The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-05-04
EXCITING RUNAWAY
Of a Pullman Coach Over Two Miles
Into Car of Whiskey.
WORK OF AN UNKNOWN NEGRO:
Men. Women, Boys and Girls, White
and Black. Scramble to
Catch the Spilling 81
Corn Whiskey.
Corn Whiskey.

The Columbia State says the people
of the mill district of that city wit.
messed an exciting runaway Wednes-3
day afternoon. a Pullman coach,
whose brakes had been released by an
unknown negro on mischief bent, as:
the car stood on an incline at the,
Seaboard's Gervias street yard, dash
ed at high rate Of speed over the;
long trestle south Of the city. In
the coach at the time were a Penn?
sylvannia railroad porter, D. G. MW-
ray, who. says he lives in jersey City
and his helper, Joe Roberston, q.
small negro boy who says he lives
with his mother, Frances Robertson
at 9l3 Pendleton street. Both were,
asleep at the time the coach started
out, but were aroused before the:
coach reached the Seaboard's main
line trestle, which starts at the south-:
ern end of the yards and extends
through the mill district to the rear
of the Olympia and CRANKY mills, ay
distance Of nearly two miles.
Over this elevated track the coach:
sped at a rate of about 40 miles an
hour. Murray tugged at the brakes
but without apparent result, his
failure being due, he thinks, to- his
excitement and fear. At the end zof
the trestle behind the mills stooda.
Seaboard box car loaded with 80 bar
rels Of Wateree corn whiskey consign-
ed to Commissioner Tatum which had
been temporarily switched on to the
main line by a train busy in the mill
siding. Murry and the boy retreated:
to the end Of the coach furtheSt from:
the approaching danger. The box.
car was telescoped and reduced to-
splinters by the heavy Pullman,
which was hurt but little Neither
occupant of the coach was injured: Ike;
Dreher, a yard brakeman, who WassonI
the top Of the box car as he saw the
runaway coach rounding the curve
toward him, did not hesitate long TO!
wonder. He had just made his way
down the embankment when the.
collision occurred.
Thirty-six barrels OF whiskey rolled
down the embankment unbroken.:
Four were smashed and the contents:
streamed out Of the werck and collect
ed in the shape Of a little lake
Quickly a collection about 50s men,
women and boys, white and colored5
were on the scene with bottle, pans,
glasses and buckets scrambling for
positions under the various little
streams of whiskey pouring forth5
from the wrecked box car. When the
white boys and girls began to dip up;
the whiskey in their caps and what
vessels they were able to muster into
service on short notice, a white man:
with a deep-seated look Of disgust on
his face found a shovel and began
throwing dirt into the lake. The
children who were running OF TO;
drink the whiskey as rapidly as they
scooped it up raised a protest and.
some men who were also dipping ihS9s
the mine made remarks about the:
man with the shovel being smart and;
othcious, but he needed not and did
not stop until he had obliteratedt the;
lake. $500 2s&s
A wrecking train working from mthes
bridge end and a freight engine from;
the other cleared the track in less:
than an hour, and no trains we're:
delayed. The Pullman coach which
was due to go north with the Sea-
boards $50 train, was hauled back;to;
the yards for repairs. It was slightly:
spintered and broken in at theacol-s
lision end, but it is remarkable how:
little it was damaged in. view OF the.
complete way in which the boxs:car;
had been wrecked. Sz:%