Morning journal and courier., 1889-07-03
FROM ALL QUARTERS. | DEATH IN 4 NATERY GULCB An Express Train Wrecked by a Washout. THIRTY LIVES REPORTED LOST. A Freight Train Wrecked on
 the Naugatuck Road. AMERICAN RIFLEMEN IN ENGLAND. The Sullivan-Kilrain Fight
 Will be Stopped.
WRECKED IN A wArERY GULoH

WRECKED IN A WATERX GULCH A FrIghtful Accident On tho Norfolk
 and Western Road-A Train Runs Into a Wash0ut-Twenty-F To
 Thirty Lives Supposed To Have Been Lost-Many More Injured-Six
 Dead Bodies Extricated From the Wreck-The Boiler of the Engine EXplodes and lhs Coaches Catch
 Flre-Mail and Express Matter Con.
 stunned.
 LYNcHBURs, Va, July 2.-A fearful acci- dent, by which number of lives were lost, occurred on the Norfolk and Western road at 2:3O this morning one mile above Flax tons Switch and thirty-one miles above the city. Rain had been falling almost continu- ously, and at times very heavily. for twenty four hours, swelling the mountain streams greatly beyond their normal state. Several trains had passed over the road during the night and it was thought that the line was safe for traffic. At the place of the acci- dent, however, the water had undermined the roadbed and caused washout about eighty feet long and fifty feet wide. The water at this point was eight to ten feet deep. Into this watery gulch the engine made frightful leap while running at the rate of thirty miles and hour, carrying with it the tender and eight cars. As the engine struck bottom the rushing of the water into the locomotive exploded the boiler.
 Debris was thrown in every direction by the force of the explosion injuring 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 large amount of mail and aY vnatfar haoidaa cnroodipo manic among the already terror stricken passengers. It is supposed that some of the passengers were unable to extricate themselves from the wreck and were consumed in the flames, but l it is difficult to get accurate particulars as the employees of the Norfolk & Western road refuse to give any information to the public. It is impossible to state the number of per- sons killed, but the most reliable estimate places it at between 25 and 30. The number of wounded will be far in excess of the num- Der killed. Thirty of the wounded have been taken to Roanoke, thirteen to Bufords- vile and fifty to Liberty.
 The adopted daughter of Mrs. Judge Thompson, of Augusta county, was killed and Mrs. Thompson is known to be very badly hurt. Pat Donovan, the engineer, l with his fireman, 8 man named Bruce, was scaldsd and burned to death by escaping steam. Dispatcher Lipsey was also burned to death. Among the others who lost their ! lives were: J. J. Rose, postal clerk, of Ab- ingdon, Va; John Kirkpatrick of Lynch. burg, w. 0. Stead, and the husband and two children of lady passenger on the train whose name could not be learned.
 MT. Stead was an Englishman and
 was agent of an Idaho hunting and
 fishing expedition. He was on his
 way to England for supplies when he met hit death. Major J. 0. Cassell, superintendent oi
 the Lynoh5urg division of the Norfolk an6 Western, was on the train and was seriously
 injured as were also Baggage Master Fore | and Captain Rouland Johnston, who was il
 charge of the train.
 A relief train was made up at Lynchburl
 late in the afternoon to get to the scene O l the wreck, and a number of physicians wen
 down on it to do what they could to aid tn
 wounded. The Norfolk and Western peopl
 absolutely refused to allow any newspape men aboard the train.
 A special dispatch which was received
 about II o'clock from the scene of the wrecl
 by the way of Liberty says: Six dead bodie have been recovered. The bodies of P. Don
 ovan, engineer, and Postal Clerk Rose wer
 recognized. The others are not known.
 ROANOKE, Va, July 2.-In the Norfolk (
 Western accident at Thaxton's, 20 miles eas
 of this city last night. the following ar
 Charles Bruce. fireman; - Summers ant
 J. J. Rose, postal clerks, Abingdon; Hopkins
 expressman; A. M. Jones, traveller; Joh
 Kirkpatrick, of Lynchburg; J. w. Neall, w 0. Steed, Cleveland; Nathan Cohen, Roanoke
 child, the daughter of Mrs. Judge Thomp
 son of Staunton; Dennis Malon of Roanoke
 Wounded R. Ashmead Bristol express mes
 senger. It is supposed ten or twelve wer l consumed in the burning wreck