The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1906-01-03
Ruu Downby a Passenger Train
at Spartanburg.
aORRIBLE ACCIDENT,
Train Dashed Round The Curve While
The Men Were Standing OIL the
Track Watching a Passing
Freight Train and Bvre
Dowa On Them.

DOWa On Them.
The Spartanburg Jourpal says
the twinkling Of an eye, and with no
warming of their impending fate,
three men were hurled into eternity
on Tuesday morning Of last week at
half past eight O'Clock while walking
down the Southern railway tracks
near the Brawley street crossing,
being run down by train No. SO com
ing towards the city from Atlanta.
The dead men are NJ. D. Hill, j. E.
Stone and Richard Rogers. A fourth
man with the party @ clped Injury
and fed in CONSERVATION from the
scane.
Tie accident took place thirty
yaros beyond the trestle over BtaW
| lev street. The party Of four men
we're wa! hing, it is prt sumed, an
outgoing freight, and needed not the
laundering and heavy roll of the fast
mail running behind time at a rapid
rate of speed toward the Spartanburg
depot.
The huge engine was on the men
before they knew of It's approach, and
the probability is that none of those
who were killed had time to realz'
what had happened before they were
Knocked unconscious and dead, and
their bodies hurled into the air with
terrific speed
The men were on the east track
coming towards the city while the
neavy freight was pulling out OF the
west track and while avoiding this
train they were suddenly overtaken
oy the fast mail In their rear, which
shot into the party with no warning
that they could heed, and they were
killed instantly.
The bodies OF the dead men were
horribly mutilated, and Hill's remains
especially, were torn and mashed be,
yond all recognition. 1t is supposed
that he was righ1 in the center OF
track when struck AMI that the point
# the pilot caught him and bis body
was rolled and ground under the
heavy engine ard when the first peo
ple arrived at the scene his remains
we're mass of unrecognizable mass OF
fash and bones. There was not a
feature or part of the body that could
be identified by locking upon 1T and
me- n who have seen mutilated co1pses
say that never before have they been
called upon to witness worse mutt.
lated corpse. In fact, it was thought
that Hill's body was rolled under the
rain and engine for Its whole length.
The remains were found by the first
arrivals at the scene Of the awful
tragedy, lying mid way between the
rails.
The bcdy of Stone was hurled some
twenty or thirty yards down the trsck
and to the right as one approaches
the depot, while Rogers's remains
we're On the oppoiite side, indicating
that the latter two had been hit by
the sides Of the pilot and thrown to
either side OF the engine, while d IL
was caught and rolled under the heavy
engine and train.
The engine which ran over the
three men was carrying the first Sec
tion-the mail section-of No. 36,
which was running about two hours
behind time and il said to have been
speeding along the rails at rapid rate
of speed. The train was in charge OF
Conductor Gordon and Engineer Fo-
gus, and was rounding al curve Just
beyond the Beawley 3treet trestle,
when the accident took place this
morning.
The preser ce of the freight train,
which not only attracted tho atten-
tion of the men walking along the
tracks but made it we'll nigh impossi'
b to hear any warming that might
have been given by the approaching
passenger, formed combination OF
circumstances which scarce could be
counteracted by any human agency
and the result was frightful kill
ing.
For many feet along the tracks
where the accident took place there
was scattered brains, bIoods pieces
of flesh and clothing, making sight
80 gaslly that few cared to gszs upon
It. The bodies were later brought
into the city and carried to Floyd's
undertaking estab'ithm ent on Church
street, where the remains were pre-
pared for burial. The aWfulness OF
the tragedy coming just at the height
of the holiday season, cast q gloom
over the city all day.
Hill who was the worst mangled
OF the three, had on his person, tax
receipts frcm Pelzer and it la presum.
ed that he had been In the mills
here before coming to the city.
Rogers is son Of minister, Rev.
Mr.. Rogers who aborede at Whitney
years ago, and is yourg man Of a.
bout eighteen to twenty years and
lived at Saxon Mills. He had rela-
tives in the city. The man Stone,
who was among the killed, was a
rural mail carrier and was from Eao-
rec
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