New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-30
OGDEN TRAIN WRECKED.
PARTY 1BANDONS TRIP.
-Four RaIoCay Men Dead-Dr. Nc
KeI5cay'S NnrO0O Escape.


GreenvTle. S. C.. April 29-The special train
bearing the Ogden party its Southern trip
IN the interests OF education ran into a switch
engine early this morning as it was entering
the yards of the Southern Railway here. The
engine OF the Ogden train and several cars were
wrecked. The baggage and dining cars were
telescoped and caught fire. The two dining cars
were destroyed.
A fiagman and three employees OF the dining
cars were killed and several Of the ogden party
were injured. The dead are Charles NJ. Coope,
hagman; J. Little. W. w. Cummings and J. F.
Haynes. negro employees of the dining cars
The train left Columbia at $50 o'clock this
morning. and few of the party had arisen when
the accident happened. Had it occurred at the
breakfast hour many might have been killed.
Professor Henry W. Farnam. OF Yale Univer-
sity. perhaps most seriously injured. His
read was bruised and arm broken Mrs. Far
lam was hurt on the shoulder and arm. DR.,
st. Clair McKelway Of THE Brooklyn Eagle,
who was in the forward dining car. was PIN
ioned under timbers. and dragged out un-
conscious when the flames were reaching him.
He was soon revived and unhurt except
for a wrenched back. r. NJ. Ogden. secretary
TO r. c. Ogden had his wrist broken DR..
Dreher, Of Roanoke College, was bruised. Mrs.
Thrope, daughter of H. W. Longfelow, was
also bruised. Ali OF these passengers were in
the forward dining car.
John F. Mccoy. tourist agent cut in the
head w. c. Kershaw, an electrician of Jersey
City. received scalp wounds: c. B. Wilcox din
ing conductor, cuts over right eye, and D.
R. Rohns, dining car conductor, scalp wounds.
DR.. and Mrs. Farnam were taken to a hos
pital.
Among the passengers on the luckless train were
Charles B. Aycock former Governor Of North
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Commissioner OF Education; Dwight kellogg,
the Rev DR.. Arthur B. Kinsolving Seth Low,
Robert Treat Paine, George Foster Peabody and
Bishop McVickar. Of Rhode Island. who Is SUI
fering from shock.
Mr. ogden, who is deeply grieved and shocked.
has ordered that the best possible funeral De
given the dead and that every attention De
shown the injured. The people of GreenVlHe IN
vited many Of the passengers TO their MONIES
pending the departure OF the special tram lot
New-York.
Practically all Of the baggage. said to be
valued at Si2, 900. was destroyed It is said that
misunderstanding Of orders led to the accident.
The northbound passenger train TO New ork
had orders to take the siding at Paris way
station four miles north of GreenviIle Inc
freight, which was being made up here. was on
the main line. At the coroners inquest TINS
afternoon the train dispatcher testified that
orders TO the effect that the Ogden special would
arrive at a;l5 o'clock were niea IN me & yara. co
masters office, and later that another order was
filed that the special would arrive at 100 O'Clock
a m. The yardmaster testified that ne received
10 orders whatever to that effect
Washington, April 29,-The Ogden party has
decided to abandon its trip. and arrangements
have been made by the Southern Railway to
start a special train from Greenvile for New
York at once This train viii reach New-York
tomorrow morning. The itinerary which has
been abandoned included stops at Asheville,
y. c.. and Richmond and Hampton. Va.
Robert c. Ogden is the resident member Of the
John Wanamaker firm in New-York. Consistent
with custom has followed for several years. he
had made large party Of educators his guests on
a sDecial train, that took them to the Eighth An
nual Conference for Education in the South, at Co
lumbia s. c. The start made last Tuesday
afternoon. and at Philadelphia. Baltimore Wash
ineton and Richmond the train stopped to take on
additional members of the party. The party in
Guided Mrs Charles w. Ide. OF Brooklyn. sister
Of Mr. ogden; his nephew. Willis D. Wood, of
NeW-York, and R. NJ. Ogden. Of East Orange. n j.
his private secretary, though no relative. other
Manhattan and Brooklyn members of the party
were ex-AIayor and Mrs. Seth Low. st. Clair Nc
KeIvvay of "The Brooklyn Eagle" and Mrs. Nc
Kelway; Mrs. Robert Able. Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
FIamln Abbott DR.. James Z. Russell. Mr. and Mrs.
stephen Baker the Rev. and Mrs. Samuel H Bish-
op the Rev. DIR. and Mrs. W. c. Biting, Dr. Wal
lace Ruttrick secretary Of the general education
board: Miss Natalie Curtis. DR.. Edward 7, Devine.
John T. Ernlen Mr.. and Mrs Anderson Fowler, H.
6 FrsselI NJ and Mrs Frederick I. Gates, Mrs
Charles b. Hewitt and Miss Hewitt Miss Margaret
W Huntington, Dwight Kellogg, the Rev. DR.. and
Mrs Arthur B. Kinsoving. Mr.. and Mrs. v fverlt
Macy Miss L. F. Mccoy. Miss Lydia Redmond.
Mrs George f Seward and Miss Annie L. Seward.
Mics Mar, Iamar Turpin Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
O. Wood and Hammond Lamont Of The Evening
( Post" Others in the party were the Rev. Dr. and
Mrs Joseph n. Blanchard. of Boston; John
/ Graham Brooks, Of Cambridge, Mass; Edward H.
clement Editor of 1.-The Boston Evening Tran
script'': the Rev DR.. and Mrs. Samuel n Crothers.
OF cambridge Mass; DR.. A s. Draper, State Com
missioner of Education. and Mrs. Draper, Of AL
bany. Professor Henry W. Farnam. of Yale Uni
yarsitv and Mrs. Farnam; the Rev. DR.. and Mrs.
J Paul Revere rockingham, of Boston; Misses Ellen
! = and Ida NJ. Mason, OF Boston; the Right tteE'
J T- W n NcVickar. Of Providence, X l.; Dr.
/ Edwin Knox Mitchell, Hartford Theological SEM
! mary and Mrs. Mitchell Mr.. and Mrs. William H.
! MocSv East Northield. Mass; Robert Treat Paine,
! Boston; the Rev. George l. Paine. porch9steT.
/ Mass: J. q and Mrs. Thorp, of Cambridge Mass; /;
! Miss Carolena NJ Wood and James Wood OF Mount