Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-29

| Not Few passengers engaged In this
ghoulish business and a large number
OF valuables and much money which
was scattered about the wrecked train
was taken.
Mr.. Curtis, who was on his way To
High Point. n. c., on a business mis-
sion, was the hero OF the hour. II was
claimed by some Of his fellow passen-
gers that to his WORK and generalship
belongs the credit OF the rescue OF a
dozen persons. Several persons not
seriously wounded were taken out from
the two cars that were burned and six
negro passengers were taken from
the combination coach of the forward
train. They were badly hurt, most Of
them having broken legs and one or
two with fractured skulls. II Is be-
| lieved all will recover with the possible
| exception OF an aged woman.
| As soon as the news of the wreck
| was received here doctors were taken
to the scene on special train, and
| one OF the Are engines OF the Lynch
burg department was loaded on a fiat
| car and hurried to the wreck to extin-
| guish the flames among the wreckage
The engine and firemen could not
be spared form the early morning fire
on Main street hence they did not go
to Lawyers until $50 o'clock. on ac-
count Of the train with the injured pas
sengers having the track between Rom
COON and the scene Of the accident, It
was after 10 O'Clock before the special
reached Lawyers.
CAUSE OF WRECK UNKNOWN.
The cause OF the wreck cannot be
learned now, but 1t Is said that the
operator In charge OF the block Office
al Rangoon, four miles north OF the
scene. allowed the Atlanta train TO en-
ter the block before he had been given
clear track from the next block sta
ton at Lawyers depot, five miles be-
low. Why the operator allowed the
train TO pass his clock is not known,
and will hardly be known by the rail.
way company before an official inves-
tigation can be had.
No. 80, the Jacksonville train, came
TO a stop at the crest OF one of the
heaviest grades on the road between
Lynchburg and Danville. If the trains
had come together mile further south
It is believed that hardly person on
either train would have come out Of
the wreck alive, Both trains were rum
ming late. On account of the heavy
equipment OF the rear train 1t was not
making great speed, some Of the pas
sengers thinking that the speed could
not have been more than 30 or 40 miles
an hour. Ten minutes later the speed
would have been upwards OF 60 miles an
hour.
Train No. 80. which was struck, was
composed Of a mail car combination
baggage and passenger coach. two Pull
mans and President Spencer's car.
The rear sleeper, to which the private
coach was attached, was wrecked, but
I. l,,.r Th, fsnptilnr naV
coach and the forward Pullman cars
were practically uninJured, but the
combination coach, second from the en-
gine, was crushed.
IL was here that all the negroes
among the wounded were hurt, They
were unable to eXtrlcate themselves
from tho baggage hurled upon them and
many would have died but for the res
cue work led by Mr.. Curtis.
An effort was made shortly after
noon to learn the name OF the operator
I'm charge Of the block station at RAN
COON, but he had been relieved and
no one has been found who knows the
name of the man who lives, 1t is said.
In the immediate vicinity OF the little
block office
The seriously injured include;
Willis ]. winston. New York; leg
badly broken.
]. w. Shaw, Spencer, y. c.; badly
crushed and both legs broken.
Garland Thomas, Greensboro, y. O.;
leg broken and badly bruised
r. Il. Nauls, Wainsboro, Va.
Cora Logan, Shelby. n. c.; both legs
broken,
Pollock. New York city. badly
scalded, leg broken, both arms broken;
hopeless condition.
Sam Cox. Washington. D. c., leg
broken.
All Of these are negroes.
A RgscuER's STORY.
Mr.. Curtis the jamestown, n. T.,
man who led the rescue work in talk
ing to the representative Of the Assoc
ciated Press said:
1T appeared to me that the pas
sengers who We're uninjured were
dazed and they did not appear TO
realize that something must bc done.
! talked TO them and they began 30
work. You never saw men work
harder in your life.
In the rear OF tho Pullman which
was smashed, there was a mother
with 6-months-old babe. They were
I'm a drawing room which had been
smashed. but strange to say, they we're
not hurt in the slightest. They were
gotten out and taken to safety
think there ware NJ least Ave bodies
including Mr.. Spencer that were Gre
mated. AS far as / know. the train
attaches did not aid In the first relief
because they had gone both ways to
protect the two trains from other and
more serious trouble"
Mr.. Curtis has In his possession n
valuable case Of jewels which was
handed To him by lady. He does not
know to whom II belongs and why IL
was handed him. II evidently ~ the
property OF some one of means as Il
contains a heavy set diamond ring and
other jewels of value. From the re-
ports II appears that the passengers
killed outright were seven---slx men
and a woman--the latter believed to
be negress. Those killed were Pres
ident spencer, Dispatcher Davis, Philip
Schuyler OF New York, Engineer Terry
and Frank 7. Redwood and Charles
ID. Fisher of Baltimore.
Since the arrival OF the wounded ne
gro passengers in the city, Luereua