Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-10
WRECK ON SOUTHERN
Fatal Accident Occurs Near At.
Ianta, Ga.
TRAIN GOES INTOA BRIDGE

TWO Engineers Were sealded to
Death and II IL a Miracle that the
Death List DID Not Run Into More
than q sOOrO.
Hiram, Ca, Jan. 9.-One man
Bcalded TO death, two others fatally
scalded, two passengers known to be
fatally hurt, three more probably IA
aally Injured, and eighty-odd badly
1ntureo, 10 the result of the most CON-
plete wreck ever known on the South
en- roef, which took place Tuesday
afternoon ~ miles north OF here
when the second section of tho Chi.
oaeo-F Florida" limited broke through a
Grestle and went tumbling down an
0mbanlEment.
That the train did not catch on fire
and burn the imprisoned passengers to
. crisp L. the wonder Of the day.
What was the finest Pullman train
which ever passed out Of Cleveland,
Ohio, II half buried in the mud and
sluSh OF 4 Georgia swamp, the bright
b FURNISHED engine Mas OF scrap
Hron, the solid We thule train broken
and battered, one car being broken ex.
actly In hall, every window broken
cut, and q useless pile OF splInterel
Nplendor is what remained
How every one Of the hundred-odd
passengers escaped instant death is
. mystery, and the fact that the pas
1Ongers escaped immediate death
made them positively happy.
This train, which was due "a arrive
On Atlanta shortly after noon, left
Chattanooga In charge Of Conductor Y.
n. Norris, Of Atlanta, and Engineer
Jim Towards. OF Atlanta, the latter
being the first TO suocumb three hours
later.
On tho curve run between Dallas
AMI Hiram, a distance OF about Ave
miles, and just below the point where
the Seaboard, on a high tresthe. cross
e. the Southern tracks on the Cnatta-
nooga division, the awful wreck &C.
CURED.
The entire train was made up OF
Ohio people bound for a winter va
cation amid the perfumes and flowers
OF Florida and Cuba. They were
scattered throughout the vestibulei
train. but the majority were In the
dining car In charge OF Captain w. II.
Fall. Of Atlanta.
Just after the track crosses tne Sea.
board intersection II runs upon an en-.
bankment IN the middle of which there
Il a trestle which spans the Cop
per Mine creek AZ a distance Of ten
feet in the air. with the embank'
Hnent slopInG away on either side tcr
forty feet TO lowland Of slime aad
mud.
Just about 2:4o O'Clock this train.
hte. AMI running fast. hit the curve
which 10 broken by the span over the
creek.
Reports vary as to how the acci.
0Ont occurred. but It Is generally con.
coded that tho rails spread right after
ohe engine crossed the trestle. ,
The engine vas left q battered
mass Of iron and brass across the
track where II had butted into az en-
oankment and stopped. While each OF
che coaches, from baggage car 10 %.
Ssrvation compartment. went down the
Smbankment
The car in the middie Of the train.
Chs Radcliffe" vas brokea squArelJ
n Aalf. Pullman Car Conductor II
\. ThGmer. o. Cleveland. was stAa1
tns In The car ard vas estapultsA intn
The air, Iand,ug In AZ open neiA knss
deep In mud, and unAart. while one
half The car went down ore embark
ESnt. ana TIE other half The other en-
1ankmeoi.
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