Show RAILWAY MAGNATES IN WRECK Southern President and Three Friends Meet Death on Rail Rai I SAMUEL AMUEL SPENCER VICTIM Inline Going Coins Forty Miles f iU an nn Hour our Strikes Private Car of 1 Washington Nov Not Through t the c cun un unexplained action acton of or a train dispatcher dispatch dispatch- I or er r on his own line lne Samuel Spencer l' l resident presIdent of or the Southern railway ad and andhree three personal friend frIends who were tto to tobe tobo bo be 10 his hl Thanksgiving guests guel at at athis his hu hunting hunt hunt- tIng t- t Ing ng lodge near Greensboro w were ro among those thor 10 met a sudden an and shockIng hocking death at the small smal town of of oC Lawers Lawyers awyers Virginia eleven miles mUes south o of Lynchburg Virginia early eary t this l m morning orning They were asleep In the private ate Cr Cron car caron caron on the rear of oC train LO No 33 which had been halted at the crest of an eleva- eleva lon tion ton to make some trifling repairs The train rain trin was two hours and ant a a h half bait lC behind schedule The Tho southbound Atlantic express two hours late was ras rasS S sent SEnt past pat the block b by Operator Matox Mat Mat- lox tox ox at al ngoon Th The Tho pilot plot of ot the oncoming oncoming oncoming on on- coming engine struck the private car carat carat cr crat at the speed of ot forty miles mies an hour r hour ploughing Its a way through tho the car carl cari It I It overturned o in the midst of the de debris de- de I bris brIg The he conflagration which followed follow follow- ed cd completed an awful destruction I President Spencer must have ha c been een Instantly killed His body the la last t to tob tobe tobe b be recovered recovered was wa found lound under under the the engine It I was so badly burned burneda a to tob tobe tobe b be hardly recognizable I Tho The bodies of or his guests guests- were wera recovered re recovered re- re rell co covered b by frantic pa passengers rs before Iho tho flames had marred thEm them They are List of oJ Dead Philip Schuyler Schuler o of Na York a a. a re retired retired re re- tired tred capitalist and grandson of oC General General Gen Gen- eral ert Schuyler o of nary r fame Charles D D. Fisher of Gill Gl and F Fisher h r. r commission lon merchants of or Baltimore Francis Francl T T. Redwood of oC the tho broker- broker ago o firm o of Low Lownes s and Be Redwood wood of at A 4 Baltimore f I t j Walter aler Davis ls of oC Alexandria rl Va private operator to was aM so 1 horribly c nt hf hr Ur-lil Ur I IaM w I being t l rescued 1 t l rw b Ho lie fully 1 1 realized that thai he h. could not survive and after afler aCel giving directions dirc lr tu to have his wife notified li he hI ake asked his rescuer P. P r. J f Curtis Cuitis o of J Jamestown N. N 1 Y to hold holl hl ool lingers linger lo to o his hil mouth as It felt 1 so w good 1 12 R A. A 1 Merrill rl private prIva secretary to President l Spencer 19 In tho forward or d end of the was wan th h v only one onto onto- lo to escape death Jt was slIghtly Injured d. d J I l er C C. a Was on oci 01 th t lar was waH killed tt w i Train No Q 33 was wn composed of ot a mall car cai 31 combination baggage and P nger car ea Cl two Iwo ana anil i s 's cart c aM f- f Tim rear sleeper le IIer t t which tb thOr the l I r was w c at attached aU- aU tacked inched wa was tyas wrecked huL tile fre lire fire did tild l not reach It IL 1 h The The- rl ars escaped with slight w cit the to 1 coach In which n live colored p pets pas N- N s were wen set Samuel Samu l Cox k and rut William WIlan Wil Wi- WI- WI 1 lan liam Pollard col colored ret p porter i flu the i private 1 cot co Were iere Injured car Cm- m in I. I II When n the the pas passengers eng eng-el's In the thC t tuva H trains mat made their wa way Clin th iho cat s cars thinly clad th blood tl down the faces race of o many of or th they found foun l the wrecked car Cl In flames and In the center ent l' l o of it th the turned up-turned Jo hC hadl badly battered alit alit- the tho escaping steam adding to lo the lonor and with wh th the work i Re Rescue eue trains tralis surgeons aboard were hurried to ti the scone conc from g Wrecking trains trains- followed them Vice Pr President I elt and nd other officials nt at the g general here hastened to the scene of or tho the wreak oil on oila ona 01 a special train to o c extend What rel relief t they thc could and bring the thug bodle home Henry B. B Spen Spencer cl sn f. f the the- pres president dent and vice fe president nt and a assistant general manager wa was at N. N C C. with wih a special JE train to meet hl his father Cathe and friends and cara- cara car carry them on to Inn hit hunting lodge When Whon Informed of oC the tho rec wreck h llE hastened to Lawyers Lawers to find hl his hi father muted mated dead leat and antl the tho body almost ere ere- cr |