The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-30
Wreck Occurred Near
 Iynchburg. THE BODY WAS INCINERATED
Private Car of Great Railroad
 Magnate Crushed.
Director schuyler of New Kerk and Five Others Meet Tragic Ena- ing in Holecnust---snmes-
 town Man'a Hersrsma.

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 Lynchburg, Va, Nov. 2s.--President Samuel Spencer. of the Southern Rail- way system. who was en route to the south, was killed this morning in a rear.end collision at Lawyer. ten miles south of .Lynchburg.
 The private car in which he was rid Ing was struck and split open by the colliding locomotive, and immediately caught fire and the body of Mir. Spencer was burned almost beyond recognition. In the car with him were Phillip Schuyler of New York city, Mr. spen- rer's private secretary, Mir. Merrill, and his private dispatcher, D. W. Davis of Alexandria, Va Operator Davis was crushed and died in fifteen min- utes. MT. Schuyler was instantly kill- ed but his body was not badly burned before it was rescued by passengers. Frank T. Redwood, SIS Madison Ave- nue, Baltimore and Charles D. Fisher of Gill & Fisher. Baltimore, who were In Mir. Spencer's car, also were killed. Engineer c. Perry, who was on the rear train. was killed Private Sec- rotary Merrill was wounded, but the nature of his injuries has not been learned Twelve or thirteen paasen- gers, most of them negroes, were wounded, only one of whom is thought to be fatally hurt.
 Eight negroes are in the city hos pital here having arrived ar Il o'clock. The collision was between train No. 8. the Jacksonville express, and train No. B7. the Washington and Southwestern vestibuled limited.
 Stepped for RepasRs.
 The Jacksonville train stopped on tine top of a very heavy grade mile north pf Lawyers depot. to repair slight breakdown and before, it ia said, flag man could get back to protect the train the Atlanta train dashed Into t.
 The heavy engine of the train plexFea Into the private car of President spen- Ter In which he and his guests are cup. posed to have been sleeping. Iunmedi- RteIy the private car caught hreA The wreckage was piled around the engine as though placed there by human hands to be consumed. Every piece of wood- work on the engine was burned and the monster machine stands there torn and twisted and will have to be turn ed down the embankment, as 1t is uses less.
 It was under the locomotive that the burned body of President Spencer was found It is evident that MT. Spencer was killed instantly and that he did not suffer the tortRFes of being burn ed.
 The car next ahead of Mir. spencer's private car a Pullman sleeper, was destroyed by fire, but all the passen- gers escaped. The club car on train No. S1 was destroyed by Ire, but no one was Injured.
 Mir. Spencer's destination was Friend ship N. C., where he was going on a hunting trip.
 The seriously injured are:
 Samuel Cox, negro cook in Mir. Spen- cer's car.
 William Pollard, negro porter in Mr, Epsncer's car.
 All of the above were in Mir. spen- cer's car.
 The following passengers in the for ward end of the train were seriously Injured all of them negroess
 Will J. Winston
 Cora Doan.
 Lucretia Allen,
 Preston Wade.
 Dispatcher Davis was alive when he was taken from under the wrecAage. He was crushed about the lower pcr- ton of the body and was conscious un- til the end
 Davis's Death TOuehfnE.
 He asked that word be sent to his wife and child. The death of Mir. Davis was touching. He stated to hls rescuer that he knew he was dying and knew that the end could not be far of.
 Place your finger on my mouth, he said. Tt feels so cool and good"
 He. pleaded with the gentleman. who was also passenger on the train, not to leave, and for ten minutes this man stayed with him until he saw that nothing more could be done for him. One of the worst phases of the accl- dent was the heartless manner in which a few passengers and some of the at- taches. especially some of the porters of the Atlanta train, ransacked the wrecked ears for plunder.
 F. M Curtis of Jamestown, N r., who was passenger on the Jackson ville train, saw one negro porter go through lady's grip. He saw him throw away such things as were of no value to him and appropriate those things that he wanted. Mir. Curtis de- clared that he would have certainly killed the porter If be had had some thing to do it with.
 Passengers as GhOuIa.
 Not a few passengers engaged in this ghoulish business, and a large number of valuables and much money which was scattered about the wrecked trains was taken.
 Mir. Curtis, who was on his way to High Point, N. C., on a b2tisIness mis- sion, was the hero of the hour. It was claimed by some of ais fellow passen {. gers that to his work and EeneraIship belongs the credit of the rescue of a dozen persons who would have per- ished but for his efforts. Several per sons not seriously wounded were talk en out from two cars that were burn ed. and six negro passengers were taken from the combination coach of the forward train.
 They were literally covered with heavy baggage, which had been thrown through the light partition between their portion of the car and that set apart for the baggage. They were badly hourt, dlost of thell having bro- Ken legs, some of them both legs bro ken. and one or two with injured skulls. All of them have numerous cuts and bruises. but the physicians attending them believe all will reeov- CT, with the possible exception of an arAd woman, who may bo fatally hurt