Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-19
Nineteen Persons Killed by Railro
Accident in Georgia

Nineteen Persons Killed by Railroad
Accident in Georgia
SAVANNAH (Ga), March 17th.-An acci-
dent to the Florida vestibule train is re-
ported TO have occurred ut Blackshear, Ca,
on the Atlantic and Gulf road, eighty. five
miles from Savannah and ten miles from
Waycross.
The hrst section of the fast mail train from
New York for Jacksonville went through
trestle at point seventy FIVE miles south
OF Savannah this morning. The entire train
except the engine is demolished. Nineteen
people are reported to have been killed and
between thirty and forty injured, 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 Wilbur is reported to be
seriously injured. George Gould is unhurt
and Mrs. Gould slightly injured. Relief
trains have gone out with physicians
KILLED.
Following is the list of killed and
wounded: Charles Pearce, train hand !:
William NJ. Martin, news agent; c. A
Fulton, Master of Transportation, Bruins
wick and Western Railroad W. B. Griger,
Savannah; Fred. Maynard, New York;
+. NJ. Smith, Pullman conductor; Merritt
A. Wilbur, son of the President of the Le-
high Valley Railroad; John F. Rays,
Dales Mill, Ga Cuffy Williams (colored)
of Valdes, Ga; Major H. H. Pate, Hawk
insville, Ga; Lloyd Corson, colored; Colson
Foster (colored) of Way Cross; Moses Gale,
colored; E. P. Thompson, North Carolina.
Besides the above there were five negro
men whose names are unknown. making a
total of nineteen killed.
THE INJURED.
The injured are: Milton Lawrence, col
ored: w. l.. Griffin, conductor; ]. w.
Thompson, Jacksonville, Fla; Charles
Brown o. W. Humboldt, Savannah, Ca;
Laura Jones, Thomasville, Ga Mrs. Nc
Clinch, Philadelphia: Alice Simpson, New
York; Samuel Ober and wife, Providence,
K. DR.. Booth and wife, New York; E.
l.. Wilbur, President Leigh Valley Rail
way; W. A Wilbur son Of the President;
Miss Cox, A. Boyle, A. ]. Faircloth, West
boro, Ga; Miss Matte Ray, Dalles Mill,
Ga; j. 7. Thompson and wife, New Or
leans; G. w. Wallace, Travelling Passenger
Agent l.. and n. Railway; B Mallard, bag
gagemaster Austin (colored) Way Cross :;
Henry Shook (coloredl, Savannah; C. E.
Vanvoorst, Savannah; A. G. Hudson,
Macon, Ga; J. Rapie, fagman; G. NJ.
Feredo and wife, j. l.. Spice, Miss Hum
bert, New York; Sam Allen, train hand,
Savannah Walter Goodrich, train-hand,
Savannah; E. Butterield, New York /;
Total injured, 25.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
A later list of the killed and wounded
agrees with the one already sent, except
that it omits the names of Major Pate and
Moses Gale, and gives instead those of Mrs.
Marion G Shaw and her daughter, Mamie,
OF Jacksonville. 1t also says that George
Gould escaped uninjured, but that Mrs
Gould was badly shaken up.
LATER-20 PERSONS KILLED.
SAVANNAH (Ga.), March 1Sth-A revised
list OF the casualties in yesterdays accident
near Blackshear, shows that % were killed
and "a injured. OF the latter ten are in a
serious condition. Ali the wounded are
receiving every attention.