The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05

| Persons Receive Severe Injuries
Cause Of the Disaster.
Lynchburg, Va, Nov. 80. - In the
| rear-end collision between two fast
passenger trains 10 miles south o.
this city, Samuel Spencer, president
of the Southern railroad, and five
others were killed, and IL persons
the majority of whom are negroes, in
| jured. Philip Schuyler, retired
capitalist of New York, was among
the killed, together with other guests
of Mr.. Spencer. Only Mr.. Spencer's
private secretary, E. A. Merrill oi
New York city, and one of the three
porters, survived the accident. The
death list: President Samuel Spen
Ger, New York city; Charles d. Fish
er, Baltimore; ID. w. Davis, Alexan
dria, Va. private dispatcher to Presi
dent Spencer; William Pollard, negro
porter on President Spencer's car
who died in a hospital here; an un'
known person, whose head and limbs
are burned off short, who is believed
to be the third porter on the private
car, who is missing.
Mr. Spencer's destination was
Friendship, n. c., where he was going
on a hunting trip with Messrs. Fisher
Schuyler, Redwood and Merrill as his
guests.
The collision was between the Jack
sonville express and the Washington
and southwestern vestibule limited,
both southbound. President Spencer
and his party, as far as is known,
were sleeping when the collision oc-
Cured. and the probabilities are that
all OF them excepting Dispatcher Da-
Wis we're killed instantly. II is certain
that life was extinct before the flames
touched them. President Spencer's
body was burned almost beyond rec
ognition. as was that OF Mr.. Fisher
The body OF Mr.. Schuyler was taken
from under the train before 1t was
burned very much, having been
singed only slightly. President Spen-
GERS car was attached to the rear OF
the Jacksonville train. which was
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The impact drove the combination
car forward and the express car lifted
up. together with its trucks, and
crushed the car 40 feet, leaving the
remainder Of the car strewn with tons
of baggage and colored passengers,
who were pushed back like rats as
the express car crushed the combina-
tion car The combination car did not
leave the track and in clearing the
track the express car was hauled to
a siding a mile distant on top and in
the debris of the combination car
How the negro passengers in this
compartment, which is known as the
lin crow" part of the train, escaped
none of them being killed. is beyond
explanation. A number of them, how
ever, sustained severe injuries.
The Jacksonville express had the
right of way in the block and the en-
gine broke away from the train and
proceeded two miles, one of which
was beyond Lawyers, before the engi-
neer noticed he was without his train.
IL may DS NhdI NhSu ut pdSSSu Law
yers the operator gave Rangoon a
clear track without noticing whether
the rear-end markers were to be seen
before he did so.
d. ]. Maddux, the operator at Ran
COON, who was on duty at the time of
the accident, has disappeared. 1t is
said, and he can not be found, al
though railway officials have made an
effort to locate him.
A number ransacked the wrecked
cars for plunder. Some of the passen-
gers are said to have participated in
this, and large amount of jewels and
money scattered about the debris was
taken. A porter was seen to go
through a woman's grip and throw
away things of novalue to him and ap-
propriate those things that he wanted.
Washington, Nov. 30.-The special
train arrived from the scene of the
Southern railway collision. bringing
the bodies Of President Samuel Spen-
Ger, Philip Schuyler of New York,
Charles d. Fisher and Frank T. Red
wood of Baltimore, and an unidenti-
fled negro porter The body of Presi-
dent Spencer was taken in charge at
the train by local undertaken. The
body of Mr.. Schuyler was sent on to
New York and the bodies of Fisher
and Redwood taken to Baltimore.