Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-23

arm. He states that he reached Jackson
boro at 7:05 a. m, and on reaching there re-
ceived a slip OF paper from the telegraph
operator bearing these words:
"Meet and pass 40 at Adams Run. c. s.
GADsDEN."
There is difference between a simple
telegram handed me by an operator, and q
train order sent to me for some special pur-
pose " Adams Run, he Gays, was the usual
passing point, and he considered the
telegram only as repetition OF
the general order TO meet and pass 40 at
Adams Run, 1oct 70 the well understood
rule, that whenever 40 was more than III
teen minutes behind time he should have
ihe right Of way and pass her at RavrnePs.
He accordingly ran down to Adams Run,
which he reached on schedule time, and
waited fifteen minutes as usual. There be
irg no signs of 40, he hauled out and
nroce ded towards Ravenel as usual,
being entirely ignorant Of the fact that
40 had been ordered to run against his time
He added: ''If the office wanted me to
wait at Adams Run, In my judgment, the
TELEGRAM should have been so worded as to
acauaint me with the fact that 40 had heen
ordered 10 run against my time" No 40 he
said, was nearly thirty minutes off time,
and he was on schedule time.
The damage to the rolling stock OF the
road will amount TO about $l2 600. The
two engines and two postal cars are com
pletPly wrecked None OF the passenger
coaches were injured. An Investigation
will he bad as soon as possible. An Inquest
was held on the bodies OF Fox and SC tt
at Adams Run by Trial Justice Of Collie
ton county, but the verdict is not yet made
known.
Scot, the colored fireman, was buried
this afternoon by the colOred Odd Fellows.
Fox, the white mail agent, will be taken
20 Washington for interment. Burbridge,
the mail agent, is lying at his residence
desperately i'll. and VIII scarcely survive.
Mr. Mansfield, the Chief Clerk Of the Rail-
way Mail Service, is painfully but not dan
geTCuslv inj Ired In an interview tonight
he made The following statement:
81 got the impression at Adams Run that
we were to wait there for No 40, and when
we hauled ouf l was surprised. AS we
started, | told Burhridge, who was IN the
car with me, that this was going to be bad
business, and that / would keep a lockout.
and If he heard me shout 10 jump. looked
out of the door and saw Conductor Pinck-
ney looking out, too. The iog was so dense
that we could not see more than a CIR length
ahead When 1 thought the danger about
over | closed the door, and then felt some
thing like a slight pressure on the air brakes.
| was starting for the door again when the
crash came. The next thing | remember
found myself under the ter der. l wasn't
fastened. and my clothes projected me in a
measure from the steam. made for q cam
Of light, which | saw ahead, and pushing
my hand towards IT,, somebody caught it
and pulled me out l saw Burbridge hang
ing by his neck one arm, and called
out to the crowd 10 take him down. / was
in the north bound train, and when | was
picked out it was from under the tender OF
the south hound locomotive"
The accident IS the subject Of much com
ment here, and public opinion is disposed to
no some body to a strict accountability
The verdict of the Coroner's jury is awaited
with interest.