The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-30
u of Southern Railway
Inv Perishes While
>ep in Private Car.
PROMINENT MEN
SMBERED AS VICTIMS
lmber of Dead Seven;
re Guests of Rail
road Magnate.

h. BURG, Va, Nov. 29.ASam-
,,r, president Of the Southern
h company, and recognized as
/ 4 foremost men in the develop
Il he Southern States, and six
h, sons were killed. early this
Ia n rear-end collision between
h, passenger trains ten miles
, ,,vnchbmrg and a mile north of
s depot. Philip Schuyler, a re-
italist Of New York, was
he killed, together with other
Mr.. Spencer. OF those on
.cer s car, only Mr.. Spencer g
secretary, f. A. Merrill of New
id one of three portcrs, sur
e accident.
Dead.
|IDENT SAMUEL SPENCER,
rk.
LIES d. FISHER, Baltimore.
p SCHUYLER, New York.
us IT, REDWOOD, Baltimore.
DAVIS, Alexandria, Virginia.
lite DISPATCHER TO PRES
aPENCER.
E,yOLLARD, negro porter on
h Spencer s car.
UNKNOWN PERSON, whose
sai limbs are burned of short,
+hslieved to be the third porter
iSvate car, who is missing. His
DTa not be learned.
rf Tuiured
NE Allen, colored, Danville, Va,
and arm broken,
Winston, New York; leg
!. haw, colored. Spencer, n: c.,
rushed and both legs broken.
Thomas, colored, Greensboro,
broken.
.1auls, colored. Waynesboro,
gan, colored, Shelby, n. c.;
~, u jroken.
Psl colored, porter on the pri-
.as-5.eg broken,
sS address unknown, supreme
orof the Heptasophs; back
lched.
Hoglan, colored, Charlotte,
ished.
iN.rrill, New York, private sec
President Spencer; head and
/ sRd: will recover.
al ms Asleep When Struck.
rsl'ision was between the Jack
o. oIxnross and the Washington
i. uwestern vcstibule limited,
:at4bound. President Spencer
fn.ire party, as far as is known,
tun)ing when the collision oc-
'Iy
By Capabilities are that all Of
i,s except the dispatcher Day
illed Instantly. 1t is certain
s1gas extinct before the flames
anem. President Spencer s
hl burned almost beyond rec
nsiAs was that Of Mr. Fisher.
tn of Mr.. Schuyler was recov-
aye it was burned very much.
aud Spencer s ear was attached
ieSar end of the Jacksonville
shlFch was standing still when
ply
rs Corpse Under Train.
Dlt Spcnccr's charrcd corpse
= under the locomotive of the
AR train SO great was the
'the impact that the forward
bkisent AZ least 80 feet ahead.
,iEr debris had burned itself out
ss..ngine cooled of, the bodies
be removed.
,S,mbinatiou car Of the rear
rjJsshed into the express car
il. Forty feet Of il was splin-
Iur5sing the res: of the car
Ith baggage and coIored pas
Uluo were iammcd back by the
It1r How the negro passcn.
De ".jim Grow" part Of the
tipped death is beyond explain
LEX occurred on the crest OF
:, s'ade when the Atlanta train
Is ihave been running more than
81 raD hour. II it had been u
II vfo further south the number
Eight have been frightful, as
ii.55was about two hours behind
~ le- condition taken with
.2rade chat would have meant
IN more than 90 miles M hour,
'ipeer's Wonderful Escape.
JFeported at first that Enpi
s~y of Spencer, y. c., who was
GS5f the engine Of the Atlanta
Al = killed. but this proved in.
Efs1e suffered only n few slight
stsl I cuts,
~ Spencer, president Of the
T dT tailway company, was n resi-
,se iashington. hut his business
~ Srs were in New York. lie
.,e . thc most prominent railroad
united States. and for near.
pvoc>ycars had been at the head
more great railroad eutcr.
lTnssf the time of his death. in
|.Ar the Southern. he WAS prcsi .
. irector III the Alabama Great
lilway, the Cincinnati. New
~ Paciti" railway. the Georgia
[G bld Florida Railway company
Nv Sbilc ami OHIO Railroad com
,IrtNT;s Il director of the Central
Nv Georgia, The Chicago, Mi.
re :ii. Paul Railway company.
lypiiruad company, the North.
b'r company and other corpora.
AvrceT was president Of tho
|, and Ohio Railway company
'nsj5ld lSsS and later was an.
clvcr for the Richmond and
.Nilroad company and for tho
bcls Tssee' Virginia and Georgia
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