The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-01-08

,ng fFosn Ninety 20 Three sIundsed.
LoHDoE, Dec 81 8
The manager Of the North Btitish
Railway, telegg phing from IseuchaFs hs
o'clock this morning, taya: s5evefaI
large giraers, along With The last tgaii,
from Edinburgh, were prscipitated info
the river last night Theirs yas uaafIy
three hundred passengers, besides che
company's servants, all OF whom are be.
lieyed TO have perished.n Rrief as,this
dispatch 10, it tells about oil thet any liy.
Ing persona knows concerning the nature
of the lay bridge disaster. At The awful
tnomeot of the calamity dafkness sur.
rounded the bridge and the train. and
the most that any living man aaw was d
shower OF sparks blown az an angle down
TO the water and the trailing OF The tysin,a
lights through O perpendicular li,ll of
como eighty feet. Then utter darkness
fnllowed, and the men who had Geen the
falling lights, unable TO comprehend
such o calamity as had actually befaller
tho train, fell TO wondering whether thoy
had really seeE anything. The most that
any person living hesrd was the uninteT.
,rupted ro.;;:: Of the firth and Of the wind
through tho braces Of the bridge. The
stopping Of the noisa made by Che moy-
ing train, or the crauh that accompanied
the calamity, would have been drowned
on any ordinary night, when the roar OF
the f1fth cansbe heard for many missss.
The brief despatch from the ulannger
OF the railway contains sufiicient as 10
che extent OF the calamity TO give is d
place alone in the annals Of railway diS-
aster, evenif no additional fact could
ever be known--yAll of whom ore be.
lieved TO have perished ~ There Ia no
other EeneEa i:ke this. e s. 3f5Tuot5aa5a 3fS5STuoiifst5a5a
that tho number of persons lost Is over
estimated in the frat official despatch,
and THAI 1t will be underestimssAd IN The
announcements put forth by the company
later. a despatch. from Dundee 70 the
Press association at Al o'clock this after.
noon says that tho number Of lives lost
does no exceed ninety. a later degpasch
ii1iin thp same place etafes that only tiity-
six tickets were taken up at the last
stopping places before running into
Dundee. These figures do not cover the
nnmbes of young children requiring no
tickets, nor the number Of passengers for
Broughty Ferry, whose tickets Weye not
taken up, nor the number Of railway em-
ployees. g.
The eceua at the bridge TO-DAY was tho
sadest that hes beer witnessed In GenE.
land for years. Thh annroaah Ia fba
structure sWnrfnetl with ei1ht.seeys and
among then. tyefa ,viyas hnsbanrie5 ~
kindred. and lovers Eli 2 dess1aipi;,sS. inn.
Manys steamers and small bostT ,gaSs e,
near the scene. though The home nf Snd.
| ing any survivor hss baen abai,SiosTTs5
Six bodies have baen recovlars3s Tsivsys
will shortly he bronoht IN issgi,,itba t,ori.
Of renovinp tha debris az i
bridge and train and remoyiny amen boSr
ies ofthe vicEins "a rinv he foiia in
submerred coaches. Tbe axeisesS,ent i sii, h,
EdInbnrgh In hsydiv siasa Aha in" I,n,,i 10
dee. - -; $50 = go
Il was through the anxieiv s.f tha
rrour, or men who atoofi near fhh feIe.
graph pignnl bog on Dnnfiee siae az q
bridge. and en-; tbe FlIoy5SeY nf3 fifa y9b;is
spectniatIug as Ia, ghetleYI the srs;n
would venture upon the brigISe nr, s,,et,
a niRht chat fhe facs oP ti,S yvss
asceStaiued. STANDING vl,are ti,a,, tvars .a1,t
tIta cify IL isiss 81
was &c their righs, and theTe t1sa issss
se ehatr.nk tI,a uiarg fsr q. nanaiiar;shl2
distances toward the mi,idIa snang IF fIa
structure. The faelinp :ogeyv rs,,t, I ba,,,
that thew had seem tha atSainss liFhta' go
down info the water .fl,S
to the esienni E,t,i, 81 ~.
them. He told them fi,af ha nniy ,sis1 s,,ass
that ne o n,jhntes S,sst ~; 5se Nc ~ bsJ
bean aienaiIed IA Mn fA, ~ ta sos, !. - aS,s I
sc the bsiiga Ths rtga;s, 5I;d nd ~ s,,Is
The aiensi n,n, hsecr,e ato,ss,ss M
deayored to ret telegranhie ai1ss fEor,
the other side bnt fers vyas ,5 "a
had SaSsc:s Isais n &
wiideat- 3lafnl nossp,asd ti,nsSl Tehn IN siSasi
gati,.red N, ttr, nnu5sos liz trt = ;.,s -
feTrs,ntion of cnnnan,,;ce t;o,, st
IA ilie ifnnressif, Il, ~
hass iia01afed g,f'hiS s;s6rs s,iFs,sS si;Is
wiidfifs & ,s,Ssl
fhrones az neSsans -, I.
fhe bridae The ses svaiiyrsa m eis ,y;ty,
tho tniIitit,3de fhat 6t srsd t
IN :, rii,s eSf
Sga,ffIee
yyss - W. -. sSs',i y.
Ter Of the .Tay bridEs station. .yatnts
Smith, and he and the locomotive super.
| intendent of the road, james Rob efts
said that they would venture out on tiis
structure and learn what had occurred.
It was q psrilous undertaking.
traclks ssesss ssess On top OF che Riras.;.
thers was nothing to break ths forca of
the wind. As Ehe naal, ndrannea tho
gale seemed to increase in fury. They
Wsre nearly swept fscni their footing, and
they got down and crRyIled along the
track, clinging to the rails. w;th fSupera
almoat ben1mbSd. Eighty or ninety 7eat
below them the firth flung its annry
waves agaip5t the bridge Etlpnerfs. Pro,