The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-20
KILLED AND WOUNDED
A Frightfui Railroad Disaster on
the S., F. and w. Road.

CiN ANNAh, IA, 4N3rch It. special. IA
terrible accident took place near Blackshear.
Nineteen are killed and thirty-hve injured.
The train went through trestle. 1t was the
south-bound passenger.
Physicians and citizens hurried from Black
shear to the scene of the wreck as soon as the
engineer, who ran to the village, reported the
disaster. Messages were sent to Superintend-
ent H. g. Fleming here. He Immediately
wired to Waycross and Jesup for physicians
A Wreckmg train was made up in the yard
right away, and Superintendent Fleming, with
Or. William Duncan, the road physician, and
large force of men, started for the scene. An
hour later another train was made up. 1t
carried out physicians, and an additional force
of men and cofins. At $40 o'clock this
morning the first section of the south bound
West India fast mail crashed through the
trestling just after crossing Hurricane river,
seventy-live miles south OF Savannah, on the
Savannah, Florida and Western railway. SO
far as learned twenty-one We're killed and
thirty-siX were injured, The spot
is one mile east of Blackshear. Pierce county.
The road there crosses Hurricane river, and
beyond it is a long stretch of trestle work
The train left Savannah at .01, standard
time, this morning. 1t was composed of an
engine, combination, baggage and smoking
car, one passenger coach, two Pullman Sleep
ing cars, and the private car of the I.ehigh Val
ley railroad, which carried President Wilbar,
George Gould and others. The engine passed
over safely, but the rest of the train broke
through and tell fifteen feet to the ground
below. The combination coach is reported
to be the first one which struck the ground.
On it fell the passenger coach, the sleepers and
the special car, in which private party was
| travelling. The scene at the moment after the
The lower coaches were smashed well nigh to
pieces Fortunate were those passengers to
whom death came instantly Every coach was
filled and scarcely passenger escaped without
some injury.
The train was cunning at the speed of forty
miles per hour, when it struck the trestle, and
the engine had nearly crossed the end of it,
when the baggage car left the track, caused
by q broken axle, quickly followed by all the
other cars They plunged headong into the
stream below, fifty feet. All the cars were
broken into kindling wood, and the dead and
wounded passengers were buried in the debris.
The engine broke loose and made the bank be-
You'd safely. The crushed cars, the shrieks and
groans and the walls of the wounded and
dying, the mutilated bodies of the dead, made
scene of horror that will always linger in the
memory of those that saw it,
Nineteen We're killed outright, and thirty
five wounded, of which number
SIX HAVE SINCE DIED,
and more must die Waycross has been turned into
hospital ground and morgue established The
following is list of the killed.
W. G. GFI}ER Savannah, Ga.
W. NJ. MARTIN, Cleveland. ONO.
NJ. A. WILBUR, Bethlehem, Pa.
]. H. PATE, Hawkinsville, Ga.
p c. SMITH, conductor Pullman cor company
CHARLEY FULTON, master Of transportation
| Brunswick and Western railway
J. t. RAY, Dale's mill, and DAUGHTER.
MIR. MARTIN, news agent, Savannah, Ga.
J. II. HURTBUT Philadelphia Pa.
| ONE UNIDENTIFIED MAN.
! MRS KELLY, Louisville, Ga.
MRS. W. A. SHAW and DAUGHTER, Jackson
| ville Fla.
| MISS RAY, Dales Mill, Ca
EIGHT NEGRO MEN unknown
| The following is partial list of the wounded.
L. ?. WILBUR slightly: Bethlehem, Pa,
w. A. WILBUR seriously; Bethlehem, Pa
| MRS. Z. =. WILBUR, slightly Bethlehem, Pa.
| MISS cox, seriously; Bethlehem, Pa.
| GEORGE j. GOULD, slightly Bruised New York
| MRS GEORGE j. GOULD, New York; wounded
| in the face.
GENERAL EDWARD FERRERo, New York;
| back injured
MRS FERRERO slightly injured New York.
]. A PAPY, Jacksonville, Fla; scalp wound
DR. BOOTH, Utica, New York. wounded in
| lower limbs.
THEODORE BUrTERFIELD, passenger agent
Watertown and Ogdenburg railway; slightly in
jured.
W. L. GRIFFIN, conductor; head and chest
| l. b. MALLARD, baggage master; wounded in
| the head and arm broken.
| MR.. ami MRS. SAMUEL AMES Providence, r. l.
CAPTAIN WALLACE. Louisville and Nashville
railway; internal injuries
The presence of mind of Engineer WEIGH
saved fire horror. The Pullman car caught
on fire from the stove, and another cremation
would have resulted if this heroic engineer
had not rushed back and tagged the second
section and extnguished the flames
The trestle is about 300 feet long and is at
the foot of grade. Where the train fell it is
| about twenty-five feet high. Two thirds of the
! treste fell with the cars and of that standing
there is nothing but the columns
and stringers. Among those who es-
capped were Mr.. and Mrs George j.
Gould, Of New York. Mrs. Gould was bruised
some, but not badly. They are
now at the Brown house, in Black
shear They were going to Femandina,
to meet their father, jay Gould, who is soon
expected there in his yacht.
A commendable feature of the casualty was
that no discrimination was shown between the
races in the efforts to rescue each from the
debris and alleviate suffering, but as fast as
| found kind hands took care OF them. Many
touching scenes were witnessed and many in
| stances Of devotion strong in death transpired
as whore a husband refused to leave his wife
| and the wife to leave the husband.
INewsman Martin said the others were hurt
| worse than himself and refused assistance, but
! in few moments he was dead.
Major Pate said lie was not hurt, and fell
| back dead. Mr. Ray, who was killed was prom
| inent citizen of Blackshear. He was general
manager and part owner Of the Dale saw mill,
| near Jesup. Fears have been entertained for
the editor Of the journal, and Mr.. w. j. Bal
entine, who were expected home on the i'll
! fated train They have not been found, how
ever, and although unheard from the uneasi-
! ness is undated.
The Story Told In Detail.
! BLACKsHEAR, Ga, March 1S.-[Specal. +
| The railroad horror of yesterday, which stands
without parallel in the history Of railroading
! in the south, is still tile all-absorbing topic Of
conversation. The calm after the storm has
come, and the awful scenes enacted yesterday
are just beginning to be realized. But the
story of yesterdays suffering and yesterday s