Show r WRECK CAUSED AUSEn BY OPERATOR Guilty Man Disappears Imme Immediately 1 1 the Awful Disaster Di aster at Lawyers j DETECTIVES ON HIS TRAIL FUNERAL OF SAMUEL SPENCER R TOMORROW V iL Cv t i iI I Lynchburg Va Nov No 30 The a se Of I tho awful wreck near Lawyers station t ten miles mie south of or this tills city yesterday ye Y P p in which President Samuel amuel Spencer and his liis party Darty Dart of or prominent New York and Baltimore men lost lo t their lives lies is laid absolutely at the door loor of f fC fD c C D the operator who was as in charge of the block telegraph sta station station 1 tion lion at Rangoon Mattoax who i after ator being relieved last Un I ne ue hour after the a nt has not been found despite espite the t that rail way detectives have the coun eun try liT tryAn liTAn An examination by b the Associated Asso Press representative of or the telegraph t sheets kept at Rangoon and anti Lawyers Law block office offices shows that Mattoax al nl towed owed No Ko 33 the Jacksonville express upon the block the ain min passing his station getting fretting a clear track from him at The operator at Law Lawyers Lawers ers the next station st head ahead declared that Mattoax did isk him for or a clear track for No 33 and he lie there fore ore lId ild not know this train had passed pissed Rangoon Block Sheets Tell the Story The block sheets at Lawyers hear bear out this claim If It Mattoax had reported train No Xo 33 on the block to Lawyers rp w erg there would have been no o accident be because cause aUse the operator nt at Lawyers La ers would I have held the Southwestern Limited at Rangoon until the Jacksonville train lau dU learoa Ul lilt ill Ui at Lawyers Superintendent W YV S Andrews ef of the is Danville division late this afternoon explained that the report that the en engine K gine jine of or the forward train had gone jone some distance ahead of its train when it be became beame beame ame came detached was waR erroneous and the i fact is that the engine did not leave the y train more than twenty feet the air brakes bakes applying appl ln immediately on the en I vine as yell well as the train The trou lieu trouble ble was the breaking of a of or orthe the in the front end of the forward car ear The Th train men mM were re repairing repairing pairing this tIlis when the th collision col occurred Assistant General Superintendent stated today there Is not the f but the flagman made fn very thing ng possible to protect the train but hut he could not get around a II sharp rl 1 hUO in time to prevent the collision |