The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-05-05
And Many Injured in a Railroad
Wreck at GreenyiIIe.
THE OGDEN SPECIAL
Train Wrecked by Running Into $ Freight
Train in the City Limits of tie City !
of dreenviIIe. Luckily Nome
of the Ogden Party Were
Killed in the Wreck.

Killed in the Wreck.
Whlie rounding a curve inside the
yard limits Of the Southern railroad
at Greenville, and running at the on.
t1mated speed OF so miles an hour. the
Speclal Pullman train, bearing Robert
Y. ogden and one hundred members
OF The Southern Conference for Edu-
cation, crashed into the rear end OF
freight train at Z 55 Saturday morn.
ing, killing four persons and ipiufinp
score OF others. None of Mr.. or.
den's guests were killed.
THE DEAD.
John Mol. Cope OF Orangeburp.
baggage master. -
j. S. Haynes, colored, Pullman en-
ploye.
Jonn Little, colored, Pullman EN-.
ploye.
w. w. Cummings. colored, Pullman
enploye.
THE INJURED.
DR.. 81. w. Farnam of Yale univar-
silly, left arm broken, leg injured, SER
iuus shock.
Mrs. Farnam, painful cut over left
eye and nervous shock.
Mrs. j. G. Thorps of Boston, face
cut on right side, severe bruises.
DR.. julius D. Dreher of Selwood.
former president OF Roanoke college.
facial wounds and legs bruised.
MIR. Robert M. Ogden, secretary TO
dr. Ogden, fingers on right hand
broken; ugly wound ever right eye.
W. O., Kershaw, chief electrician,
badly injured, internal.
James Hunter, engin. er on special, leg
and ann broken.
Baggagemaster j., S. Downes, New
York, facial abrasions.
William Maxwell, Columbia, right
hand painfully gashed.
Conductor Ei4ard Acker. Oolurn.
ola, facial abrasions and cuts.
j. w. Mccoy, tourist agent of Penn
sylvania railway, bruises on top and
side Of head.
Conductor of ST. James dining car,
contusions on head.
And the following colored employees
of the ullman. Oar company: s. ST. .5s
jill lsS 81 y erevas.
w. wv Walker, W.. N Iickens ana ABBOT
Mcintyre. - 81
The combination, baggage and
club car and two diners, topether
With the locomotive and freight Car.
we're piled into heap and In an in
slant ire broke out in the cooking end
OF the diners. DR.. McKelway, Prof. .
Earnam, Mrs. Farnam, Mrs.
Thorpe, Dr. Dreher and Robert MI.
Ogden were eating breakfast In the
second diner, which was torn to
qieces. The floor collapsed and the
passengers were picked up from the
track
The seven sleeping cars behind the
diners were left intact, but the shock
prurg many locks, imprisoniny the
occupants. Seth Low and Mrs. Low.
Bishop McVickar and others were res:-
'ue1 when the doors were smashed
open with axes. The passengers in
he st. James we're quickly removed,
out the three c0lOred men could not
be saved. They breathed the flames
ind died
When he saw that the crash could
aot b, avefted, Engineer Hunter, Of
ihe Ogden train, applied the emer-
sency brakes and jumped. Practically
Ill OF the baggage, said to bs valued
1t Sl2, 600, was desLroj ed. IL is claim.
I'd that misunderstanding of orders
ed 10 the accident. The nortbbound
passenger train to New York had
riders to take the siding at Paris, a
way station, four miles north OF Green
VILE. The freight, whlcn was being
made up here, was on the main line.
| AS result OF the wreck President
! Ogden aoand med his trip to other
| points and the special left Saturday
nigut for the .EisJ, Prot Firnam and
wife remaining at Greenville in a
lospital. AT the corOner's inquest Sat-
drdaY afternoon the train dispatcher
testified tnaG orders to The effect that
he O zen special would arrive at 7:l5
we're lied In the yard masters Cffi "a
lnd later that another order was filed
Gnat The special would arrive at 1855.
YardmasJer Riser testified thai he
recelvrd no orders whatever to that
Hsct. Inc matter Is being investi-
gated and an effort will be made to
fiX the blame for the wreck.
The scene III tle morgue at the un.
ertaking estIb.ishmenL OF Mr. j. r.
MackeY was one which norritied news.
paper meu who are accustomed to see
Tragedy In many sickening forms.
There lay poor Cope, who, In turning
60 give warning to The engineer, tar
ried one moment too late and was
caught under the engine. There Law
Haynes, who died smoking a ciga-
fette; there lay Cummings and Little,
grewsome, fearsome sight, with their
arms upraised as If trying to grasp
something with which to raise them.
selves from the horrid death which
slowly, re)enElessly blotted out thei
their lives.
Engine No. Ito was one of the best
In the Florida service, a magnificent
piece OF machinery. After the wreck
1T was a mass OF ruins. The people of
Greenvllle opened their homes to tho
passengers OF the wrecked train, and
entertained them with generous hos.
pitality.
Becsin His Bedroom.