Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-05
THIRTEEN KILLED.
Crowded Railway Passenger Cars
Fall from a TreSlle.
DISASTER ALMOST COMPLETE.
hut One Msu 81 All tho Many oconpan"
Of the Cars Escapes Unhort-
Awful Details.

Hut One Msu OF All tho MANY Vcc"Ph"''
Of the Cars Escapes Unhort--
Awful Details.
fBy telegraph 10 tho Dlspatch.l
CuARrrsroN. W. VA, July 4.-The worst
wreck ever known in tins part of tho state
II not the worst that ever occurred IN inc
State. occurred at about s o'clock th's
morning on the Kanawha and Mlchisan
railway. eight miles west OF here. me
messenger train for Columbus pulled out
from here with two carloads OF oHcur-
sionists. among them tho Order OF oh''e''
American Mechanics, who weTe EoihE ~
Poca. The wreck occurred on MN
trestle. The sleepcrs bad caught ilie uu I,'I
the night and burned 50 tha' '"o '"'-
spread under the train.
FEARFUL TALL o. TIE coAcHKs.
The engine and baggage ana ''au-Cal
PASSED over safely. Tut the TWO co" . G
were thrown from the trach' 49, 1o
ming some forty feet on the slctpcia nv
foTward car.fopplyd 90 the lett. the rear
ONO 10 the richt. 1ho forward chr turnSu
ccrnnlc,clv over. landing right slde W i"e
o,ber fol- some twCutv feet. tutn4hS
INSIDE down and one s.. OF trucks iflI VIZ
top of II. crushing tho car 20 III" -
Under tins place most OF we 49, ~
found. Surgeons and ie'oI ""'" WV
sent at once.
rFApTHTNDING sCrNf'.
Tic scenes among the dead ana GYM YIN;
father and mother. One man nc'' W.
severed NJ the mouth and hrs hcad WIZ
6shed ont from under the wrecH sever"
hours after his body was iouhg. }. =.
feared there are one or TWO bo''''' ~
Under the HTcch.
THF DEAD
Cozetic reportcr has Just returned from
tbc scene and reports the following ueau,
All have been brought here ana are at 'No
uDdertakeT's: NIL. " Va
Il. y. Wilson; travels ior Ooi"i' Jus
h1 Cbs,les Huffman. Blue Creek, W. Va.
/. q. Rose, Blue Creek. W. Va. ~, VI,
Jasper Daugherty. New MarunsyiiIe' W.
Walter Welcher. Charleston.
MIR. Walter Nelchcr Charleston.
Fla OIcary, Charleston.
Amos Coulter. RcdhOuse. W. Va
Orriyllle Robinson, Midway. ". ~.
TLomes Thornton. kanGwha and Mlchl-
gan conductor. Middlcport. O.
Polly Sullivan. Mason Clty-woILeu III
Charleston.
James White. Middleport, O.
THr FATALLY ISJURED.
Those fatally injured are:
w Il. Reed, Elk City.
James Blackwood, Athens, o.; crushed
about the head; has never recovered con-
sciousness. Ill,
fractured and CONCLUSION OF the BRAN.
viii Ford, Llk City; head and chest
crushed.
OTHERS INJURED.
The following Is q partial list OF the
other iniured. many Of whom are danger
onslv hurt and some will probably die:
Leon T.. Bhgh, Rcdhouse, W. Va; splne
hurt and internally injured
!. u. Jones. Charleston; arm broken and
internally injured.
Mir. ]. D. Jones. Charleston; head cut.
" II Saunders. Charleston; head cut.
Peter Slmuson. Charleston; head cut
i c. Martin, Leon, ". Va. back In
J. Il. Gordon, bridge foreman, Leon, w.
Va. back aud head cut.
Mary shirley. twelve years old, Charles
ton head cut aud internally injured.
Miss Jennie Jackson, Charleston; head
cut and shoulder bruised.
Miss Cora Cart, Charleston; face and
neck bruised
Miss Maggie Cart, Charleston; shoulder
injured. IN,
Walter Welcher and wife, who were killed
ou,r ghi.
arm crushed.
G.. A. Gillespie, LIZ Clty; breast ahC
John Whitaker, Elk City; side and head
cut and bruised
James Copelin, Elk City; head and arm
bruised.
Molle Wlnfree, Elk City; back and side
injured.
l.. A. Price. proprietor Of Prices Float
ing Opera, New Martiusville; nervou.
shock and slightly bruised.
White Carter. Null Grove, y. c.; hip anC
head and side slightly hurt.
Miss Minnie DAVIS, Charleston; head auC
back hurt.
Andy Rayburn. Fix City; shoulder, face
colar-bone. and head hurt.
Allie Coulter, Redhouse, W. Va; heaC
and side hurt.
Miss Eva Coulter. seven years old, Rod
house: back and head hurt.
r. j. Satterwaite. Charleston; cOncus
sion Of brain and other injuries.
James II. Goddard. Jr Charleston; fac,
cut and body bruised.
". /. Kigcr and small son, Charleston
bruised slightly about heads and bodies
Postal Clerk Hayes, Athens. o.; slightly
bruised about body.
George ". S;riblnC. Point Pleasant. W
Va, employed as clerk IN tho kauawhl
Valley Bank, this city; cut under chm anC
body bruised.
samuel Shue, Midway, W. Va. face anC
head cut.
II. T. Calhoun, Gallipolis, o.; thigh
broken and chin cut.
- Ross. ELK CITY: bruised.
George Mckee, Poca, W. Va; internal,
injured.
Eliza Mckee. Poca. W. Va: injure,
about the head and arms.
Raburn Blanchburn, Xix CITY; legs hurt
]. W. Jennings. Columbus, o. side hurt
George Eiscle, Charleston; head injured
Clarence Elseo Charleston; arm
bruised
4. G. Wall, Tx CITY; side bruised.
Lucinda Jones. Fix City; head bruised
Alice Spradlug. Elk CITY: head cut.
G. e. Long. Point Pleasant head cut
Charles ConEcr, POcd. ". Va; shghtl
injured about the head.
Ed. Conker Poca s &c hurt.
A. Archibald, Ioca; arms injured.
Samuel Carpenter. POca; foot hurt.
William Jones. Elk CITY; head injured
Ella Henson. Elk City; head injured.
HILEvtD TO re UNDER THE WRECK.
JahcH Nicely, OF tDaTtcSlpn, WAS hHOW
TO have been on the tram. but he has nC
been seen or heard from since the wreci
il IS believed that he IS under the wrecke
car.
Fifty-eight persons have been counte
who are injured, and number wake
away before They could be seen.
OF the entire number of passengers bl
one-John Norvcll, of this city-escape
without a scratch. lilo was IN the MAJ
car.
ATRAlN STRIKES STREsT-CAR.
Five Men Injured, One of Them Fatally
Gross CareleSsness.