Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-04-30
Jour EMPLOYEES OF ROAD DEAD
Bishop Mcv'ckar, Editor s.. Clair Nc
ke:way, and Many Other Prominent
Persons Badly Shaken Up and
Bruisca-southcrn officials Explain
How Accident Occurred.
(By Associated Prcss.)

liREENFl ). G. April %.
While rounding Il curve inside tho
yard Limits of the Southern Railway
NJ Grccnville. and running ut the
speed of thirty miles an nour. the spc-
cial Pullman train bearing Robert c.
Ogden and 100 members of the South
err Conference for Education. crashed
into the rear end of freight train
at 1855 o'clock this morning killing
four persons and injuring score of
others Mcnc of Mr.. Ostcn's guests
wcr. killed.
The dead are:
CHARLES M. COPE. white. brake.
man Of The special. Columbia. S. c.
John LITTLE
w. W.. CUMMINGS.
J. =. HAYNE.
The latlcr three were negro en-
Dloycs on the dining car st. James.
List of the Injured.
The Injured are:
Prof, Henry w. Farnam, Yale Unit
IicrsitytE arm broken and cut on head
Mrs. Henry w. Farnam, badly
tbruisedsilpnt head and arms.
ST. 5NlctlelM6y,1 tditors of the
Brnollyn Eagle, bruised ON the back
and shoulders.
Dir. Julius D. Dreher. former presi-
dent Of Roanoke College. cut on head.
Robert Nj. Ogden. secretary to Presl.
dent Ogden. cut on head and bruised.
Mrs. j. G.. Thorp Cambridge. Mass,
cut and bruised.
Bishop w. N. McVicltar, of Provl.
lencc, X. l.. bruised.
James Hunter. engineer on special.
leg aud arm broken.
Walter Karshaw. electrician OIL spe-
cia. car and head cut.
Conductor Edward Aclicr. bruised.
John f. Mccoy, agent Pennsylvania
Railroad. gash OH head.
Il: Hull negro cook on st, James.
cut On arm.
George Williams, waiter on diner,
bruised.
/ Fire Breaks Out.
Combination baggage and club car
and two diners. together with tho To-
connective and freight car were piled
Into heap and in an instant fire
broke out in the cooking end of the
diners.
DIR Mckelway. Professor Farnam,
Mrs. Farnam, and Mrs. Thorp. DR..
Ecker and Robert Nj Ogden were eat
ing breakfast In The second diner,
which was torn to pieces. The floor
collapsed and the passengers were
picked IN from the track.
The seven sleeping cars behind the
diners were left intact. but the shock
sprung many locks. imprlsoning the
occupants.
Seth Low and Mrs. Low, Bishop Nc.
Vickar and others were rescued when
inc doors were smashed open with
axes.
The passengers In the ST James
were quickly removed. but the three
negroes could not be saved. They
breathed the flames and died. WI
he saw the crash could not be ayertcd.
Engineer Hunter, OF the Ogden train,
applied the emergency brakes and
jumped.
Much Baggage Burned.
Practically ell of the baggage, said
TO he valued ct $4,000 was destroyed.
IL Is claimed that Misunderstanding
Ct orders led to the accident.
The norlhbound passenger train 10
New York had orders to take tho sid,
ing at Parls, a. way station four lpllcs
from GreenvilIc. The freight which
was being held up here was on the
rain line.
Asa result of the wreck President
Ogden abandoned his TRIP to other
points and The special left tonight for
The east. Prof. Farnam and wife re-
naming Lore in a hospital.
Az the coroner's inlucst the train
disna.cncr, testified that orders to the
icFcet;f tfat the Ogden special would