New-York tribune., 1908-01-08
FAST TRAIN WRECKED.
THREE DEAD, so HURT.
Collier Special LeaUes Track ON
Trestle an Georgia.


Atlanta. Jan. Trimming at speed of thirty
miles hour, the second section of an excur
sion train on the Southern Railway. from Cleve-
land Ohio. known the Collver Special, and
bound for Florida points. plunged through
trestle over Copper Mine Creek about fifty
miles north of Atlanta. to-day and a result
three persons dead. three others fatally
injured, and eighty passengers seriously
injured to require medical attention
The injured:
AcKERMAN. e. NJ Columbus Ohio
ALMON. G. NJ. Rome, Ga.
ARTER. Mrs. Theodore. Columbus, Ohio.
BALDINGER. Mrs Nellie. Columbus Ohio.
CANE Mr. Mrs r. c.. Cleveland; slightly hurt.
CREIGHToN. Mr. and Mrs. Ashtabula ohio slightly
GREGORY. Mr.. and Mrs Frank.
GRIsWoLD @ r W.. Ashtabula Ohio: internally injured
GRIsWoLD Mrs R. w, Ashtabula- Ohio: bruised
back limbs
HENRY. Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Ashtabua. Ohio.
HODELL- H. H. Cleveland.
KILSIE. Mrs D. D., Erie Penn.
PEEL Mrs. k Cleveland: slightly bruised
ROGERS. Mrs. George b. Columbus, Ohio.
ROGERS H. H. and Cleveland; cut and bruised
ROTH. Jacob, Erie Penn.
ROTH. Mrs J., Erie. Penn.
RowBOTHAM. Mrs Elizabeth F.. Cleveland slightly
SMITH. Mrs Elizabeth: Cleveland hurt prob
SMITH. Mr.. r E. Cleveland slightly bruised
SMITH, Mrs. P. N. Columbus, Ohio.
STRAUSS +. s., Cleveland.
THOMPSON. Mrs. Della, Mantua- Ohio
TIDEMANN Mrs Ella E, Cleveland
TOUCHSTONE John. East Jordan. Mich: badly injured
VOSS, o. G.. Columbus, Ohio.
WEBSTER, Mrs. E. F.. Wellington Ohio.
Twelve passengers, unknown, who cared for
hotels.
The Southern Railways relief train reached
Atlanta about midnight bearing the body of
James Edwards, the engineer, and about fifty
of the injured. among whom. was Mrs. Emil
Hoover of Columbus, Ohio, who is in dying
condition, and Florence A. Studebaker, of
Cleveland. internally injured and probably
fatally hurt G. Schnapps, road foreman of en-
gines, and the negro fireman Nose Baldwin
both fatally injured, were also the relief
train.
The road foreman of engines, Schnapp, ana
the fireman died shortly after reaching the city
Many of the other injured were carried to
local hospitals. while some were taken to hotels.
The Collver special is an annual excursion
from Cleveland to Florida points and Cuba un-
der the direction of General Passenger Agent
Colver of the Big Four system 1t started
from Cleveland yesterday at 1925 p. M. in two
sections.
on board the train were some two hundred
excursonists. That they escaped without fatai
iniurv is considered remarkable z. E. Norris.
of Atlanta, superintendent OF tile AtidHtd ui'AS
ion of the Southern Railway suffered tract
ured collarbone.
The accident occurred about one thousand
wards south of where the Seahoard Air Line
crosses on q bridge above the Southern tracks.
A freight train passing on the Seaooard
when the crash came and the conductor or the
freight witnessed the wreck. Running his tram
into Hiram he sidetracked everything but
ca boose and one and ran these BACK 10
where the passengers were slowly extrlcating
themselves Forty of the passengers, most or
them women. were brought into Atlanta over
the Seaboard tracks.
The second relief train arrived later in the
night Most of those the train went TO Az
Ianta hotels tonight and had their injuries
cared for by physicians
A report that the train caught fire was oenleu
nv every one aboard. One of the Cleveland pas
seneers bound for Cuba on an excursion TRIP
said after he craWled from window or the Sec
ond Pullman and looked at the wreckage: The
minnie I get back to Cleveland 1 will give $1,000
to charity.
The trestle on which the accident occurred
was about two hundred yards long. The engine
struck the telegraph poles beside the track and
for several hours no details of the wreck were
available