The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-01-22
Mail Clerk and Two Passengers
Slightly Injured.
STATEMENT OF OFFICIALS.
Conductor and Engineer Overlooked
Ordcrs-Both Engines Badly Damag-
ed-Slight Wreck Near Hope Mills.
Engineer ard Three Brakcmen In
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the Atlantic Coast Line was furnished
from headquarters in this city:
Passenger train 50. southbound, and
freight train 2l0, northbound collided
| = 1-2 miles south of Denmark. $ Cat
| 8: so a. n. today. Mail Clerk Brown,
and two passengers slightly hurt. Both
engines badly damaged. Cause, von-
| ductOr and enginee of train 50 over
| looked train orders. These two men
| are among the oldest and most re-
| liable men connected with the service
| Of the line"
Later an account fthe wreck was
J received from Florence, S. c., as fol-
| lows:
Florence, S. c., January 19.-Trains
| No. So, the fast sOuthbOund and No.
| 210, the fast northbound through
| freight, on the Manchester and Au-
! gusta division of the A. G.. l.. railway,
| went together in head-On collision at
| the curve about two miles south OF
Denmark this morning and E. W.
| Brown, the cDlored mail clerk, and
| Heber Archibald Winnipeg, Canada,
and w. B. Boulton, of New York, were
more or less injured. Inc Two last
! mentioned were passengers on No. 30.
| Engineer James l.. Wysong and Con-
| ductor Landon G.. Jones, Of Florence,
| were in charge of train No. 35, and EE-
| gineer William Rutherford, Of Angus
| ia, and Conductor Charles Gregg, Of
| Florence, in charge of the freight. The
| two engineers and the firemen, when
| they saw the collision was inevitable,
| jumped for their lives and beyond be-
| ing badly shaken up were not injured.
| The two locomotives, the mail car and
several box cars were badly wrecked.
| The passengers were sent on to their
| destination and traffic has been detoure
over the division via Blackville and
Barnwell over the Southern railway.
| AIT Hope Mills, N c., today the sec
ond train of No. 209 telescoped the
rear end of the first section of the
same train. The engineer and three
brakemen were injured, but to what
extent is not known.
| The following account Of the wreck
on the A. G. l.. which occurred yes
terday at Hope Mills, is taken from the
Fayetteville Observer:
i Hope Mills was again the scene OF q
bad wreck, at II o'clock this morning.
lin which three persons were injured,
an engine and number of cars demol-
ished
1t was a rear end collision between
1.-The first and second sections OF train
No 209, bound south. carrying coal
/ cars. Both sections of the train had
orders to meet the northbOund Ben
nettsville passenger train at Hope Mills
THE first section was just pulling into
the station when the second section.
drawn by a big new engine, making
its initial trip with Engineer Laugh
inghOuse at the throttle, came down
the hill at the rate Of thirty miles an
hour crashing into it with tremendous
force. The big engine was thrown UP
an embankment ten or fifteen yards
from the track, while the caboOse and
a number of the coal cars of the first
section were completely demolished
Engineer Laughinghousc and his
fireman, James Byrd, of Apex, jumped
just as the crash came. The engineer
escaped with only a slight bruise or
his face but the fireman was seri'
ously injured
Alfred Anderson, q Fayetteville lie
{ gro, brakeman on the first section was
also badly, though not seriously in
jured. Both were brought up TO this
: city on the Bennettsville train, which
arrived at Hope Mills only a few sec
. onds after the collision occurred, ant
are now in the hospital.
The fiagman of the first section, whf
was in the cabOose, jumped from tn
car just as the engine plOwed its ~a!
| through it, but at this hour has no
, been seen since.
1t is said that Engineer Laughing
house lost control Of his engine, but 2.
, vet we are unable TO confirm the stoFA
and it will take an investigation 10 de
termine fully the cause Of the dis4S LeF
Hope Mills is the ''hOOdoo OF lh'
Coast Line, eight or ten wrecks, sever
, al of them most disastrous, nave occur
red there within the last few years.