The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-10-19
FIVE MET DEATH IN
RAILROAD ACCIDENT
Collision off fdssengers on
C.. 6 w. c.
MANY WE'RE INJURED
Disaster Said to he Due to Non-Deliv-
cry of Orders to No. 3-Engines
and Baggage Cars Demolished.

and Baggage Cars Demolished.
Augusta, Ga, Oct. 16.-Owing to
the operator at Mccormick, S. c..
failing to deliver meet order" for
train No. s, leaving Anderson, S c..
tor Augusta, at $50 p. m., passenger
train No. 3. leaving Augusta at 4:45
o'clock this afternoon for Greenwood.
S. c., collided with the Anderson train
at 6.45 o'clock, at the 10 1-2 mile
post, two and a half miles this side of
Mccormick, S. G.. The trains were
running at top speed and came to-
sether in a head-on collision AS a
result of the collision, five trainmen
we're killed and seven trainmen in
jured and 10 passengers injured.
Both engines were completely
wrecked, the two baggage cars were
telescoped and the next two cars, on
both trains were badly damaged
The list of dead is as follows:
The Dead.
Arizona Rivers of Augusta. engi-
neer of train No. s.
w. f. Acker of Anderson, mail
clerk of train No. s.
Jim Sprowles, colored, of Augusta.
fireman of No. s.
James Ware, colored, of Augusta.
fireman of train No. 3.
Heard Searles, colored, of Augusta,
porter ftrain No. g.
Injured.
The injured are: r: l.: Hartley.
Elberton, Ga, 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. s, fatally injured; ]. G. StillweI.
Augusta, road master or the Augusta
Anderson division; Joseph Herndon.
conductor of train No. s, body
mashed; II. Is. Burns, Augusta, bag
gage master of train No s, slightly
hurt, and the following passengers
were injured: w. F. Smith. Harts-
Vile, leg broken; w. e. Cutlif, Albany.
Ga, slightly bruised; B. N. Sego of
Greenwood, chest and hip injured; r.
ID, Seigler of Mccormick, leg slightly
injured; Miss Alma Williams of
Greenwood 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 physician's
charge. a relief train was made up
at Augusta on receipt of the news
OF the wreck and this train is expected
10 arrive in Augusta at 2 o'clock.
Shortly after the wreck, Dispatcher
Browden at Mccormick telegraphed
the local officers of the Charleston &
Western Carolina railroad and stated
that he was busy selling tickets and
nat he forgot to show the signal to
stop train No. 8, for Augusta for ord
ers. Train No 3 registered at Nc.
lormick. and left at once for Augusta.
Carried the News.
Conductor E. H. Foster. who was
on train No. escaped injury ana
walked the two and half miles 10
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
Cormick.
The young son OF Engineer Rivers
was on the train with his father GO
ing to Anderson, anG was slightly in
jured.
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
badly injured.