The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-06-16
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION!
a PASSENGER TRAIN THROWN FROM a
HIGH TRESTLE.
Railroad---Seren louns People Killed and
Twelve Wounded,
News and Courier, Sth.)

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News and Courier, Sth.)
Many homes in Charleston arc wrapped
in gloom this morning, and the entire com
munity shares in the sorrows of the afflicted
families in this the awful hour Of their
grief. Six young souls, hurled into eterni-
ty without a moments warning, and thir-
teen crushed, bruised and wounded people
constitute the sum OF the fearful tragedy
on the Northeastern Railroad yesterday
afternoon.
The cause Of the accident will be the
subject of future inquiry. At present no
one seems to know definitely what caused
this fearful calamity The train which lett
Charleston shortly after noon earned the
usual number of passengers bound north
ward, among them some Of the brightest
and best beloved Of the young people OF
Charleston.
The Santee Swamp was reached on tlmc
and here the down train due IN Charleston
at o'clock was met. This train had just
crossed the long trestle which lies on the
south of the river and had passed over 1t
without trouble A few minutes later the
fated train. bearing its doomed freight, en-
tered the treStle and in another instant the
work of death had been done.
The news of the fearful accident was not
received in the city until about 4 c, clock
when a relief train bearing DR.. j. L. An
crum and Assistant Superintendent Royal,
of the Northeastern Railroad, was dls
patched to the scene of the accident. len
minutes after midnight the funeral tram
rolled into the depot with its burden OF
dead and wounded, and loving hands ten
derly lifted these mangled forms and bore
them to their desolated and grief efstricken
homes. The following is the list OF caSu-
alies:
John L. Cole. of Charleston, a native Of
Virginia.
DR.. G. G. Kinloch. of Charleston, eldest
son of DR.. R. a. kinloch.
Miss c. E. McWhite. of Marion.
William H. Inglcsby, of Charleston,
eldest son of Charles Inglcsby.
Miss Flora Mclver, of Charleston.
Miss Hannah Wilson. of Cheraw.
WOUNDED.
B. G. Mazyck, of Charleston, conductor,
seriously.
F. w. Renneker, Of Charleston, mail
agent, seriously.
Henry Husband, of Charleston, baggage
master, seriously.
Warren Burgess, colored. wood paSser,
Of Charleston, painfully.
James Goldman, news agent, Of Charles
ton Slirhtlv
William E. Chandler, passenger, OF Sum-
ter, slightly.
Miss Marion McWhite, passenger, of
Marion, slightly.
w. B. Barnes, passenger, of Lynchburg,
Va painfully but not,dangerously.
Henry Henry, colored, passenger, slightly:
E. T. West, express messenger, Of
Charleston, seriously.
ca. Price, express messenger, of Will
mington, mortaly.
B. Smith, colored, porter of Pullman
car, seriously.
John Wright, colored, passenger, of Will
nington: seriously.
TIE FIRST NEWS OF TIE ACCIDENT.
ST. STEPHENS, Jnne THE North
bound passenger train No. - on the North
eastern Railroad met with Il terrible acci-
dent at 2.22 this evening while it was cross
ing the Santee River trestle at a point two
and half miles from this place. The
trestle suddenly gave away and the train.
with the exception Of the engine and the
last sleeper, plunged hcadlong into the
canal below. The scene that followed
battles description. Hours were spent in
extricating the dead and wounded from the
wreck
The cause of the accident is partly as
cribe6 to the recent freShet, which has
materially injured the trestle, the high
water thus far having precluded a thorough
examination of the same.
THE NEWS IN THE CITY.