OGDEN TRAIN IN CRASH; MEMBERS OF PARTY HURT

St. Clair McKelway Rescued by Robert M. Ogden.

FOUR TRAINMEN WERE KILLED

Special Dashes at High Speed into a Freight Train at Greenville, S. C. – Cars Catch Fire.

Special to The New York Times.

Greenville, S. C., April 29. – The Robert C. Ogden special train, bearing Mr. Ogden and 100 members of the Southern Conference for Education on their return to New York, was wrecked at 7:53 o’clock this morning in the yard of the Southern Railroad here, by dashing at great speed into the rear end of a freight train. Four train hands were killed and several passengers and employes (sic) injured.

The Dead.

COPE, CHARLES M., white, brakeman; Columbia, S. C.
CUMMINGS, W. W., colored, dining car employe. (sic)
HAYNE, J. F., colored, dining car employe. (sic)
LITTLE, JOHN, colored, dining car employe. (sic)

The Injured.

Acker, Edward, conductor; bruised.
Dreher, Dr. Julius D., ex-President of Roanoke College, Virginia; cut on head.
Farnham, Prof. Henry W., Yale University; arm broken and cut on head.
Farnham, Mrs. Henry W., badly bruised about head and arm.
Hull, R. S., negro cook; cut on arm.
Hunter, James, engineer on special; leg and arm broken.
Kershaw, Walter, electrician on special; ear and head cut.
McCoy, John F., agent Pennsylvania Railroad; gash on head.
McKelway, Dr. St. Clair, editor Brooklyn Eagle; bruised on the back and shoulder.
McVickar, Bishop W. N., of Providence, R. I.; bruised.
Ogden, Robert M., secretary to President Ogden; cut on hand and head bruised.
Thorp, Mrs. J. G. Cambridge, Mass.; cut and bruised on head.
Williams, George, waiter; bruised.

Four other employes (sic) were slightly hurt.
Mr. Ogden’s train of ten cars – baggage, smoker, two dining cars, five coaches, and observation car – was forty-five minutes late, and the engineer, J. R. Hunter, who had never been over the road before, was speeding to make up time when just outside this city he struck a sharp downgrade.
The train was running at a rate of fifty miles an hour when the engineer saw just in front of him a freight train backing out on the main track. With him was Charles M. Cope of Columbia, S. C., a brakeman, the fireman having jumped to safety at the first sign of danger. Hunter put on the air brakes and started to jump, but hesitated. Cope threw him off the engine and then jumped himself. Hunter’s right leg and left arm were fractured. Cope landed on his head and was instantly killed.
The engine, after telescoping two freight cars, rolled over on its side. The baggage car plowed its way into a bank and tipped over to the right. The first of the dining cars, the St. James, known on the road as the hoodco, because it has figured in half a dozen small wrecks and a serious one at Jacksonville, Fla., was thrown for a quarter of its length on top of the smoker. The other cars stayed on the track, none of the passengers in them being seriously hurt, although many of them were thrown about like dice in a box, bumping their heads against the berth partitions.
The Pacific, an observation car, was the only car back of the forward cars that was damaged. This was the first prize car at the Chicago Fair, and was the one that carried the body of President McKinley from Buffalo to Canton, Ohio.

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