Show WRECI l Thirtyfive People Killed in a Disaster on the Southern Railroad Near Mc I A Donough Ga Every Person on the Train Except the Occupants of the Pullman 4 PerishWreck Catches Fire and the Entire Train With I Exception Excep-tion of the Sleeper is DestroyedPassenrjcrs Went to t Death Without an Instants Warning I I l Atlanta Ca June 2iA passenger train on the Macon branch of the Southern railway ran Into n washout one and a half miles north of McDon ough Ga last night and was completely com-pletely wrecked The wreck caught fire and the entire train with the exception I ex-ception or the sleeper was destroyed Every person on the train oxcypt the occupants of the Pullman car perished oCCUlan pffshed Tot a member of the crew efjcaped I Thirtylive m people In all were killed fhlrt i DEAD t Vllliam A Barclay conductor At I ciii taB J E Wood conductor Atlanta V 7 T Sullivan engineer i W j W Bennett baggageman At l lanta ta jfT E Maddox collonbuyer Atlanta 1r J Pate Atlanta Twelveyearold son of W J Pate Atlanta H R Crcsslnan Pullman conductor George W Flourney Atlanta H C Hlghtwatcr Stoekridge Gn TT W Park Macon Ga Elder ITenson traveling man supposed sup-posed to have been from Florida 3 R Florida Nashville TV E Ellis brldgeman Stockbrldgev GoD D Y Griffith supervisor 3 fo Rhodes flagman John Brnntley white fireman Will Green extra fireman Wt D Morlsetl pump repairer W R Lawrence foreman extra gangEd gang-Ed Byrd colored fireman Atlanta Robert Spencer train porter Four bodies unidentified Eight negro section hands EIS neSo secton PASSENGERS RESCUED The following passengers were rescued res-cued without serious Injury Jess < j 3j Rahe Baltimore 4 YyalterrPope Atlanta Miss Mary B7 Merrlttr Boston S Miss Marc Alden Boston J C Flynn Allhntif T E Schrlul Chattanooga Tenn B TI Mack Chattanoogn Tenn J Qulnlan Pullman porter Andy Tomlinson ONE TRAIN SAVED The train left Macon at 710 and was due in Atlanta at 940 last night Mc Donough was reached on time At this point connection is made for Columbus Ga and here every night the Columbus Colum-bus train is coupled on and hauled through to Atlanta Last night however how-ever for time Ort lime In many months the Columbus train was reported two hours late on account of a washout on that branch and the Macon train started on to Atlanta without its Columbus Co-lumbus connection I MANY WASHOUTS REPORTED Tremendous rains of dally occurrence for tho past two weeks have swollen all streams In this part of the South and several washouts have been reported re-ported on the different roads Camps creek which runs into the Oc mulgce was over its banks and its waters had spread to all the lowlands through which It runs CLOUDBURST DESTROYS ROAD About a mile and a half north of McDonough iho creek comes somewhere near the Souiherns tracks and running run-ning alongside It for some distance finally passes away under the road bra br-a heavy stone culvert A cloudburst broke over that seotloiv of the country about oclock last ntsht and presumably presum-ably shortly after dark washed out a Icncth section of the track nearly 100 feet In IcncthDIED DIED WITHOUT WARNING Into this the swl rm JIg train plunged The storm was still raging and all the car windows were closed The passengers secure as they thought I and sheltered comfortably from the Inclement In-clement weather went to death without with-out an Instants warning WRECK TAKES FIRE The train consisting of a baggage car secondclass coach firstclass coach aid a Pullman sleeper was knocked Into Itndl gwQp by the fall The wreck caught nm In u ew minutes after the fall and all the coaches were burned except the Pullman car NO ESCAPE FOR PEOPLE n Every person on the train except the occupants of the Pullman car perished per-ished I the disaster There was no escape as the heavy Pullman car weighed down the others and the few jilivo In the sleeper were unable to render assistance to their fellow pas senders GOT OUT OF PULLMAN CAR For a brief time there was silence Then the occupants of the Pullman car recovered from their bewilderment and after hid work managed to get out of their car and found themselves on the track In time pouring lan The extent ex-tent of tho catastrophe was quickly apparent Flames wic already seen coming from that part of the wreck 1 not cqvered by the water SCENEAN AWFUL ONE I As the wreck began to go to pieces under the destructive work of both flames and flood human bodies floated out from tho mass and wore carried I down stream by the swift current t hoI ho-I storm did not abate In fury Flashes of I lightning added to the steady glow of r tho burning train and lit up the scene with fearful distinctness FLAGMAN SAVED Flagman Qulnlan who was one of the I first to iret out at once started for the nearest telegraph station Malting his I way a rapidly as possible In the face of the blinding storm he stumbled Into In-to the otc at McDonougli and after telling the operator of the wreck foil fainting to tho floor Word was quickly sent to both Atlanta and Macon but no assistance wns to bo had except in n tho lattfcr city as the interrupted track prevented the arrival o any train from Macon BODIES RECOVERED Nearly the cntlr population ofMc Donough went to the scene to render assistance but little could be done by tho rescuers as the fire kept them at n distance AL daylight the bodies that had floated from the gorge were gathered up Ono body was found a I mile from the wreck and many were i scon along Its banks A wrecking train was started out from Atlanta at midnight but owing to the burning wreckage nothing could be done until morning A l special train at C oclock this morning took doctors ministers rollroad officials and helpers to tho sc ne but nothing could be done save to gather up the bodies BURNED AND MANGLED As the dead were found they were removed re-moved to McDonough There are two undertakers there Both establishments were soon full of tho mangled remains of the passengers Some of the bodies were terribly burned while > others were crushed beyond recognition The only means of Identification In the majority ma-jority of the cases were letters and papers pa-pers In the pockets of the victims in tho catastrophe TWO WOMEN ESCAPE Only three women were on the train trn Two escaped I is presumed that the other perished but the body has not been found Besides the regular crow of the train several conductors and other employees were en route to Atlanta At-lanta to spend Sunday All were killed Conductor W A Barclay was In charge of the train SECTION GANG KILLED > A section boss with D gang of eight negroes occupied seats In the second class coach They were on their way to repair a washout on the Georgia Midland Gulf road Not one escaped when the car went down l STORY OF A SURVIVOR I John n Rohr a traveling salesman of Baltimore one of the rescued said Ir was In the Pullman with the others whcj escaped with their lives when the wrapk occurred There was not andnt stants warning We heard suddenly an Indistinct cro h and the next Instant In-stant felt our car pitch forward and drop The forward end of the car filled with water at once and the lights went out We heard tht roar of r S inS waters We got downron all fours fell our way and crawled to the top of the car and then out The car waa hanging by Its renr trucks to the stone abutment of the culvert and swayed to and fro by the motion of the water I was pitch dark and the rain wag coining down jn torrents Not a single call for help was heard Those in the forward coaches must have met death I os tautly AN AWFUL SCENE The wreckage was on fire when w e reached the lop of our car and lit up the scenebllghty Looking down toward to-ward the middle of our car I saw the head and shoulders of a woman and soon heard her cry Save us we are alive but we could do nothinG for her Then came the struggle to get to the track above Great chunks of earth loosened the train came falling down on us and we were nearly burled two or three times Once Flynn who was one of our little party got within grasping distance of the top Suddenly Sudden-ly he lost his hold and down he came He wont Into the river and was carried car-ried away by the rush of waters At daylight he walked up to our party and told us he had managed to catch 0 tree the water after swimming a mile or more In |