Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-07-05

Frances, Marion, mail agent Nathan
Cohen, merchant, Roanoke, ell route to |
Germany to visit his parents; W. G. Steed, |
Cleveland, Tenn, ell route for England
J. w. Beal, Cleveland, Tenn, en- route for
Paris; A. NJ. James, Roanoke, travelling
engineman of the road; Jos. w. Livesay ,Roa- |
noke. train dispatcher; Dennis Mellin, Roa-
noke, janitor Norfolk and Western offices,
Ell route to New Y ork to be married: and
Miss Pattie Darlington, a little niece of
Mrs. Judge L. 2, Thompson, of Staunton
1t is believed that fifteen OF twenty others
persisted, as there were nearly seventy pas
sengers on the train, and that number,
probably more, are unaccounted for The
dead were horribly cremated.
The injured are: Bishop Alpheus w.
w llSOn OF Baltimore, wrist cut and body
slightly bruised, but not dangerously in
jured; J. f. Temple, of Pottsville, Pa.
head and limbs burned; +. T. Dexter, Bev-
erley, Mass, severely bruised about the
head and body; j. B. Young, Bradford,
Pa, ann mashed; Mrs. Judge Thompson,
grief; Roland Johnson, Roanoke, conduc-
tor, frlghtfully cut about head and face; E.
G. Dubarry, superintendent, bruised Sc
verely: w. c. Gloss, Roanoke, baggage
master, arm broken; w. II. Hayward,
Pullman conductor, shoulder hurt; j. D.
Tanner, Lynchburg, badly bruised; Joseph
Goldburg, New York, leg and shoulder
bruised and hand hurt; Miss mex Jackson,
Texas, bruised r. b. Goodfellow, Roa-
noke, hand and foot injured; j. G. Cassell,
Roanoke, superintendent, arm hurt; ii. w.
Martin, Chattanooga, Tenn, cut and
bruised: M. ID. Temple, Chicago, back hurt;
Mrs. II. b. Young, Marshall, Texas, spine
injured.
Miss Edith Hardesty and Annie Fitzhugh
of Baltimore, were on the train, but are
uninjured. Ashmore, express agent, was
bruised slightly. Miss Jane Jackson, of
Maryland, escaped without injury.
Fourteen thousand dollars were found in
the pockets of MI. Stead after he was drag
ged from the wreck. Bishop Wilson lost
his clothes, a gold watch and three hundred
dollars in money. None of the passengers
in the sleeper saved any money OF clothes
The list OF casualties is necessarily imper-
feet. The railroad company is doing all
possible for the sufferers The track is
washed out in places near the wreck for one
and half miles. Many think waterspout
visited that section just after the watch
man passed over the track.
OTHER ACCOUNTS OF THE DISASTER.
| LYNCIBURG, VA, July 1.-THE railroad
authorities here are very reticent and I'M
communicative, and very little information
could be gotten from them about the acct
dent at ThraXtOn s. Acting under instruc-
lions from Roanoke they refused to allow
any newspaper reporters to go out on the
relief train, which left here at 3:15 this
afternoon for the scene of the wreck.
| From bulletins and private dispatches
received here during the day from Liberty.
| it is known that Engineer Pat Donovan. of
this city, and Bruce, his fireman, were both
killed; also, Mr.. John Kirkpatrick, Of this
city; Mr.. VIC. Stead, of Cleveland, Tenn:
J. j. Rose, postal clerk, Of Abingdon, and
Lipsey, train dispatcher. Capt. Rowland
Johnston, conductor, was seriously injured;
Baggagemaster Ford badly hurt, and L. B.
Summers, postal clerk, painfullys 5Nised
MI. j. G. Cassel, superintendent 0fs this di-
vision OF the road, was on the train and
was injured.
| Quite a number of persons were injured
whose names have not been learned. Mr..
John kirkpatrick was secretary of the
Young Mems Democratic Club of this
city, nephew of Hon. I. J. Kirkpatrick,
and popular young business man, and his
death is greatly regretted by a wide circle
of friends.
LIBERTY, VA, July 1.-The east-bound
fast mail train Of the Norfolk and Western
Railroad, consisting of two sleepers. first
and second class, baggage, express and mail
cars. ran into a Washout this morning be-
tween one and two o'clock seven miles west
Of Liberty. Twenty-Five persons were
killed outright aud about 50 wounded, some
mOrtallY Soon after the accident fire broke
out and the entire train was consumed,
burning to cinder the bodies caught in the
wreck. The names of all the dead and
wounded have not been ascertained.
Rain had been falling almost continuous
y and at tunes very heavily for twenty
| four hours, swelling the mountain streams
greatly beyond their normal state. Sever
al trains had passed over the road during
the night, and it was thought that the line
was safe for traffic, Notwithstanding the
rains, and that no danger need be appre-
hended. At the place OF the accident, how
ever, the water had undermined the road
bed and caused a WaShout about so feet
long and 50 feet wide. The water at this
point was to 10 feet deep. Into this wa
terry gulch the engine made frightful leap
while running at the rate of forty miles an
hour, carrying with it the entire train. AS
the engine struck bottom the rushing of the
water into the locomotive exploded the
boiler This fact greatly augmented the
catastrophe Debris was thrown in every
direction by the force of the explosion, in
juring some of those on the train by the
flying fragments, and scattering frebrands
which ignited the woodwork of the coaches
The flames spread and destroyed a large
amount of mail and express matter. besides
spreading panic among the already terror
stricken passengers.
1.-THE faulty of Bishop Wilson received a
telegram from him last night about half
past eight clock, in which he stated that
his right wrist was cut He received few
scratches on his body also. A surgeon
dressed the cut, and the Bishop expects to
be able to travel on Thursday The Revs
Collins Denny and J. II. Boyd are with
him at the Roanoke Hotel
ROANOKE, VA, July 1.-The latest in
formation from the Thraxton's wreck
gives, i'll addition to those already reported,
the names of VIM. f. Marshall, Tennessee,
L. A. Moore, Texas, and c. L. Peyton,
wife, and child of Radford, Va, as among
| the dead