The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-07-08

James Fl. Goddard, Jr., Charles
ton; face cut and body bruised.
Charles Robinson, conductor,
Midway, w. Va; head cut and
body bruised.
w. I. Kiger and small son, Char
lesion, bruised slightly about heads
and bodies.
Postal Clerk Hayes, Athens, o.,
slightly bruised about bodys
Goo. w. Stribling, Point Pleas
ant, but clerk in the Kanawha Val
ley Bank, this city; cut under chin
rand body bruised.
Samuel Shue, Midway, w. Va;
face and head cut.
III. Il. Calhoun, Gallipolis, Ohio;
thigh brokea and cut under chin.
- Ross, Elk City; bruised
Geo. Mckee, Poca, w. Va; inju-
red about head and arms.
Rnyburn Blackburn, Elk City;
legs hurt.
Eliza Mckee, Poca; injured about
head and arms.
F. w. jennings, Columbus, Ohio;
side hurt.
Geo. Eisele, Charleston; head in
jured.
Clarence Eisele, Charleston; arms
bruised.
James Blackwood, Athens, Ohio;
head crushed. Cannot recover.
a. G. Wall, Elk City; side and
legs bruised.
Lucinda Jones, Elk City, head
bruised.
Allie spradling, Elk City; head
cut.
Chas. C. Long, Point Pleasant,
collar bone broken, head cut and
body bruised.
Charles Conker, Poca; slightly in
jured about the head.
Ed. Conker, Poca, side hurt.
A. Archibald, Poca; arms injured.
Samuel Carpenter, Poca, feet hurt.
VIM. Jones, Elk City; head injured
Ella Henson, Elk City; head in
jured.
Mrs. r. S. Truslow, Charleston;
skull fractured and other serious in
juries. She cannot recover.
Sam Johnson, colored, Charleston;
back badly injured and otherwise
hurt.
Albert Kearns, Elk City; head cut
and leg bruised.
John Carry, Elk City; back hurt
and arm bruised.
Never before have the citizens of
Charleston been called upon to
mourn SO serious an accident as be-
fell the Kanawha & Michigan pas
senger train No. l yesterday morn
near Farm station, eight miles from
here, and it is to be sincerely hoped
that never again will there be a
repetition of anything SO horrible
that will appeal to such an extent to
the sympathies of our people.
The day dawned bright and clear,
and with the elaborate programme
prepared for the Fourth of July, q
day of the greatest pleasure was
anticipated by all, none for an in
slant dreaming of the terrible tidings
so soon to be flashed over the wires
that were to bring sorrow to so
many homes.
The Order of United American
Workmen had arranged to spend
the day at Poca and with their
wives and friends were on board
the i'll fated train. A good many of
the X. & NJ. employees who are
working here and live elsewhere
along the line of the road were
among the passengers and it was
found later, were among the
killed and injured. The ex-
cursion rates offered by the road
had drawn out good many people
and it is known that there must
have been 75 or 80 persons aboard
the train by the time it reached the
place where the wreck occurred. l..
Among the passengers was John
E. Norvell, of the Charleston
National Bank, who was on
his way to Gallipolis to spend
the day with his wife. He had
carried bucket along with him,
and finding that postal clerk Hayes,
whom he knew was in the mail car,
went in there to talk with him a
few minutes and get a string with
which to tie his card on the bucket.
This was all that saved him, he
being the only passenger in all that