The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-08
TRAIN is WRECKED
| CROSSING TRESTLE
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Engine Leaves Rails and
Pullmans Crash
Through.
MANY INJURED;
THREE KILLED
Second Section Of Collver Special,
With 200 Ohio Excursionists,
Bound for Florida, Falls
Into Copper Mine Greek.
Escape Almost a
Miracle.

AUGUSTA, GA. January 7.-Running
at speed Of thirty miles an hour. the
second section OF an excursion train
on the Southern Railway from Cleve-
land. O., known as the Collver Special,
and bound for Florida points. plunged
through a trestle over Copper Mine
Creek, about fifty miles west of At
lanta, to-day, and as result three per.
sons. are dead. two others are fatally
injured and eighty passengers were so
seriously injured as to require medical
attention.
1t was nearly midnight when the
Southern Railways relief train reached
Atlanta bearing the body of Engineer
James Edwards. and about fifty of the
injured. among whom were Mrs. Emil
Hoover, OF Columbus, Ohio. who is In
a dying condition. and Florence A.
Studebaker. of Cleveland, internally
injured. and probably fatally hurt.
Road Foreman OF Engines Schnapps
and the negro fireman. Nose Baldwin.
both fatally injured died shortly after
the train reached Atlanta.
Many OF the other injured were lift-
ed from the car windows and conveyed
to local hospitals, while some Of those
hurt were able to take cabs to local
hotels.
The wreck occurred about o'clock
this afternoon, five vesttbuled Pull
mans being precipitated twenty-five
feet to the bed of the creek, which was
nearly dry. one OF the Pullmans being
torn asunder. Two hundred passengers
went down with the coaches. Copper
Mine trestle is between Hiram and Dali
las, Ga. in sparsely settled country.
The Injured,
The injured in the Atlanta hospitals
are:
r. W. Griswold. Ashtabula, Ohio:
internally injured and badly
bruised on head.
Mrs. r. w. Griswold. Ashtabula.
Ohio; bruised on back and limbs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Creighton. of Ash.
tabula. Ohio; slightly bruised.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, OF Cleve-
land. Ohio: back hurt and prob
ably seriously internally injured.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. e. Smith, of
Cleveland; slightly bruised.
Mrs. Eliza beth W. Rowbotham,
Cleveland, Ohio: slightly bruised.
Mrs. K. Peel. Cleveland, Ohio;
Slightly bruised.
- Rogers and son. cleve-
land. Ohio; badly cut and bruised
Mr.. and Mrs. r. c. Kane, Cleve-
land. Ohio: Slightly hurt.
L. Strauss, Cleveland.
Mrs. Della E. Thompson, aIantua,
Ohio.
Frank Gregory and wife.
Z. E. Henry and wife, -Ashtabula,
Ohio.
John Touchstone, East Jordan,
Mich; badly injured.
II. II. Hodel. Cleveland, Ohio.
Mrs. George 6. Rogers, Columbus,
Mr.: Mrs. Nellie Baldinger Columbus.
Ohio.
Mrs. p, \. Smith. Columbus.
Ohio.
o. G. voss. Columbus. Ohio.
Mrs. Ella Tidemann, Cleveland,
Ohio.
Mrs. E. F. webster. Wellington.
Ohio.
G. NJ. Aluon. Rome, Ga.
Jacob Roth. Erie, Pa.
Mrs. ]. Roth. Erie F'a.
Mrs. D. D. kilsle. Erie. Pa.
E. N. Ackerman, Columbus, Ohio.
Mrs. Theodore Arter. Columbus.
Ohio.
Twelve passengers, names unknown
are cared for at hotels.
/ An Excursion to Florida.
The Collver special is an annual ex
cursion run from Cleveland O.. t
Florida points and Cuba, under the di
rection Of General Passenger Agen
i Collver, Of the Big Four system. !
|started from Cleveland yesterday a
i 1915 P. NJ. in two sections. the frs
i consisting of four Pullmans and adm
ing. car, and the second of five Pull
mans. diner and q baggage car. TIL