The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-10-10
II 0 R R 0 e !!
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCI-
DENB.
Twenty Feet Hall Of three Passenger
Coaches.
None Of the Passengers Killed.
List of The Severely and Slightly
Wounded.
Ass!ducu5 Care Given by the Officers
Of the Road.
4 PrcmCnitiOn Of the Terrible Acct
dent.
Etc, Etc, Etc, ETC., Etc.

road disaster, which occurred last Thurs
day:
One Of the most serious accidents that
ever Happened on the H. 7, Va, d Ga.
Railroad, occurred SHORTLY after nine
o'clock, the morning OF the 3D. Of Oct,
to the western bound mail train, when
about three miles west of Grocnyillo,
Tenn, and soyonty-two miles east OF
Knoxville.
The train was conducted by Thomas
Holloway, m experienced and careful
conductor. In consequence Of the break
ing down Of the up train, the western
bound train was detained at Grocnyillo,
and left that place ono hour and sixteen
minutes behind time.
While approaching q trestlo bridge,
three miles west Of GrcenyiIle, and when
within about one hundred and eighty
PAGES from tho t)rcstlo, the front pair Of
wheels on the hind track 0. thomail car
left the track.
The cause Of this cannot be explained,
At this point the road is balIastcd. The
rocks are in good order. After the
wheels had run over it for the distance
mentioned, the rail ties had not even
been torn up. The road is on q curve
at this point, and can boseen for a quar-
ter of II mile either way from the trostlo,
AS above stated, the wheels which
Jumped the track, stayed on the ties till
they came to thctrestle, when the wreck
took place.
The engine, baggage and express car
passed over III safety. The mail car was
overturned on the east side OF til. road,
which is on an embankmont twenty feet
high. The smoking Cur followed, both
rolling to the foot OF TIC cmbanEmont.
The first passenger coach evidently
carccued up aud being struck by thecar
following it, which "~telescopeu' into it.
was knocked over the trostlo on the west
side of the track, falling Ic4GLAwiso to
the road below.
The second passenger car had the
front end Of the roof forced into this
car, but did not go down the embank-
melt. The sleeping car remained ON
the track also.
In q moment all was over. The air
WIS filed with the groans OF the wound
ed and the shrioks OF AoGIriaLtcd men
and children. HE men who were IN
hurt, extracted themselves from the
wreck Of the broken wood and iron ha8-
ments Of the cur and set about releasing
those uniortuuate5 who were unable to
help themselves.
1t was found that, fortunately, none
were killed. When all the wounded
were gathered together, tucy were found
to Number about as follows:
S Il Coney, Chattanooga, slightly in
jared in the leg and arm; RRAldcr5on,
Loudon, right ankle badly injured;
David Bryant, R~amseytown North Car
DINA, sprained ankle; Mrs. John8on's
two children, Memphis, injuries not
known 10 be serious; Theodore Ellis,
broaksman, injured i'll the face; Colonel
Pride, Morrstown, badly injured i'll TIE
small OF the back; Miss Pride, daughter
Of above thigh broken and otherwise
seriously injured, Uhoy were taken to
Morristowu), Nh and Mrs Morris and
four sons,tw daughters and a~on-in-iaw,
Pulaski county, Va, all hurt, but not
seriously. Alittle colorod girl, daughter
Of Frank Barclay, Knoxville, arm Lrok-
en-; jim HciskolI, colored brakesman,
Chattanooga, MORALLY injured; Mrs
Smithson, Pulaski county, Va, seriously
hurt. (Tho last were taken to Green
yillo.) Mrs Smithson was on her way
to Corinth, Miss, 10 JOIN her husband
Alfred Hunter, colorcd, leg broken; Rev
} II Wheeler, Johnson City, Presiding
Elder N ] Church, South, skinned and
hurt on the back, and seriously injured;
Mr. Conway, mail agent, injured in calf
OF the leg; Thos Holloway, conductor,
injured i'll head and in both legs; Z W
M~cInturnI, mail agent, injured in small
OF the back and bruised; TW Young,
badly injured in the face and legs.
Among those not injured, each SEEM
ed to me to vie with the others in doing
what could be done for the sufferers.
DR.. 0. NJ. Dlanton and wife, Of Green,
vile, M,ss., deserve special mention for
their labors and skill in caring Tor the
wounded. Also Drs. Taylor, Green and
Smith, Of GrecHyille, Tenn.
Mr.. Vim. Roberts, whose house is a
few rods from the scene OF the accident,
offered his house. lie not only offered
his house to the sufferers, but dd all in
his power to alleviate their suflerings.
Capt J Jaqucs, Vice President Of the
Road, r II Richards, a Director, DIS
Boyd and Moses, Of Knoxville, came to
the wreck and rendered al Unnecessary aid
and comforts.
Capt Jaquos was nssiduous in having
attention paid to the sufferers and moth
ing was left undone for their benefit.
Alex Brown, fireman OF the wrecked
train, dreamed at Bristol, the night be-
fore, that the accident would occur on
the Greenvillo grade; that the engine
would run about half n mile, up side
down. Mr. Brown dreamed this the
second time. lie told his roommate Of
it, before leaving Bristol. The accident
did occur at the place dreamed Of, name
ly: "Roberts Crossing"
When the doctors were examining
Mrs Smithson, her little son asked il
they were going to hurt mama.
TW Young was just stepping from
the door Of Tie Ger that was tclescopod
when the negro, VINO is mortally wound
ed, knowing the cars were oil, shovel
him back. Young attributes his escape
from death to this act.