The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
FRIGHTFuL DISASTER.

a Passenger Train Piunges Through a
Trestle Near Blackshear, Gs.-Twenty-
Two Persons Killed anu Forty Wounded
George Gould and His Wife Have a
Narrow Escape.
SAVANNAH Ga, March ia terrible ac-
cident. causing the death of twenty-five
persons and the serious injury of about
forty more, happened on the Savannah,
florida & Great Western railroad at
Blackshear Saturday morning The
vestibuie fast mail called the ~Cuban"
train, which runs through from New
York to Tampa, Fla, went through the
tresue at Hurricane river and plunged
forty feet to the ground beneath. The
wreck was fearful one, every car exc pit
the private coach of E. 3. Wilbur, pres dent
OF the Lehigh Valley road being crushed to
splinters. George Gould and his wife were
on the tran, but were not badly hurt A
son of President Wilbur was killed
The trestle of Hurricane river is 500 feet
in length, and the break includes 400 feet
at the west end, the tender and engine
lodging against the abutment The bag
gage-car left the track on the treste which
accounts for the accident The ties show
where the wheels cut deep into them 1t
was this car that, by its rain. dragged the
tender down, the engine having safely
crossed over. The list of killed is as fol-
lows:
William A Martini Union News Company,
Bridgeport, O.; w. B. Geiger, Savannah; G. a.
Fulton, master OF transportation Brunswick s.
Wertern railway; F. NJ. Smith, Pullman coG-
ductor; John T. Ray, Backshear: John II.
Pate, HawkinSvile, Ga; E. f. Thompson.
New York; Mrs. G. W. Kelley. Palatka, Fla;
W. A. McGriff, Columbia; Mrs. W. A. Shaw
and daughter, of Jacksonville, Fla; NJ. a. Will
bur, son of E. p. Wilbur, of Bethlehem, Pa;
j. H. Hurlbut, Philadelphia; Charles Pear,
Valdosta Coffee Williams, Valdosta; Lloyd
Dawson, Waycross; Caesar Fostor, Waycross;
Moses Gate, Waycross; five unknown colored
men.
The injured are as follows:
Milton Lawrence, Savannah, slightly hurt;
William L. Griffin, Savannah, conductor, dan
gercusy wounded A. j. Thompson, editor
Peoples Journal, Jacksonville; Charles Blown,
Savannah, badly hurt; G. D. Helmbold, travel
ing agent of Armour & Co.; Miss Laura Jones,
Thomasville, injured 81 gAtly; George j. Gould
and wife, New York, slightly hurt; Mrs Nc
Clinch, Philadelphia, hurt informally; NJ SIS Alice
Simpson, New York, hurt internally and badly;
Samuel Ames and wife, Providence, r. l., badly
injured; Dr. Booth, New York; E. p. Wilbur,
president Leh gb Valley railroad, Bethlehem,
Pa; Miss Isabella Cox, Bethlehem, Pa, in
jured internally; A. G. BroVie, Bethlehem,
Pa: A. j. Faircloth, Waresboro, Ca; L. But
terfield, New York; L. Z. Mallar+ Savannah,
arm broken and cuts on the head; t. B.
Thompson and wife, New Orleans; Captain
o. w. Wallace, travelling agent Louisville;
& Nashville railroad dangerously injured in
ternally; w. D. McClinch; - Austin Savan-
nah Henry Sneed, Savannah; C. e. Van
Worst, Savannah; A. C. Hudson, Macon, badly
hurt John Papy, Feranandina, Fla; General
Ferrero and wife, New York, badly injured; j.
S. Pirro, Newark, N. j.; Walter Goodyear.
Savannah; Samuel Allen, savannah, badly in
jured Fred Maynard, New York, reported
killed, is from Utica, n. Y, and was not killed,
but is slightly injured