Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-03-28
NREGEAGE ON COAST LINE
IS BEING CLEARED AWAY
Injured Express Messenger
Powell Is Reported to Be
Much Better
ESPECIAL dispatch to The JOurnal)

Especial Dispatch 10 me SouA Ala-f
TETON. Ca. March 25-with every
AVAILABLE man on this division and two
rreckine trains at work, the Dixie Flyer
! at an early hour tonight stih mass
II wreckage and splintered cars
The searchers have already found the
sodies az eight victims and injured
lave been accounted The wound
"a have been sent to waycross on hos
,ital car and the dead sent TO their vari-
Jus homes.
The dead and injured follow;
LIST OF DEAD.
The revised list Of dead:
WILLIAM cULPEPPER. Triton. Ca
j. T. WATSON. wyoming.
MRS. W. d. FLETCHER. Rowland. III
O. +. BARNwART. Henderson. Ky.
G ]. PARNELL. conductor. savan-
lah. Ca
j. WOODWARD. baggage master. Way
ALERT SIMMONS. negro porter.
LUCIUs ELLIS. colored. fireman
The injured:
]. p. Kline. wife and baby. St LOUIS;
u e Powell. express messenger JACK
~. +. Perkins. Fort Dade. Fla
r. CreenIeaf. Holland. Mich
Nicx yaudermanlen. Grand Rapids
Hich.
w d Fletcher. Rowland. III.
w T. Francis. Crawfordville. IND
Henry Strom. Streeter, H.
The injured were transferred 10 the At
hntic Coast Line hospital az Waycross'
"a. and the dead were taken 70 Triton
ana Waycross-
SCENE OF HORROR.
Around the wreck are piles Of express.
krolxen packages OF candy, coops OF cnick-
ms and geese, live and dead, eggs ana
miscellaneous matter
one man was arrested at noon attempt
nr TO rife a mail bag. The Alapaha
Kridre Is haif a mile long, but the river
s very low. and the water not 50 yards
across. An axle OF the locomotive snap
ID short on at the left driving wheel.
about half way the bridge and dropped
sopn. tearing up the track and deraling
ne cars following
The locomotive crossed the bridge and
nawar left the rails. The tender was de-
Taf,ed ana the tank dumped in the edge
81 the water on the east bank OF the
liver. Lucius Ellis. the colored fireman
aEther jumped or was thrown from the
lender and his body was found on the
vest bank Engineer Green stayed on
ais locomotive and escaped with a few
scratches The three rear Pullmans were
nnin1ured-
CAR IS SPLNTERED.
Heavy bridge timbers were driven end
wise through the baggage and express
ears. tearing il into spliners. killing J.
p. Woodward. express messenger. and IA
lailv injuring Baggag emaster J. E Pow
III. Mr. Powell was not extricated for
sver four hours and was conscious all the
lime. helping to direct those who were
trying to relieve him He is still alive
The baggage car was driven back
Rards through the second class passen-
GER coach and this was split in halt
lengthwfse, one-half falling beside the
rack and the other crushed into spin
lers.
Here Conductor c. J. Parnell. Of Savan-
nah, and colored porter. Albert Sim
mons. met instant death Parnelfs head
was crushed
The f1rst-cIass coach was driven back
INTO the sleeper Ruby. IL was a new
steel car and went half way through the
sleeper, reducing that portion to splin-
tars- In this car was Mr. c. F. Bonn
Rart. OF Henderson, Ky. who was in
stanfly killed He was in a sitting posi-
ton and mis- body was not recovered
until o'clock this afternoon His wife
and children were only slightly injured
and were carried TO Waycross. II was in
this car that Mr. W ". CuIpepper. OF
Tffton. was killed None OF the cars
eft the trestle work Mrs W. D. Fetch
er. OF Roland. IL. on her way with her
husband and children TO Tampa. Fla
where he has position. was killed, and
her husband injured