The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-09
MANY PASSENGERS ARE IN HOSPITALS About a Score Are Too Badly
 Injured To Travel No MORE DEATHS OCCUR State Railroad Commission Is Investi- gatine Cause of Wreck on the
 Southern, But Nothing Defi-
 nite Is Learned.
No MORE DEATHS OCCUR

1 Atlanta, January s.-Of the nearly 100 persons who received injuries in the
 wreck of the Collver special on the South l ern railway near Hiram, Ga, yesterday, l about a score are still confined to nos l pitals in this city. and it is believed all 1 will eventually recover. At the Atlanta sanitarium tonight 1t was said Mrs Emma Hoover, who received internal injuries 1 was resting easy, though her condition | is very serious. The condition of Mrs l studebaker of Cleveland. who was last
 night reported probably fatally injured has improved today. and it is believed she will eventually recover.
 The state railroad commission today be- gan a searching investigation of the wreck, and will endeavor to place re- sponsibility for it. While no official statement of the cause of the wreck has | been made, it is stated that the engine
 was derailed before the bridge, which was a new one, gave way.
 Many of those who received only slight bruises and cuts continued their journeys to Florida and Cuban points today, while others decided to return to their homes. The Southern railway operated it's trains today over the Western and Atlantic to Dalton, Ga, where they were transferred | to it's own tracks Officials of the road said that the break will be repaired in their .line tonight and regular schedules resumed.
 Relief Train Arrives. When the second relief train pulled into Atlanta shortly before midnight last night bearing the most seriously hurt every ambulance in the city had been assem- | bled and half hundred cabs were wal1- 1 ing at the Southern railroads terminal. 1 Doctors had rendered temporary aid as l far as possible to the bruised passengers, | and with heads and bodies bandaged they walked or were carried from the cars | which had brought them from Dallas. | Twenty of the injured were taken im- nedately to the Atlanta hospital while | the Grady hospital rendered aid to a number of others. All but two of those who went to Grady were able to leave l after receiving treatment. At the Atlanta hospital today it was stated that beside 1 Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Studebaker, R. w | Griswold of Ashtabula Is in serious con | dition today, and his injuries may prove 1 fatal. Mrs. Grswold is suffering from l severe bruises
 Most of the 200 passengers who were
 aboard the train are scattered through
 Atlanta hotels today, treating bruises and
 | contusions. That their escape from death
 l was remarkable all admit Only the
 heavy construction of the Pullmans saved
 them when the treste gave way and let l five cars into the mud of the nearly dry | Copper Mine creek. One car cracked Tn
 the center, pinning Jacob Roth and his | wife, both of Erie. Pa, between the | seats Roth held up the falling berth | until he could extricate himself and crawl
 through window with Mrs. Roth. The | cars did not turn over in their descent 1 and this undoubtedly saved many serious ] injuries.
 Many Stop In Atlanta.
 | Most of the passengers of this ill-starred | excursion will remain in Atlanta for seV- 1 eral days and then return to their homes. 1 A few will continue their trip to Cuba l and to points in Florida.
 l Among the Columbus, O.. people in- l jured were Mir and Mrs. G. W. Nicholson l o. G. Vose, Miss Nette Baldinger, l.. 1 N. Alderman, Frank Strauss Theodore 1 Arter and George B. Rogers, all of whom 1 will recover. Among the Cleveland in- 1 jured were Mrs. Charles Hckeox Della | Duff. Mrs. Bartlett Mrs. J. D. Collver, I Allen II. Tremaine, Mrs B. G. Tremaine, | Mir. and Mrs. Alex Forster Mir and Mrs. | J. A Bartlett, R. c. White. Vincent j. ] and Thomas Rogers, Mrs. J. C. Notes, ] Mir. and Mrs. R. E. Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth 1 Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Rowbotlfam, Mrs. l K. Poel Mr and Mrs. R. C. Kane, H. H. Hodel All but Mrs. Elizabeth Smith are suffering from minor hurts Mrs. l Smith is suffering from an injured back and may have internal injuries. She is expected to recover.
 From Erie, Pa. MT. and Mrs. Jacob
 Roth and D. D. Kilsie are at a hotel and will recover
 MT. and Mrs. R. P. Creighton of Ash tabula, Mrs. H. w. Rovenna and Mrs. H. W. Riddle of Ravenna MT. and Mrs. R. B. Kenney. R. Rudolph, Mrs. A. B. Clark Mrs. w L. Alexander of Canton,
 Miss Lillian A. Murray of Akron, John Silk of Massillon are among the others who were hurt. but whose condition is not at all serious this morning.