The Portland daily press., 1888-03-19
TWENTY KILLED.
Particulars Of Saturdays Accident to
the Florida Express.
The Train Falls with a TreStle at
BIaekspear, Ga.
Twenty.Three Dead and Many More
Suffering from Injuries.
How Cool Headed Engineer Welch
AVerted a Worse Calamity.
Geo. Gould is Among the Passengers.
But is Not Much Hurt.

SAVANNAH, Ca, March 1.-THE first sec
tion of the fast mail train from New York
for Jacksonville, went through trestle sew
enty-five miles south of Savannah, this morn
ing The entire train except the engine is
demolished. Nineteen people are reported
killed and between thirty and forty injured,
ten of whom are expected to die. The pri-
vate car of President Wilbur of the Lehigh
Valley railroad, with Mrs. Wilbur and Geo.
Gould and wife, and others in it, was on one
of the trains President Wilbur is reported.
seriously injured. Geo. Gould is not hurt,
and Mrs. Gould is slightly injured Relief
trains have gone out with physicians. Rail-
road authorities monopolize the wires ana
have a list of the killed, bnt will not give II
to the press until later.
JACKSONVILLE, March 17.-Representa-
tives to the Times Union from Jacksonviiie'
arrived at Waycross, near the scene OF tne
accident, tonight and found the town wild
with excitement The number dead aggre-
gates 25, equally divided as to color. Nine
teen persons were killed outright at the
wreck and six died at Waycross during the
afternoon, and several more are expected to
die.
Later dispatches say Geo. Gould was in
iured in the face and Mrs. Gould injured in
the side, both slight injuries.
Later Reports.
SAVANNAH, Ga, March 1s.-The accident
Yesterday near Blackspear, was caused by
broken rail. A baggage car was thrown of
the track about quarter of mile before 1T
reached the bridge at Hurricane river. The
train passed safely over the bridge, but i'm
mediately on the other side of the bridge Is a
trestle several hundred feet in length, and
when the baggage car struck the trestle
work, it gave way. The entire train, with
the exception of the engine dropped through
and, with the exception of one car, was com
pletely wrecked The train consisted of
combination'car, three baggage cars, smok--
ing car one coach, two Pullman Sleepers and
the private car of the Lehigh Valley rail-
road The private car was. occupied by
President Wilbur, of the Lehlgh road, MS
family and friends.
The Dead.
SAVANNAH, Ca, March 1S.-Following is
a revised list of the killed:
william A. Martin, Union News Company
Bridgeport, Ohio,
c. A. Fulton, master of transportation, Bruins
wick Western railroad.
F. M. Smith, Pullman conductor.
John I. Ray Blackspear.
John H. Pote, Hawkensville, Ga.
K. p. Thompson, New York.
Mrs. G. Kelly, falatka, Fla
w. A. McGrif, Columbia, s. G.
Mrs W. A. Shaw and daughter of Jacksonville.
NJ. A Wilbur, son of E. 7. Wilbur, OF Bethie-
j. II. Hurlbut, of Philadelphia
Chas. Pear, Coffee Williams, : valdosner, Lloyd
Dawson, C. Foster and Moses Gate OF Waycross.
and five unknown colored men.
The Wounded.
The following is revised list of the in
jured:
Melton Lawrence Savannah, slightly
William L. Griffin, Savannah, conductor dan-
j. A. Thompson, editor of the Peoples Journal,
Jacksonville.
Charles Brown, Savannah.
G. ID. Helmbold, travelling agent OF Armour
Miss Laura Jones, Thomasville, slightly.
George ]. Gould and wife, New York, slightly.
Mrs. McClinch, Philadelphia internally
Miss Alice Simpson, New York, internally and
badly.
Samuel Ames and wife, Providence. R. l., badly
DIR. Booth New York.
r. Ws9T ReesdPsnt and 9i ,ns sons wbaT
and r. j. Wilbur.
IN Miss Isabella Cox, Bethlehem Pa, internally.
A. G. Broyle, Bethlehem, Pa.
A. j. Farcloth, Waresboro.
George Butterheld, New York,
L. B. Mallard, Savannah, arm broken and cuts
7. B. Thompson and wife, New Orleans.
Capt. o. w. Wallace, travelling agent OF the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, dangerously III
W. D. McCiinch Austin, Savannah.
Henry Sneed, savannah.
G. E. Van Worst, Savannah.
A c. Hudson, Macon, badly hurt.
John Papen, Fernandina, Florida.
Gen. Terrer and wife, New YORK, Dadiy injured.
]. S. Paine, Newark, N. j.
Walter Goodyear, Savannah.
Samuel Allen, savannah, badly injured M sii,od w.s
from Utica and was slightly injured.
Some of the dead have been sent to their
former homes and others will be embalmed
and sent. The severely wounded are still at
Waycross. Mr. Gould and his wife and the
Wilbur family are at Blackspear near the
scene of the accident. A special car was
placed at their disposal by the Savannah,
Florida & Western railroad.
The trestle over the Hurricane river IS
about 800 feet long. The break includes 400
feet at the west end, the engine and tender
landing against the abutments. Inc pag-
gage car left the track on the trestle whlcn
accounts for the accident. The ties show
where the trucks cut deep. into them. IL
was this car that careened the rear car ana
by its strain dragged the tender down. the
engine having safely crossed over Had II
neer Richard WEIGH, much more horrible
fate would have been in store for the wound
ee. Hurriedly dispatching the engine with
| the fireman to- Blackspear, he ran down to
the wreck and with the assistance OF the
| porter of the Pullman car, extlngulsned the
| fire which broke out in the baggage car.
The part of the trestle destroyed is being
| rebuilt and direct communication Will be re-
| stored with Florida, Tuesday morning. The
| accident is the first of its kind on the road
siEce it was built 80 years ago.
George Gould In Jacksonville.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. March 1S.-George
| Gould and wife arrived here at 4p. m. In
an interview Mr.. Gould said: Neither my
self nor my wife is much injured, but the es-
cape was miracle. My wife, although not
seriously injured, lis stiff from the shaking up
caused by the sudden stop and turning over
of the coach. The only injury l received was
| q slight cut on one ear and one on the lore.
| head which did not amount TO anytnlng.,
Reinq asked the object of his visit to Flori-
da. he said: 81 came down to meet my fatn-
er whom expect to arrive at fernandina I'M. y IA
the Yacht i'm a day or two. he left 81.
Thomas Tuesday afternoon, and expected TO
remain two days in Nassau on the way 70
Florida. expect him tomorrow or Iuesday'
George Can Stand 1t.
| SAVANNAH. Ca, March ia speclai w
the News from Blackspear, Ca, says: MRS:
| Gould was unable to walk to the train, but
was carried to the car The loss to George
Gould by the wreck will be $4,000. MIS-
| Gould lost ring valued at $1,000.
Injured on the D. L. & w.
BINGHAMToN, n T., March 1S.-Hon. Da-
vid Gray, ex-editor of the Buffalo Courier
| i,,i,, -. Al tho nQlQw
Lackawanna & Western railroad, at Vestal
Friday, died this evening.
Newspaper Mems Complaint.
New YORK, March 1S.-The feature OF TO-
days proceedings of the Central Labor
Union was the application for admission Of