The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-09-28
ANDERSON, s. c., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 49, 1904
Sixty Persons Killed in Railroad Collision.

Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. a+.-Run-
ming on roadbed in supposedly high
condition OF maintenance and having
ABOUT them every safeguard known to
modern rallroading, two trains on the
Southern railway, carrying beavv lists
or passengers, came together in q
frightful head-end collision near Hod
ges, Tenn, to-day sending s. people
TO death and injurine l25, several of
whom will probti iy die. This appull-
Ing loss of life and manning of the
living resulted apparently from th.
disregardipg of orders given to the
two trains to meet ut q station which
has for long time been their reguls !,
meeting point. The claim of fail,lre
to see either the station or signals
could not be set up by the engineer of
the westbOund train we~e he alive to
enter plea of defense. as the accident
happened in broad day light and, ac-
cording to the beat Information obtain
able, he had the orders in little frame
IN front of him as his monster of iron
Soon after he came upon an eastbound
train making for New Market in COM
piiancey with instructions to meet the
westbound train, which carried the
sl9epers from the east for Knoxville,
Chattanooga and other southern
cities.
The possibility exists that the ILL
fated engineer may have been asleep
or that death had suddenly. taken the
was reached. Bdt nothing is known
save that tLe orders were not obeyed.
The traiDs were, on time and not MAX
ing over IS miles an hour, yet the i'm
pact SO they rounded O curve and came
suddenly upon each other was fright
full. Both engines and the mejor por-
tlonh OF both trains we're demolished.
Why the orders we're disregarded or
misinterpreted probably will never be
tfaine were crushed, their bodies re-
naming for hours under the wreckage
OK the moneter locomotives which but
o shoft time before had leaped forward
at the touch of their strong hands upon
the throttle.
Some Of the bodies have not been
recovered, end many Temain unidepti.
Gaffney, September "a telegram
ing the death Of Mr. Lee Hill, at Jel-
Iic0,. Tenn, who was killed in an ex-
plOsion in powder mill The corpse
was expected here last night, but in
stead 9 telegram was received, stating
that the corpse, accompanied by Mr..
Scott Hill, his father, Leo Hills wife
and four children and single sister,
were on the ill-fated Southern train,
which was wrecked yesterday, and that
all the parties were killed. The corpses
of all seven of the family are expected
to arrive this evening or tomorrow
evening.
Asheville, n. c., Sept. ae.-Conduc-
tor Caldwell, who was in charge of
train No. Is of the Southern Railway,
which crashed into train No. IL near
New Market, Tenn, on the Southern
Railway Saturday morning. ia q raving
maniac tonight. This is the star Ting
information which comes over the
wires from Knoxville.
The most Sensational denouement
of the tragedy is that Conductor Cald-
we'll, who received the train orders,
which would have saved the collision,
neglected to give them to Engineer
Kane. Kane was killed and Caldwell
escaped. These orders stated that the
two trains we're to pass at New Mar
ket, but they were not Obeyed, and it
is eaid now that Caldwell allowed them
to clip his memory. Ia some of the
earlier reports it was said that the
fault was due to Engineer Kane,
although the statement to might show
that Caldwell was to blame, and stag
gering under the thought of his fright
fnl error, he has lost his mind.
There w6To no other deaths to-day,
the total list of the dead being 62.
The physicians are hopeful that all
OF the injured will be saved. Twelve
funerals Of wreck victims took place
In Knoxville this afternoon.