The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-30
OGDEN PARTY
 IN A WRECK Four Killed and Several
 Injured. TRAIN STRIKES ENGINE Special Running Too Fast
 Say Officials. List Those Hurt IaeisAes several Dis tinguished Persons, Among Than St. Clair szcI<eiway of
 Brooklyn Eagle.
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GreenviiIe, s. C., April 29.--While rounding a curve inside the yard lim- it's of the Southern Railway at Green vile. and running at an estimated speed of fifty miles an hour. the spe- cial Pullman train bearing Robert [. ogden and 100 members of the soutn- ern Conference for Education, crashed into the rear end of freight train af 7:55 o'clock this morning. killing Tour persons and injuring score Of others None of Mir. Ogden's guests was Killed
 The dead Charles H. Cope. white, brakeman of special, Columbia, 5 c: John Little, w. W. Cummings. J. f. Hayne Gall negro employees on the am ing car St. James)
 The injured are: Professor Henry W. Farnam, Yale University, arm broken and cut on head; Mrs. Henry w Farnam, badly bruised about head and arms; Dr. Julius ID. Dreher, former President of the Roanoke College, cut on the head; St. Clair McKelway. edi- tor Brooklyn Eagle. bruised on back and shoulder; Robert M ogden, seere- tary to President ogden, cut on hand and head bruised; Mrs. J. O. Thorp, Cambridge Mass, cut and bruised on head; Bishop w N. Vickar. Providence R. l., bruised; James Hunter, engineer on special. leg ard arm broken; Walter Kershaw, electrician on special, ear and head cut; Conductor Ed Ackers bruised: John r. Mccoy, agent Penn sylvania Railroad, gash In head; H E. Hull, negro cook on St. James. cut on arm; George Williams. waiter on diner
 Waldorf bruised.
 Occupants Imprisoned.
 The combination baggage and club ear and two diners, the four sleepers with the locomotive and a freight car I,.f~ a nj stant fire broke out in the cooking end of the diners. Dr. McFelway. Professor Farnam, Mrs Farnam. Mrs. Thorp. Dr. Dreher and Robert Ogden were eating breakfast in the second diner, which was torn to pieces The floor collapsed and the passengefs were plckea up from the track The seven sieepinG | ears behind the diners were left Intact but the shock sprung many locks ime prisoning the occupants. Setn LOW land Mrs. Low, Dr. and Mrs. McVickar were rescued when the doors were l opened with axes
 1 The passengers in the St. James were quickly removed, but the three negroes | could not be saved. They breathed the | flames and died.
 | when he saw that the crash could not be averted Engineer Hunter of the special applied the emergency brakes and jumped Practically all of the baggage saiu to be valued at $12,000, was destroyed It is claimed that a misunderstand- ing of orders led to the accident The northbound passenger train to New York had orders to take the siding at Paris, a way station four miles north of CreenvilIe. The freight, which was heinz made up here. was on the main | line. ogden abandoned his trip to other points and the special left tonight TOT the East. President Farnam ana wIe remained here in a hospital.
 At the coroner's inquest this after. noon the train despatcher testified that orders to the effect that the ogden special would arrive at 7;4o were nleu an order was filed that the special
 would arrive at 7:55 q. m. Tardmaster Riser testified that he received no orders whatever to that erect