Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-18
THROUGH A TRESTLE.
FRreHTFUL ACCIDENT TO A SOUTH
BOUND FAST MAIL TRAIN.
Nineteen Persons Reported Killed and
Thirty or Forty Iniured-Mrs George
Could Injured, &c.
Az iolorrnnh b ne DI.na.ch.

The fest mail train from New York Ion Jackson
yiIio wcat through n trcs.le az point twenty-five
miles south Of Savannah this morning Tho en-
tire train, * ,op, the onrino, s. demolished.
Nineteen people arc reported 70 have boon
Killed and between thirty and forty injured, zen
81 whom are expected 20 die. Tho private cnr
o. i,reeiscnf wilbur. ~ tAo lchgh valley road,
With Mr.. Wilbur and Geo.ga Ioula ana wac anu
others IN h., was one ot tne train. President
Wilbur b. reported % 10 eeriOu-ly injured,
George Gould unhuri, ard MR. Gould slightly
Injured. hellef trans have gone out with ply
s-ians.
The following IS the li.tof the Killed and
wounded IN TIE acciGcn; 20 the last mall train
eoyeniy-nYe miles south Of savsnnah
KILLED.
Charles Pearce. train hand.
William Marin, nc"s agent
&. a. Fulton, mgefrr OF trans pofiaLcn bIuhs-
vicr and Western gq'ro0d.
W. -. Gregar, savannah.
Fred Neylari, New \ crk.
d. ". smith, Pullman Conductor.
Merritt a. Wilbur son OF the president Of tho
Iohigh Valley railroad.
John 7. HsY, Ddles MiN. Ca
CuGy williams colorcl), Valdostn.
Major j. II. Pate. Uawkins7llle, Ga
L'0yl C0r.0n (eO.0reN.
COis0n FOs.or l'olorcl, Waycro7s.
Moses Galc .roloroI., Mnycrosa
T.. y. Thompson, North Carolina. and five negro
mcn, names unknown. Total, 10 killed.
INJURED.
Milton Lawrence icolorsI.
vs.. l.. Grim. conductor
.. V. Thompson, Jacksonville, Fla
Charley Brown, savanna.
g. ". Humb0it, savannah.
laura Jones, 1homasyle. Ca.
Mrs. McCHuah, ihiialcllhia.
ii"c simpson. New I OK
samuel Apes and wife. Providence L. l.
DE- Booth and wife. NCg ork.
j.. p. wilbur, president Of tho Lohigh Valley
4. wilbur, son of tho president Of the Le-
u F. E. II. Wiinur, son Of the president Of the To-
high valley railroad.
Miss Cox.
4. e.. Boyle.
A. !. Tancloth, Warostoro. in.
Miss Matte Kav, Dales Nill, ga.
j. p. Thompson aud wife. Now Orleans.
O. W. Wallace. travelling pnssenecr agent Of
tho Louisville ana Nashville railroad
J.. p. Nallard, bafgage-Inaster
Austin ---- (co.0reil, Naycro9s
Henry SHOOK tcolorcdl, Savannah.
&. T.. NenWOrst. savannah.
a. &. Hudson, Macon, ca.
81. laDy. fagmaD.
g. VI. Fcre1o and wife, New York.
j. SpirO. New orr.
Mrs. uulburt, New York.
sam. Allen, train hand, Savannah.
Waiter Goodrich. train hand, savannah.
D.. Buuer0eli, Now YORK.
Total IS injured.
TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS REPORTED
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. March file Grst Geo
fion Of the sOull-u0uni mail train went through
q tre-tle just north ~ BlotEsheir Ca, ms mora
ing. The wrC-H WIS fearful, The cars BONG
Smashed % pieces and piled on one auoiNcf.
George D.. GOuil ald wife were Ou the train, bat
were not Injured. although Mrs. Gould was badly
shaken mp. 4 number Of doctors went from
here % TIE scene Of the accident on special
train at r. 81. A TCpreeonfatiy0 a. the Time
o. o. .iHf
cross uear the scene Of the accident, NJ 40 TO-
night. mi found the town wild with excitement
The number u thc d"ai scsicga .cs twenty-five,
about equally divided as 90 cO.cr
Nineteen persons were Killed outright NJ the
wrcck and SIX died a. Waycros9 during tho al
tcruO0u. Tie wounded arc being cared Tor Ia
Nayrross and Blaekshcar several more arc
expected 70 die. The list II killed contains the
Mamie, Of Jacksonville
THE LATEST.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, March IA later dis
patch from The IfpSs-Cr correspondent 90
Wnycross saws George Gould was injured I'm no
face and Mr-. Could iu the slie--hoth ieht in
'urirs: Th-o. }utorleld, general passenger
agent q the Rome, Waterio7n ani Ogdcnature
railroad, was silhly injured aud is overcome
Dy excitement aud The eNertion OF aiding Tie
wounded. lle is row at Maycro-s
President Wilbur. Of the Leh.gh Valley rail-
road, las a very small soap wound. ". 4. VII
bllr. son 0f Pr. sidont Wilbur, Inns flesh wound
ON his chin: 's cut deeply but not seriously. K.
A. Wilbur another son Of President Wilbur, has
his LOFT WRIT spraiued, and is bruised inside
not ecrioua. General Ferribo. 81 iammeny
Hail. had his left hand severely injured AVID
suffers courur-i5l Of mo right side. Ills VIE
n severely injured ON the lclt side ana 7 suffer-
ing considerably. All these arc 81 Naycros5
under treatment
Conflicting EErOsTs As TO GOULD IND WIFE
sAvtSNAH, Ca. Narch 1.-THE report that
George GOuld and biz wife were hur' Las not
been verified. lle ocicials 81 the road sQv That
neither was hurt in ne le1st L p 90 midnight
the only cOmuuui alton with the scene Of the