Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-07-25
% I KILLED in WRECK.
Collision Z ON. .Seaboard
Near Hamlet, N. c.
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ORDERS WERE NOT DELIVERED ]
Seaboard Air Line Passengers Train
No. a and an Extra Freight Train
Come Together With; an Awful
Crash in a Deep Cut One Mile From
|. hamlet. ss =:

4 Hamlet, n. c. special.-rwenty Or
|&ore were; killed aud ,twcntN-threc,
8adly injured in q head-on collision
Between "a Scaboard Air Line Passcn-
|fer train anil an extra freight one
hilc from here Sunday night Nearly
#ll those killed were colo,ra passen-
8ers-g 5..ss 8 - tls b
Il The known dead are: -, =
4 Engineer T, B. Lewis, Of the pas
&enger train. I, u
4 II. S. Byrd, Baggage master.
4 Fireman Tom Hill. colored, of the,
Aasssngef5tfai,ii.
4 Negro fireman llar,c. ,taknosns OF.
#he freight.
I Probably 25 others unidentified,
Railroad men, citizens and the pas
Eengcrs who escaped injury. are work
/ = =
S&ng hcroicaliy sto recover the dead
hlr,l injured imprisoned IN the wreck
hge. g : 'ss,=' 'e,.' - -
Both the second and first. class.
peaches were overturned. and it is sad.
I y Augmented before the work of the
acseuers is completed,
The rescuers can see a;nllmber Of
Rifsiess folms by -the sftful light of
lanterns and thesc theyars sfTl7ias
nahfuliy Se1 reach Fortunately the
lamps In The coaches were extinguish-
Sed in the crash and fire was not ad-
!ded to the horror of the catastrophe.
Thus far the list of the seriously.
injured reaches twenty-three-Gvc
white and eighteen colored. Others
may be imprisoned in the overturned
coaches.
The engineer and fireman Of the
freight train jumped and escaped
with a few bruises. The coach FOR
colored people wasS completely dcmol-
ished and nearly everyone in it met
death. Both locomotives were demol-
iShed and the baggage, cars and coach
.es5 jrmkletl together liz an. ulnighflN
mass g Thcsfraeks are piled high with
.wreekaG and @ftf be Blocked L for
hours. ss5
wreck s,:c1,,1ed abcllt $50:
O'clock, The passenger. train, which,
isefs:G s:G1arlotte at go Clock was sMith7;
enta orders and Was moving at the
tate Of forty miles all hour. With
out ,ssrnins thezfreieht, an extra fruit;
sEsst bound. dashed aronllds tIss
ssivellusahe ttseps7cut one milesfrofa
Hamlet, and the Two trains came TO-
setber with anHawful crash and roar.
sEllsmeef Lewissanf his fremaf were
killed and death was almost
as swift 10 the passehesls;instl stlielc lcol4
orcd coach. The destruction was CON-
i5letc and rendered moro horrible by
the cries aud eroans of The diving.
The dead and injured will be con
veyed to Rpcsilga,am; as ssoons as 81
speeial can be mad np and the track
cleared sufficiently. Messages have
been sent 70 everv physician in Ham
let and Rockingham. as we'll as in
the county.
1t is impossible atsstliisF tineEto ass
certain the names Of the -1tteaadd and
iainred owing 10 the confusion incl
dent to the catastrophe. Not all the
dead. have been identified, but it is
sintcd that The list will reach %. The
chief dispatcher of the s;eaboard al
Raleigh has ordered is coffins from
tie undertaken at Rockingham.
! SHhe blameefor the wreck has rot
beeM liaccd. IThe .pasSensel fr;aiiff11,
il is said, had no orders 10, meet the!
freight. and it is the presumption that
the freight overlooked its orders. Que
report ascribes the cause Of the wreck
to have been lap order, stating that
the passenger train had orders to meet
the freight at Hamlet, while the,
freieht's orders were to meet the pas
train at Roekinghani.,i atal