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Show ON THE SAME TRACK. Frlghtfal Result of a Collision at Midnight, Near Atlanta, Georgia. A Terrible Wreck, With a Dozen Killed . and Many Fatally Injured. : ' . .; - -- ' --r . . Morrison Offers a Concurrent Resolution Resolu-tion for a Holiday Recess of Two Weeks. . . Terrible Accident on the Rail. Atlanta, Ga., December 15. One of the most terrible railroad accidents ever known in Georgia occurred at midnight, fifteen miles from this city, on the Georgia Pacific road. ' The East Tennessee and Georgia Pacific Pa-cific roads use the same track to AuBtell, and last night the Georgia Pacific mixed train with a coach and one sleeper stopped at the tank for water. The coach and sleeper were en a trestle thirty .feet highZ The East Tennessee passenger, '. - :. ... v GOING AT A SPEED OF THtBTX MILES PES HOUB? Struck the sleeper and went nearly half way through it. The wreok was terrible. Afire-man Afire-man sprang overboard . and was-injured. The engineer held to the throttle and was unhurt. un-hurt. The following persons on the Georgia Pacific train were killed: Boinfin Peton. of Charlottsville, Va., Nathan Hanley, of An-niston, An-niston, Ala., Jacob' and Mary Banks, of Jonesboro, Ga., B. Bright and wife and two children, of Jonesboro, a wealthy Texan named Pierce, of Aberdeen, Texas, . and and others of East Point, Ga. Two children who are dead are unknown. , . . " THE FOLLOWING ABE FATALLY INJUBED: " Mrs. Eliza Brown, home unknown, who was in company with Pierce. About ten others are more or loss seriously injured. The dead and wounded have been brought to Atlanta. . - |
