The news & observer., 1905-04-30
OGDEN SPECIAL
IN FATAL CRASH
A Collision Near GreenviIIe in Which Four People
Are Killed, Nine Seriously and Many
Slightly Injured.

Mrs. Thorpe managed to get out them
selves and were helped through the
door Young Mr.. Ogden escaped by
the same method.
DIR. Kelway who is a very large man
was caught under a sort of umbrella
of wreckage and was up to his knees in
SplinterS. Two walters fell near him.
and they helped him up through the
floor of the car, and they were pulled
out of a window.
In this car three colored walters lay
dead. A few moments later the car
was all ablaze.
In the next diner were Dr. a. 5.
Drape, state commissioner of educa-
ton of New York and Mrs. Drape and
Mr.. Baker a we'll known business man.
were dining. Strange to say they were
only slightly hurt. All managed to
escape through the windows.
DR.. Caruthers. rector of the church
at Cambridge, Robert Treat Paine,
of Boston, Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Farms
worth of Boston, and New York. and
others in the first drawing room car
were rescued. some through smashed
windows In the center of the train
near this car were DR.. Seth Low, form
er mayor of New York, and Mrs. Low,
Everitt Macy, who gave the great
Horace Mann school to New YORK;
Miss Nellie Curtis, niece of George
William CurJlS, BISHOP W. ~.
Vickar, of Rhode Island, ana ProI.
Francis G. Peabody. of Harvard. They
received a severe shock but escaped
with no serious injury.
Blankets and mattresses were taken
from the Pullman and the injured
were laid out in a cotton field where
all that was possible was done TO uresS
their wounds and ease their pain.
There was no doctor near by ana II
rtn of q
a physician could be secured. by that
time the news had spread throughouI
Greenville. Mayor G.. H. Mahon. Is L.
Whitmire. of the board of trade. ana
host of citizens of GreensVllle huf-
ried to the spot Offering all the. nos
i pitabie aid of a warm-hearted 0oulh-
| ern town.
The reception committee with their
| badges and carriages resolved them
| selves into relief committee. Inc
| doors of the Greenville Female Col
| lece were opened wide and hot col
! fee and breakfast served. Ihe prlh-
| cipal restaurant was engaged ana lne
party welcomed to a generous Soutn-
| ern breakfast The ladies of the city
| came in their grief to express their
tender sympathy and to invite to thelr
homes the injured to any who cared
| to 60
The distress of Mr.. r. c. Ogden,
| the host of the party, who is the part
ner of John Wanamaker, was pltlIul.
He said to your correspondent: IL L
could ONLY bear all their wounds my
! self 7 would gladly do it. This is ter
| ribIe ending of such a happy eXpedl-
| ton.
Some of the wealthiest ladies of New
York and Boston, in their silks, were
| ministering to the trainmen, VINO were
| injured.
In an hour the young flagman, Cope
gasped and died. He had never re-
| covered consciousness.
A negro waiter emerged from the
shattered baggage completely covered
| with purple typewriter INK ana Win
| his once white coat and bruised face
he locke das if he had taken a bath
| in purple dye. e told the correspond
| ent that he left two of his fellow wait
| ers dead in the dining compartment,
| where he was caught.
Bishop McVickar. the genial Episco-
pal bishop of Rhode Island, had an
exciting experience. He is an inn
mense man, weighing perhaps three
| hundred pounds. When the shock
/ came he was shaving. His razor was
| thrown out of his hand and the shock
| locked fast the door of his drawing
room. He is SO large that it was inn
| possible to get him out through the
windows He was imprisoned for fif-
teen minutes until some one got an
axe split the door and rescued him.
Nine-tenths of all the baggage was
destroyed, either by the collision or
| by fire. Wealthy ladies found costly
Paris gowns and rare old lace only
| torn all to pieces. One lady rummag-
ed in the shattered end of a steamer
| trunk and drew out OF a corner a Gus
! ion full of diamonds, pearls, ruby, and
| emerald pins. The damage to bag
gage amounts to thousands of dollars.
!. Mr.. ogden, as soon as some order
| could be brought out of the chaos,
decided to make UP a new special,
| abandon the trip to George Wander
bits BiItmore estate, where the body
was to have spent Sunday and hurry
! as fast as possible back to New York.
Last night in the opera house at
| Columbia crowded with a notable aud
i ience, in which all the south was rep
resented when the charming Mrs.
Thorpe, the daughter of Henry Wads-
worth Longfellow, came to the plat
! form the entire audience arose, and
with applause and cheers gave her an
ovation that brought tears of appre-
citation to her eyes. This morning
| she was taken from the burning car,
the blood streaming down her face
i from the cuts and bruises But she
was accomplishing. cheerful, trying to
smile through her tears, thankful that
she had escaped with her life from
| the very shadow of death.
On the train were the following
from Virginia.: Mrs. A. j. Montague
wife of the governor: Miss l.. r.
Dashell, Mrs. B. b. Munford, Mrs. J.
| r. Sanderes and Dr. and Mrs. S. G.
Mitchell of Richmond; Mr. and Mrs
Henry Schmeltz, of Hampton, Miss
Louise ]. Smith, of the Randolph-Ma-
con Woman's College, Lynchburg. Va
Mrs. Montague's travelling trunk
was mashed, but a large picture OF