The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-12

About this time Gen. Supt. Noise
Conductor Barney Cubbage and Other
members of the train crew came VI
with lights. Seeing that Engineer
Arden was injured, they carried hin
back to a sleeping car ana placed hin
in a berth. Dr. John Train, who was
aboard. gave prompt attention to his
injuries, and bound up the scaldel
limb with a healing salve.
Fireman Under Engine.
Searching for the fireman it was dis
covered that his body had been caught
under the engines side as it fell over
and crushed out of all resemblance tC
his former shape.
As there were no materials at hand
with which to raise the engine, nothing
could be done until the arrival of the
wreckers. which were ordered from
both ends of the run. The Negroes body
was brought to Savannah and prepared
for burial. 1t was shipped last night
to Macon, his home.
An investigation of the other men,
bers of the crew, and the passengers
showed that the only one injured eX-
cept the two already named was Ex-
press Messenger I,ittletOn, who was
hurt by violent contact with some OF
the contents of his car. Many of the
passengers in the three rear sleepers
were not awakened by the accident.
BIOOdhOunds Were Brought Up.
simultaneously with the ordering
out of the wreckers, efforts We're be-
gun to secure bloodhounds for track
ing the fiends who had tried to wreck
the train.
At 5 o'clock James Allen. boss of
Camp No. 3 of Chatham county, reach
ed the Central station. and he and the
hounds were transported to the scene.
BloodhOunds were also secured from
Egypt Owing to the fact that so
many persons had crossed the trail be-
fore the arrival of the dogs, nothing
could be done and the hounds We're
sent back.
A special train was sent out from
Savannah and from Macon and the
passengers were either taken on or
brought back as they preferred.
AT O'Clock last night the track was
cleared. BY using the line via Bruton
the other passenger trains were en-
abled to go around the section of
track in which the derailment occurred
without great loss Of time
Near Saturdays Wreck.
Ogeechee. where the engine struck
the open switch, is six miles east of
Rocky Ford, where a wreck very sim
liar to the one yesterday occurred on
Saturday
There is no doubt whatever that the
wreck was deliberately planned by the
same person or persons who tried the
same plan the day before.
Fooled in the diabolcal plot at
Rocky Ford the miscreants went to
the next station and set the switch i'm
the same way that it had been set at
Rocky Ford. In the report of the
train men on the Saturdays wreck it
was stated that the attempted wreck
ing was done with malice. This part
of the report was not made public at
the time.
Central Offers n Reward.
A reward of $500 was offered by the
Central of Georgia for the arrest and
conviction of the guilty party or par
ties. The services of the Pinkerton
detective agency has been secured and
from this crime-detect-
ing bureau are working with the rail-
road detective in an effort to unravel
the mystery and locate the guilty par
ties.
/ is evident that some one has OBJ
tanned possession of switch key in
some manner. possibly by finding
lost one. These keys are only carried
by engineers and conductors under the
rules of the road. With this key it
was an easy matter to unlock the
switch and set it half open.
one thing connected with the affair
(which caused comment among the
railroad officials. and which showed
that the particular trains were the OBJ
Of La
luainted with the operation of switches
was that in Saturdays attempted
wreck the west end was opened and
yesterday the east end was fixed. If
the reverse end had been taken in
either case the trains would have pass
ed over without accident.
Robbery or Malice.
Two possible motives for the crimes
nave been suggested, one of robbery
and the other of revenge In regard
% the latter, the railroad officials are
unable to find that any resident of that
section of the country has any griev-
lnce against the company such as to
move him to such deeds.
In the line of revenge it has also
been suggested that the attempt to
wreck may have been the work of a
: Before Day" club. Ogeechee is with =
IN very short distance of Bulloch
just over into Screven.
The theory that robbery was the
motive is of course only speculative.
Had the trains been derailed and
killed and injured. there
would have been abundant opportunity
10 rob without observation. The rail-
road company has been troubled re-
Gently with robberes of depots i'm the
territory where the accident occurred.
and this gives color to the theory of
Engineer Arden's Statement,
Engineer Frank Arden, who was hurt
in the wreck, was brought to his home.
No l02 Thirty-seventh street, east.
where he was seen by a represent alive
of the Morning News.
II am not badly hurt" said Mr.. Ar
den, as he lay in bed MY leg was
scalded, but that will get well soon.
The scratches on my face were caused
by the bushes and are temporary.
There was to be a stop at Ogeechee
and l shut off steam about a hundred
yards east Of the station. The switch
is on the right side of the main track.
l was just signalling the conductor
when the engine struck the switch and
the next second knew what had hap
pened.
Brakes Were Applied.
81 grabbed the brake valve handle
and put it to the emergency notch
BY that time the engine was humping
over the ties, having started down the
switch. 1t was evident that the en-
CINE was going TO turn over thougt
which way | didn't know | saw il
careen TO the left and jumped out OF
the cab window to the right | struck