The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-11-10
ALL THE SLEEPERS ON NO. IA
LEFT THE TRACK EARLY
YESTERDAY MORNING.
Mother Is Seriously Injured in Saving
infant-Many Passengers Greatly
rlghtened-None of Occupants Of
Brunswick Sleeper Injured.

I1JSDL pdSo'SuSeTS were iuJuTSus one
perhaps seriously, VIXEN four sleeping
cars attached TO Southern tran No.
l4, south bound, lott the rails at Scot
land, 10S miles flom Brunswick, at
Alb yesterday r1o' ming.
The Injured.
Fla, sprained back.
Mrs Geo. w. Leonard, St. Angus
tine, Fla, suffering from nervous
shock.
Mrs. Nj. Mct;o.nery. St Augustine,
Fla. shoulder slightly sprained.
W. J. Morgan, of Savannah, GA,
small cut on leg.
T. NJ. Kyle, Of Gadsden, Ala. side
is slightly hurt.
Emil Selign:ar, Cincinnati, Ohio,
bruises al out heaG and back
Miss Florence Page. Memphis, Tenn.
slightly hurt.
Geo. II. Shelton, Detroit, Mich, leg,
thumb and side slightly burt.
The train was running at the rate
of so miles III hour when the acci-
dent, which was due to broken rail-
occurred The four sleepers whdch
were attached 20 the rear Of the train
and the engine. baggage coach and
passenger coaches had passed before
the rail split.
All of the sleerers were thrown ON
their side and .he passengers, rudely
awakened FROM sleep, were hurled
from their bertha into the aisles. !.
First Th,ueht Many Killed.
pandemonium reiened as the criea
of the frightened passengers were
heard in the darkness and at first ~
was believed that several persons had
been killed. AS most of the sleepers
were overturned at an angle, it was q
difficult matter 10 get the passengers
out, 1t being necessary TO pull them
through the windows.
The sleeping cas- were the "Obra,
Cincinnati to Jacksonville; Green
up" Chicago to Jacksonville; Buck
ingham," Colorado Springs to Jack
sonville, and the "Streater," Atlanta
to Brunswick. When the CRASH uc-
Cured the first two sleepers were de-
rallied and the coupling between them
and the two rear cars broke, the lat
ter being overturned several hundred
yards from the former.
Mrs. Chlson Seriously Hurt.
Mrs. Chilson, tho most seriously In
jured of the passei gers. WAS in the
second sleeper, the "Greenup." She
occupied a lower berth with her small
baby. Her back WAS sprained in her
efforts to seize the child and save 1t
from injury when the shock OF the
cars leaving the track awakened
her. The child escaped uninjured,
but the mothe~ Is suffering consider
able pain.
Mrs. Leonar 1. who was returning to
Ter home from st. Augustine, was In
i'll health and the accident so upset
her nerves that she became hysterical
and II was ,itl difficulty that she
was quieted. Most of the injured pas
sengers were carried to Jacksonville
Memf ers Of the train crew assisted
in the work Of reScae and In a short
time al had .ccn gotten out in their Z
ness Of the n rniug air the passenA
gers suffered considerably from The
exposure and several men pasaesn-
GERS loaned the women their over
costs.
An investigation ,f the scene OF the
wreck shortly ar,aI the accident
showed that A broken rail had caus-
I'd the trouble and that rails, ties,
and everything had been torn up for
the distance OF several huIlored
yards
After DELAY OF several hours
local train brought two additional
coaches and Tie passengers from the
sleeper were transferred to them.
None of the occupants Of the At
anta-Brunswic!i sleeper were injured.