The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-10-20
DILLON PULLING FOR AUTO HIGHWAY, 81
S KILLED In COLLISION
TRAINS CRASH NE A R
MCCORMICK.


Dispatcher Browden Fails To DeIiv-
er Meet Orders and Passenger
Trains Collide With Fatal
Result. Passengers
Hurt, Many
Seriously.
Augusta, Ga, Oct. 16.-Owing to
the operator at Mccormick, S. c..
failing to deliver meet orders" for
train No. s, leaving Anderson, S.
C., for Augusta at $50 p. m, pas
senger train No. 3, leaving Angus
ia at 4.45 o'clock this afternoon
Tor Greenwood, S. c., collided with
the Anderson train at 6:45 O'Clock
at the forty and a half mile pest,
two and half miles this side OF
Mccormick, S. c. The trains were
running at top speed and came to-
Sether in head-on collision. AS
result of the collision five train
men were killed and seven train
men and ten passengers injured.
Five Killed.
Both engines were completely
wrecked, and two baggage cars
were telescoped and the next two
cars in both trains were badly dam
aged.
The list Of dead is as follows:
Engineer Arizona Rivers, of Au-
susta, train No. s.
Fireman Jim Sprowlers, colored.
of Augusta, train No. s.
Fireman James Ware, colored, of
Augusta, train No. 3.
Mail Clerk w. F. Acker, of All
derson, train No. s.
Train Porter Heard Searles, col
ored, OF Augusta, train No. 8.
List of Injured.
The injured are: r. l.. Hartley,
OF Elberton, Ga, leg and ankle bro
ken; A. S. McNeal, baggage master
on train No. 3, of Augusta, mashed
in chest and shoulders, condition
serious; Engineer F. S. Hughes. of
Augusta, of train No. 3, fatally in
jured; ]. G. Stilwell, of Augusta,
road master of the Augusta-Ander-
son division; Conductor Joseph
Hernlon, of train No. 8, body mash
ed; Baggage Master H. K. Brns, of
Augusta, and the following passen-
gers were injured:
w. F. Smith, Hastsville, S. c.,
leg hurt; w. E. Cutliff, of Albany,
Ga, slightly bruised; B. N. Sego,
Of Greenwood, S. c., chest and hip
injured; r. d. Seigler, of McCor-
mick. S. c., leg slightly injured
Miss Alma Williams, of Greenwood,
S. c., body bruised; Lorenzo Rivers,
of Augusta, son of Engineer Rivers,
slightly hurt; Jenny Payne, of
Greenwood, S. c., seriously injured;
Ross Dawson, dead-head fireman,
Internal injuries; Peter Lytch, head
scalded and leg bruised.
All Of the passengers above were
on their way to Greenwood and
were sent to that city in a physi-
cian's charge. A relief train was
made up at Augusta on receipt of
the news of the wreck and this
train is expected to arrive in Angus
Ia at o'clock.
The Dispatcher's Plea.
Shortly after the wreck Dispatch
er Browden at Mccormick tele-
graphed the local office of the c.
& w. c. Railroad and stated that
he was so busy selling tickets that
he forgot to show the signal to stop
train No. for Auusta for orders.
Train No. 8 registered at Mccormick
and left at once for Augusta. Con-
ductor E. l.. Foster, who was on
train No. 8, escaped injury and
walked the two and a half miles to
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 Mccormick.
The young son of Engineer Riv-
ers was on the train with his faith
er, going to Anderson, and was
slightly injured.
Two boys whose names have not
yet been learned, are said to have
been hurt. One is known to have
had his arm broken and the other
boy is badly injured.
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