, 1888-03-18
HURLED TO DEATH.
A Fast Mail Train Crashes
Through a Trestle.
Nineteen Persons Killed and
Twenty-Five Injured.
The Accident Caused by a
Broken Rail.
Through a TrestIe.

O~ANANNAH, "a, March 1.-THE first
section of the fast mail train from New
York for Jacksonville went through a
tresde at a point seventy-five miles south
of Savannah this morning and the entire
train, except the engine, was demolished.
Nineteen people are reported to have been
killed and between thirty and forty in
jured, ten of whom are expected to die.
The private car of President Wilbur of
the Lehigh Valley road, with Mr.. Wilbur
and George Gould and wife and Others in
it, was one of the train. President Will
bur is reported to be seriously injured.
Geo. Gould is unhurt and Mrs. Gould is
slightly injured. Relief trains have gone
out with physicians.
The accident was caused by a broken
rail under the baggage car. The baggage
car got off the track about a quarter of q
mile before it reached the bridge at Hur
ricane river. The baggage car mounted
the track, but the train passed safely over
the bridge. Immediately on the other
side Of the bridge there is a ~trestle several
hundred feet in length. When the bag
gage car struck the trestle work it gave
way, and the entire train with the excep-
ton OF the engines dropped through, and
with the exception of one car was com
pletely wrecked.
The train consisted of a combination
car, three baggage cars, a smoking car,
one coach, two Pullman ~sleepers and the
private car of the Lehigh Valley. The
second engine ran to B~lackshear, one
mile distant, for assistance. Soon all the
physicians of the place were present, be-
sides many who were ready to render as
sistance in getting out the dead and res
culng the wounded.
Superintendent Fleming of the railroad
as soon as he heard of the accident. left
Savannah for the scene of the accident
with physicians and nurses. All the
afternoon and evening he had a full force
OF hands clearing away the wreck. About
400 feet of trestle was carried away. Up
to midnight the only communication with
the scene of the wreck has been through
the railroad officials.
Following is the list of killed and
wounded:
Killed-Chas. Pearce, train hand; w.
Nj. Martin, news agent; q. A. Fulton,
master of transportation, Brunswick &
Western railroad; w. B. Geiger, Saw
annah; Fred. Maynard, New York; f.
Nj. Smith, Pullman conductor; Merritt
A. Wilbur, son of the president of the
Lehigh Valley railroad; John f. Ray
Dales Mill, Ca; Cuffy Williams, colored
of Faldos, Ca; Maj. Fl. II. Pate, Hawk,
l~nsvllle, Ga Lloyd Carson, colored; Col
son Foster, colored, of Waycross; Nose.
Gale, colored; E. p. Thompson, North
Carolina; five negro men, names un,
known. Total, nineteen killed.
lnjured-Milton Lawrence, cOlored.
W. l.. Griffin, conductor; j. w. Thomp
son, Jacksonville, Fla: Chas. Brown
5. @. Humboldt, Savannah, Ca; Laur,
Jones. Thomasville, Ga; Mrs. McClinch
Philadelphia; Alice Simpson, New York
Saml ODER and wife, Providence, r. L;
DR.. Booth and wife, New York; Z. L
Wilbur, president of the Lehigh Valley
railroad; w. A. Wilbur and P. II. VIII
bur, sons of the president of the Lehigt
Valley railroad; Miss Cox, A
Boyle, A. j. Faircloth, Westboro, Ga.
Miss Matte Ray. Dale's Mill, Ga; j. It.
Thompson and wife, New Orleans; c. w.
Wallace, travelling passenger agent Louis
vile x Nashville railway; B. Mallard,
baggagemaster; Austin, colored, Way.
cross; Henry Shook, colored, Savannah;
Y. Il: V%anvoorst, Savannah; A. G. Hud.
son, Macon, Ca j. Rapy, fagman; G.
NJ. Feredo and wife, New York; j. l..
Spino, New York; Mrs. Hubert, New
York; Sam Allen, train hand, Savannah;
W. Goodrich, train hand, Savannah; E.
Butterield, New York. Total. twenty
five injured.
A later list of the killed and wounded
agrees with the one already sent, except
that it omits the names of Maj. Pate and
Moses Gale, and gives instead those of
Mrs. Marion G. Shaw and daughter Ma
mic of Jacksonville. 1t also says that
Geo. Gould escaped uninjured, but that
Mrs. Gould was badly shaken up.