Show L wa lip 1111 al IRI al MN th I 1 ARE ai 0 1 I 1 f 1 e LID r I 1 I 1 A I 1 I 1 D III lu a az i H tiff I 1 N g in ON n A I 1 F S IR n 0 U n A K r NED 41 1 president spencer of the southern railway and gen schuyler schuyer head of I 1 I 1 the fhe morgan railroads victims of a terrible wreck other distinguished persons caught in the collision 11 I 1 lynchburg va nov 29 president dent samuel spencer of tho the southern railway hailway system who was en ell route to the south was killed this morning in a rear benl enl en collision at lawyers ten nilles miles south of lynchburg the private ear car in which he was riding was struck and split open by the co colliding lAding locomotive it immediately caught fire and the bodycot body of mr air spencer was burned almost beyond recognition in the car with him were philip schuyler of new york city mr air spencers private secretary merrill errill Al and his private dispatcher D W davis of alexandria va operator divis davis was waa crushed an ana 1 died in fifteen minutes mr schuyler was instantly killed but his body was not badly burned before it was rescued by passengers engineer 0 perry who was on the rear train was killed private secretary merrill ler rill was injured but the nature of his injuries has not been learned he will be brought to this city about noon twelve or thirteen passengers most of them negroes were wounded only one pf af whom is thought to be fatally hurt eight negroes are arc in the city hospital he here re having arrived at 11 0 clock the collision was between no 3 33 1 the jacksonville express and train no 37 the washington and south western limited the jacksonville train stopped on the app of a very heavy grade a mile north 0 ol 01 the lawyers depot to repair a slight break breakdown aown down and before it is said a flagman could get back to protect the train the atlanta train dashed into I 1 it the heavy engine of the train plowed into tho the private car of president spencer cF in which he and his alt guests 1 are supposed to fo have been sleeping g immediately the he private car caught fire alre every piece alece of w wood bod work on I 1 tle th e engene eng lne was burned and the monster machine stands there torri torn twisted and qu useless seless it wa was under sunder the jo 10 lo that the burned body of pres mont spencer was found it is evident that chatir tIr mr spencer was instantly I 1 killed arid and that he be did not suffer the tortures of being burned dispatcher davis was alive when taken from under the wreckage he was crushed about the lower portion of the body and was conscious until tile the end ile he asked that word be sent to his wife and child chialdi the death of mr TN ir davis was touch touching ng he stated to his fits rescuer that lie he knew that he was dying and knew that the end could not be far off place your fingers on my lips they feel so good and cool he said lie he pleaded with the gentleman who was vas also iso a passenger on an the th train not to leave him and for ten minutes this man stayed with him until lie saw that nothing could be done dond for him the thears ars were ransacked for plunder y V X M curtis of jamestown new york saw one negro porter go through a ladys grip lie he saw him throw away such things as were of no value to hip and appropriate the things that he wanted mr air curtis declared that lie he would certainly have killed we th e porter if he had had something with which to do so not a fow few passenger jers s engaged inthis ghoulish a 11 large number of valuables and money which was scattered about the wrecked trains war wag taken mr air curtis who was on his way to high N C on a business mission was the hero of the hour it wa claimed by some of his follow passengers that to his work a and n d gen belongs tho credit of the rescue of a dozen persons several persons not seriously wounded wore taken out front from the two cars that were burned and six negro passengers were taken from the combination coach of the forward train they were badly burt hurt most of them li having ving broken legs and one bone or two with fractured jk lills it is believed all will recover with oth tile the possible exception of an aged woman As soon as tile the news of t the be wreck was received here doctors wore were taken to the e scene on a special ecial train and one of the fire engines of tho the lynchburg department was loa loaded dedon on a flat car and hurried to the wreck to extinguish the flames among th the e wreckage the engine and firemen could not be spared from the early fire on main street hence they did not go to lawyers until 0 clock on account of the train with the injured passengers having the track between rangoon and tile the scene ot of the accad accident it was after ten bo be fore tho t reache jl lawyers the cause of the wreck caran cannot he learned now but jl it is understood that the operator in iii charge of the block office at rangoon four miles north of the scene allowed thel the atlanta atland a train to enter the the block before he had been given a clear track from the next block station at lawyers depot five miles below why the op operator allowed ills his block Is the train to pass i will hardly be known by bp the railway company beak before o an ow cla I 1 investigation can be had number 33 13 th the e jacksonville JacIc sonville train carve came to 3 a stop at tile the crest creat of one of tho the road be the heaviest hedvic st grades on tween L lynchburg and D danville iny tile it if the train shad come together a further south it la Is believed that hard ly a person on either train come out of the wreck 40 both trains yere viere running run listug late oti ac count of tile the heavy equip equipment mc nt 91 the r I 1 rear train it was not makin making great speed some of the passenger passengers s think ing that the speed could not have been more than thirty or forty miles an ail leour our ten minutes later the speed would have been upwards of sixty miles mies an hour train no 33 which was struck was COM composed DOsed of a mall mail car combination baggage and passenger coach two pullmans and president spencers car the rear sleeper to which the private coach was attached was wrecked but it was not burned the regular day coach and the forward pullman were practically uninjured but the combination coach second from the engine was crushed it was here that all the among the wounded were hurt they were unable to extricate themselves from the baggage hurled upon thern them and many would have died but for the rescue work led by mr ar curtis an effort was made shortly after noon to learn the name off odthe the operator in charge of the block station at rangoon but he had been relieved and no one lias has been found who knows the name of the man who lives it Is ie said in the immediate vicinity of the little block office the seriously injured include willis J winston new york log leg badly broken J JW W shaw spencer N C Q badly crushed and both legs broken garland thomas greensboro N C leg broken arid and badly bruised P R Wein va badly broken up ana and bruised cora logan 0 shelby N X C both legs broken pollock new yolk city badly scalded leg broken both arms broken hopeless condition sam cox washington D C leg broken all of these are negro cs mr curtis the J jamestown ames town i N Y man who led the rescue work in talking to tho the representative of the associated press said i it appeAr appeared pl tp q rug me that tile the passengers g rs who were uninjured were dazed and they did not appear to realize that something must be lone done I 1 tallied talked to thern them and they began to crork ork you never saw men work harder in your life in the rear of the he pullman which was smashed there was war a mother with a six months old babe they wore were in 0 P o drawing room which had been or smashed nashed but strange to say they wera were yot not hurt tit in the slightest they were gotten out and taken to safety I 1 think there were at least five bodies including mr spencers that wore were cremated As far as I 1 know the train attaches did not aid in fit the first relief relict because they h had gone both ways to protect the two trains from other and more serious trouble mr curtis hus has in his possession a valuable edse case ed ca se of jewels which was handed banded to him by a lady lie he does not know to whom it belongs and why it was handed him it evidently is tho property of someone of means as it contains a heavy set diamond ring and other jewels of value from the reports it appears that he passengers killed outright were six men and a woman the latter believed to be a degross ne gross those killed were president spencer D W davis philip schuyler of new york engineer terry and F T redwood dl and C D fisher of baltimore since the arrival of the wounded ct negra passengers in the cit city v lucretia Lucret lii allen alien of danville died on the operating table at the city hospital county coroner J W davis has 90 gone ne to the wreck for tho the purpose of holding an inquest |