The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-12-04

r;stance. taking out tire injured negro
MESSENGERS and stretching iH'hl II
blankets in q field 81 t~E"}ihst'"" 49,
the track. In taIs Work ~ 4 di@~
assisted gre-tly by The con1iSl'i -
porter Of train No. 50. "ho Gal III
froaiatelv after the wreck 2 nT-t -
all to provide warning 81 the accl1tht
10 other trains that might D. coming
over the nru track.
Later on COL. Cameron discovered ii9
trunk in the debris Of the
coach. living among some detd do-@
doubtless those which mad been h
tended for the hunting trip 81 tine
| -ra1cer Uartv. Tho trunk was 80
| weIg.c in the wreckagc that a hole
had to bc cut ia the top Of the coacI
before il could be recovered
colonel Cameron ihsi afkcI %
LAWYERS and sent J-Ie-IaTas - Colonel
\ 4. Andrews and to Mr.. J~o1enltus
Daniels. informing them of the wreck
and saving that President Spencer WIS
reported killed.
CHASTITY Means Of identification.
The doubt rs t. SIR. Spencfr~ 't"2th
At hat tim arose through q pfcuiiaI
and tragic ciEcumStq1 nee.
bv the burning Debris OF the car ana
the engine Of No. - lay III Sig'it # the
Onlookcrs The charre1 BODY Of a man
under the engine, TA1@h WAS supDc>ed
and afterwards ascef,1ine'i tC BE- lhtt
Of Colonel Spencer. l5ut after tn"
collision and the explosion, there VAS
found beside the track, desperately
wounded, Mr.. Merrill. the private sec
rotary Of President spencer In his
delirium from pain Mr.. Merrill at fiTst
stated that Mr.. Spencer vas on the
train and then denied that he WAS ans
the doubt hus created was not def
nitely cleared up until the positive
identification Of the body by his son.
The ghastIiness Of the situation may
be imagined When it is stated that the
younger Spencer, when he reached the
body of his father, was totally unable
to recognize him in any way and final
~ comprised the identification by eN-
aiming the teeth of the body. which
he recognized as those OF his fathc".
\ Marvellous Escape.
How MIR. Merrill, who was in the
car asleep at the time of the collision,
happened to be outside the wreck jra-
mediatcly afterwards will never be
known. He awoke after a dream Of a
CONFUSION to find himself writing
with pain beside the track, while a
few feet away a blazing pile of debris
marked the car in which he had been
2leeping. The only plausible method
of accounting for his escape is that in
his case the force of the explosion
was SO directed as either TO blow him
through a window or through the side
of the crumbling car. While very Sc
riously injured, it is said hat Mr..
Merrill viii recover.
Col. Canlcron's Uncqualicd Wreck
Record.
This is the sixth serious wreck in
| which Colonel Cameron has had trag-
ic experience, and from each One of
them he has emerged uninjured. All
North Carolinians will remember the
fearful drop of the Southern Railway
train from the trestle of Bostian's
bridge, in Iredell county. when many
were killed and where at least a score
of passengers, both men and women.
were saved from death by Colonel
CamerOn's heroic efforts. He was also
in no less tina three wrecks between
Washington and Baltimore at practi-
| cally the same part of the line, one
of these being a collision head on be
tween one train running forty 4
another running sixty miles an hour.
| but III which strangely enough no II
was seriously hurt. all the energy Of
the two trains seeming to concentrate
itself in the demolition of the engines
from which the crews jumped. On an
| other occasion he was on a train when
the piston rOd of the engine broke.
and flying UP, struck and killed the
| engineer. and, the fireman being afraid
to take his place, the train began %
run away In this instance the con
ductor ran alone the top of the ears,
! got into the cab and stopped the train
just as it was dashing to almost GER
tain destruction i'll the crowded Bal
timOre yards. On still another occa-
sion Colonel Cameron was q pasScn-
ger on a train which came into col
liSiOn with another on the Potomac
flats and which then buckled over on
to another track and came into Il lat
| eral collision with a freight train. On
| this occasion, when over thirty people
| were killed, Colonel Cameron climbed
| yer the W~reckage Of three aim and
walked into Washington in time 70
catch his train for tilc South, there
| giving the first report which had
been received Of the wreck to the dis
| patcher.
Speaking of his remarkable fortune
yesterday Colonel Cameron said that
| the surprise of not being injured oper-
| ated to keep him perfectly cool in tho
time of d wreck. In the Bostian bridge
tragedy he awoke to sustain a drop in
! his berth Of eighty feet. but the shock
was not sufficient to keep him from
| givin his first thought to aiding the
injured. In the Bostian bridge wreck
he received severe bruises but was nos
inCapacitated in the least, while in
none of the other wrecks which he
has had the good fortune to survive,
has he sustained even a scratch OF
small bruise.
ELECTION ROGUEs PAHDONED.
d all De- a., T~xc- 90.