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AMERICCUS TIMES=RECORDER
twenty-ninth year
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W. D. BAILEY.
Outfitter for Men and Boys.
Forsyth St, and Cotton Ave. Amtricus, Ga.
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Knox Hats.
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REMBERT’S
DRUG STORE
113 FORSYTH ST.
Copyright 1907 by
Hart Schaffner W Marx
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 1, 1907
FOUR KILLED IN THE WRECK
Disaster on Seaboaad Railway Sunday Morning Most
Serious.
FREIGHT TRAIN DASHED INTO A WASHOUT
Engineer Charles C. Hines Killed Outright, as Was His Colored fireman.
Will Hodges; Brakeman Allen Williams, and a White Man Aboard
One of the Cars.
The most serious disaster that has
ever occurred on this division of the
Seaboard Railway resulted at 12:25
o’clock on Sunday morning when a
freight train running extra from Sav
annah to Americus ran into a wash
out near Alamo and turned over.
Four members of the crew, Engineer
Charles C. Hines, R. L. Zeber, a white
man riding in one of the cars, Will
Hodges, the colored fireman, and Al
len Williams, colored brakeman, were
killed.
Eight cars of the heavy train were
piled upon the overturned engine and
the three men aboard it.
The derailment occurred near the
100 mile post, almost equi-distant be
tween Americus and Savannah. There
was a cloudburst there Saturday
night, the rain falling in torrents, and
a great hole was washed beneath the
track near Alamo.
And into this the engine plunged,
with frightful consequences.
Four Bodies Are Found.
The repair train sent from Savan
nah first reached the scene of disas
ter, the repair train sent from Ameri
cus being held up for a while by ano
ther washout near Abbeville.
The bodies of the victims were tak
en out of the debris about noon on
Sunday, placed aboard a special train
and sent to Americus, the special ar
riving here at 7 o'clock. Undertaker
Beard, of the A. W. Smith Furniture
Co., met the train with the corpses
aboard.
They were carried at once to the
undertaking parlors and prepared for
burial. Two or three of the bodies
were very much mutilated.
Names of the Victims.
Engineer Hines resided in Ameri
cus, and as soon as his body was
encased in its handsome casket it
was conveyed to his home on Barlow
street, where grief-stricken relatives
and sorrowing friends awaited it.
R. L. Zeber, a stranger here, was
a resident of Dallas, Texas, being
identified by letters upon his pex-son
and also by an accident policy for
$5,000 issued at Dallas by the Interna
tional Travelers Association. The poli
cy was numbered 2911.
Zeber was either in one of the
freight cars near the engine, or stand
ing upon the bumpers between two
cars, reports differing on this point.
He was apparently 33 to 35 years
of age, well dressed, and a perfect
specimen of manhood. There was not
a blemish upon his handsome figure,
except those resulting from the wreck.
His body was embalmed and the
Dallas authorities notified.
At a late hour yesterday nothing
REFORMS IM USTGO THROUGH
So Governor Told the Crowd Gathered to Hear Him at
Demorest Yesterday.
DEMOREST, GA., Sept. 30.—(Spec
ial)— Speaking to a great crowd
here today, Gov. Smith reiterated his
adherence to the program of reform
outlined by him during his canvass
for governor.
All of these reforms, he insisted,
must be carried through, and he
would not abate the use of the entire
power and influence of the guberna
torial office until they had been writ
ten into law and carried into execu
tion.
It was the determined policy of
this administration, he told his audi
ence, to see that the pow’ers of the
railroad commission are upheld, its
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the Texas city, if he has any there.
Zeber Not A Tramp.
The first accepted theory regarding
Zeber was that lie was “only a tramp"
due to the fact that he was found
dead in the wreckage. In refutation
of this, a citizen here states that he
met Zeber in Florida two weeks ago,
where he was then traveling.
It is said that Zeber was anxious
to leave Savannah by this particular
train, having missed the west-bound
passenger train, but as the freight
did not carry passengers he boarded
it anyway and concealed himself in
or upon the cars.
The poor fellow’s head was mashed
to a jelly, and his left leg crushed in
three or four places.
Two Trainmen In Wreck.
The two negro trainmen killed were
William Hodges, of Americus, fire
man for Engineer Hines, and Allen
Williams, brakemen, of Savannah.
Only one of them were killed instant
ly.
Williams body- was embalmed and
sent by the railway company at noon
yesterday to his family in Savannah.
Hodges body was given over to his
old mother here, who took it to the
country yesterday for interment.
Couldn't See the Danger.
The derailment did not occur at a
bridge, or trestle, but was the result
of a “washout" due to the torrential
rains that fell Saturday, undermin
ing the track. The rails ahead seem
ed all right to the engineer peering
ahead in the black midnight.
Dashing upon the track, suspend
ed by the rails and ties, the ponder
ous engine careened and crashed
down to destruction, eight of the cars
following upon it. Conductor Pip
pins was not injured, as his ca
boose and the other cars kept the
track.
The hands of Engineer Hines watch
when found, had stopped at 12:25 a.
m„ it is said; indicating the exact
time of the accident.
Gloom Caused by Accident.
The wreck, the most severe one
ever occurring on this division of the
road, caused greatest sorrow in Am
ericus, as well may be imagined, and
every detail of the catastrophe was
sought eagerly by friends of Engineer
Hines, and of the two train men
also.
The debris will be cleared this
morning and trains will run through
to Savannah this afternoon, quite
likely.
ability to enforce its rulings strength
ened, and the commission made more
than ever an instrument for the good
of the public. Its scope would be
broadened until the demands of the
public for the proper regulations of
all public utilities had been met.
Criticism of those opposed to this
policy would have no effect upon
him. Convinced that it was the peo
ple’s will he had determined to go
forward until the desired full meas
ure of reform had been achieved.
The governor’s remarks seemed to
strike a popular chord and there was
frequent evidence of approval of his
utterances.
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CHAS. L ANSLEY.
SEE THOSE
Fish and Game Sets
at
THOS. L. BELL,
The Leading Jeweler.
GCRKY SAYS WE
ARE IMMORAL
But He Has Forgotten The
Beam in His Eye.
NEW YORK, Sept., 30. (Special)
Cable advices to-day state that in his
new book, just issued in Germany,
Maxim Gorky, the famous Russian
writer, states that the people of the
United States are the most immoral
nation on earth.
Gorky, it will be recalled, came to
this country accompanied- with an
actress to whom he was not married,
having deserted his peasant wife,
from whom he secured a divorce. He
was repudiated socially, and his re
marks on moral conditions can ac
cordingly be considered as his answer
to the criticism passed upon his own
private life.
Out of Sight.
“Out of sight, out of mind,’’ is an
old saying which applies with spec
ial force to a sore, burn or wound
that’s been treated with Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve. It’s out of sight, out of
mind and out of existence. Piles too
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It is indeed most grat
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for in them you will
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MILLINERY
OPENING
To Be Held in Smithville Next
Thursday.
Miss M. E. Chappell announces to
the ladies of Smithville and surround
ing country that she will have her
millinery opening on next Thursday,
3rd. All are invited to call
and see her beautiful showing of
fall and winter styles.
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