The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-19
TWENTY-FIVE KILLED
And Nearly Forty Injured in a
Terrible Accident.
THE FRIGHTFUL MISHAP
To Passenger Train on the savan.
nah, Florida q Western Rail.
road - Prominent People
Among the Victims.

CHARLESTON, S. c., March lS.-At O 40
yesterday morning the first section of
the southbound West India fast mail
train crashed through the trestling lust
after crossing the Hurricane river, ~
miles south of Savannah, on the Sayan.
nah, Florida & Western Railway. As
far as learned % persons were killed and
SO injured. OF the wounded, 10 are In.
dies, 20 white male passengers and @
children. The spot is one mile east of
Blackshear, Pierce county, Ga. Tho
road there crosses Hurricane river, and
beyond it is long stretch of trestle
work.
The train left Savannah at Z o'clock.
Standard time. 1t was composed Of an
engine, combination baggage and
smoking car, one passenger coach, two
Pullman sleeping cars and the private
car of President Wilbur, OF the Lehigh
Valley Railroad. The engine passed
over safely, but the rest OF the train
broke through aud fell 10 feet to the
ground below. Before reaching tho
bridge the trains always slow up, and Il
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
ers and special car in which private
party was travelling.
Thescene tthe moment after the wreck
was heartrending. The lower coaches
were smashed well nigh to pieces. For
tunate were those passengers to whom
death came instantly. Every coach was
filled, and hardly passenger es-
capped without some injury. When
the wreck was partly cleared away, the
disaster, serious as It was, was less hor-
rible than 1t was feared. Physicians
and citizens hurried from Blackshear to
the scene OF the wreck as soon az the
engineer, who ran on to the village, re-
ported the disaster. Messages were sent
to Superintendent r. G. Fleming, who
Immediately wired to Waycross and Jes-
up for physicians. A wrecking train was
made up in the yard right away, and
Superintendent Fleming, with DR.. Will
lam Duncan, the road physician, and
large force of men, started for the scene.
An hour later another train was made
up It carried out physicians and an
additional force Of men and cofiins.
This is the first severe accident the
Savannah, Florida & Western road has
had. The number OF dead aggregates %,
about equally divided as to color. Nine
teen persons were killed outright at the
wreck and six died at Waycross in the
afternoon. The wounded are being
cared for in Waycross and Blackshear.
Several more 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 on the train. Presi-
dent Wilbur is reported to be seriously
injured. George Gould is unhurt, and
Mrs. Gould slightly injured. Relief
trains have gone out with physicians. ,
THE KILLED AND INJURED.
Following is list of the killed and
wounded:
Killed-Charlcs Pearcc, train hand;
w. NJ. Martin, news agent; G. A. Full
ton, Master of Transportation Bruns-
wick & Western railroad; G. y. Giegor,
Savannah; Fred Maynard, New York;
F. NJ. Smith, Pullman conductor; Merritt
A. Wilbur, son of the President of tho
Lehigh Valley railroad; John F. Ray,
Dales Mill, Ca; Cuffy William, colorcd,
of yaldosta; Major ]. H. Pate, Hawkins
vile, Ga; Lloyd Corson, colored; Col
son Foster, colored, OF Waycross; Moses
Gale, colored, WayCross; Z. P. Thomp-
son, North Carolina; five negro men,
names unknown.
Injured-Milton Lawrence, colorcd;
w. l.. Griffin, conductor; j, w. Thomp-
son, Jacksonville, Fla; Charley Brown,
Savannah; Q. W. Humbolt, Savannah;
Laura Jones, Townsville, Ga; Mrs. Me-
Clinch, Philadelphia; Alice Simpson,
New York; Samuel Obes and wife, Pro-
videncP, II. l.; DR.. Boothe and wife, New
York; Il. 7. Wilbur, President OF the
I.ehigh Valley Railroad; p. II. Wilbur,
son OF the President OF the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad; Miss Cox, A. Il. Boyle, A.
j. Faircloth, Waresboro, Ga; Miss Mat
tic Ray, Dales Mill, Gin. j. +. Thompson
and wife, New Orleans; o. W. Wallace,
travelling passenger agent Louisville &
Nashville Railroad; l.. b. Mallard, bag
gage master; - Austin, colored, Way
cross; Henry Shook, colorcd, Savannah;
q. Il. Van Worst, savannah; A. g. IIud-
son, Macon; j. Papy, hagnan; @. NJ.
Fcrredo and wife, New York; j. Spiero,
New York; Mrs. Hubert, New York;
Sam Allen, train hand, Savannah: Wal
Ter Goodrich, train hand, Savannah; J..
Buttertield, New York. Total, 35 in
iured. Several will die.
AspeCial to the NerS from Blacksheatll,
Ga, says that Mrs. Gould was unable to
walk to the train, but was carried TO the
car.
MRS BARRYS LECTURE