The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-08
ANOTHER RAILROAD COLLISION
BetYsen Front and Rear Sections Of q N.
& ". Freight Train.
LOCOMOTIVE AND 10 CARS WRECKED.
stin Further Complaints About Damage by
the Frost-Political and General News
Throughout the state.

PETERSBURG. Va. May 7--ISpecial.l THE
wreck which occurred at fuckers siding on
The Norfolk and Western railroad dav or
two ago, by whicha locomotive and seventeen
freight cars were demolished. was followed
by another this morning near Iuni station.
The latter wreck, like the first, was caused by
tho rear section of freight train running into
the first section. which had stopped tor water
Tho locomotive Of one of the trains and
twelve cars were badly wrecked. The track
was 80 badly blockaded that 1t was some time
before il could be cleared. and the west bound
passenger train from Norfolk due here at IL
O'Clock A. NJ, did not arrive until 2 O'Clock
F.
The most discouraging reports have been
received here to-day from the counties con-
tiguous TO Petersburg. where the frost on
Tuesday night played havoc with ye9etStlon
and grape vines Fruit Is also SAID 20 have
been somewhat injured. The frost is said to
have been particularly heavy and damaging
in the vicinity Of Chesterfield Courthouse
Some of the farmers have already Dug UP
their vegetable plants which were injured by
the frost so as TO replant
The rope TO bo used in hanging the negro
Walter Johnson in this city on the ga IN
slant for criminal assault on lady IN Notto-
way county has been ordered from Clncln-
natl through Messrs. Plummer d Wheeler
hardware merchants of tins place
The offerings of loose tobacco to-day ana
Yesterday were very small and no very good
was shown. The highest prices pald rahgils
from abOut 81 30 SO Is per hundred pouhus;
There were about a dozen hOgsheads onereu
at the Exchange to-day, the most oI willcu
was sold. but nothing very good or nhe was
offered-indeed - per hundred was luz H III.
est any fetched, the receipts are very hBht
and there is but little tobacco remaining III
farmers hands that will be sent here as loose
The cotton market is quiet, with liberal
sales Middling, s 7-lGc 10 SIC.
There arrived here this afternoon from Nor
folk special train. having on board governor
2. w. Mckinney, of Virginia Colonel Morton
Marye State Auditor of Public Accounts
State-Treasurer A. W. Hartman, Jr.; ID. w.
Flicker. general superintendent OF the Nor
folk and Western Railroad Company and
Colonel NJ. G. Jameson, treasurer OF the same
road These distinguished officials are on
trip over the entire system OF the Norfolk ana
Western railroad.
The party made short stop here and in
spected the depot buildings They left here
at $50 o'clock for the West.
The Circuit Court Of Prince George county;
Judge ID A. Hancock presiding, opened
to-day, when three damage suits against the
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company were
called for trial. These suits are brought, one
by an employee OF the company named Archer
Griffin. who was injured by the caVing ID or
a sand bank in Prince George county. and the
other two by the administrators of John Daw-
son and Louis Stewart who lost their lives by
the same accident. The damages claimed IN
each of these suits is Sl00 600
At meeting of A. p. Hill Camp Confed-
crate Veterans held tonight il was decided TO
accept the invitation Of Pickett-Buchanan
Camp Confederate Veterans, Of Norfolk, to
visit that city on the fourth of June to take
part in the memorial exercises.
It was also decided to invite Pickett Buch-
anan Camp and Stonewall Camp Confederate
Veterans, the latter, also of Norfolk, TO visit
Petersburg on the ninth of June to participate
in the memorial exercises.