Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-10-24
u. AND n. WECIk is FATAL.
Three, Lose Lives, Many Injured, by
Rcnr-ftnd Collision,

Spartanburg, Oct lS.----ln wreck
and Northern, an electric interurban
line, two persons are known to have
been killed and nine known to be in
jurcd
The dead are: Corporal Arthur G.
Wright, Battery b, Third Field Ar
tillcry, Buffalo. n. Y; w. Jesse Ed
wards. Cavins. S. c., Il skilled labor
or employed at Camp Wadsworth.
The known injured: Privates II. =,
Williams, Company G.. l07th nfant-
ry; JOS. Fitzpatrick, Battery +, Sec
ond Field Artillery; Courteney
Stone, Company Y, 107th Infantry;
Chas. Miller. Battery +, Field Artil-
lery; Harry l.. Stribbc, ambulance
corps; Harry Triantatilan. Company
II, l07th infantry; Frank Johnson,
ambulance corps. Civilians: Sa muel
T.. Pearson, civil engineer; o. ". Nc
lntyrc, carpenter.
The injured were taken to three
hospitals in the city and Others to the
base hospital at Camp Wadsworth
The wreck was Il rcar-end collision, a
freight engine and four cars crashing
into the rear end Of an electric train
carrying laborcrs and soldiers from
Camp WadswOrth to Spartanburg.
IL was several hours before the
freight engine was removed from the
coach through which it plowcd. The
engineer or the freight train, II. l..
Llncberger,h has been put under arrest
by the military police and Is being
held tonight. 1t is said the electric
train left the camp IS minutes before
the freight and was proceeding slow
~, giving the conductor time to col
lect his fares.
II Is reported that fully Is Injured
laborers are being cared for in houses
near the scene Of the wreck.
Aatcr.-At 12 o'clock to-day the
list OF deaths from last nights wreck
on the p and n. had increased by
one, S. f.. Pearson, a civil engineer,
dying this morning at 10 O'clock
From what can be learned ii seems
that the regular passenger train had
passed Camp Wadsworth and was 60
ing into Spartanburg at slow rate
OF speed. A workman s train instead
OF q freight train, composed OF non
descript coaches and pulled by steam
engine followed the passenger train,
coming into Spartanburg at consid-
cradle speed. The lights in the pas
senger train rear coach were evident
ly out and the work train crashed
INTO the rear coach with such force
that the engine plowed its way half
through the passenger coach.
From 80 to SO persons are said to
have been more or less injured in
the wreck, II OF whom are now in
Spartanburg hospitals. None OF
these, however, are fatally injured.
say hospital authorities. Practically
all OF the injured men are members
OF the New York troops.
=. and Ms First Wreck.
Lee&] authorities say that this is
the t]rst time the Piedmont and
Northern has ever killed passen-
ger. 1t is also the first serious wreck
OF any kind to happen over the entire
system.
Grew of First Train Blamed.
Spartanburg, Oct l9.---As a result
of the investigation here yesterday OF
the wreck on the Piedmont and
Northern electric line Wednesday
night in which three persons were
killed and score injured. two OF
the three coroncrs' jurics brought in
verdicts placing the blame for the
accident on the crew Of the first
train. 1t was brought out at the
hearing that the train was practically
stopped on the main line in order to
give the conductor time to collect his
fares. All members of the crew are
being held for the grand jury.