Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-08-13
Ten Persons Dead on tho G. & o.

LADY KILLED, CROSSING TIE TRACK
BRAKEMAN KILLED NEAR MILLBoRo-
WAITER DECAPITATED IN A TUNNEL
FREIGHT COLLISION.
&C. &C. &C. &C.
Friday morning the mail train on the 9.
q O., from the west was twenty minutes
late when it rolled up to the Stauntou de-
pot. There was blood on the engine
wheels. Three hours before, these great
wheels had crushed the life out OF young
girl, of seventeen, at Clifton Forge. Miss
Lille Bartlett was walking along the
track, on the outskirts of the village, with
companion, Miss Thompson. Seeing the
train bearing down upon them, Miss I.
stepped on one side Of the track and Miss
Bartlett on the other. On the ide-track.
about four feet from Miss Bartlett, a
freight train was standing, and as the
mail approach, it is supposed she became
alarmed at being hemmed in SO closely be-
tween the trains, and determined to re-
join her companion on the other side OF
the track. The engineer, Mr.. Murray,
saw her dart upon the track, but she never
crossed it. The train was stopped as the
last car had passed over the body of the
unfortunate girl, which had BEEN cut in
two at the waist. Her head. arms and
breast laid outside the rail and the lower
portion of her body lay between two cross
ties on the track. Her shoes had been jerked
off and her clothing torn. but her limbs
were only bruised. Capt. Smith left a
trainman with the body and brought his
train from the bloody spot as soon as pos
sible. No blame is attached to him or the
engineer. as they could not possibly have
avoided the sad accident.
CRUSHED IN UN1JEL.
James Melton. brakem an on freight
was seen alive with his lantern in his
hand after leaving Millboro Wednesday
night. When the train reached Clifton
Forge he was missed. A telegram was
sent back to search along the track for
him. His body was found just outside OF
Coleman tunnel frightfully mangled. -
His body was coflned and sent to Char :
lottesville, where he had brothers and sis
tiers. He was only twenty-three years Of
age.
DECAPITATED IN A TUNNEL.
John II. Jones, a steady young colored
waiter, last employed in Richmond res
taurant, was found in Cady's tunnel near
Millboro, last Saturday morning, lying on
the track with his heap severed from his
body and the body fearfully mangled. He
had been walking the track through the
tunnel and been struck by train and RIM
over.
KILLED WILL IN LIQUOR.
D. McCraw was run over and killed in
the G. and o. yard at Charlottesville. Sun
day morning by either freight engine or
some freight cars. He had been for sew
eral days under the influence of liquor. He
was horribly mangled. He was a we'll
known fiddler.
KILLED BY THE FAST EXPRESS.
At Trevillian's Station Sunday, a young
man named J. H. Sanders was struck by
the fast express and instantly killed. He
was at the depot waiting to meet friend
and attempted to cross the track.
FIVE KILLED IN A COLLISION.
A collision occurred on the Chesapeake
and Ohio road Saturday between two
freight trains near Limestone, KY. On
the eastbound train engineer Higgins and
fireman Harris we're badly hurt, and
Scheerman, brakeman, was instantly
killed. On the westbound train engineer
Davan Ball, brakeman VIM. Sheo and
fireman W. Ballard. were killed.