The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-13
COLLAPSE OF A TRESTLE
EIGHT PERSONS KILLED AND
TWENTY-FIVE BADLY INJURED.

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Escape.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, July 13.-Ex-
press train No. So left Orange court house,
south bound, n.time at 1:50 O'Clock this
morning, with Conductor C. P. Taylor,
Engineer Watkins and Fireman Kelly.
About two miles south of Orange is trestle
SO feet high, which was known to be weak
and the railroad company was engaged
in filling it in. The train was
moving at a speed of six miles
crossing the trestle under regular orders.
The engine had passed safely over most of
the trestle when he smoker, mail, baggage
and express cars went down with great
crash, dragging down the engine and tender
and two passenger coaches. Two sleepers
remained standing on the treStle. The
engine went down pilot end foremost, thus
communicating no fire to the wreck.
LEFT IN THE DARK.
All the lights were extinguished in the
fall AS soon as the accident occurred the
engineer who was but slightly injured,
walked back to Orange and teegraphed for
assistance Dr. w. c. N. Randolph and
other physicians left here at once on a spe-
cial train for the wreck. The dead and
some of the wounded were taken to Orange,
to Charlottesville and placed in the Cottage
hospital, hotels and homes of friends.
FIVE KILLED.
AS far as can now be ascertained five were
killed, as follows;
c. Cox OF Alexandria, of the engineering
department of the Piedmont air line was
instantly killed
II. T. WELLINGTON of Greensboro, N. c.,
a postal clerk, lived ten minutes.
Fl. G. BRIGHTwELL, a postal clerk, of
Princeton, Prince Edwa county, Vir-
gia, lived until he reached the hospital.
w. D. PARROTT of Albemarle county, a
postal clerk, is badly injured
j. .. WEST and j. L. WALTHALL of
Washington, D. c., postal clerks, are badly
injured.
LOUIS JENNINGS Of Lynchburg, postal
clerk, is slightly injured.
POTTER FIELD, express agent, is seriously
injured.
2. JENKINS of Lynchburg, a passenger,
suffered internal injuries
CAPT. G. 2. TAYLOR of Alexandria, who
was in the car next to the smoker when the
accident occurred, was hurt about the head
and one of his legs was injured
The injured are estimated at about twenty
five.
MORE CoRPsEs FOUND.
WASHINGTON, July 12.-General Mana
ger Randolph has received further details
of the Midland railroad accident. In ad-
dition to the list of killed, three more per
sons were found dead in clearing away the
debris. They were passengers. Two of
them were men and one was woman but
at the latest accounts they had not been re-
cognized.
1t was one Of the passenger coaches in the
middle Of the train that ran off the
track, causing the accident. 1t broke
down the trestle, dragging back
the mail and baggage car and
engine, which had passed beyond the point
where the trestle broke and pulling them
down to ruin with it. The train is always
loaded because of the through connection it
makes between Boston and New Orleans,
Augusta and Atlanta. On an average it
carries between $50 and 200 passengers
One of the sleepers was destined for White
Sulphur Springs, to be dropped at Char
lottesvile This car. however, was the last
of The train and remained on the track.
STORY OF A SURVIVOR.
G. A. Nicholson of Baltimore, one of the
survivors of the accident, has arrived here,
and relates his experience as follows: at
was horrible thing he said "and it is a
miracle how any one who went down in
that terrible fall escaped. 1t was in the
dead of night, and we had got nearly across
the bridge when it suddenly gave way
The engine had reached the other side, but
was pulled back by the falling baggage car
and fell on top of it, The mail
car was knocked out Of recognition, and
the smoker was totally demolished. | was
in the sleeper that went down. I don't
know how / escaped When | was awak-
ened looked out and found the car hoisted
high in the hair, resting on the remains OF
the cars below. The couplings connecting
us with the other sleepers had given way
and they remained on the track
REscUING THE INJURED.
we went to work as soon as possible :,
though 10 was pitch dark, and did our best
to rescue the injured. The scene that fol-
lowed was of indescribable horror. The
shrieks and means of the injured, the shouts
Of the wildly excited passengers and the
Kissing of steam were terrible to hear. The
passenger cars were crushed ont of all
shape, while the sleeper was held high in
the air by one of the broken coaches. A
little stream runs under the trestle and
recent rains had swollen it TO far beyond its
wonted proportions. 1t is feared that some
we're pinioned below its surface and per-
ished in its waters"
ADDED HORROR.
GoRDoNsvILLE, July l2-The cries for
help and the screams of young children
added horror TO the scene The people
living in the neighbOrhood hurried To offer
assistance. Dr. Il. w. Rowe afforded the
first professional aid. The train from Char
lottesville brought other physicians, and the
work Of extricating the dead and injured
progressed as rapidly ms the means at b an d
permitted. The desperately wounded were
sent TO Charlottesville with others whose des-
tinatiOn lay that way. Those taken TO the
hospital there were:
H. G. BRIGHTWELL Of Prospect, Va,
whose injuries are probably fatal
RICHARD HUNTER Of Scotland, slightly
injured.
JOHN p. WALL Of West Virginia, bruises.
JOHN Q. WEST of Washington, ID. c.,
fracture of the right thigh.
W n. PARRoTT of Free Union, Va,
fracture Of the left thigh.
s. /. WALrHALL of Fincastle, badly in
iured on the knee
JOHN LANsLow Of England, arm badly
bruised.
At other places in Charlottesville were
the following:
d. V. GREELIsH Of Augusta, Ca, disloca-
ton Of the right shoulder
MRS. SToCKRRT. broken shoulder
ZAcHARIAH JENNINGS Of Lynchburg,
shocked.
carr c. P. TAYLOR Of Alexandria,
bruised and shocked.
Mr.. JONES Of Chatham, Va, slight In
juries
THE DEAD.
The dead were taken first 10 Orange.
They are:
e. Cox OF Alexandria.