Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-11-30
YESTERDAYS RAILROAD HOR-
POE.

tic Doututfu fkallNhly VIM was A'-'eN
in the wreck at Lawyers, ii miles south
of Lynchburg, at an early hour yester-
day morning, arrised in Washington on
a special train at IL O'Clock last night.
After consultation between the repre-
senistives of his family and the officials
of the railroad company, they were taken
TO the rooms of an undertakers estab-
m;nt to be prepared for burial. AT
engagements Tor the. funeral will be made
today.
The body of Philip Schuyler was
taken to New York on the midnight
train, while the bodies of John ID.
Fisher and Frank 7. Redwood. OF Bal
timore, were taken to that city this
morning.
The remains of d. Walter Davis were
taken from the train in this city last
eight. Mrs. Davis was spending the day
with her parents BIZ. and Mrs. Edwin
G. Joyce, at 9lS King street, and it was
there that the news Of her husbands
death reached her. Dir. Davis was ma
tive of Prince William county, and was
twenty nine years old. He lived in this
city several years, and moved to Wash
ington shortly after his marriage TO Miss
Joyce. about two years ago.
Mr.. Davis was the day manager OF the
telegraph Office at the general Offices oil
the Southern Railway, 10 Washington,
and as such was frequently detailed to
accompany the higher officials of the
road on such trips as the one that ended
so disastrously yesterday. II is under
stood that when he was notified that he
would be expected to accompany Presi-
dent Spencer and party on this occasion,
he asked to be relieved, stating that it
was the desire OF his wife and himself to
spend Thanksgiving with her parents in
Alexandria, bat il could not be arranged.
The bodies OF Messrs. Charles ID.
Fisher and Francis T. Redwood. the two
Baltimoreans who were killed 10 the
wreck. arrived at Union Station, 10 that
city ct an early hour this morning.
Apart from the details, the GSzette
Yesterday contained substantially all the
fac.s 10 connection with this latest rail
road horror. Seven persons lost their
lives in the accident, aud ten others
we're more or less injured.
Horrible as was the disaster in all its
details, 1t has been shown that had train
No 80 stopped nile farther south The
accident would have been one Of the
most appalling that has ever occurred on
the rail. The ill-iated train had stopped
on the crest of steep grade, and Nc.
81, which was following, WAS on account
of the number OF cars composing II,
running at tho rate of about 30 miles
an hour. Had il reached the down
grade it wonld have been making 60
miles, and at such a rate of speed the
impact would probably have killed the
occupants OF both traiDs.
The full list Of the dead is as follows.
KILLED.
President Samuel Spencer, of New
York city.
Phillip Schu. Ter, OF New York city
Charles ID. Fisher, OF Baltimore. Md.
Frances T Redwood Of Baltimore.
Nd. native of King George county.
d. Waller Davis, OF Alexandra, Va,
private dispatcher TO President Spencer.
William Pollard. negro porter on
President Spsncer's car. who died in
hospital in Lynchburg yesterday.
An unknown person, whose head and
limbs are burned of short, who is b.
lieved to be The third porter on the pri'
vale car, who is missing His name can
not be learned.
The collision was between the Jack
sonVilIe express No 30, aud the Wash T.
inrton and Southwestern yestibule limited
No. 81, both southbouud. President
spencer and his entire party, as far az
is known, we're sleeping when the co.
lision occurred, and The probabilities are
that all OF them, excepting Dispatcher
Davis, we're killed instantly. 1t is GER
tain that life was extinct before the flames
touched them. President Spencer's body
was burned almost beyond recognition,
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. Presi-
dent Spencer's car WAS attached to the
rear of the Jacksonville train, which was
standing still when struck.
President Spencer was lying directly
under the big locomotive Of the rear
train. SO great was the force Of the i'm
pact that the forward train was sent at
least $50 feet ahead, the locomotive go
ing over and upon the body Of Mr..
Spencer. Until after the debris burned
itself ont and tho engine cooled Oft the
bodies could not oe removed
The impact drove the combination car
forward and the express car lifted up, to-
gether with its trucks, and crushed the
car 40 feet, leaving the remainder Of The
car strewn with tons of baggage and col
Ured passengers, who we're pushed back
like rats as the express car crushed the
combination car.
The combination car did not leave the
track, and in clearing the track the ex-
press car was hauled to a siding mile
distant on top and in the debris Of the
combination car. How the negro passeu
gers in this compartment, which is known
as the 'jimcrow" part Of the traip, es-
capped, none of them being killed, is be-
yond explanation.
One Of the worst phases OF the acct
dent was the hearlless manner ia which
a few passengers and some of the attaches
especially some of the porters of the At
lanta train, ransaeked the wrecked cars
for plumber.
Not few passengers engaged in this