Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-03-05
S. A. |. PASSENGER
TRAIN IS WRECKED
Dsshes Into Freight Train Near
Powder Springs. Ga.
ENGINEER HupaINs Is KILLED

FreIQht Train Breaks In TIVE and the
Limited Crashes Into the Cars At
the High Speed Of Fifty Miles an
hour
Powder Springs, Ca, March g.
Dashlngton at thu rate Of 90 miles on
hour, the sast6ovnd exposition En-
its4 on the Atlanta and Birmingham
division Of the Seaboard Air Line
srashsd head on into = string OF ten
Wild freight cars on a curve a milo
aad q quarter from this place Al 1904
o'clock Friday night. burning 10 death
Engineer Charles Hudgins. OF Allan
IA, Ca. and seriously or painfully
tniurlng seven others.
The engine OF the exposition limit
ed, recolling from the shock OF the
collision, turned turtle and roll1 i
down the high embankment, pinning
Engineer HudginS beneath 1t while
the escaping steam burned his body
aInO1 OeyOnd TecoEni.Iou'
Five freight cars were destroyed
and as many passenger coaches
caught fire from the wreckase and
were consumed.
The fagman Of the freight train
claimed that he did all in his power
to stop the fast-aying limited before
q dashed into the cars. From the
statements Of the passengers il Is be-
lieyed that Engineer Hudgins saw the
signal but too late TO check the train.
even though the shocks Of the air
brakes tod Of his futile efforts.
The dead:
Engineer Charles Hudgins. Of At
lanta. Ca.
The injured are viii Bolton. negro
fireman. Atlanta. seriously; COM
pound fracture of the left leg and bad
scalp wounds. now at Grady hospital.
A. A. Clisby. baggagemaster. of
Birmingham; GU about the head; at
the Grady hospital.
J. b. McCord. mail clerk. Atlanta,
Ga, bruised about head and inter-
nally injured: carried 10 his home.
Baggage Agent Jones.
Wiley Brooks, negro porter. Of At
lanta. Ga.
Unknown passenger.
The injured who live In Atlanta
were carried TO that city at I o'clock
Saturday morning on a special train
that was sent out by the Seaboard
Air Line in charge OF DIR. f. h
Richardson. surgeon Of the road
The wei rails are thought to have
been responsible for the string OF
runaway freight cars which dashed
down the grade with one fagman.
using every muscle 20 set the brakes
OF the cars that ground down the
incline.
The train 20 which these cars be-
lougcd was 20 have taken the side
track az Powder Springs 20 let the
limited pass. When a mile from the
station the freight broke in Two and
the wild cars began their Hyius de-
scent, back toward the exposition I'm
tied passenger, which had orders -
pass the freight al the station.
Ten Of the cars broke loose. FIVE
OF which we're loaded with cotton tha.
made fue, ;o- Ae aames v.icl broke
OUT afterVard.
Accompanying the fyinS car, was
The one haCman. who as soon As he
know OF 'hr danger made his way
from the .as' car over the s..npe-y
running boards End began MS efforts
20 check re train.
One ms, from Where 'Ne cars broke
loose the brakes V1-k-! Almost
before the cars stopped With Their
grinding shock The haenau ,eapcd %
the ground ard dashed ahead. ,..pp.ns
and falling ~ 'he mud. - stop the
oncominr limited.
As he r,aCHe3 the sharp curve 10
saw The limited dash into slght-
ON two or hNee lengths ahead He
franiically waved MS lantern AZ 80
train. whiCA was almost on him
The Passengers fei; the s.rbraEe,
working ~ . jar. Then IN, crash
Engineer Huls;ns died a. h.s rps. +
The 'trst coach csusl. m FIRE
then mail c.r ani baggage coach BE-. !
gan 10 burn.
AT the bo:.om Of tie aes0 embark.