The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23

show were consumed by fire, which
started from the wrecked engines.
None of the passengers on train
No. 2, the regular passenger train,
were seriously injured, however some
of chem were slightly cut when the
window panes in the coaches broke
and still others were shaken up by
being thrown from their seats to the
floor.
Engineer Tickling Fatally Hurt.
Engineer Tickling of the passenger
train was probably fatally hurt, suf-
fering bruises about the head and
back and also internal injuries. His
condition was announced as being
critical last night.
Engneier Bittick the ospecilioa
train is also seriously hurt, receiving
internal injuries in the breast and be-
ing cut around the mouth. The two
negro firemen on the trains jumped,
and neither was badly hurt.
The cars of the show train were
telescoped. When the heavy passen-
ger engine, pulling an all-steel train,
collided with the engine of the show
train, the wooden fiat cars of the lat
ter crumpled under the strain and
were piled one on another.
The two engines were completely
demolishd and tn impact of the blow
threw pieces of the heavy steel sew
eral feet from the train.
Hunter Hears Collision.
DR.. w. F. Whitehead, who happen
ed to be hunting near by, heard the
collision, and on seeing what it was
rushed to the scene and set about at
once doing what he could.
Other physicians began coming up
on special trains and autos and the
injured were taken to one side and
loaded on the baggage car of the
passenger train and rushed back to
a Columbus uOSplIdI.
Kennedy Is Hard Hit.
Con T. Kennedy, owner of the
shows, travelling in the rearward
coaches, was among the first on the
ground to give his attention to assist
ing his people He it was when the
show train was fired gave orders to
cutting the cars loose and roll them
back up the track.
Kennedy, a strong man, flushed
with the pride of success that has
been accorded his attractions, is one
of the hardest hit by the catastrophe.
not only from Il financial reason, but
because of the loss of life and suffer-
ing of those who have weathered the
show season with him.
Wreckago Catches Fire.
Following the wreck fire from the
show train engine was communicated
to the carnival cars in its rear, and
in less than two hours ten floats were
destroyed by the consuming
flames. In this section of the train
was the exhibit of the Model City.
From ten to twenty attaches of the
carnival company were likewise rid
ing in the nn-car section which was
destroy ~
All Were Asleep.
The people were nearly all asleer
in the Pullman cars on the back end
Of the train, and these were shaken
up considerably by the wreck, out
we're not seriously hurt. However,
there was not a person in the for
ward cars who was not killed or seri-
ously hurt. Some of them were bus
led among the debris of the wrecked
train and were later dug out by
their friends, but others burned to
death in the fire which ragged after
the engines collided.
Harlan Places Blame.
R. ]. Harlan, superintendent of the
Macon division, stated last night that
to tn chest of his knowledge the fault
of the wreck lay at the door of the
engineer of the passenger train from
They had been ordered
to remain at Muscogee Junction until
1885 o'clock and the wreck occurred
two miles beyond at 1926. He said
that it was just one of those mixups
when aman fOrgets and that when the
fast freight passed the orders must
have been misread and the engineer
pulled out.