Arizona republican., 1906-11-30
RAILWAY PRESIDENT
 AMONG THE VICTIMS
Samuel Spencer Head of tine Southern
 Railway Burned to Death
Other Dead Were His Guests Asleep Tn Private Car Which Was Demolished In a Collision and Was Consumed.

Lynchburg, Va Nov. 2s.-Samuei Spencer. president of the Southern Railway company, and recognized as one of the foremost men in the devel- opment of the southern states, and six other men were killed and eleven others injured today in a collision of two fast passenger trains ten miles south of Lynchburg and a mile north of Law yers depot. Philip Schuyler, retired capitalist of New York, was among the killed. together with other guests of Mir. Spencer. Of those on Mir. Spencer's s car. only Mir. Spencer's private secre- ! tary. E. F.. Merrill of New York. and one of three porters survived the acci- dent
 The dead are:
 PRESIDENT SAMUEL SPENCER. New York.
 CHAS. D. FISHER, Baltimore. PHILIP SCHUYLER, New York. FRANCIS T. REDWOOD, Baltimore D. w. DAVIS. Alexandria, Va. pri- vate dispatcher to President Spencer.
 J. W. SHAW, fireman, died later in the Lynchburg hospital. An unknown person, whose head and limbs were burned off short, who is be- 1 lieved to be the third porter on the private car, who is missing. His name cannot be learned. The injured:
 Lucretia Allen. colored. Danville. Va leg cut off and arm broken. Willis Johnston, New York. leg brOk- en.
 Garland Thomas. colored, Greensboro l N. C.. leg broken. P. F.. Vauls, colored, Wayles sboro. Va. l leg crushed.
 Cora Logan, colored. Shelby N. C., both legs broken. Sam Cox. colored. porter on private car. leg broken J. w. Cruett, Baltimore. supreme or ganizer of the Heptasophs, back badly
 wTenched.
 Preston Barr. address unknown. ''SOn" Hoglan. cOlored. bruised E. A. Mediil. New York. private sec retary to President Spencer. head anc arms burned. will recover. Wm. Poland, negro porter on private car.
 Mir. Spencer's destination was Friend ship. N. C., where he was going on a hunting trip with Messrs. Schuyler. Fisher, Redwood and Merrill as his guests.
 WHILE THEY SLEPT.
 The collision was between the Jack sonville Express and the Washington and Southwestern vestibule limited. both sOuthbound. President Spencer and his entire party. as far as Is l--0wn. were sleeping when the collis- ion ocurred, and the probability is that all of the occupants with the exception of Dispatcher Davis. were killed in stantly. It is certain that life was ex- tinct before the flames touched them. President Spencer's body was burned almost to a cinder. nearly beyond rec ognitiOn. as was that of Mir. Fisher. The body of MT. Schuyler was recover ed before it was burned very much President Spencer's car was at the rear of the Jacksonville train which was standing still when struck.
 sPENcER'S cHARRED CORPSE. President Spencer's charred corpse was found under the big locomotive of the rear train. So great was the force of the impact that the forward train was sent at least 15O feet ahead. Until | the debris had burned itself out ana the engine cooled. the bodies could not be removed. The combination car of the rear train crashed into the express car ahead of it. Forty feet of it was splintered leaving the rest of the car strewn with tons of baggage and col