The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-09-23
COX SHAKEN UP
IN TRAIN WRECK
PASSENGERS THROWN TOPSY-
TURvY; SOME SUFFERING
BRUISES AND CUTS.


Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 22.-Govern'
Or Cox's presidential campaign tram
was wrecked about 4:30 o'clock today
fourteen miles north of here, while
en- route to Prescott, Ariz.
The Democratic presidential candi,
rdate and his party were severely
shaken when an engine and four cars
of the special train were ditched, but
all escaped serious injury. The most
seriously injured was Charles A. Mich
OILS, the engineer, of Prescott, whose
sleg was broken when the engine top
led over.
y Spreading rails were assigned by
railroad men as the cause OF the
wreck, which compelled the Governor
and his party to return here tonight
and cancel his evening address at
Prescott. His future itinerary also
was upset.
The accident occurred half mile
out of Peoria, a village on the Santa
Fe railroad. After delivering several
speeches here the train, consisting OF
six cars and drawn by two engines
needed for the up-grad to Prescott
left here at a o'clock. About a half
hour later, while running at a speed
between 35 and 40 miles an hour, the
train Jared suddenly, as if in COL
ission, and then application Of the
brakes, the humping over broken rails
and ties and the careening OF the cars
told Passengers the story.
The four forward cars were ditched,
the Governors private car at the rear
and the adjoining compartment car
Of newspaper men, except for its for
ward truck, remained on the rails.
A baggage coach jumped the track
about fifteen feet and turned over.
Two passenger coaches and another
coanuartment car behind also slipped
In feet from the track and partly
)bpied over.
The first engine of the double-head-
Ii, Engineer F. C. Sutton, Of Prescott
'said, left the rails first and then
iumped on again, but the second en-
rine toppled over amid a cloud OF
sscaping stssn.A
Of the passengers on all cars
were thrown topsy-turvy. Some suf-
fered bruises and cuts from flying
piass. In the rush for escape several
women passengers in the coaches were
nut through broken windows.
\ Governor Cox was in the dining
room of his private car going over pa
pers with DIR. Robert C. Goldsmith,
his assistant, on the league Of ma
lions question, when the crash oc-
Cured.
"What's that?" he shouted, being
thrown heavily across the car. He was
shaken up, but rushed out to assist
the injured, and afterward smoked a
pipe while waiting for a wrechng
ssrain to arrive and Ia. back to
l2hoenix.
The railroad track was torn up for
400 feet, with bent rails, broken ties
and glass scattered about. Railroad
officials were unanimous in declaring
that a spreading rail under tn"
heavy locomotives and unusually
heavy steel equipment caused the
the wreck. The line is not main
line, but a branch of the Santa Fe,
and the rails, it was said, were not OF
the heaviest type. A rumor was cur
rent among the farm people and 9TH
ers who gathered soon after the wreck
that a man had been seen running
along the road beside the track just
before the train left the track, but the
rumor lacked confirmation and was
not credited by Governor Cox, mem
bers of his party or railroad opera
tives.