The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-30

when the crash came and they were thrown
out Of their berths, but they were not in
jured in the slightest. excepting a soreness
that resulted from the fall. The little girl
when she left here this ate still chung
to q rag doll and toy dog that had gone
through the wreck with her.
william Pollard, a negro porter who had
been with Mr.. Spencer for years, was taken
out badly injured. He will probably die!
az will Sam Cox, the cook on the car.
Thomas Gilliland, one Of the porters, was
injured. That the servants were not killed
is due to the fact that they were asleep at
the forward end.
Word was sent from Lawyer to this city
and several doctors and nurses from the
City Hospital were rushed to the scene on
a special train. Another special with more
doctors followed shortly afterward.
When news that the wreckage was on
fire reached here a city Are engine was
loaded on a fiat car and taken to the wreck.
The injured were later brought to the
City Hospital here. They are for the
most part negroes. The club car on the
Southwestern was burned and there wssn't
a pieoe of wood left on the engine.
Mr.. s~PENCER's SON ON SCENE.
H. b. Spencer, who is a vice-president
OF the Southern Railway and the son
of President Spencer. was a passenger on
the northbound train from the South
which reached the scene Of the wreck
soon after it occurred. He spent several
hours there until the charred remains OF his
father were taken from under the loco
motive and then he came TO this city with
them and those of the others Of President
Spencer's party.
The coach containing the corpses was
sidetraoked in the railway yard above
L~ynchburg. Collins we're procured for them
and we're placed in the private car OF Prest-
dent Stevens Of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway, who Was passing through the
city with his family. THIS car and the
one containing the bodies OF the killed
we're attached 10 a late train going North .
and the remains were transferred to the
Baskets while the train was in transit, a
method adopted to prevent the removal Of
the burned bodies in the presence of the
large crowd that congregated at the sta
ton.
Judge John d. Ro-sely, division counsel
for the Southern Railway here, and Assists
ant General Superintendent B. B. Chapman
of Danvill were in charge Of the bodies.
II. B. Spencer preceded this train on a
special made up here in order to be in Wash
ington upon the arrival Of the regular train.
At the City Hospital tonight all OF the
injured negroes are reported TO be doing
nicely. All are expected to recover.
1t is apparent that the official investigation
will certainly develop some interesting
conditions, though it is hardly probable
that these will ever be given to the public.
III - .InN ahA an tn
OF the Jacksonville train, after becoming
detached from the train, passed the Lawyer
block telegraph station, a mile below the
scene Of the wreck, going a mile beyond the
block before returning.
If it is brought out that the operator at
Lawyer gave the operator at Rangoon a
clear track when the engine passed his
station without noticing that the engine
carried no rear end markers, the fault will
be laid at the door OF the operator at Lawyer.
This is especially true il the limited APP
preached the Rangoon block from the
north and got a clear track from the opera
tor before the detached engine could return
to Lawyer. Granting that this supposition
is correct it is hard to understand how the
operator at Lawyer, knowing he had given
Rangoon a clear track, permitted the engine
W RO DdNh W ~ Ioli n AilANC U"oJ ON nv
track. Under these circumstances the
other train had a prior right.
At the request of the officials Of the South
ern Railway, DR.. Wayatt laws, county
Coroner, went to the scene N the wreck .
late this afternoon for the purpose Of hold,
ing an inquest, but when he reached there
he found tina all Of the bodies of the dead
had been removed by the company. He
did not summon a jury and could not say
VIII at steps he would take tomorrow.
THE DEAD.
Samuel Spencer. New York.
Philip Schuyler. New York.
Charles ID. Fisher. Baltimore.
Francis r. Redwood, Baltimore.
b. W. Davis, Alexandria. Va, private tele-
graph operator for President Spencer.
y. p. Mock. colored. Mr.. Spencer's porter,
died shortly after being taken to q Lynch
burg hospital.
Unknown person, whose head and limbs
were burned of. believed to be another porter
of Mr.. spencer's private car. who is m issing
and whose name has not been learned.
TIE INJURED
Iucretia Allen. colored. Danville, Va. leg
broken and amputated below the knee, left
arm broken.
Willis }. Winston, 2s3 East I27th street. New e,
York: leg broken.
j. W. shaw. colored. Spencer. N. c.. fireman:
crushed. both legs broken.
Garland Thomas. colored, Greensboro, N. G.:
leg broken. bruised.
p. R. vsuls. colored. wsynesboro. Va:
shocked and bruised.
Cora Logan. oOlorsd. shelby. N. c. both
legs broken.
sam Cox, colorsd cook on Mr.. Spenoer's car,
Oil + street. N. W.. Washington, D. c. leg
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