Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-25
SEVEN BODIES RECOVERED
Exact Number Of Dead and Injured
Is Not Known.
COACHES FAR UNDER WATER
Pullman Sleeper and Two Day Cars
Take Plunge Into the
Allapaha.

OC1LLA, Ga, March 2A-Seven per-
sons are known to have been killed and
more than a dozen injured when the Dixie
flyer. on the Atlantic Coast Line, run
ming between Chicago and Jacksonville.
Fla, was wrecked on a trestle over the
Allapaha river near here. at 7:20 o'clock
this morning. Tho first and second class
coaches and tho first Pullman sleeper
went into the river. carrying away about
400 feet Of the trestle.
According to reports Of some OF the pas
sengers who came to Ocilla, the crash
came without warning. It was caused by
the breaking Of an axle on the engine
when midway Of the long trestle.
The coaches in the river are about ten
feet under water, and it Is said the list
Of dead may be increased when the de-
bris is cleared. Seven bodies had been re-
covered at noon. and the injured were
brought here and will be sent to the At
lantic Coast Line Hospital at Waycross,
Ga.
Forty Dead, First Report.
First reports of the wreck were to the
effect that the entire train went into the
river, and that forty persons were killed
outright. The scene of the wreck is in a
remote section of the state, and 1t was
several hours before accurate information
was obtainable.
Relief trains have been sent to the
scene Of the wreck from Waycross, Tiff
ton and Willacoochee, and it is stated
that it will be thirty-stx hours before the
fra clrS ara cleared for traffic.
Company Official Statement.
SAVANNAH, Ga, March 25.-The At
| lantic Coast Line general superintendent s
Office gives out the following account OF
| the wreck Of the Dixie flyer:
"Train No. 95 known as the Dixie
flyer. running from Chicago to Jackson
Vile, Fla, was wrecked on the Alapahs
trestle, three miles south OF Aiapaha sta
ton on the Brunswick & Western division
| Of the Atlantic Coast Line railway at
| 7:2O O'Clock this morning The train car
| ried down with it four hundred feet OF
| the trestle. The baggage car was tele-
scoped and the first and second-class
coaches and the first Pullman sleeping
| car fell through the treste.
Conductor Charles j. Parnen OF Sa-
vannah, and a negro porter. are supposed
| to be under the wreckage. A number Of
passengers were injured
Driving Wheel Axle Broke.
"The accident was caused by the engine
driving wheel axle breaking, although
the engine remained on the trestle.
Hospital trains were sent from the Coast
Line Hospital at Waycross to the scene
Of the wreck with doctors and nurses
on board. This train left Waycross at
lS:4O o'clock this morning. doctors were
also sent from Triton on a special train
| and the company doctors from Willacoo-
chez went to the scene on a handcar. 1t
will be thirty-six hours before the track
is cleared.
| The known dead: w. Culpeper, Tif-
ton, Ca; o. F. Bomwart. Henderson, KY;
Mrs. w. d. Fletcher, Rowland. ILL.,; Con-
ductor Charles j. Parnell, Savannah, Ga !;
Express Messenger Woodward; Fireman
Lucius Ellis, cOlored; Porter Whidden,
| colored.
The injured: Express Messenger and
Baggagemaster Powell, serious; w. 7.
Perkins, Catlettsburg, KY: Mrs. o. f.
Bomwart, Henderson. KY: Nick van Don
meiulen, Grand Rapids. Mich; Peter Ger
loft, Holton. Mich; Mrs. j. p. Klein, and
lthree-year-old daughter, st. Louis, Mo-;
w. F. Francis. Charlottesville, Ind.
Known as "No. 95."
CHICAGO. March 25.-The Dixie flyer.
wrecked III 0eOTS early tOudy NdS
6nown on the time tables as No. 50.
southbound. 1t was composed of two
Pullman sleepers, buffet, drawing room
and observation cars, and left Chicago
Thursday at $50 pm. over tho Chicago
and Eastern Illinois railroad.
At Nashville, Tenn, it picked up an
Illinois Central sleeper from st. Louis,
Mo-, and this made up the train to jack
sonville, Fla.
It was due to leave Tifton, Ga, the last
stop before it passed the scene Of its
wreck, at 1925 am. over the Atlantic
Coast Line.
The exact scene Of the wreck is believed
here to be four miles west Of Willacoo-
chez and about six miles east Of the small
station Of Glory. Between these towns
the Ailapaha river ran beneath the tracks,
which were supported by a trestle which
was some thirty feet above the stream
bed The railroad officials here had no
word of danger from flood at that point
and could not account for the train leav-
ing the structure. The local ticket office
of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois rail-
road showed eight reservations for pass
age on the train from Chicago to Jack
sOnville. but the ticket once took no
names Of the passengers, many of whom