| Show 1 RESTI t 1 S MUEL rf FENCER f KILLED Body ody of Chief of the Southern Railway Was Burned Be Beyond Beyond yond Recognition HIS CAR REDUCED TO ASHES Train inin to Which It Was Attached In Collision Few Miles Below L Lynchburg Va a Ii B nb Water mid mt ro Va a No Nov 2 President uel Sp Spencer ot of the Iho Southern mil rh wu vas killed And his body burned 1 ooS at below hire at this Schuyler r or of New York ot of Mr Ir haters tm party part ara was killed as was wa waI I Ic Spencers train dispatcher D W i Aril or of Ale Alexander Va a and Engineer Ono One mm man not yet identified ill hiked negroes were werl Injured ono lb The accident from a 11 collision train No o 37 i the tho Washington cd southwestern limited eb ran no Into the rear end and ot of train Nor No as the I PresIdent Spencers private car which Ss at the rear or of the tho train was vas en enT daly T burned Samuel Samu 1 Spencer or of the hullern Halla hallway who was wa ell en sots lite to 10 the south was 1 aK killed this esal g In a 1 rear real end c ut Lw Law lea ts ll miles sou h of Tho car In It h ho he leas riding was Willi rack k and spilt pill open h by tho ho otle It caught tit n and the body or of Mr rr Spencer was berold In dt tar r With him are Philip Schuyler I II n York YOlk Mr 1 tr Spencers NI 1 31 I trill and Ida his private G D Davis ot of Alexander Va Ab Bails Was crushed and died U M Schuyler woe it In but his body wall seas y b I foro It rescued I by Dr l C Perry who was tte 17 abe rear trao killed lo wa t injured but the tho na ot hi hall not hat been lIell lie 1111 bl be illy df to this aboUt noon none Twelve or thirteen rf most or of than 00 ne negroes roe were Sk only ont oar of at Is thought I hurt p h negroes ore tam In the city has hos haying arrived tit ot 11 TRL Im Ion between Xo 33 the I on rc t the train Ne i t tab dal und uThe The IT stopped on the tho top or of a 11 Very dt n mile Ia or I fort lo repair lr I breakdown t ba rl It Is said Bald II a flagman coul I rinta Ic to r It t he Iho ho Al t rain dr h II III I IsIe heavy e av engIne or of the II lite ar of Pre te I I Al Spen I he hl II to been Sleeping Rn Im t ece Ih ot of wv car the fire 1100 work o all n en cults stands burnt and tiro tho monster ma 9 there ther turn tuna twisted and t the t was under the locomotive tr bOI Ludy ot of President 1 Stearn Was found 1 It 11 III evident that I t tern ern cr way In Instantly nod I bid Ilot t suffer the tho tortures Urr I n Ir man U under der hum alive oUe when Ih lie a about was 1 oUt the lower portion ot of 11 If e and ask conscious oll until Iho ho d ki I v If that Word bo be sent to W The Tho death ot of Mr rl lie Uti stated to 1 ant knew that that he knew the ho Willi It uth la of Iho end not ha h Place Palo you ou on my 0 I d laId It feels ra FO cool pI ne pleaded with the tho gen Ien who h 0 also alia I a 11 passenger on onn b n shoot t I crave Irao him and for tor 10 I law I taye with him until or lothing more could be I CAItS T 4 It 11 rs ere tor plunder It 8 ot of X N II Y 71 trip t f go through a p lie Jf ns liS faw hIm throw away anI were or of no to 10 k tl appropriate Ir tholo that td d have hu certainly ht had the sorter k 11 to do St with Wilh I Not a 0 foil few Ila passengers engaged III ht this ghoulish business and a 11 large IorIo number of valuables and much mono Inano which was Voa scattered about the tho wrecked train was taken Inken Mr Ir Curtis who ho was all on his way a to High Point N C on II a miss mis sloe was as the tho hero or of the hour It was claimed hy by seine ot of his fellow gere that to his wor and generalship belongs the credit of the tho r rescue or of II a dozen persons Several persons not Kf seriously ware taken out from the two cars that burned and six n TO pa passengers 1 were NO token taken from tho ho camhi combination nation coach of at the tho forward traits fhe they were badly hurt 0 of them having broken legs and ouo or two with fractured skulls It Is be beloved loved all will recover with the exception or of an aged woman As coon liS as the news new of at tile the wr wreck ck was received here doctors were taken laken to the on n a special train and andone one of at the tho flue 1110 engines of at the tho Lynch Lynchburg burg department was loaded on a 11 flat flatcar cur car and hurried to the wreck to extin extinguish the tho homes among the tho wreckage The engine and firemen could not bo be d form the early morning fire on Main 1 street hence tho they did not go 10 goto to Lawyers until On Or ne ac account count othe of the train with the tho injured pas I rengers having the track between Ron Hon goon oon and the Iho scene ot of the