Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-07-25
|Rg KILLED in. WRECK
;;rffghtfui Collision { on Seaboard
Near Hamlet, N. c. h
ORDERS WERE NOT DELIVERED.
|seaboard Air Line Passenger Train
No. a and an Extra Freight Train
Come Together With an Awful
Crash in Deep Cut One Mile From
Hamlet.

4: :-SSfhaeSS y. AsPSetot' n.Su'y -
Alore We're killed and ,twcntx-threc,
8adlN injured in q head-on collision
$etween u Scaboard Air Line Passcn-
Ter train and an extra freight one
pile from here Sunday night. Nearly
8ll those killed were colorrd passen-
8ers, = -. ;
& The Known dead are;
! Engineer T, B. Lewis. Of the pas.
&&enger tram. -,
II. S. Byrd, Baggage master.
q Fireman Tom Hill celeged, Of the:
fassengeH5trai,i..s
Negro fireman nanc. snknowns Of.
ahc freight,
I Probably 25 others unidentified,
Railroad men, citizens and the pas,
Fengers who escaped injury, are work
Fngg hcroiculy TO recover the dead
hlrl injured, imprisoned IN the wreck
fge. '.,' = =
Both the second aud first. class
beaches were overturned. and it is sad.
~ Augmented before The work Of the
3cscuers is completed,
The rescuers can see a.number Of
aifeless folms by -the4ftful light of
3aassrns and: thesest theysare STRIVING; 8
mani fully reSch: Fortunately fhs
lamps in The coaches were eStinguisll-
ed in the crash and fire was not adj
ded. TO the horror Of the catastrophe.
lhus far the list of the, seriously
|injucd reaches twenty-three-Gve
white and eighteen colored. Others
may be imprisoned in the oserturaed
coaches.
The engineer and fireman Of the
freight train jumped and escaped
with a few bruises. The coach FOR
co!ored People wass completely dcmol-
ished md nearly everyone i'll ii met
death. Both locomotives were demol-
ished and the baggage cars and coach
.es jumbleil together. in ang ulrsightly
mass sfr;ssel.s are piled high with
wrecka and Wfil be Blocked FOR
hours.
-, wreck occurred abeat so
o'clock, 'Ths passenger train, which
gsfE Charlotte at 40 o'cloeks + wassMith7
sents orders and was moving at the
tate Of forty miles an hour. With
out warning thesfreiebt. an extra fruit
si:ai sbonnd J, dashed asoapds t6s:
ttsepscut one milesfroR
Hsrnlet, and the Two trains came to-
sether with anSawful crash aud roar
EllsiEeer Lewissand his fpemaq,' We're
instantly killed and. death was almost
as swift to the passehesrs;instIi co.'s
forcd coach. The destruction was COM
11lete saad rendered more horrible by
the cries aud eroans of the DYING.
The dead and injured will be con-
veyed to Rpckmgllafn: as 5soons as "a
speeial can be mad up aal the track
cleared sufficiently. Messages have
heen sent 10 cverv physician in Ham
let and Rockingham. as. we'll as in
the county.
1t is impossible atsthis timesto as
certain the names Of the -5dsadd and
Injured owing 10 the. confusion incl
dent to the catastrophe. Not all The
dead have bcen identified, but it is
stated that The list will. reach %. The
chief dispatcher Of the SeaGoard at
Raleigh has ordered Is cotfins from
the undertaken at Rockingham.
/ s,Ehe; llamc~for the wreck has, not
been placed. The .passeHgef fraifhh,
il is said, had no orders 10, meet the
freight. and it is the presumption that
the freight overlooked its orders. One
report ascribes the cause Of the wreck
to have been a lap order, stating that
the passenger train had orders to meet
the freight at Hamlet, while the
freight's orders were to meet the pas
ecnger train at Roekinghaai.;3 aea !