The rustler., 1891-09-04
SPREADING RAILS.
Awlh Accident on a North Caro-
lima Railroad
THE IRAN SLIPS OFF A BRIDGE.
Es.ry s@ui In the ruIiman sleeper KILLED
ssus- Dre~n-d In ths Cr~~k The Ae-
eia-.t O-car. in the DARKNESS Of
Sight-Ii.t of yictim.

CHARLOTTE ~ C.. Auz 2S-The
most disastrous railroad wreck ever
known Ia this state occurred yesterday
marHing about o'clock at Boston
br r.dse. two miles west Of Statesville.
oa the Western North Carolina rail.
rua
Passenger train No .. known as the
fast mail, which. made up at salisbury.
p1llcd out on time q a m. loaded with
passengers II was composed Of bag.
gage and mail car. second and first class
csachcs Pullman sleeper and Superin.
tendcnt BRIDGES private car Daisy"
This sleeper, which was from Colds
boro, usually contains good number
of passengers from northern points,
and last night was no exception.
The run % Statesville was made on
time, a distance Of twenty-five miles,
but just after leaving Statesville there
Is high stone bridge spanning Third
creek and down into this creek plunged
the entire train. a distance OF at least
sixiy-iivc feet wrccking the whole
train and carrying death and destruc-
ton with H.
Twenty passengers were killed out
right nine seriously injured and about
twenty badly bruised and shaken up
The night was dismal and 10 add 20
the horror Of the situation the water in
the creek was up and II was only
through the most heroic efforts Of those
who had hurried to the scene OF the
wreck that the injured were not
drowned.
The accident was caused by the
spreading Of the rails The bridge was
mot injured and trains are running on
schedule time.
Twenty dead bodies are now lying In
warehouse at Statesville, and the in
turrd are having the best OF care ut
private residences and hotels.
The following Is a list Of killed:
william West, engineer, Salisbury,
NC
Warren Fry, fireman, Hickory, y. c.
II X. Linsicr, baggngemastcr, States.
willie, y. c.
William Houston, Greensboro, ~ G.
T. Barnett Asheville, n. C.
Samuel Gorman, Asheville, n. C.
W. T. Winslow, Asheville, n c.
Charles Bennett, Hendersonville, NC
w. j. Fisher, Campbell, S. C.
j. H. Austin, Hickory, n. c.
I. Brudir, drummer, New York
j. NJ. Sykes, Clarkesville, Tenn.
Mrs Poole, WILLIAMSON, n. C.
Jube Thcfer, travelling salesman.
Doc Wells, colored, Pullman porter
John Davis, Statesville, ~ c.
Mr. Mccormick, Alexandria, Va.
The inj ired were as follows:
DIR. George w. Sanderln, state aud.
ttor painfully.
Col + y Cameron, OF the governors
staff
Patrica r. Ransom, Northampton
unity. y. C.
Ouo ltausom, Norfolk, Va.
Worth llliott, Hickory, n. C.
GeorEe Bowles, Atlanta.
Col o W. Lawson. Louisville, Ky.
Miss Llewellyn Poole, Williamson,
N
NJ l.. c. Moore, Helena, Ark.
N ss Ophelia Moore, Helena, Ark.
A. : Linke and wife, Lexington Ky.
Il. ~ Estes, Jr., Memphis Tenn.
John Gage, Asheville.
r. T.. Johnston, Ncwberry, 5. C.
Conductors Spaugh and H. c. Leeper
Flagman 'Shoaf.
Among the killed was Rev. j. NJ.
Sykes, n graduate of the Southwestern
Presbyterian university, Gainesville,
Tenn. lie had just been assigned to
missionary work In China and was to
have left for that country September
20 next lie was married
The Moores are prominent in literary
and social circles in Helena, Ark, and
are well known throughout the south.
They were returning from a summer.
ing in the Blue mountains
Mrs. Poole was drowned before aid
could reach her.
Three bodies have not been identi-
fed. One Of these Is an old lady. An
other is a lady with n ticket in her
pocket which reads: Mrs George Nc
Cormicls and mother, Elmwood, n. c.,
TO Alexander, n. c." The third is also
lady. Upon her finger is n ring en-
graved "T. II. w. 10 NJ Il. r." The
last mentioned is believed TO be the
wife of 7. II. White, of Memphis, who
had been spending the summer at
Hillsborough, n. C., and was on her
way to Memphis
II is thought that all bodies have not
been taken out OF the debris, which Is
piled so high that it is impossible to
make thorough examination. Crowds
have fiocked TO the scene all day.
Not n soul came out Of the sleeper
alive.
Miss ophelia Moore, of Helena, Ark,
died after. being taken out OF the
wreck.
The Wabash Hospital Opened.
MoRERf.Y. Mo. Aug. 9s-The new