The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-01-05
KILLED IN WRECK
SEVERAL PERSONS LOSE THEIR
LIVES IN COLLISION.
neat Bankers and Nulci-suilion-
aircs Numbered Among tho Dead.

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Spence. Trask. oanke. aad multi
millionaire. was killed Friday. two
other persons also lost their l!vea
and four were injured. wien =
freish, train crashed into the Sec
ond section OF the Montreal Express
OF 'he New York Central railroad q:
Cro,on. y. Y.
All Of the victims were in the
last car at the time The engine
Of the freight train ;elescoped ths
car.
The car. which was sleeper. res
crushed. as though /; were an egg
! shell. The three persons thought
TO have been killed were !nprisoa-
cd IN the wreckase. No sound could
| be heard from them after the COL
ltsion and It was considered q Ger
;ainty shat they were killed. The!.
names could not De obtained The
porter or the sleeping car and three
other persons. al injured. crasled
out OF the w.eckase.
II was With srea. difficulty that
the body OF Mr. Trask was taken
from the debris. I, was then con
veyed to the morsue. a, C.ocon.
while crew Of mon began working
to secure the othe. bodies.
Tho accident is said to have been
due to the ea-elessaess OF . brake
man on the Montreal Express. The
train. bound for New York. was run
ming IN the middle o; three tracks.
and Ehen It reached Uppercsosstns
at crotoa. It halted near q signal
light. which displayed stop" sig
nal.
The conductor OF the train sent
tho brakeman back TO sisnal any
othe. trains which might cone
along. II was not hen known By
the conductor that the freight was
laundering along oa tho saue track.
The brakeman is said 70 have gone
only thirty feet behind tho Hoat.e-
al Express with his red signal. In
the roar sleeper there ve.e eight
persons. seven passengers and the
porter.
As. Tresk was asleep IN q berth
near the rear door. For several
months be had been III. and only
recently underwent an operation b.
which he lost the sight Of o,e Of
his eyes. On this account he had
told the porter not to disturb him
until the train reached New York
The f,e!sh, train bore down upon
the express ct full speed. The brake
man saw 1t when It was somc dis
,ance Of and began waving his fas.
but Engineer Flanagan OF the
'reish: di, not see the signal until
he was too near the express train
TO slow up. He then applied the
emergency brakes. The freight. con-
sisting Of nearly forty cars. did no:
seem TO slacken :ts speed. II Slid
along or tie rails and crashed into
the rear car OF the express With
f.iEhtfu! force.
After :he first shock OF the coll
'!Ton. the engine Of Rho freight
train plowed through tho sleeper
Those IN the car had no opportunity
to fee.
The brakeman who had been seq:
back to give signal disappeared
Immediately after the crash and OF.
acials OF the railroad company are
now searching for him.
NJ. Trask boarded the Montreal
Express at Saratoga. where be had
been living in "yeddo." his masnific-
ar: country home The train had
been delayed BY recent snoE storms.
and by tie time II reached Croton
q, O'Clock. 1t vas more ,han an
hour behind It's schedule.
II was due IN New York at .:o0
a. n. The rea. sleepe. vas the only
one damaged Ia the crash. P2sseas-
ers IN ali Of the other cars were
badly shaken up. but none OF them
Was seriously injured