tho accident It was otter after 10 before the Iho special reached Lawyers CAUSE Or OF WRECK mm UNKNOWN Tho cause ot of the tho wreck CAnnot bo be learned now but It I is said that the tho operator In charge chargo ot of the block black tit nt Rangoon four miles north of at the scene allowed 1 the train to on CU CUtel ten tel the tho block before hu ho had been given shen u IL clear track tram from tho ho next block sta I lion ion at Lawyers depot miles be below low Why the operator allowed the train to pass pas his clock Is not known and will hardly be known by time rail railway railway way company before nn an official Ines can call bo be had No 33 3 tho Iho Jacksonville trail came camo cameto to a stop at the crest ot of ono one of at the heaviest grades on the tho road between Lynchburg and Danville It the tho trains had come together IL a mile further south It Is believed that thai hardly a I person all on either train would have come out of at the thu wreck alive allo trains were run rum tang late On account of the tho heavy equipment of at the tho rear INI train It was not making grot groat speed sane or of the tho passengers pas passenger thinking that tho ho speed could not 1101 have been more than 30 or 10 miles an hour Ten minutes later Inter the speed would l have been blen upwards or of GO co miles nn an hour Train XII No 33 which WEtS was struck was wa composed ot of a 11 mall car combination baggage In and an I passenger coach hI two a Pull mUlls mania and President Spencers car carTho carThe The Tho rear sleeper to which the tho private conch was attached was wa wrecked but butI It I was not burned The regular day coach and the tho forward Pullman cars wore uninjured hut but the tho combination coach second tram from the 1110 en engine gine wan WUI crushed It tuns hero that thal all 1111 the tho negroes among the Iho wounded worn were hurt Then l unable to themselves iron from tho haSI baggage ge hurled upon them und and nanny many would have havo died but for tor the tho rca res rescue cue work led b by Mr 1 lr Curtis An effort Was made shortly after afternoon noon to 10 learn tho ho name nama ot of the tho operator In ht charge or of the tho block station tation nt at goon but ho he had been relieved amid no ono has hns been found who knows the nume Iame ot of the mall who II lives V It Is sail In the tho Immediate vicinity or of the block office The fhe seriously Injured InclUde Willi J Winston New ell York le leg badly broken J W V Shaw Spencer X N C badly crushed and Ind both bath legs broken Thonas Greensboro N i C Cleg leg broken and badly P R n 11 Cora Logan Shelby Shelb N C both legs broken lollock New York city Ity badly leg broken both arms broken hopeless condition Sam am Cox D C leg broken All AB of at then thea ore negroes A n STORY Mr Ir Curtis Curt 1 tilt th Jamestown X N Y man who led th the rescue work In talk talking ing to limo or of tho ho Alo elated Bald ald BaldIt It Il to mo inc that the tho pas passengers who ware uninjured were dazed and they dill did not appear to realize that oln must mut b bo done 1 talked to 10 them and they began to III work You never saw lIaw men work harder In your OUI life liCe In the rear of at the tho Pullman which there thoro was El a mother whit n a 6 months old babe They wro ro in III a drawing room which bait helm smashed but strange to say thc they were not hurt In the slightest They gotten out aunt taken tf to safety I think there Wro W at the five bodies including Mr Spencer th that were ere cre cremated mated All tar far as 11 I 1 know the tho train attaches did not aid 1111 In the tho first firt relief because they thoy hUll bud ROil gone both hoth wars to protect the tho two t trains front other othor and moro mort serious trouble Mr Ir Curtis has In his hili possession Flon El a valuable III caco O of Jewels Which was wal handed to hint him b 1 a lady lad Ho le Ina not knot to 10 whom it belongs and It was larded him It II Ifs th the property ot of some one or of means meun nil as It contains a hea heavy I net lIet diamond ring and other Jewels It From tilt the re Isaris It that the tho puen passengers killed outright were melt amid n a latter helleved to tobe Lo be It a Those ThoM were Pres dent Spencer DI Dispatcher Davis Philip Schuylor or of Now York Terry and Frank Frnnk T r Redwood Hedwood and Charles Charlo CharlesD D Fisher of lJ Baltimore Since the tho arrival of the Iho wounded II Ite gre gra In n the tho ell city Lucretia Allen lIon ot of Danville died on the tho operatIng Ing table ot at the tho city ho hospital County Coroner J W Davis Das has gone lono to the tho wreck for fOI tho purpose o or of holding