The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-08
FAST TRAIN IS WRECKED Many Passengers areIn-
 jured. CRASHES THROUGH TREsTLE Engineer, Fireman and Road Fore
 man Dead.
CRASHES THROUGH TREsTLE
There Were Some Two Hundred Ex- eur-ionists on Board asa That They Were Not KiIiea
 is . Miracle.

The deadt
 James Edwards, engineer.
 schnapps, read foreman sf ea-
 Nose Baldwin. negro fireman.
 Atlanta. Ga, Jan. 7.---Running at a speed of thirty miles an hour the sec ond section of an excursion train on the Southern Railway from Cleveland. O.. known as the ColIver special. anS bound for Florida points. plunged through trestie over Copper Nina Creek about fifty miles west of Atlanta today, and as . result three persons are dead. two others fatally Intured and eighty passengers were so seri- ousiy injured as to require medical at
 It was nearly midnight when shs southern Railways relief train reached Atlanta bearing the body Of EuRinaar James Edwards and about fifty of tha injured. among whom was Mrs. Emil Hoover Of Columbus. O.. who Is in \ dying condition. and Florence A. Etude. baker Of Cleveland. Internally injured and probably fatally hurt. Road Fore man of Engines Schnapps and the saa- gro fireman. Nose Baldwin, both fatal4 train. Nj e~
 Many df the other injured were lifted From the car windows and conveyed to local hospitals. while some of fhos~ hurt were able to take cabs to Iaenl hotels. " aeSsA
 The wreck occurred about 2 o.cioch this afternoon. five vestibuIed T,,,fI-s mans being precipitated twentv-flve Feet to the bed of the creek which wan nearly dry, one of the Pullmans being torn asunder. Two hundred paesars . gers went down with the coaches.
 Copper Mine trestle is between Hi. ram and Dallas. Ca, in sparseiy set- tied country.
 The Injured.
 The Injured in the Atlanta hospital are; Mr. K. w. Griswold. Ashtahula. Q. internally injured and badly bruised on head; Mrs. R. W. Griswoid. Ashfa- bula, O.. bruised on back and llraba. Mr, and Mrs. Creighton oe Ashtahs,sn O. altsht bruises. Mrs. Elizabeth srnIfh Of Cleveland. O.. back hurt and proba- ply serious internal injuries: MT. and Mrs. R. V. Smith of CIsvelaud alfrg,ffv bruised; Mrs. Elizabeth r. Rowbotharss. Cleveland. o. slightly bruised; Mrs. K Feel. Cleveland, O., slight bruises: - Rogers and son, Cleveland, badly cut and bruised: Mir and Mrs. R. c. Kane, Cleveland slightly hurt: F. Strauss, Cleveland; Mrs. Della Thompson. Mon- tana, os1 Frank Gregory and wife: E E. Henfy and wife. Ashtabula, 0. John Touehstone. East Jordan. Mich., badly injured.
 Others injured are:
 H. H. Hodell. Cleveland, O.; Mrs. George B. Rogers, Columbus. O.: Mrs. P. N. Smith. Columbus. O.; 0. c. voss. Columbus. O., Mrs. Ella E. Tidemann. Cleveland, O.; Mrs. E. D. Webster, Wal- lington. O.; c. M. Almon, Rome. Ga. Jacob Roth. Erie, Pa; Mrs. D. b. KiI@ sic, Erie. Pa; p. N. Alderman, Colum- Dus o. Mrs. Theo. Arter, Columbus. o. Twelve passengers, names un- known. were cared for at hotels.
 The Collver special Is an annual exe cursion run from Cleveland, O, to Florida points and Cuba, under the di- rection of General Passenger Agent Collyer of the Big Four system. It started from Cleveland yesterday at consisting of four Pullmana ana dining car. and the second of Ave Pun mans, diner and, a baggage car The train was being run on the schedule of what is known as train No. G. and the sections were fifteen minutes apart ing.
 Train Was Late.
 The train was late at Dallas and It was we'll along toward o'clock this afternoon when the second section slowed down for the trestie crossing Copper Mine Creek. On the south side of this trestle is curve The engine passed the bridge in safety, then left the rails and turned on it's side. The baggage car turned over on the bank; the Ave heavy PuiImans following crashing through the trestie and fali- ing to the bed of the creek. The last car ,an observation coach. rested with one end in the mud and the other on the bank above. One car in the middle of the train cracked in the middle through the strain and pinned down Jacob Roth of Erie. Pa. and his wife. They were not seriously injured. how ever, and were able to go to q hotel here tonight
 On board the train were some 200 az. cursionists. That they escaped with out fatal injury is considered relnarh- able. E. D. Morris. of Atlanta, auper- intendent of the Atlanta division ng the Southern R. R..was on the second section and was caught in the wreck age and suffered a fractured collar bone.
 5In an interview with the Assoelatea Press tonight, he said that 1t would bs impossible at present to give any idea as to what caused the accident. A thorough investigation win be conduct ed.
 SeabOard to Rescue.
 The accident occurred about i.o0a
  Line crosses on a bridge above tfe Southern track. A freight train was. passing on the Seaboard when ts. crash came and the conductor og fl4S freight witnessed the deraiiment r,in ninE his train into Hiram. he side tracked everything but a caboose erd one car and ran these back to whAre the passengers were slowly extricatin themselves. Forty of the passengers most of them women were brOpn,sf into Atlanta over the Seaboard tracks
 The second relief train arrived later in the night
 One of the Cleveland passengers bound for Cuba said after he orawied from a window of the second Pullman and looked at the wreckage:
 ~'inute I get back 10 Cleveland I will give thousand dollars to ehsri- ty."
 The trestie on which the accident oc- cured was about 200 yards long The engine struck the telegraph poles be-