The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-10-24
TWELVE SERIOUSLY
HURT IN COLLISION
SeabOard Train No. 20 Meets
Freight Head-On.
WRECK NEAR COLUMBIA,
baggagemaster j. r. Anderson,
Though Badly Wounded, Walks
Three Miles to Report Wreck.

Three Miles to Report Wreck.
Columbia Special to Charlotte OBJ
server, Oct. 22.-Five members of
train crew and seven passengers
were seriously injured In a head-on
collision between a local northbound
passenger train and a southbound
freight train on sharp curve be-
tween Dixiana and CASTOR, about
seven miles south of Columbia on
the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, this
morning at 10:40 o'clock.
relief train carrying doctors to
the wreck met with accident itself
within few miles of the scene when
the eccentric strap of the engine
broke, reversing the lever of the en-
CINE and started the train backwards,
pinning Engineer Seldom to the cab
and breaking his jaw The fireman
! slapped on the emergency brakes and
brought the relief train to stop on
a trestle. A wreckirig train follow
| ing pushed the dead engine into q
stde-track and carried the relief train
on to the wreck
Following is list of the injured
trainmen:
L. c. Seldom of Columbia, engineer
on relief train, jaw broken, cuts
about legs and Cface; A. S. Bradford
OF Savannah, Eineer on passenger
train, internal injuries; w. A.
Knightly of Raleigh, N. c., express
messenger, leg cut and bruises; ].
w. Cottingham of Columbia, cuts
about hips and legs; j. e. Anderson
OF Savannah, baggagemaster, badly
cut in fact and bruises about body
and head; A. Hall of Savannah, ne
gro porter, internal injuries; John
Bivens OF Savannah, colored fireman
or passenger train, knee sprained; :;
VIII Harris of Savannah, brakeman
on freight train, bruised about head
and shoulders; r. Robinson of Sa-
vannah, fireman, leg sprained.
The passengers reported injured
are: Mrs. ]. E. Goodwin of Styx,
]. c. Coates of Savannah, ]. s. FaI-
low of CASTOR, f. NJ. Robinson of
North, L. r. Oates OF Columbia, A.
u. Stroman of Swansea and a woman
patient, who was being brought to
the State Hospital, who was injured
by falling timber.
SHOWS GOOD NERVE.
Although badly wounded. Bag
gagemaster Anderson crawled from
his battered car and walked back to
, Castor, three miles, and reported the
wreck, wiring to Columbia for assis-
tance Mr.. Anderson's head was cut
, and blood was flowing freely from
, his wounds, but he covered the three
| miles in an incredible space Of time
Seaboard local passenger train No
20, carrying a mail and express car
, a combination baggage and negro
, coach, and white coach, was round
, ing sharp curve between Diviana
= and CASTOR about 10:4O this morn
, ing when looming on the track be-
fore them was second freight No ST
bearing down on them. Engineer
A. S. Bradford of the passenger and
: Engineer l.. A. Powell of the freight
, both blew the distress signals, re.
versed their levers, slapped on emer.
gency brakes and followed their fire.
men, who leaped for their lives.
, The two engines met head-on, the
! freight engine telescoping the passen.
ger engine. both being demolished
, The combination express and mai
, car rode into the passenger engine
, breaking the car in two and throw.
ing Express Bessenger Knightly and
, Mail Clerk Cottingham through the
: bottom of the car. They rolled
. down the embankment and were
> severely injured. The combination
baggage and colored coach and the
> car containing white passengers were
derailed but remained upright
Baggagemaster j. r. Anderson wa:
thrown to the floor and trunks anC
, other baggage piled around him cut
ting his head and face and bruisine
, him severely. A negro brakeman OF
: the freight train. A. Hall, who wa!
2 riding on the engine, jumped before
the collision and sustained interna
injuries.
: Right next to the engine of the
: freight train was carload of cottoI
and this car was torn to pieces, the
. cotton piling up on the track and act
? ing as a bumper, broke the impac
and kept the rest of the cars of the
long freight train upright on tn,
track, this being shown by the fac
), that just next to the cotton car wa
a carload OF merchandise and righ
behind that carload of horses anC
: none OF these left the track, or hardl,
felt the force OF the conclusion.
The tenders of both engines wer
thrown from the track, torn from
their trucks and deposited down tn
embankment, pile OF junk
1t is said that the cause OF tn
wreck is thought to be due to tn
watches of the train crew being on
s hour slow. The passenger train wa
: running dead on time when the wrecl
q happened.
= The passenger train was In charg
! OF Conductor s. A. Borders and Engi
I neer A. s. Bradford and tn freigh
Il train in charge of Conductor T. c