Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-09-10
KILLED.
A Fast Mail Train Jumps the Track
/. Near Statesville North Caroline,
Loaded with Passengers.
The Entire Train Plunged Down an
Embankment Sixty-fve Feet
High Into the River.
Passenger Train Wrecked.

CHARLOTTE, N. O.s aug. Sl.-Ouo VI
the most disastrous railroad wrecks
known in the annals of this state &C.
CURED this morning about o'clock
at the Boston bridge, two miles west Of
Statesville on the Western North Oaro.
line road Passenger train No. 8. known
as the fast mail which is made up at
Salisbury, pulled out on time Il q. N.Y.
loaded with passengers. It was COM
posed Of baggage snd mail
Pullman sleeper, and Superintend-
ent Bridges private car Daisy"
This sleeper, from Goldsboro, usu.
ally contains good number of passen-
gers from northern points. and last
night was no exception. The run to
Statesville was made on time, distance
OF twenty-five miles, but after leaving
Statesville there is stone bridge span
ming Third Greek. and down into this
creek plunged the entire train q distance
of sixty-fve feet, wrecking the whole
train and carrying death and destruc-
ton with it. Twenty passengers were
killed outright, nine seriously injured
and about twenty badly bruised and
shaken up. The scene at the wreck beg
CARS description. The night was dismal,
and to add to the horror of the situation
the water in the creek was up. It was
only through 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 not injured, and trains are running
on schedule time. Two bodies are lying
in the warehouse at Statesville. The
injured are having the best of care at
private residences and hotels. The fol-
lowing is list of the killed:
WILLIAM WEST, engineer, Salisbury,
N. @.
WARREN FREY, fireman, Hickory,
n. G.
N. Z. L1NsrER, baggageman, States
vile.
W. NJ. Houston, Greensboro. n. @.
P. r. ARNETT, Asheville, N. @.
SAMUEL GoRMAN, Asheville, N. c.
W. E. WINDsLER, Asehville, N. @.
CHARLES BENNETT, Hendersonville.
A. J. FISHER, Campbell, S. @.
s. G. Dustin, Hickory. N. G.
T. BRoD1E, drummer, New York.
J. NJ. SKIES, GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
Mrs. Pool, Williamson, N. @.
JUBE THEFER, travelling salesman.
Doc WELLS (colored). Pullman porter.
JOHN DAVIS, Statesville, N. @.
Mr. MCCORMICK, Alexandria. Va.
DR.. George W. Sanderlin, state aud
itor, was on the wrecked train; he was
painfully injured. Among others who
escaped with injuries more or less
serious are:
Col. E. B. Cameron, of the governors
staff.
Patrick E. Ransom, Northampton
County, N. G.
Worth Elliott, of Hickory, N. @.
George Bowles, of Atlanta, Ga.
COL O. W. Lawson, Louisville, Ky.
Miss Lewellyn Pool Williamson, NC.
Mrs. R. c. and Miss 0. Moore, Helena,
Ark.
A. S. Link and wife, Lexington, Ky.
B. S. Estes, jr., Memphis, Tenn,
J. Gage, Asheville, N. G.
F. R. johnson, Newbury, s. @.
ductor 81. O. Ollpsr and Flagman S.
Hoof.
Mrs. Pool was drowned before aid
could reach her. Three bodies have not
been identified: One of these is an old
lady; another is lady with ticket in
her pocket, which reads: George Nc.
Cormick. Elmwood, N. c., to Alexander,
N. @. The third is also lady. Upon
her is ring engraved T. 81. W. to NJ.
R. r. It is thought all the bodies
have not been taken out of the
debris, which is piled up so
high, it is impossible to make a
thorough examination. Crowds have
focked to the scene all today, and the
accident has cast gloom over all. Not
q soul came out of the sleeper alive
Miss Ophelia Moore, of Helena, Mont.
died after being taken out of the wreck.
Another Kentucky Feud.