Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-08-28
MISS OPHELlA MOORE, Helena, Ar

kansas.
MRS. MCCORMICK, Alexander, n. {.
LADY, with linen marked NJ. NJ. K.
rhe Injured.
PATRICK L. RANSOM. son of Senator
Ransom, Northampton county; not dan
gerously.
G. W. SANDERLIN state auditor; pain
fully, but not dangerously.
OTTO RAMSEY, Norfolk, Va.
WORTH ELLIOTT, Hickory.
GEO. BowLEY, Atlanta.
o. W. LAWSON, Louisville.
Miss LUENoN POOLE, Willamston, n.
c.
Mrs. X. c. MOORE, Helena, Ark.
A. S. SINK, dying AND WIFE, Lexing-
ton, N, {.
b. NJ. ESTES, jr., Memphis Tenn.
JOHN E. GAZE, Asheville, not seriously
w. c. BRADFORD, Asheville.
: MARSHALL Nix, Asheville.
II. {. CLEpPER, sleeping car conductor
-SpAUGH, conductor.
-SHoAF, fagman, Lexington, N. c
K. L. JOHNSON, newsboy.
OF the injured whose condition is not
especially noted in the foregoing, the
StatcsviIle Landmark reports George
Bowcv, Atlanta, injured but walked to
town. Conductor Spaugh, hurt but will
live. Sleeping Car Conductor II. {.
Clepper, head cut, arm and ankle
sprained, B. NJ. Estes, ir., Memphis,
Tenn, hurt but will live Flagman
Shoat, Lexington, n. c., hurt but will
live.
A startling Charge.
From the Statesvi.le Landmarks. 27th.
The most horrible disaster in the his
tory OF rdiroading in North Carolina oc
Cured a. . O'Clock Thursday morning at
Bostian's bridge over Third creek, two
miles west OF Statcsvlle. AT that hour
west bound passenger train, No 8, which
| had passed StateSvile on time, at 1852 a.
m, was hurled from the topof the bridge,
a distance OF 60 to IS feet, the engine,
tender baggage and second class car,
the first class coach, the Pullman sleeping
car "Salu@a" and the private car OF Su-
perintendent K X. Brldgers, all going
ovecr board. The bridge was swept clear
"t iron from end TO end.
George Bowiey, travelling tor the At
lnnta rubber company, and one or two
other passengers who made their way
from the car alive, came on foot to town
and gave the news OF the accident. In a
little " nile the town was aroused, citi-
zeus in vehicles Fastening to the scene
and the werk of rescue began. Some OF
the passengers had crawled from the car
and were perched, dazed, o. their tops
Axes were put to work and the cars cut
Open and so many of the passengers as
could be found were dragged out--s"m,
dead, some alive
Bv dawn great crowds Of people wer,
on the ground and nothing was left un
done. The dead and wounded wer,
brought to town-the wounded disposed
of at the hotels and private houses, thu
dead laid side hy side on the floor ei th
Farmers tobacco warehouse and th
bodies tagged.
The train fell from the north side o
the track. The engine lies partly up tn
embankment on the west side of tn
creek. The first-class coach lies on to-
of the second-class and Superintendent
Bridges car partly covers the sleeper
Rotten Tiesr
1t is supposed that asthe engine, whlc
was making 20 to 80 miles an hour on
down grade, struck the bridge the trac
spread. Why it should have done so
accounted for by tn: fact that the end
of the ties at the approach to the bridg
were found to he rotten.
Engineer West was found inone
under his cab. Within arms.reach {
him were the bodies of two OF the III
" known female passengcrs-how the
bodies got from the tirst-class coach t
= the engine will never be known.
81" Miss Luelcn Pool held the head OF hi
- mother out of the water until HI
y strength was exhausted when the hea
y dropped and the mother drowned.
W Parts of the sleeper and OF the hrs
class coach are in the water.
. A car load OF convicts arrived tro
81 Newton early in the morning and tt
" wreck is being cleared. The bridge
!" not damaged in the least and trains W
III soon be running over it,
5 TeIexrams From Mr.. Camera
and Dr. Sanderlin.
STATESvILLE, 1890 a. nj
III Hon. Thos. N. Holt:
II. Th,nl God am safe from the BOSt