The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-06-29
P1CKENs, s. G., THURSDAY, JUNE 90, 1876.

was still warm was lying upside down
on him, and had mashed him to a
jelly between the engine and tender,
while his bowels foated and swayed
i'll the water as if anxious to be re-
leased. The bodies of the conductor,
LaFoy, and the baggage master, Kit
singer, were found some three or four
hundred yards below, where they
had been washed and lodged against
trees, somo ten or twenty feet apart.
1t is supposed that they had jumped
off the falling train. The conductors
skull was crushed and his thigh was
broken. The baggage master had
only slight bruise on the head. He
smeemed to have been killed by con>
cussion in striking the water. The
breakman, Henry Allen, alone was
alive, and he was immovably fastened
in tho timbers in an erect position,
with his legs crushed, his arm
stretched perpendicularly, his hand
divided or split to the wrist by the
sharp edge of the timbers which held
his arm. In this dreadful condition
in the middle of the rising stream,
with no living soul within the sound
of his voice, he kept bis lonely watch
over the bodies of the dead. When the
accident occurred Allen was not more
than two feet in the water, but the
stream continued to rise until it was
around his neck. If the waters bad
risen few inches more, he would
have been drowned.
Drs. Narden, Scudday and Broyles
were present and rendered medical
aid to the wounded man.
TIE INQUEST.
Trial Justice w. S. Brown, actin g
Coroner, ut once organized Jury
from the byslanders, and held the in.
quest over the bodies of LaFoy and
Kilsinger, DR.. O II. Broyles making
the examination. The jury also ex>
amincd Allen before he died After
which they proceeded to inspect the
timbcrs of the bridge. Up to Sunday
no inquest had been held over the
bodies of the fireman and engineer,
who were still beneath the wreck.
The report rs to Mr.. Williams tam.
lily being in the wreck was erroneous,
as his car had been lett at Bolton for
the engine from Greenville to take for
ward to it's destination.
The virdict OF the jury had not
been rendered at last accounts, but
it is expected that the Railroad au,
thoritieS will be severely blamed. It
is known that the feeling against the
Railroad is intense. The people Of
Anderson have of late been much ex
ercised about what they thought to
be an unjust discrimination against
them in the matter OF freights to that
point, While they openly assert their
Belief that tho catastrophe was the
natural result of the decayod condi--
tion of the bridge, and not at all to
be attributed to accident. Rumor
hath it that the trestle two years ago
was pronounced unsafe, and that ell
gineer Milligan about that time re-
por ed to the Superintendent that
this bridge was unsafe, and that he
was afraid to cross it in it's condition,
whcroupon he was dismissed from the
service Of the Road, and his situation
given to Mr.. Wilson. We arc also
informed that the unsafe condition oi
the trestle was common talk among
the train hands, that the conductor
had said he thought it likely that they
would all be killed there and on ono
occasion the conductor went so far ae
to show his pocket and to explain
which was his money and which be
longed to the railroad, requesting hia
confdant to see that Ills family got
his money in case of accident. An
intelligent and reliable gentleman
/ Al Il