St. Paul daily globe., 1891-08-28
TWENTY LIVES LOST.
q Train in North Carolina
FISHES Over a High
Bridge.
Score of People Taken Out
Dead and Others in the
Wreck.
Gany Drowned in a Creek
Into Which the Train
Tumbled.
List of the UnfortunateS
Crushed and Mangled by
the Fall.

CHARLOTTE, \. c., Aug. 27.-One of
the most disastrous railroad wrecks
known in the annals of this state Oc-
CURED this morning about ? o'clock at
Boston's Bridge, two miles west Of
Statesviile, on the Western North Caro-
lima road. Passenger Train No. 9.
known as the fast mail, which made up
at Salisbury, pulled.out at l a. m. load
ed with passengers. 1t was composed
of a baggage and mail car, second and
frst-class coaches, Pullman sleeper and
Superintendent Bridges private car.
This sleeper, which was from Colds
boro, usually contains a good number of
passengers from Northern points, and
last night was no exception. The run
to Statesville, distance of twenty-five
miles, was made on time, 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 siXty-five feet,
wrecking the whole train and carrying
death and destruction with it.
Twenty passengers were killed out
right, nine seriously Injured and about
twenty badly bruised and shaken up.
The scene at the wreck beggars descrlp-
ton. The night was dismal and, to add
to the horror of the situation, the water
in the creek was up. 1t 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
not injured. and trains are running eOn
schedule time. Twenty dead bodies
are now lying in a warehouse at States
vile. The injured are having the best
of care at private residences and hotels.
The following is
The List of Killed.
WILLIAM WEST, engineer, Salisbury. n. c.
WARREN FREY, fireman, Hickory, \. e.
H. K. LINsTER, baggagemaster, StatesVille,
n. c.
W. NJ. HoUsTON. Greensboro. n. C.
P BARNETT Asheville. \. c.
SAMUEL GoRMAN. Asheville n. c.
". E WINSLOW, AsheVille, \. G.
CHARLES BENNETT, HendersOnville, n. G.
W. j. FISHER, Campbell, 5. c.
J. B. AUSTIN Hickory. \ c.
J. NJ. SKIES, Clarksville, Tenn.
Mrs Pool WILLIAMSON, y. C.
Doc WELLS. colored Pullman porter.
T. BRODIE, drummer, New York.
JUBE IHEFER. travelling salesman.
JOHN DAVIS. Statesville. N e.
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 Sc
Tious are Col. E. B. Cameron, of the
governors staff; Patrick E. Ransom,
of Northampton county, n. c.; Otto
Ransom, of Norfolk, Va; Worth Elliott.
of Hickory, \. c.; George BOwles, of
Atlanta; Col. o. w. Lawson,
of Louisville, KY; Miss Lewllyn
Pool, of Williamson, \. c.; Mrs. r. G.
and Miss Ophelia Moore, of Helena,
Ark; A. S. Link and wife, of LeXing-
ton, KY; B. n. Estes Jr., of Memphis,
Tenn; John Gage, of ASheyille; r. E.
Johnston, of NewbeTTy, S. c.; Con-
ductor SDaugh, Sleeping Car Conductor
H. c. Cleeper and Flagman Shoaf
EThe train fell on the north side Of the
track; the engine lies partly up the en-
bankment on the west side. The first
class coach lies on top of the second
class coach, and Supt. Bridger's car
partly covers the sleeper. 1t is sup
posed that, as the engine was making
about from twenty-five to thirty miles
q hour on a down grade, struck the
bridge, the track under his cab, within
arms reach of him, were the
bodies of two female passengers. How
their bodies got from the frst-class
coach to the engine, will never be
known. Miss 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.
Supt. Bridgers was not aboard: his car
was being hauled empty to Asheville.
a car load 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.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. 27.-The lady
mentioned in the Associated Press ac-
count of the StatesYille wreck as un-
identified and wearing a ring engraved
''F. H. W. to NJ. B. r." is beyond a
doubt the wife of F. 81. White, OF this
city. Mrs. White had been spending
the summer at HillsbOrough, n. N, and
was on her way to Memphis. Mr.. White
received a telegram from Statesville
this evening and has left for that place.