Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-28
TO INSTANTDHATH
4 Railway Train Piunsos Twen-
ty-Three Passengers
OrFIFTY- ONE ONLY THREE UNHURT

twenty-five Persons More or Less Sc
verely Wounded-Sad Death of Miss
Pools Mother in Her Daughters Arms
by Drowning-Lists of the Dead and
Injured-The Disaster Caused Probably
by Spreading Rails-Fatal Crash of n
'Bridge-Hurt in Runaway.
STATEsvILLE, y. c., Aug. 2S.-The most
disastrous railroad accident known in the
history of North Carolina occurred on the
Western North Carolina railroad two
miles west of this place at O'Clock
yesterday morning. Twenty-three persons
have been taken from the wreck dead, or
have died since, and twenty-five are
wounded. The dead are as follows: En-
gineer William West, Salisbury; Fireman
Warren Fry, Salisbury; Baggagemaster
Hugh h. Linster, StatesyilIe; W. NJ.
Houston, merchant, Greensboro, y. C.;
Perry Barnett, Samuel German, and
Charles Barnett, Asheville; julie Thifer,
travelling salesman; W. J. Nisher, Camp
bella, :. G.; w L. Winslow, Ashevi!le;
Davis, Statesville; one legged man, name
unknown; J. b. Austin, Hickory; lady,
Unknown, ticket in pocket reading Mrs.
George Mccormick and mother, Elmwood
to Alexis nders; Mrs White, Memphis,
Tenn: unknown lady, ring on finger, in
side of which is engraved Il. H. w. to
l. l.. r. an unknown colored man; Mrs.
Pool, Williamson, \. c., drowned; 7.
T. Brodie, New York, travelling for a
glove house; Rev. James NJ. Skies, Clarks-
vile, Tenn; Dock Wells, colored porter;
Miss Phelia Moore, Helena, Ark.
The Roll of Wounded.
George Bowley, Atlanta, injured, but
wa liked to town; Conductor Spaugh, bad
ly hurt, but will live; Sleeping Car Con
ductor II. c. Clipper, head hurt, arm and
ankle sprained; colored sleeping car por-
ter; o. w. Lawson, Louisville. Ky; Miss
Luellen Pool, Williamson, n. c.; Mrs.
r. c. Moore, Helens, Ark; A. L. Sink
and wife. CT Lexington, both seriously in
jured; B. NJ. Estes, Jr., of Memphis,
Tenn, badly hurt, but will live: Flagman
Shoat, Lexington, \. c., badly hurt, but
Will live; John Gaze, Asheville, \. c., in
jured, not seriously; State Auditor George
W. Sanderlin, painfully, but not danger
ousiy; PatrioH hanson, oi Northampi on
county, 5oa Of Senator Ransom, cut on
head, not dangerously; r. l.. johnson,
newsOoy.
People Who Were in Luck.
The following escaped unhurt: Colonel
Bennehan Cameron, OF Raleigh, n mem
Der of the governors staff; Otto Ramsey,
Norfolk, Va; Worth Elliott, Hickory.
Engineer West was found pinioned under
his cab. Within arms reach of him were
the bodies of two female passengers How
their bodies got from the first-class coach
to the engine will never be known. Mss
Luellen Pool held the head Of her mother
out of the water until her strength was
exhausted. when the head dropped and
the mother was drowned. Parts OF the
sleeper and OF the frst-class coach are in
the water.
Spreading Rails the supposed Cause.
A car load of convicts arrived from
Newton early in the morning and began
clearing the wreck. The bridge is not
damaged in the least, and trains will soon
be rsnning over it. The train fell from
the north side of the track. The engine
lies partly up the embankment on the
west side. The frst-class coach lies on top
of the.second class. 1t is supposed that a
the engine was making twenty-five 10
thirty miles an hour on a down grade. as
IL struck the bridge the track spread.