The Democratic advocate., 1889-07-06
A Terrible Railroad Disaster
CAUSED BY a wAsHoUF.
20 KILLED AND 30 WOUNDED
STATEMENT or Az EYE WITNESS.

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efesht ear tAAt tors the leap g. tbs blsioa of ihs
aw fa g 60 lske paa cas A. sP3a s. Iiia A2''sf 81
,ae engine e2r,isl te entire ulAss a teasi, saoA
are ard ,hssa sho weat down wa3 sese uoi ssiira
outright uesc bsrugd T. dcsih. l'ssssoas % eiEs'
b5I.es dErc becu akea oaL ana g $ tseiscTrt ihai
faiiy % oihert were entirely coasaHei By iile afe
A survivor og lhe vrccE ssys sse cries ksf helF
could t heard fsuas al portlos o. lhs wrcck- ane
thes. unaurt WeFc peweTicss b rcsadcs assistance
The women who managed 20 escape iay sa-u7ii ga
the iasap Ereuul suFeEisg fUn thetr laIas.cs uail
dnybycak aal maay walked lang dAsi4nccz o. hfzi
houses Thc fgw pssscasers len 74ula.Gfud tld sll
10 sheir poser for the unEsrlgnasgs-
KILLED. Engineer Pat Dsaoraa. tyucholrs. Kill
81 and burned, Travelling Enginee- \ n lasaas
Roanoke killed hnd burned. firCaan J. AaEAi
Braee R0auokc Eiilel sud burned MAJ Aseni
Rose. of Ahiug,ion. killed aaa baFaed. paass'asei
John KiFkpaiFies. Lyach5lF; killed snd hafled.
passenger Nathan Cohen. Roanoke, NJ g H.
sieci 81 Cleveland. Tsna John Hssdsiek, Of
Cleveland. Tenn- VIII Marshall q Cleveland.
Tcnu. s " lif.ey. train dispatcher. ~ H.eks:aFd.
Va killed and boesy burned. Mr Peyton. sseao,
erapher for superuteuden; usharne. Of The Wvstefu
division Of the road vii, aai child siliei ani
buruei ~ $ Bruce mail agent WI Hopkins. eS-
pres messenger passenger Dsnnts Mellon, ot Roam
ake; passenger ~ y stsrepseu, % Cleveland
Tenn; :. A. Moore. ~ Chattanooga Eaau- i.Ise
CafFington Texas aged nine yeaEs3
woundod.-CAplau Wm 4. Fori, tsssascrnsssef-
severely cut on the back OF ghc head much bruised
and supposed O. be injured Internally. sommers
Newly q United states agent slightly cat about The
head. Express Messenger AshmoFe badly hHrS and
viii probably nor survive. Conductor Roland T.
Johnson. Of Roanoke badly cut In the face aud
ara..nd The head. Brakeman ". C Glass, of Lyueh-
hun. artn broken, head eli and sealdei passenger
Fraus Tanner. ut IyuchbuEs. slsaay au, aioGt ihe
arm. Bishop A. IS .s3H 0f Dalton, Ca was badly cut
on the head. passenger Temple. badly burned. Mr..
Z l. BuBsrTy, superintendent OF the Eastern diEi-
sion slightly huIt; Mrs Judge l. 2. Thompson Of
s,aunton. Va badly hurt Ars. Patiis carriagton. Of
Baltimore cut ou the wrist and badly bruised jos
,.9ldbf,rg Of New York hurt the leg and should
er F. T. Dextsr Of Beverly Mass seriously injured;
Mn. r B. Powell. Of Marshall. Texas, shoulder and
back hurt, Mrs. Inez Spaakman, Of Marshall. Texas,
h1Ft Internally. II. W Martin, Of Chattanooga,
se-lously hurt N. D. Temple, Of Chicago. hurt
seriously about the back J A. Young, dispatcher. Of
Radiori. Va. head badly hurt Robert i. toodfel-
low, OF Roanoke hand and foo, injured.
The charred remains Of what are supposed - bs
eight bodies were found in very minute particles
The body Of Engineer PAT Donovan wss dug out
badly muliiaied, aud identified by his watch.
PASSENGERS STORY.
WAsHrNGroN. July s-Hcnry " Martin Of New
Orleans who was in the wreck on the Norfolk aud
Western Railroad, but escaped uninjured. as his
sleeper alone OF all the coaches remained GU the
track. arrived in this city this evening
He saws that the night Of the accident was very
dark and stormy. and that When he looked out Of
the window. 10 minutes before the disaster the rain
was coming down harder than he had ever seen it
before An embauk ment had been built at the scene
of the washout with small culvert beneath to carry
OF yaisr The unusually heavy rainfall had backed
the water up against this embankmeni and had
undermined the whole mass ofearth, making deep
ditch. into which the engine and eight coaches
plunged
As soon as those who escaped realized the situation
they went 20 the assistance the injured but could
render very little aid their strength was made
auate to lift the heavy beams which pinioned most
Of The unfortunates. There no shelter for the
wounded. who were exposed to the inclement
weather They were without medical assistance
until o'elook before the wreeking train arrived
from Roanoke q miles distant
Nobody ar. Martin says, VIII ever know just how
many lives were lost He added: Il do not believe
that anybody in an ordinary coach escaped alive,
and it was only by a miracle that two people in
front of mine came out of the wreck alive The
conductor Of the train tod that all his tickets
were burned up SO that he could not tell where the
passengers came from,