The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-09-10

mlSplaCeu lne rails ana caused the
wreck. The yiaduct is of iron and spans.
There WAS no WaShout, and the bridge
was not broken down.
The railway officials say that the dis
aster was due to the moving of the rails,
SO that the train ran Off the bridge.
Three Pullman SleeperS and two rail-
way officials private cars were attached
to the train.
Twenty-three persons have been
taken from the wreck dead, or have
died since. and twenty-five were wound
ed. The dead are as follows:
TIE DEAD.
Engineer VIM. West, Of Salisbury.
Fireman Warren Fry. Salisbury.
Baygagemaster Hugh X. Linster,
Statesville.
w. Nj. Houston, merchant, Greens.
borO
Perry Barnett, IIcndersonville.
Samuel German, Ashoville.
Chas. Barnett, lIendersonville.
Jules Thefer, travelling salesman.
w. j. Fisher, Campobello, $. G..
W. Il. Winslow, Asheville.
---- Davis, Statesville.
"One-legged man."
j. B. Austin, Hickory.
Lady unknown. with ticket in pocket.
reading Mrs. Geo. Mccormick and
mother, Elmwood to Alexandc1's.
Mrs. White, Memphis, Tenn.
Unknown lady, had ring on finger, in
| side of which Is engraved: az. III. W.
to l.. L. II"
An unknown colored man.
Mrs. Poole, Williamson, y. G.,
H. Biodie, New York, travelling for a
glove house.
Rev. James NJ. Skies, Clarkesville
Tenn.
Dock Wells. colored porter.
Miss Ophclia Moore, Helena, Ark.
| TIE INJURED
George Bowlcy, Atlanta, injured, but
walked to town.
Conductor Spaugh, hurt, but will
live.
Sleeping Car Conductor II. G. Clep
per, head cut, arm and ankle sprained.
Colored sleeping Car porter.
Il. w. Lawson, Louisville, Ky.
Miss Luellcn Poole, WilIiamston
\. G.
Mrs. r.. G. Moore, Helena, Ark.
a. l.. Sink and wife, of Lexington
| both seriously injured.
IS. Nj; Estes, DR., Memphis, Tenn, hurt
but will live.
Flagman Shoaf, Lexington, y. G..
hurt, but will live
John Gaze, Asheville, injured, not Sc
riously.
State Auditor George w. SandcrlIn
painfully but not dangerously.
Patrick RanSom, Of Northampton
county, son of Senator NJ w. Ransom
cut on the head. not dangerously.
ESCArED UNIIURT.
II. +. Johnson, neWSDOy.
Col. Bennehan Gamer on, of Raleigh,
n Of ,n'
otto Ramsey, Norfolk, Va.
Worth Elliott, Hickory.
HOW IT OCCURRED.
The train fell from the north side of
the track. The engine lies partly up
the clnbankmcnt on the west side. The
llrst-class coach lies on top Of the
second class
1T is supposed that as the engine,
which was making twenty-five to thirty
miles an hour on a down grade, struck
the bridge the track spread.
Engineer West was found pintoned
under his cab. Within arms reach of
him were the bodies Of two female pas.
sengers, and how their bodies got from
The flrst-clasS coach to the engine vii!
never be known.
her mother out of the water until her
strength was exhausted, when the head
dropped and the mother sank from
sight.
n carload of convicts arrived from
Newton early in the morning and the
wreck is being cleared. The bridge IS
not damaged In the least, and trains
Will soon be running over it.
ONE OF THE VICTIMS.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 27.-Among
the Killed in the accident on the West
ern North Carolina Railroad this morn
ing was Rev. j. NJ. Skies, a graduate of
the Southwestern presby yterian Univer-
slty at Clarksville, Tenn. Mr.. Skies
has Just been asignel to missionary
work In China, and was to have left for
that country September 26 next. lie
was married.