The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-24
FATAL WRECK ON S. A. |
SEABOARD TRAIN LEAVES RAIL, RUNNING
At HIGH RATE OF SPEED
YOUNG LADY KILLED INSTANTLY
Near Lumberton Thursday SeabOprd
Train Throws Two Pullmans
Kills Young Lady and Injuries
MANY Others

Seaboard Air Line passenger train
No. 40, due to arrive here from
Charlotte at 1920 O'Clock yester-
day afternoon, bringing in addition
to the usual day coaches two Pull
mans from Atlanta, Birmingham and
Montgomery, Ala, with their usual
number of weekend visitors for
Wrlghtsville Beach, running three
hours and forty minutes late on
account of a previous delay at Polk
ton, y. c., where some cars of a
freight train had been derailed. was
was wrecked half mile this side
| OF Attention, and five miles east of
Lumberton, \. c., about three
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, both
Pullmans having left the rails and
turned over, tearing up the track
for aoout 800 feet
One passenger, Miss Bessie Jones,
/ OF Montgomery, Ala, member OF a
party en- route to Wrightsville |
Beach, Was instantly killed, while IA
! others were more or less seriously
injured, but none of them fatally. !
All of the injured reached Will ,
mington on the train at s o'clock
last night, after having previously
been given medical attention at
Bladenboro and by half a dozen ply
sicians who came out to the wreck
in automobiles from Lumberton, n.
i {. The most seriously injured
perhaps is Pullman Conductor Joe
b. Hill, of this city, who has a
badly sprained back and may have
suffered internal injuries. There
were about 125 passengers, all told,
In the day coaches and in the Pull
mans, ten of the number being in
the chair car from Charlotte and "a
In the Pullman from the South.
None of the day coaches left the
track and those in the Pullmans
were the only ones killed or injur-
ed. Miss Jones, whose injuries re-
suited fatally, was in the sleeper
: and from the position of the body
, appears to have been leaning out
OF the window as the coach was
derailed.
The train left LTmberton at
2:25 for Wilmington and was in
charge of Conductor ]. c. Jones,
of this city, and Engineer Dick
) Crosby, of Hamlet, n. c. CondGc-
tor Joe Hill was in charge of both
Pullmans the chair car Cinderella
and the sleeper Zeus. Attention
: is four miles this side OF Lumber
ton and after making a stop there,
; the train had just gotten under
headway and had probably attain
ed speed of about 80 miles an
hour when Conductor Jones, in
the day coach felt a pull on the
train and Immediately applied the
emergency brakes The day
coaches and engine broke loose
from the Pullmans which also part
ed their couplings and turned over
on their sides. Fortunately the
track is very level at the point of
the wreck and after humping along
for about 800 yards the cars came
TO standstill. Both cars fell on
the left side of the track and were
neither of them badly wrecked 1t
is thought that Miss Jones who was
fatally injured, must have been
asleep, and waking from the first
jolt of the derailment, attempted to
get through one of the windows of |
the Pullman. Her body was found |,
tightly jammed in the window and /!
mad to be sawed out of the frame of
the window. Within a short time
Conductor Jones had the train on |
It's way to the nearest station. !
Bladenboro, with the injured who !
were given attention by Dr. Norman,
OF that place, and DIR. l.. B. Evans,
OF Clarkton, who had been sum-
moned by telephone. Doctors al !
so arrived from Lumberton with
many citizens who worked heroical- /
ly in assisting Conductor Jones |
and the others who were able to as
sist from among the passengers list |
and crew of the train. The remains |
or Miss Jones were removed a S |
500 as possible from the Pullman
and were taken back to Lumberton
where they were prepared for bur
ial by Undertaken w. w. Carlyle
and later taken to Seaboard heaF
headquarters at Hamley.
The body was in charge of Drs. |
| w. a. McPhaul and H. r. Pope. !
Relatives in Montgomery, Ala, were
Immediately notified by telegraph
and brother, Mr.. A j. Jones, of
montgomery, cashier of the First
National Bank of that city, left |
montgomery last night to take
charge OF the remains at Hamlet
MISS Jones was a member of
party of friends who had planned to /
spend the week at the seashore. |
included Mr.. and Mrs. w. w Jones, /
two children and colored maid, of /
Wetumpka, Ala, and Mrs. j. NJ.
Fitzpatrick of the same place. She
was a distant relative of Mr.. I.
and Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Fitzpat-
rick, about 25 years of age. Other .
members of the party were slight /
ly injured, as will appear from the |
list as follows:
The Injured.
Mrs. j. NJ Fitzpatrick, Wet /
upmpka, Ala, finger broken and |
arm bruised.
n. ID. Dunnison, Lafayette, Ala,
small abrasion on the arm and leg.
May Dennison, Lafayette. Ala.
cut on left leg and head slightly
bruised.