Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-07-20
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/ lObJ ltB dJ NeIJSsOuIB, anu Was
returning from the reunion recent.
ly held there, where he and his
comrades received marked atten-
ton as being one OF the famous
Louisiana Tigers: Eddie Smith, of
the Union News Company, whose
mother resides in Alexandria an
unknown Italian on his way to
New Orleans Charles Francis,
DR.. r. n. Tarrence, of Blacks, S.
c.; G. Cox, of Alexandria, who
originally surveyed this part of the
Midland Railroad, and while
woman, thought to be under thirty
years of age, whose head was
mashed bey recognition. There
was found on her person an I'M
mailed letter, dated in March, ad.
dressed to Annie Brown, Phila-
delphia. She had with her in a
first.class car two or three bantam
chickens, and some of the passen-
gers or the conductor objected to
their presence. She went into the
smoking.car, which was the first to
90 through the bridge.
The following are among the in.
jured John P. Wall, West Vlr.
ginia, bruises on face and head
John @. West, postal clerk, Wash.
ington, d. c.; W. N. Parotte, Free
Union, a postal clerk, left thigh
fractured; J. L. Wathall, Fincas.
tie, Va, postal clerk, badly in
jured; II. G. Brightwell, Prospect,
Prince Edward, arm badly bruised;
DR.. Greenlish, Augusta, Ca, dis.
location of thigh, shoulder, and
confusion of head; Mr.. Jones, of
Chatham, Va, bruised; L. p.
Sherer, Hagerstown, Nd, injuries
about head and artery cut; Mrs.
Stockert and Mr.. Stockert, of North
Carolina, both hurt, the formers
shoulder being broken Capt. G.
p. Taylor, severe bruises about
head aud body aud probably in.
ternally injured B. f. Sprinkler,
North Carolina, Henry Con way,
Philadelphia, Prof. Il. L. Barber,
Washington and Lee University 4,
Lexington, and w. j. Abel, At
lanta.
Brakeman Madden, a native of
Orange, now living IN Alexandra,
who had passed unhurt through
the recent accident near Fairfax,
was on duty on this train. He
went down with the general wreck,
but, escaping unhurt, returned to
Orange for help.
Sitting on a broken beam near
the great mass of broken timber
was a black woman of great size
and uncOuth' appearance. Although
her name is Emily Jackson, she is
known as "Fat Nancy" and after
her this bridge was named "Fat
Nancy Trestle.' 1t is the highest
bridge on the road, being fifty.nine
feet at the point at which the
smoking car descended.
After going over the entir e
wreck, making a close examina-
ton of the timbers still standing,
it is safe to say that the only sound
timber to lie found at the wreck is
that of which the cars had been
built. Where the bridge parted
the timbers we're so decayed that
the rotten Abers could be pluoked
off with the unaided hand. The
company had begun some sort of
repairs, but repairs had been de.
layed too long.
For some time the Midland Road
has been engaged in repairing It's
bridges and trestles, and men had
been at work on the "Fat Nancy"
for some time, but the weak point
IN the trestle had evidently been
overlooked. There are different re-
ports as to the height of the trestle,
one placing it as high as 4S feet.
A coroner's jury mot at Orange
Court House this afternoon, and
after viewing the wreck and the
dead and hearing witnesses, con-
cluded that the accident and the
resulting deaths were due to the
rottenness of the timbers.