The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-06-29

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heart OF stone, when the wives beheld
their husbands and tue children look
| ed upon their fathers held in the iron
grasp amid the timbers, manglcd and
dead.
MIR. L. A Sullivan was mail agent
tor this train, but owing to misun-
derstanding as to the exact time the
train would leave, he was accideatly
lett at Bolton. When the train stars
ted OFT ho was at tho hotel and made
the greatest effort to get aboard but
failed to do SO. When the engine
went down at Broadway his car was
smashed to pieces. The mail bags
torn, and all were washed down the
stream. Much of the mail mat
ter was lost, bnt the bags have been
recovered. We suppose Sullivan felt
uncomfortable enough at being left
at Bolton that night, but we presume
he has become reconciled to his fate.
We congratulate him on his escape.
lie has never before for the last four
years missed being with the train
every time it pissed that trcstle, and
we have no doubt that he uttered, if
not orally, mentally, prayer of
thankful ness for his absence on tlis
occasion.
Since the falling Of Tho trcstlo mul..
titudes OF people from every section of
tho surrounding country havo visited
tho place of the disaster. Many Of
whom have gone down to tho worry
spot, whilo numbers of others have
been satisfied with going to tho odgo
OF tho abutmcnt3 and popping over
from tho dizzy heights above on tho
dreadful spectacle below The height
OF tho trestlc is seventy five feet and
six inchos above tho Lowell of the wa
tor ut low water mark. Somo eighty
foot of tho trestlo is broken, and many
hanging timbers have since falcn.-
Ono long piccc which had bocn hang
irg by n pin fell on Sunday worry noar-
y striking six men who were standing
near by-all of whom would have
been killed had struck it them. The
accommodating timbcrs bcneath the en-
gine and tender stopped their down
ward course ten foot above the bottom
of the stream. At its highest the wa-
ter was fourteen fcct above tho lowest
water mark
a construction tram of tho compa-
ny, with hands, arrived on the spot
about dark Saturday night, but what
work thoy expect 10 do just now, ox-
cept to extricate the bodios Of those
in tho rubbish, we have not boen in-
formed, but think it likoly that tho
engine will bo taken to pieces, as we
presume it would be impossible to
raise it as whole, to tho immense
height Of the track, seventy five feet
above. Unless tho company have tho
timbcrs already on hand, it will likely
bo weeks before new trcsLlo can be
| built. This trcstlc is ut tho same place
whcro tho cmbankment was washed
away in the winter of 1865. During
tho heavy rains which fell in February
of that yoar the volume Of water in>
creased to immense proportions and
distractions filled tho mouth of tho
culycrt, whom tho water was damned
up so that it covered an immense tor.
ritory, and whole farms were sub
merged, when tho wator had risen
somo thirty feet the cmbankment
gave way and tho destruction below
was tcrriic--tho watcr being from
hill to hill, swept bridges, mills, dams,
fencing and everything else movable
boforo it. For this damage the road
was never required to pay q cont
Whithor tho compay will be SO for
tunato in thoir settlement with the
widows mado in this unfortunate oc-
currence remains TO bo soon. 1t is
said that tho superintendent requires
all the employees of the road to sign
an obligation not to hold tho COM
pany responsible for damages SUSTAIN
cd on tho road while in thor omploy.
What forco such an obligation will
have in answering tho claims of Wild
ows will perhaps bo tostod in tho
Courts
The statement about tho Railroad