The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-25

Ashevtlle, N. C., badly nurt; u. W. Robinson, Columbia, S. C., and Mir. and Mrs. w. E. Hay. Wilmington N. C., slightly hurt; Miss Mary Bryan, Hendersonville, N. C., bruised; s. T.. Lawyer, Louisville, ky, seriously hurt: B. c. Prince. Division Freight Agent of the Central of Georgia Railway. Att lanta. badly bruised; Mrs. George Broughton of Jackson Ill, Rev. !. Knox Montgomery. of Charlotte, N. C.. J. A. Mcdonald and Mrs. Fred Weir. Winnsboro S. C.. c. B. Peace and J H. Millern, negro Pullman porters If New York City, T. w. Ellis of Jersey City. N. J.
 Eastbound Train Suffered. The collision which is the worst dis aster In the history of the Knoxville division of the Southern Railroad, oc- cured between eastbound passenger train No. 12 and westbound passenger No. Is from Bristol. No. 12 was heavy train, carrying three Pullmans, two day coaches and a mail and bag gage car No. 15 is light local train. The greatest loss of life oc- cured in the heavy eastbound train. which in the westbound train only the engine crew were killed
 The wreck was due to the failure of the westbound engineer to read his passing orders correctly. The trains were to have passed at Newmarket but Engineer Kane ran through that place without stopping and had gone nearly two miles when the colNsion oc- cured. The trains struck each other on a sharp curve and were running at speed of about forty miles an hour. Relief trains were dispatched from Knoxville within an hour. All physi- clans in the vicinity of the wreck were 1ot, vx,t,A hax xxyhn ha corps arrived.
 The. first train arrived here from the scene of the wreck at 4:2O o'clock, bringing about 70 of the injured. Six of the injured aboard had died while en route to the city. and after their bodies were taken off the train, proceeded Go , a point near the general hospital. ! where vehicles were in waiting and a large force of physicians were ready to receive the wounded The next train from the wreck arriv- ed shortly after 8 o'clock. It brought the bodies of forty-three dead. Six others who died en route on the train of injured, brings the list up to forty . nine, and there are at least six more at the scene of the wreck none of the bodies of the trainmen having yet been recovered.
 John W. Brown of Rogersville. Tenn. a newspaper editor, tells a most graphic story of the wreck. He was in the rear coach of the westbound train and had no intimation of the wreck until the | terrible crash came, accompanied by a | fearful jolt.
 All the seats in the car were torn loose by the momentum, and people and | seats were hurled to the front end of the car. When he recovered from tho | shock he heard the screams and groans of the dying and injured coming from the front of the train.
 Sight Was Appalling.
 Y left the car." said MT. Brown, "as soon as could, and walked to the main part of the wreck. It was the most 1 horrible sight I ever witnessed in my life. I saw a woman pinioned by a piece of split timber which had gone completely through her body. A little child. quivering in deaths agony, lay beneath the woman. I saw the child die and within a few feet of her lay a womans head. while the decapitated body was several feet away.
 l Another little girl whose head was fearfully mashed was pitilessly calling | for her mother. I have since learned that she was Lucille Conner of Knox vile and that both her parents were | killed in the wreck. I heard one wo- man who was terribly mangled pray ! ing earnestly to be spared for her chill dren, but death relieved her suffering in a few minutes. It was the most horribly tragic scene I have ever wit messed. Both engines and all of the coaches of No. 1 were literally demol- ished. the smoker and baggage car completely so.
 The sleepers remained on the track undamaged. The scene around the wreck beggars description. Both en- zines lay to the north of the track 1 damned together into one mass of in- describable ruin. The cars which were 1 demolished were piled on the wrecked | engine. l saw women who were per fectly frantic trying to find their hus- bands or children who were buried in
 the wreck. I saw one woman discover
 her sister lying in a dying condition and I never heard such frantic screams as she gave out when she made the dis covery' Forty eight bodies were counted before I left for Knoxville.
 "Congressman H. R. Gibson for the
 Second Congressional District of Ten
 nessee was a passenger in d day coach
 on the east bound train. He anL
 another man whose name is not knowr
 were the only persons to escapa aIivt
 from the demolished car"
 Congressman Gibson was en route f,
 Russellville, Tenn. to deliver no1iti
 cal address and was reading his ad
 dress when the collision occurrad
 When he he'd realized what had han.
 pened he found his legs pinioned harf
 and fast, but he managed to extricat,
 himself. One glance at the car showet
 1t to be mass of human beings. back,
 of car seats. grips baskets and wearins
 apparel of all sorts. There was not :
 sign of life except that near his side
 a young man who had escaped death
 was struggling to get out
 c. M. Heiskell, whose name sppear,
 in the list of dead. has been identifeC
 as Clayton NJ. HeiskeIl of Mem phts
 Tenn. He was a medical student a
 the University of Pennsylvania, an,
 was en route to Philadelphia to com
 plete his college course this year.
 Additional Injured.
 Knoxville. Tenn. Sept 24.-At 4 lat,
 hour last night the following addition al list of injured was compiled:
 Dan Harrison, Dandridge, Tenn.
 slight; Will Smith. coIored. Ashevjlle
 N. C., not serious; Tom Mcdowell col
 ored Asheville. N. C. not serious; Rob
 ert Jackson. Johnson City. Tenn. no
 serious; w. A. Pruitt. Whitesburg Tenn. not serious; II. B. Lowry. serI ous William T. Keever, Johnson City
 Tenn, not serious; Harrison Cainnen
 Colorado; Frank Mantle Walter Bailey
 eolored, Johnson City slightly; Col ]. J
 Craig Knoxville, slightly: Cora Nance
 Knoxville, not serious; J. A. Pickens New Market. not serious: George Brod ger Talbot. Tenn. serious B. B
 Webb. StateSville. postal clerk. not SC 1 rlous. r. B{ Turner Morganton N (, l [ al f1a