The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-10-18
FOUR Die in CRASH
OF c. &W. c. TRAINS
SEVENTEEN lNJJRFD, TEN BEING
PASSENGERS
Disaster Said to be Due to NundcllVrry
OF Order-Engines and Baggage
Cars Demolished.

Augusta, Ca, Oct. 16.-Owing to .ha
operator at Mccormick, S. c., failing
to deliver meet order" for train No
s, leaving Anderson, S. c., for Angus
ia at $50 p. NJ, passenger train NO
8, leaving Augusta at 4.4o o'clock this
afternoon for Greenwood, S. c., col
lided with the Anderson train at 6.45
o'clock at the 40 1-2 mile post, Two
and a half miles this side of McCor-
mick, S. C. The trains were running
at top speed and came together in a
head-on collision. AS a result of the
collision, five trainmen were killed
and seven trainmen injured and 1C
passengers injured.
Both engines were completely
wrecked, the two baggage cars were
telescoped and the next TWO cars, on
both trains we're badly damaged.
The list of dead is as follows:
The Dead. :.
Arizona Rivers, Of Augusta, engi-
neer of train No. s.
Jim Sprowles, colored, of Augusta
fireman of No. s.
James Ware, colored, of Augusta
freman Of train No. 8.
W. F. Acker, of Anderson, mail
clerk of train No. 8.
Heard Searles, colored, of Augusta
porter of train No. 8.
Injured.
The injured are: R. I. Hartley, Ell
berton, Ca, leg and ankle broken; A
C. McNeal, baggage master on train
No. 8, Augusta, mashed in chest and
shoulder, condition serious; F. S.
Hughes, Augusta, engineer of train
No. 8, fatally injured; J. G. Stillwell
Augusta, road master of the Augusta
Anderson division; Joseph Herndon
conductor of train No. 8, body mash
ed; H. K. Burns, Augusta, baggage
master of train No. 8, slightly hurt
and the following passengers were
injured: ". F. Smith, Hartsville, leg
broken; W. E. Cutlif, Albany, Ca.
slightly bruised; B. N. Sego, of Green
wood, chest and hip injured; R. D
Seigler, of Mccormick, leg slightly in
jured; Miss Alma Williams, of Green
wood, body bruised; Lorenzo Rivers
Of Augusta, son of Engineer Rivers
slightly hurt; Jennie Payne, OF
Greenwood, seriously injured; Ross
Dawson, dead-head fireman, internal
injuries; Peter Lynch, head scalded
and leg bruised.
Taken to Greenwood.
All of the injured passengers were
on their way to Greenwood and were
Sent to that city in a physician S
charge. A relief train was made uI
at Augusta on receipt of the news Of
the wreck and this train is expected
to arrive in Augusta at 2 o'clock.
Shortly after the wreck, Dispatcher
Drowden at Mccormick telegraphed
the local officers of the Charleston &
Western Carolina railroad and stated
that he was busy selling tickets and
that he forgot to show the signal tt
stop train No. 3, for Augusta for ord
ers. Train No. registered at Nc
Cormick, and left at once for Angus.
ia.
Carried the News.
Conductor E. L. Foster, who was
On train No. 8, escaped injury and
walked the two and a half miles tc
Mccormick with the news of the
wreck. There Capt. Foster secured
an engine and ran back to the scene
Of the wreck and took the coach from
the Augusta-bound train back to Nc.
Corn1ick.
The young son of Engineer Rivers
was on the train with his father, 60
ing to Anderson, and was slightly in.
jured.
Two boys, whose names have no