Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-07-13
DASHED THROUGH a TREsrLE.

Eight Persons Killed and twenty. i've
lpjured - Terrible Early AaorniDg
Besns-The Structure known 70 be
Weak.
OHARLoTTEsvILLR, Va, July IA
Express trtin No % lefE Orange Court
House, south bound, on time, at l 90
this morning, conductor O. P. Taylor,
engineer watkins and fireman Kelley.
About two miles south Of Orange ID a
trestle forty -sight feet high, which wAs
known 70 bs weak, and the railroad
company was engaged 10 Cling it In.
The train WAS moving nj = speed Of
six miles crossing the trestle, under
regular orders. The engine had passed
safely over most of the trettle, when
the smoker, mail, baggage and expreas
cars went down with q great crash,
dragging, down the engine and teRo or
aud two passenger coAehes. Two sleep.
ers remained on the trestic.
The engine went down pilot end fore
moAt, thus communicating no Gre to
the wreck. All lights were extiDguiahed
In the fall. As aoon as the accident 90.
CURED the enRinter, who WAS but
slightly Injured, walked back to Orange
and telegrAphed for assistance. DR.. W.
Q. N Randolph and other physioiAus
left heIe on = special train for the
WRECK.
The dead aud some Of the wounded
were taken to Orange, while the more
seriously hurt we're brsught TO Char.
lotSesvllle and placed 10 the cottage
hospital, hotels And homes OF friends.
As fer - now can be aSoertained dye
were killed.
WAsHrEGToN, July II General
Manager Randolph has received far
ther details OF the accident. In add.
ton to the list OF killed, thres moro
persons were found deai in clearing
away the debris. They were passen.
gers. Two OF them vera men and one
wAs . woman, but at the latest accounts
they bad not been recognised.
II WAS one OF the pAsSer & Or coaches In
the middle OF the train that ran of the
track, causing the accident. 1t trohe
down the trestla, dragging back the
mail and baggage oar and engine,
wbioh had pAsssd beyond tho point
whsre the trestle broke, and pulling
them down TO ruin with It.
The train 10 always we'll losded, be-
cause OF the through connection It
makes between Boston and New
CAaeAfg 2uAAeNA Ahu AblhhN9s Va Nu
average It carries between $50 And 200
One OF the sleepers was
destined for White Sulphur Springs, 10
be dropped At ChArlette4vllle. This eaR,
however, was she last OF the train, and
remained on the track.
A PAssENGER's ACCOUNT.
Mr.. O. A. Nicholson Of Baltimore,
one Of the survivors Of tho accident, has
Arrived here, and relates his experience
As follows:
TT was q horrible thing" he said,
''and IL 10 . miracle bow Any one who
went down In that terrible fall escaped.
1t was In the deaf Of night, and We had
got nearly across the bridge, when Is
gave way.
1.-THE engine had reached the other
tide, but WAS pulled back by The fall.
Ing baggage car and fell on top OF II. |
rhe mail oar was knocked out of reooR.
nition and the smoker was totally de-
nolished.
"I was in the sleeper that went down.
don't know how escaped. When
was awakened 1 looked out and found /
he car holsled high ia the air, resting |
IN the remains OF the oars below. The \
connecting it with the other '
Ileepers had glveu way and they ro-
NAMED on the track.
ave went to work As soon Is poaBi. !
Die, though 1t WAS pitch dark, and did
,ur best tn rescue the injured. The
Icene that followed was Of indeBoFibable
iorror. The shrieks and means Of the /
injured, the shouts Of tbs wildly.
'xcited passengers and the hisslpR OF
no steam was terrible to hear.
"Ghe TasHepger oATg were crushed
'ut OF all shape, while the sleeper was
leld high in the air by the ruins Of the
Droksn coaches. A little stream runa
lnder the trestle, and the FeOsnt rains
ave ssollen It to far beyond its y onled
proportion. 1t is feared some were
'inioned beloS Its surface and perished
n Its waters"