Lynchburg,
Virginia Train Wreck
December 6, 1906
RAILWAY COLLISION
President of the Southern Railway Company
Killed.
Lynchburg, Va. ---
SAMUEL SPENCER president of the
Southern Railway Company, and recognized as one
of the foremost men in the development of the
Southern states, and six other persons were
killed and eleven more injured early Thursday
morning in a rear end collision between two fast
passenger trains, the Jacksonville express and
the limited, ten miles south of Lynchburg and a
mile north of Lawyers depot.
PHILIP SCHUYLER,
a retired capitalist of New York, was
among the killed, together with other guests of
MR. SPENCER.
Of those on MR. SPENCER'S car, only MR.
SPENCER'S private secretary,
E. A. MERRILL
of New York, and one of three porters survived
the accident.
The Jacksonville train came to a stop at the
crest of one of the heaviest grades on the road
between Lynchberg and Danville. If the trains
had come together a mile further south if is
believed that hardly a person on either train
would have come out of the wreck alive.
Ten minutes later the speed would have been
upward of sixty miles and hour, and the incoming
train, instead of plowing only through President
SPENCER'S private car, probably would have gone
through the entire train.
Basalt Journal Colorado 1906-12-08
Submitted & transcribed by Stu
Beitler Thank you,
Stu!
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