The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-10-11
TRAIN WRECKED.
Three Men Fatally injured and Thfr.
teen More or Less Injured.
The Train Takes Fire and is Burned With
the Exception of One Cara Bolt on
the Track Caused the Wreck
Financial Loss is 100000.

BRISTOL, Tenn, Oct. s.-The west
bound Washington s. Chattanooga ves-
tibule limited. over the Southern Rail-
way, was dashed to destruction at
Vance's station, four and a half miles
west of this city at 1:l5 Sunday after
noon. The injured are:
Engineer Samuel Smith, Knoxville,
legs broken, sides, hips and shoulders
mashed, fatally.
Fireman Vim. Holmes, Bristol, scald-
ed over the body seriously.
A German, name unknown, enroute
to San Francisco, head and body badly
mashed.
All three of them will die.
The train men injured seriously, but
1t is thought not fatally, are:
Henry Simpson, Jonesboro, baggage
master, arm and body injured.
ii. Rogers. express messenger.
A. j. Tucker, Newport, postal clerk.
c. II. Markwood, Jonesboro, postal
clerk.
Union News agent, name unknown.
- Harmon, train porter.
The passengers more or less injured
are: Mike Coleman. Tom Mcdonald,
Thomas Dansfeld, r. j. McKeagh, Sol.
Gantz, r. L, McNeer. j. F. Strarher
The train consisted of vestibule cars,
as follows: One mail, one baggage, one
smoker and a second-class coach, one
first-class coach, one Pullman dining
car, one Pullman sleeper en- route from
New York to Memphis, one Pullman
sleeper en- route from New York to
New Orleans.
The train left Bristol on time at p
m. 1t was drawn by compound passen-
ger engine No. 254, the finest on the
line, with Samuel Smith, veteran
engineer, at the throttle, and Capt N.
j. Bell, the Oldest conductor on the
road, in charge. At the place men,
toned the engine struck a large bolt,
placed on the track by some unknown
person, and was thrown headlong on
its side. Every car, with the exception
of the rear sleeper, left the track and
piled in shapeless mass on top of the
engine. Miraculously to say, only the
train crew and eight passengers were
seriously injured. The other passen-
gers were only bruised slightly and
badly shaken up.
iAoN'iy iiho VIC puooOhECio iSSa
their senses and escaped from the train
before fire from the engine and dining
car set fire to the ruins, and in less
time than it takes to tell it, the blaze
from the wreck was shooting heaven
ward There was no means to check
the mad progress of the fire, and the
entire train, with the exception of the
New Orleans sleeper, was reduced to
ashes, together with the contents Of
the cars, consisting of mail, baggage
and express. The only marks left to
tell the tale were the charred and
blackened pieces of wood and the iron
wheels and steel fixtures about the
cars and engine.
Immediately after the receipt of the
information at headquarters here a
special train was made up, which con-
veyed General Manager Hudson, Sup
intendent Huger, General .Roadmaster
Lum, Assistant General Passenger
Agent Benscoter and Chief Surgeon
Drake to the scene of the accident. Ar
irving there the chief surgeon gather
ed a score of assistants about him, and
after attending to the wants of the in
jured and bleeding, removed them to
Bristol. The loss on the train will
reach $40 OO0