Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Hot Springs, Ark., T. J. Hicks and Edward Winfield overpowered the jailer and escaped from the Garland County jail. A freight wreck, in which two men wore killed and four or five injured, occurred on the Central Railroad at Fort McPherson, Ga. A train bearing soldiers bound for the camp at Lithia Springs was run into by a freight train. Both engines and trains were badly wrecked, cars being piled one upon another. Bodies were torn in pieces and hands, arms and legs were found lying about. The mail train from Charleston to Columbia, 8. C„ on the Atlantic Coast Line, was wrecked four miles from Columbia. The eugine jumped the track and the whole traiu weut down a high embankment. Engineer Willis Johnsdn stuck to his post and was dreadfully scalded, but will recover. About fifteen passengers were mote or less injured, but none seriously.