The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-29
WRECK ON A NEW ROAD.
a Trial Excursion Train Falls from Tres
tie and is Dashed to Pieces-Forty-one
Persons INJURED.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, August pa
horrible wreck occurred on the Knox
vile, Cumberland Gap and Louisville
Railroad, at Flat Gap Creek, twenty
two miles from here, at 1870 this morn
ing. The.train was the first to 80 over
the new road and carried select excur-
sion Of the city council, board of pub
lie works, representatives of the cham
ber Of commerce and the very flower
of the business and professional men of
Knoxville.
The train of two cars left the track
at crossing, and the rear car went down
trestle. Only one man in the car was
uninjured. 1t was impossible to obtain
medical aid for long time, aid until
430 p. .m., when the train reached
Knoxville, scanty attention was rem
dered. Many had to be brought back
on fat cars, and the last part of the
journey was made in driving rain.
Three men have died from their in
juries and others cannot live. The dead
are: Judge George Andrews, the most
eminent lawyer in East Tennessee; S.
T. Powers, leading merchant and for
mer president of the East Tennessee
Fire Insurance Company, and Alex
Reeder, a leading politician, who has
held many Offices of trust.
The injured are: Alexander Arthur
president of the chamber of commerce;
Isham Young, president, and Peter
Kern, member of the board of public
works; John T. Hearn, editor of the
Sentinel; w. w. Woodruff, leading
wholesale merchant; Charles S. Rime-
our, attorney; Alexander Wilson, as
sistant chief engineer Of the Knoxville,
Cumberland Gap and Louisville Road;
County Judge Maloney, Aldermen Bar
ry and Hockings, Gen. H. Schubert. Of
the Governors staff; A. J. Alberts,
wholeeale merchant: the Rev. R. J.
Cook, professor in the U. S. Grant Uni
versity; City Physician West, Judge
H. H. Ingersoll, H. B. Witsell, w. B.
Samuels, G. Abbie, Capt. H. H. Tay-
lor, S. McKelden, Ed. Barker, J. F.
Kinsell, John B. Hall, Phillips Samu-
els, aged 10, R. Schmidt, w. A. Park
and one or two Of the train crew.
Out of fifty-six persons on the train
forty-one were injured. The most in
tense excitement and sadness are appa-
rent here tonight.
When the relief train reached Knox
vile thousands Of people gathered at
the station and along the adjacent
streets, and the excitement was in
tense. Over one hundred carriages
were in waiting The scene as the
wounded and dead were being taken
out on stretchers was azghastly one.
lnere was . d 81 @Isasarth 81 doctorssnu,
,i'ans nsszs.r,.Isafed -, sn. had to wait severe
{: =; - for attefr.sance. 1t is feared 'na'
this fact together with tire drchchins
r,;n will render the after effects very
serious.
It is now known that Seymour anu
Barker will lose their legs. There Il
little chance for Alderman Barry re
covering. In the wreck be was thrown
against a window and his abdomen
filled with powdered glass. His phys'
clans give little hope of his recovery
With this exception, it is now believes
that all the others will recover unles
e exposure brings on complications.
: An inquest will be held to-morro"
: hnt # is. now believed that the wrec
y can be attributed to the condition
y of the road. Tive years ago knoxvii
b subscribed 1925, 500 towards the co'
k struction Of the road, and the contra
d period expires tomorrow. 1t was
n show the city authorities that the TO-
a was completed that the excursion "
IS given. .;o
Tomorrow all the city organlzatio
at will meet to prepare for public obsequ
5. over Andrews and Reeder. PoWe
bt bodv will be taken to Kentucky.
pc was a member of well-known fam
if Of that State. Geo. Eager, of Bost'
is, rrosident of the construction compa
or- building the road, and Lenox sml
he vice president Of the Knoxville u Cu
lot berland Gap and Louisville Kallro
les we're in the forward car and thus
or capped injury.