The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-22
DASHED TO DEATH.
FAST MAIL TRAIN SORs
TaaReUGIS A TREsThE.
sWeaIy.Ftve People Kili~J ana ~
others Reported Injnr~a.

A dispatch from Charleston, s. G., March
II, says; At 9,4O o'clock this morning. a
portion of the southbound fast mail train
crashed through the trestle, just after cross
ing Hurricane river, 10 miles south
of Savannah, on tho Savannah,
Florida a. Western railway, As far as
learned, 10 persons were killed and 80 in,
jured, OF the killed nine were white and
eight were colored, OF tho wounded 10 arc
ladies, 20 white male passengers, and six
children The spot is ono mile east OF Black
shear Pierce county, Ga, The road there
crosses Hurricane river, and beyond it is
long stretch of trestle work. The train loft
Savannah at 7.0l O'Clock, standard time. 1t
was composed OF an engine, combination
baggage and smoking car, one passenger
coach, two Pullman sleeping cars and the pri
vate car of President Wilbur of tho Lehlgh
Valley railroad. The engine passed over
safely, but the rest of tho train broke
through and tell Ii feet to the ground below.
Before reaching the bridge tho trains always
slow up, AMI il is sup osed tho train : us
running at too high speed. Tho comb
nation coach is reported to lie the first tne
which struck the ground. On 1t fell the
car in which private party was travel
ling.
The scene at the moment after the wreck
was henrt-rcnding The lower coaches were
smashed well nigh to pieces. Fortunate
were those passengers to whom death came
instantly. Every coach was fillel, and
hardly passenger escaped without some
injury. When the wreck was partly cleared
away, the disaster, serious as it was,
was less horrible than ii was feared.
Physicians and citizens hurried
from Backshear to the scene of the wreck
as soon as the engineer, who ran on to the
village, reported the disaster Messages
were sent TO Snpt. II. c. Fleming, who i'm
ihedately wired to Waycross and Tfr,p
for physicians. A wrecking train was ade
up in the yard right away, and Supt IN
ing, with DR.. William Duncan, IT,, 'pad
physician, and n large force of mer s',r ted
for the scene. An hour later another tn,n
was made up, 1t carried oat physicians and
an additional force of men and collins
dispatch from Black,hear says that the
ladies of that town were at the wreck, and
did noble work Attending to the injured.
About 400 feet of tresto work was carried
/ away.
This is the first sewers accident the Savan-
nall, Florida IL Western road has had. Just
how it occurred has not yet been learned.
| representative of the jacksonville Times
| Union, sent from Jacksonville arrived at
Waycross, near the scene Of the accident, at
| $50 o'clock tonight and found the town wild
with excitement Tho number of dead ag-
gregates %, about equally divided as to col.
or. Nineteen persons were killed instantly
at the wreck, and six died at Waycross in
the afternoon The wounded are Icing
cared for in Waycross and Blackshear. Sew
eral more arc expected to die. General Fer.
rdo of Tammany hall had his left hand Sc
vereiy injured, aud suffered conclusion of
! the right side. His wife is severely injured
on tho left side md is suffering copsid-
| .ryJly