The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-22
THROUGH A TRESTLE.
A Fearful Wreck Below SavannaI,-The
Florida Special of yestibules Meets
an Awful Fate--The List of
Killed and Wounded.

ton of the fast mail train from New
York for Jacksonville went through the
trestle at a point seventy-five miles
South of Savannah this morning. The
entire train. except the engine, is de :
molished. Nineteen people are reported z
to have been killed and between thirty
and forty injured, ten of whom are ex-
pected to die. The private car Of Presi-
dent Wilbur, of the Lehigh Valley
road, with President Wilbur and Geo.
Gould and wife and Others in it, was on 2
ore of the trains.
SCENE OF THE WRECK.
Especial Dispatch to the Chronicle
SAVANNAH, GA, March 1.-THE
scene Of the wreck is one mile East of
Blackshear, Pierce County. The road
there crosses Hurricane river, and be-
yond it is long stretch of trestle.work.
The train left Savannah at 7:0l stand
ard time, this morning.
1t was composed of an engine, COM
bination baggage and smoking car, one !,
passenger coach, two Pullman sleeping
cars and private car of the Lehigh
Valley railroad. The engine passed
over safely, but the rest of the train.
broke through and
FELL FIFTEEN FEET
to the ground below. Before reaching
the bridge the trains always slow up, &
and, it is supposed, that the speed at Z
which the train was running was not
higa. The combination coach is re- :
ported to be the first one which struck
the ground. On it fell the passenger
coach, the sleeper and the special car in
which We're President Wilbur, of the
Lehigh Valley railroad, and George
Gould and wife, of New York. The
scene at the moment after the wreck
was
HEART-RENDING BEYOND DESCRIPTION
The lower coaches were smashed to
pieces. Fortunate were those passen-
gers to whom death came instantly.
Every coach was filled, and scarcely a
passenger escaped without some injury.
When the wreck was partly clea.:ed
away the disaster, serious as it was, was
less horrible than was feared. Up to s
O'Clock the list Of dead counted up nine
teen, and the wounded thiry-four. The
only names Of the dead reported to the
railway officials here are:
LIST OF. THE KILLED.
Charles Pearce, a train hand, W. M.
Martin, news agent; C. A. Fulton, mas
ter Transportation Brunswick and West
ern Railroad;W. B. Grogor, Savannah:
Fred Meynard, New York;J. NJ. Smith.
Pullman conductor; Merritt A. Wilbur.
son OF the president of Lehigh Valley
Railroad; John Fray, Dale's Mill, Ca;
Guilty Williams, colored, Valdosta; Mai.
). ID. Bate, Hawkinsville, Ga; Lloyd
Corson, colored; Colson Foster, colored,
Waycross; Moses Gale, colored, Way
cross; E. P. Thompson, North Carolina:
Five negro men, names unknown.
Total, 10 killed.
INJURED.
NJ Lawrence, colored w L Griffin.
conductor; J W Thompson, Jackson
vile, Fla; Charley Brown, Savannah;
Laura Jones, Thomasville, Ga. :; Mrs.
McClinch, Philadelphia Alice simp-
son, New York; Samuel Cbes and wife.
Providence DR. Boothe and wife, New
York; E P Wilbur, president Lehigh
Valley railroad; w A Wilbur, son of
the president ofthe Lehigh Valley rail-
road; Miss Cox, A F Boyle, A J Fan
cloth, Waresboro, Ga; Miss NJ Ray,
Dale's Mill, Ga. J P Thompson and
wife, New Orleans ; O w Wallace, trav-
elilng passenger agent Louisville and
Nashville railroad L B Mallard, bag
gage master; Austin, colored, Way
cross; Henry Shook, coIored, Savan-
nah; &C E Van Worst, Savannah ;AC
Hudson, Macon, Ga. j Papy, fagman;
L NJ Feredo and wife, New York: J
Spiro, New York Mrs Hulburt, New
York; Sam Allen train hand, Savan-
nah; E Butterfeld, New York. Total,
thirty-five injured.
A RELIEF TRAIN.
Arelief train went out at 5 o'clock this
afternoon with two undertakers and
thirty coffns and a force of tele-
graph operators and linemen. Man
ager Merrihew, of the Western Union
telegraph office here, as soon as thenews
was received that Mr. Gould and wife
were among the injured, employed DR..
Harris and detailed an operator and
iinemen to accompany him to the scene
of the wreck.
TRAVEL BLOCKADED.
The wreck has completely blockaded
travel South, and trains North and
and South bound will go via Jesup,
Brunswick and Waycross until the
trestle is rebuilt, which will be sevc al
days. -
MR.. AND MRS. GOULD INJURED
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 1S.-A
late dispatch from the Times-Union
correspondent at Waycross says
George Gould was injured in the face,
and Mrs. Gould in the side, both slight
injuries.
Nineteen persons were killed outright
and six died at Waycross during the af-
ternoon. The wounded are being cared
for at Waycross and Blachshear. Seve-
raj more are expected to die.