The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-03-01
SEVEN SOUTH CAROLlNIANS ARE AMONG
DEAD IN WRECK NEAR COLUMBIA On
SOUTHERN RAILWAY; 81 PERSONS HURT

! The Spartanburg train was IN charge
of Conductor W. H. lston and En-
| gineer F. B. Long, : M. Law
son as baggage master, and D. II.
Harris as flagman.
Of the train crews only Conductor
Meredith was seriously injured, suf-
ering a broken leg. The porter on
the Spartanburg train was cut about
the he'd.
Quick Relief.
Immediately upon receipt of the
news of the accident in Columbia,
Superintendent F. S. Collins went to
| the secene with a relief train and six
physicians. First aid was rendered by
! the physicians and others, and the in
jured were brought to Columbia,
where those suffering seriously were
sent to the various local hospitals
A subsequent trip was made to bring
in the dead, and it was not until about
9 o'clock that all of them had been
identified.
The twelve dead includes one wo-
man, who died after reaching Colum
bia, and eleven men. The injured in
clude ten women and twenty four
men; in addition to three negroes, all
rf whom are men.
Engineer Long, Of the Spartanburg
.rain, stuck to his post as his engine
| vent hurting into the steel coach
| head. His fireman jumped. Neither
vas seriously injured. The impact
vas so straight and fearful that the
';reenville train was knocked up the
| rack about fifty yeards, but neither
rain was dera;led. The Greenville
| rain had four coaches and the Spar
| anbure train three. The principal
| olocaust was in the wooden smoker
-hich YVES jammed between the rear
~teel coach and tie coach ahead. The
Spartanburg train, except the engine,
| was uniniured and the injuries to its
passengers were not serious.
Students Going Rome.
| On the Greenv;lle train were a
number of Newberry students on their
| way home, the institution hav-
ing closed temporarily on account of
the meningitis situation. Several
were slightly injured. One OF them.
Horace H. Early, who was going to
his home at statesville, N. c., had
| been sitting in the seat with friend,
| Garah NJ. Pethel, who was Killed. Mr.
Early had Just left the seat and walk
ed back into tie steel coach when the
| collision occurred. Mr.. Pethel, Of
Kinapolis, n. c., who had been in a
business college in Charlotte, had
volunteered in the army in Green
vile only few days ago and was on
his way to Savannah.
The wreck this afternoon is the
most disastrous in the history Of the
Southern Railway in this state, and
the most disastrous in the history Of
he entire system since the fearful
wreck at Newmarket, Tenn, IA years
ago.
1t would he hard to conceive of
more gruesome scene except on bat
t'efeld than was presented at the
usually sequestered and remote spo.
where the terrible disaster occurred.
Dead men, crushed between the seats
and against the sides of the almost de-
molished wooden coach, and some Of
them terribly maugled; the eroans of
the injured and dying, and the aysteria
OF some of the uninjured passengers,
combined to make veritable inferno.
When the dead had been pTaced in a
morgue here it required four hours t.
IDENTITY the ten who had been Instant
ly killed
Such sights as were presented to-
day were severe test OF even the
strongest iron nerve. Credit, how
ever, is given to the men on both
trains for the brave manner in which
they conducted themselves in seeing
that the women were taken out OF the
coaches first and in rendering every
aid possible
The Dead Knswn.
W. W. Richardson, among today's
| killed. leaves widow. who was Miss
Mary Nance Fair. of Newberry, who
has been visiting relatives there. and
who came to Columbia tonight
Albert Atlas. formerly conductedea
novelty stand at Pinkussohn's Cigar
store, this city.
| Otis Baggott Brodie, was student
of Furman university, who had regis