The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-09-29
DEATHS AWFUL HARVEST
SIXTY=TWO LIVES SACRIFICED
IN FRIGHTFUL TRAIN WRECK
ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

a mail and baggage car. No. Is Is
light local train.
The greatest loss of life occurred in
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 When
the collision occurred.
Relief trains were dispatched from
Knoxville within an hour. All physi-
clans in the vicinity Of the wreck were
ding what they could in the mean
time.
Horror lndescribabe.
John W. Brown, Of RogersVllie'
Tenn. a newspaper man, tells 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 the
shock he heard the screams and
groans of the dying and injured COM
ing from the front of the train.
81 left the car" said Mr.. Brown, as
soon as I could and walked to the
main part of the wreck. 1t was tne
most horrible sight I ever Wltnessei
i, nv life. saw a woman pinioned
bv a piece of split timber which had
gone completely through her body. A
little child, quivering in deaths agony
law beneath the woman. I saw the
child die. and within a few feet OF
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. I have since learned
that she was Lucille Connor, OF Knox
vile. and that both her parents were
killed in the wreck.
81 heard one woman, who was ter
ribly mangled, praying earnestly to De
spared for her children, but death re-
lieved her suffering in few minutes.
sIt was the most horrible, tragic
scene I ever witnessed. Both engines
and all the coaches Of No. Is were
literally demolished, the smoker and
baggage car completely so. The sleep
ers remained on the track undamaged'
"The scene around the wreck peg
sars description. Both engines lay 10
the north of the track, jammed togeth-
er in one mass of indescr1paole.
rnin.i The cars which were demolfsh-'
ed, were piled on the wrecked englIpess, gI !,
T saw women, who we're .Sperectiy'
frantic, trying to find their husbands
or children who were buried IN the
wreck. I saw one woman, discover
her sister lying in dying condltlon'
and never heard such frantic
screamssas shengave when she MADE
the discovery. sForty-eight bodies we're
counted sbefose I left for gKnoxviite.
Death List Increased.
The death, list had, grown Sunday
night sixty-twe, and it will probably
exceed seyenty,uasazmany Of the in,
iured are in serious condition, anu
more deaths will occur at the Knox
vile hospital. = = .
! Sunday there were six deaths at the
institution, .the last one occurring at
3 o'clock Sunday night, when NJ. +.
Cant, a prominent North Carollnlaa'
residing at Shelby, N. c., passed away
Others who died during the day at the
hosnital 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
NJ the wreck and two other 'unidenti-
fed bodies.
Nothing has developed to change
the previously stated opinion that the
wreck was due to the failure or the
westbound engineer to read his orders
correctly.