New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18
NINETEEN PERSONS KILLED.
OYER THIRTY SERIOUSLY HURT.
DISASTER ON TIE ATLANTIC COAST LINE.

OYER THIRTY SERIOUSLY HURT.
DISASTER ON TIE ATLANTIC COAST LINE
AvEsrIBULE TRAIN FALLS THROUGH A TnEsTLE IN
GEoRGiA-THE BANK OF THE HURRICANE
CREEK sTREwED WITH A sHAPELEss
wRECK-NoRTHERN TRAVEL
LERs AMONG TIE KILLED
AND INJURED.
IBY TELEGRAPH THE TRTBCyE.I
CHARLESTON March THE first section of the
south-bound West India mail at 9:4O q. m. to-
day crushed through the treste just after crossing
the Hurricane Creek sevcnty-five miles southwest
OF Savannah, Oh the Savannah, Florida and West
ern Railway. So far as learned seventeen per-
sons killed outright and thirty-six injured
or the killed nine were white and eight colored
or the wounded ten are women, twenty white men
and six are children. The spot IS one mile east of
Backshear, Pierce County. The road there crosses
the hurricane Creek, and beyond it is a long
stretch of treste work The train left Savannah at
7;Ol a. m, standard time 1t composed Of
m engine, n combination baggage and smoking
car, one passenger coach, two Pullman sleeping
cars and private car OF the Lchigh Valley
/ Railroad. The engine passed over safely, but
the rest of the train broke through and fell nf-
teen feet to the ground below. Bcfose reaching
the bridge the trains always slow up, and II is
supposed that the speed at which the train was
running was too high. The combination coach
is reported to be the first one which struck the
ground. On It fell the passenger coach, the sleep
] inc md 10 cfa1 IN Vi priv vuf
party was travelling The coaches underneath
were smashed. Fortunate were those passengers
to whom death came instantly. Every coach
filed and scarcely passenger escaped with
out some injury When the wreck part y
cleared away. the dsastcr, serious it was, was
less horrible than it was feared The list Of
killed is reported follows
KILLED
CoRsoN LLOYD. colorcd
FOSTER, COLsON Of Waycross. colofcd
FULTON, C.. A., the master Of transportation OF tho
Brunswick aud Western Railroad
GALE, MOSES. Of Waycro,s. colorcd.
GIEGEIt ". b. OF savannah.
MARTIN, ". NJ, the news agent Of the train
MEYNAKD, T., Il Ncw-York.
FEARCE, CHARLES, trainman.
PATE MAJOR !. H., OF law hinsviilc, Ga.
PENL, CHARLES. a colorcd tfainman
RAY, JOHN T.. Of Dalc's Mill. Ga
SHAW. MRS MARION o., of Jacksonville, Tia.
SHAW, MAMIE Of Jacksonville, Fla
SMITH. r. NJ, conductor I'm the Pullman coaches.
IH'MlsON. f. T., OF North Carolina.
WILBUR MERRITT A, ION of the president Of Ito !
Lchsh valley Railroad
WILLIAMS cUFFf Of Naldos'a, colored
FIVE co!oTef men whose names are unknown
INJURED
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GOODRICH WALTER. ofsavannah. 4 trninnan
Griffin. ". L.. the conductor o. tAc tram
III l9oN, H. e., OF Macon, IA
III Lh' hI' Mh>' oi Nr"-foih
HLNh'lh' T.. ", OF savannah.
JONES LAURA Of la"mifI'' ca
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sNooK. HENRY. Of savannah. co.orcd
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