The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-27
WIDOW" co. IN
 THE WRECK Six Cars Derailed Near
 the City. NOBODY WAS INJURED Knights of KhOraSsan Had
 Thrilling Time. Train Jumped Track at Madison Park and Rear Cars Careened on an Embankment, Saving Fright

Bearing a large pasSenSeE hSe, dh"ne whom was the most-talked-of star oi the last metropolitan theatrical season and her company en route to Montgom. cry, to present the most talked. oi play of that season, a train Of nine coaches on the Western Railway oi Alabama was derailed seven miles from Montgomery and six cars were par tially turned over at o'clock yester- day afternoon.
 Wonderful to relate. not a single pas senger was injured, and only one man was bruised. Passengers, who were aboard the train say that nothing put Providence, fate, luck, or whatever that intangible thing may be termed. fs re- sponsible for any one escaping with their lives.
 If the accident had happened any where on the road between Atlanta ana Montgomery except just where IL oio, said George Ober, the veteran come dian. who is with Savage's College Widow" Company, mot one of us would he alive today" But fate was very kind to the passengers. At the point where the wreck occurred, to the left of the track Is an embankment of soft dirt. To the right Is dechVity oi rocky formation. Had the cars careeh- ed to the right. it Is believed that ths occupants of the passenger coach and the two Pullmans would have been in- stantfy killed. But the cars careeneo to the left. The friendly embankment caught their bulk as they were de- scentiing with terrific force to the earth-and the passengers walked ou' safely. The cars were leaning on the bank at an angle of about forty-nve degrees.
 +rans-oontinental connection between New York and San Francisco. Ine Southern Railroad delivers 1t to the Western at 5 o'clock In the morning in Atlanta and the Western delivers is to fine Louisville and Nashville at II o'clock in Montgomery. Yesterday the train was running an hour and thirty minutes late, Engineer Sam Foster ana Conductor John Haralson having charge of it. While running at a high speed. a piece of iron from one of tho trucks in the train is supposed to havo dropped down just as the car unoer which 1t was, reached the north eno oi inc switch near Madison Park, a negro nIeasure resort. This piece or iron struck the frog at the north end oi the switch, ripping the track up as It it had been piece Of paper. Ine en
 zine. mail car and regular baggage car had gone past before the accident hap nened. but the six cars following were turned over, Of the six cars two were
 heavy Pullmans, two baggage cara with the scenery of The College Wid- ow" and one first-class coacn.
 Heard Wheels Scraping.
 The first intimation that the pas senRers had that anything had gone
 wronr was the pumping of the wheels on the earth. Persons jumped to tneif feet and a stampede was likely, when members of the degree team or An
 tares Temple, Knights of Khorassan
 who were on the train, realized this
 peril and shouted out words or eau tion, urging everyone to keep tneii seats. When the cars carecned the stampede again seemed imminent. The coaches were heard to strike the dirt of the embankment and the descent ceased "Au right! everybody all right! nobody hurt." were the encouraging words yelled by the more composed passenger and again the danger was avoided. The passengers were far from com posed. however. Through the tram could be heard the cries of babies and the shrieks of women.
 A hurried examination showed that all was well. Among the passengers were some of Montgomery's best known citizens. Practically the entire degree | team of Antares Temple were in tho smoking compartment when the cars left the track. Among their number was Hon. O. c. Maner. representative from Montgomery County to the House of Representatives; Alderman J. Lee Hollowoy of Ward '; W. w. Pearson. 6 prominent attorney; George H. Mo Combs, cashier of The Advertiser; A Taylor. city meat inspector and others of prominence. To these men is largely due to praise for preventing 6 stampede after all danger of injury by the railroad had passed. They had attended a ceremonial session of theii order in Opelika.
 A member of The College Widow Company, who had forsaken the Pull man and was sitting with the Mont gomery party in the smoking compart' ment of the coach, was the only per. son, who received the semblance of 6 hurt He had just started back tc join his company and was on the plat from when the crash came. The cars parted and only by great quicknes' was he able to swing to the handrail: and thus prevent a fall under the wheels of the first Pullman. He wal slightly bruised.
 Miss Tennant Cautioned PIayers. In the Pullman cars. the big College Widow" Company were practically alone. The members were severely jolted and several were badly frighten. ed. Miss Dorothy Remnant, the lead Ing woman, however, retained her nerve and calmly cautioned her fellow players not to attempt to jump.
 The Western Railway people wen to work clearing the wreckage with re. markable promptness and before o'clock. the track was in such condi tion that trains could pass. All pas sengers. who had not chosen to wall to Pickett Springs and there catch trol ley cars were at that time taken into Montgomery The two baggage carl