an Inquest t REPORT I Knoxville Tenn XO Nov report given out b by Gen Oen Supt Richey of the railway confirms the tho or Of President Spencers death In n a Southern railway accIdent this morning The rho report repart says MyS President Samuel Spence of at the tho Southern railway Ii Philip Schuyler 0 of a Southern Railway Hallway director tor lor and Operator Davis ot of Washington were killed in III nn an accident 11 from Lynchburg this morning Charles Charlesh II h Fisher and n a Mr Ir Redmond of at hal Bal are aro Car No io which was 1011 President Spencers private I coach a 11 sleeper on No 33 and a club i car on XII No 37 were llero destroyed Mr Merrill secretary to President Spencer Bras In slightly Injured The accident was caused b by passenger train Xo No 33 southbound stopping to repair n a knuckle The Tho operator atar north gave Slut list No o 37 a clear block and It ran Into the rear or of No 33 SPENCERS CERS CAREER Now New York Noy O spencer president ot of the tho Southern Railway com compan company pan pany was wall a resident of at Washington lint but his business headquarters headquarter were In Inthis this city Ho was one ot of the tho most prominent railroad men of at the United States Slate and for tor nearly neall 20 years hd had beon at the tho heM had of at one or more great rail railroad road rond enterprises At tho ho time ot of his death In addition to the Southern he WitS was president and director In the tho Ala Alabona bona Great Southern railway the Iho New Nel Orleans and rail rall railway way the tho Southern and Florida Railway company and the tho Mobile anti and Ohio Railroad company compan lie He was n a director or of time tho Central railway ot of Georgia tho Chicago Milwaukee and I SL Paul Railway company compan the tho Eric Erlo R Railroad company compan tho Northern Pa Pacific company compan and other orr hr Spencer was wall president of at this the Bal Ual Ohio Railway company in 11 1887 an and ISS and later was appointed receiver for the Richmond company nod for tor the East Tennessee Virginia Georgia Railway company Ito was II a member ot of the rapid transit commission of at this city from 18 1891 1 to 18 lilt Mr Spencer was born In Columbus all In lit In 1841 1817 and wa was educated In III the University or of Georgia and the University or of In 1672 Lie he married Louisa Vivian henning Denning at Columbus Columbu On Ga GaITS ITS BEGINNING Mr Spencers railroad career hall had a most humble beginning When ho left the tho university or of Virginia In 1869 after atler taking a course courso In civil engineering he entered the employ or of the Savannah Memphis railroad and was assigned to work tie liS rodman with 11 a surveying crew In the tho succeeding three years ears hum hI worked gradually up to the tho position ot of Principal n assistant manager or of the toad In 1872 ho became clerk to time tho superintendent ot of the tho Now Jersey Jeney Southern railway and II a year later boo he came assistant lant and f supervisor ot of trains tar for the Iho first division or of the tho Ohio railroad In 1877 ho became su an of transportation for the Virginia 1 railroad and a year ear litter Inter was nas male superintendent of at the tho Long Island railroad The enl end of at an another other ather year found hint him assistant to the tho president of the tho Ohio One year ear later ho he was acting general manager ot of the same Mine road and in III the tho next six years ho became successively thIrd vice Ico president second vIce dent and first vice president Ito Ho was elected president or of the tho entire system In Continued on page pago two J N I SAMUEL AMUEL SPENCER KILLED J I t from I paso go ono tor br A Ie few II months hI from tilt th lIt it th BaIt Imore teti with It Ii t lie OhIo he be ii tt I or J p ii lo Co Ol ni the Or I that 1 From tinie untIl ut or hit tragic lit Iii olle or of the coin In the AND 1 fl NOV il I Ili li In III the tho South ern cm railway wreck lit itt Va 1 I k 1110 or of tho Ilia Citizen or oC Inure tie Ho Will on Ot r Iho oC If tho groin 0 ot lilt I lol hIJI and hilLel h III In 10 tho Xie II wall WL IIno ot Of 1 1111 The tr l to ti In III Int t ho lIth Ii UI 0 N tog Ins I Is T F lIell fir rif thi ot or lwood t I IQ h tuft hor oil wick 4 fI tI last or North rth all a 11 WHO ere that it 11 nod Mr hOti been II YOlk No Nov lor br VOH Ill IL U ut into uC thu st itt 1111 Now York It H ot of len Oell if unit wall ft t Ihu itt I i a I tie tutu thu antI cri with lI in III the Iho or of Ito tho PattI Ollic thu Civil Ho lived nt lit anti Willi 1 a ut or th the Yew CI York 1111 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