Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-03-14
EDUCATIONAL SPECIAL
is ON IT'S WAY AGAIN
Misses Two Stops as Result of WreCk-Stor of Wasted
Chicken Pie-Gravy Spilled on Pants of Commissioner
Hudson and Editor Duckworth-New Pullman and New
Exhibit Coach Required


ers' Union News. and The Journal staff
correspondent. News through the Au-
gusta Southern train dispatcher says
every enc of them did a mans work in
the laborious job of building a new track
and getting the train around the wreck.
Superintendent White was up nearly all
night.
NO BLAME FOR ACCIDENT
In this connection it is due Mr.. White
to say that he YVES in no way to blame
for the wreck, nor was 1t due to defec-
tive track or reckless handling of the
train. 1t was simply an unfortunate ac-
cident which might have befalIen the
train. anywhere at any time. A rod of
iron broke. a brake beam fell to the
track beneath the wheels of the engine
tender. it left the track, and-crash,
bang, there was wreck.
4 superintendent Whites regret was
poignant. He is thoroughly in sympathy
with the purpose of the educational train
and fully appreciates the great good it Is
doing for the farmers. He was anxious
for the farmers on his line to get all
the benefits they could. He naturally
was taking pride in handling the train
promptly and safely while 1t was on his
line. Though he had not been with the
party but half day. they had all recog-
nized in him a good railroad man and
a fine gentleman and they were doubly
sorry the wreck occurred, on his ac-
count.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
That everybody escaped unhurt is little
short of miraculous. Phe train was back
ing from Wrens to Keysville, where 1t
was to have Strengthened out again on
the Georgia and Florida for Midwife The
engine was running with the tender in
front. That is, the cow-catcher was cou-
pied to the Pullman. Where the spill
came the track is straight and almost
dead level 1t is filed about FIVE feet
deep.
Engineer E.. B. Thomas was running
about 20 miles an hour. The first he
knew about there being something
wrong was when the tender bucked all
of a sudden and left the rails. Instantly
he clapped on his emergency brake, and
terrific buckle" ran through the
length of the train. But it's momentum
drove 1t forward more than so feet, and
when it finally settled, the tender, the
on top of one another in a s frightful
mass of topsy-turvy boiler, scattered
trucks. twisted iron and shattered wood
work.
The tender was lying parallel with. the
track to the left. The engine was lying
across the track, one end deep in the
mud on the right, and the front end of
the boiler on top of the tender The
kitchen end of the Pullman car was
resting on top of the boiler, at least 20
feet in the air, and careened to an agile
of As degrees.
Had the train been going 35 miles an
hour-which ISN'T SO powerful fast-it
is certain that death would have been
the story OF the wreck. The engineer
and the fireman would have lost their
lives. Both the negro cooks, right next
TO the engine, would have had slim
chance to escape And IL most of the
party seated in the Pullman had not
been killed 1t would have been really a
miracle.
A WASTED CHICKEN PIE.
Nor was the wreck devoid of its funny
side.
r. B. Elliott. the Pullman representa-.
tive, had arranged for chicken pie foi
dinner
The cook was stirring it when tho
crash came. TIE tilt of the car threw
the range on the uphill side and gravy
and dumplings, scalding hot. spattered