely through her body "A
little child, quivering in deaths agony
Law beneath the woman. saw the
child die. and within few feet Oh
her Law a woman's head, while the de-
capitated body was several feet away
Another little girl, whose head was
fearfully mashed, was pitifully calling
for her mother. have since learned
that she was Lucille Conner, OF Knox
Vile and that both her parents were
killed in the wreck.
~ heard one woman, who was Ter
riblv mangled, praying earnestly TO DC
SPARED for her children, but death re-
lieved her suffering in few minutes
eft was the most horrible, tragic
scene I ever witnessed. Both engines
and all the coaches of No. 10 were
literally demolished, the smoker anu
baggage car completely so. The sleep
ers remained on the track unchanged
"The scene around the wreck peg
CARS description. Both engines lay 10
the north of the track, damned togeth-
or in one mass of indescrlbaDle
ruin. The cars which were demollsh-
cd were piled on the wrecked engines
saw women, who were perfectly
frantic. trying to find their husoands
mr. children who were buried IN the
wreck. | saw one woman discover
her sister lying in a dying condition.
and | never heard such trantic
screams as she gave when she made
the discovery. Forty-eight bodies were
oounted before | left for Knoxville"
Death List Increased.
The death list had grown SUNDAY
night sixty-two, and it will probably
exceed seventy, as many OF the IN.
irred are in serious condition, anu
more deaths will occur at the Knox
vile hospital.
Sunday there were six deaths at Vle
institution, the last one occurring at
o'clock Sunday night, when NJ. r.
Cant. a prominent North Carohnla1'
residing at Shelby, N. c., passed away
Others who died during the day at the
hospital were the two colored firemen'
two little girls and colored man. OF
Johnson City, Tenn. To the corrected
list of dead there must be added an
unknown infant found at the scene
Of the wreck and two other unldentl
! fed bodies.
Nothing has developed to change
the previously stated opinion that the
wreck was due to the failure OF the
westbound engineer to read his orders
correctly.