The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-09
BAD WRECK ON THE VALLEY DIyI
SION.


Engineer Hardy Killed and "a Fireman
Injured by IL Landslire Above Buch-
anan.
South bound vestibuled :rain No. ON
the Shenandoah division of the Norfolk
and Western railroad was wrecked at
GAO o'clock yesterday morning, between
Natural Bridge and Buchanan, BY which
Engineer JACOB Hardy was Instantly
Killed and Fireman Will Noftsinger was
badly injured, though not fatally.
The disaster was caused by land.
slide from tho bluffs along tho James to
the tracks, and occurred almost exactly
ten miles north OF Buchanan
The engine was thrown from the track
and ran along the ties about forty feet
and then plunged over a fly foot en-
bankment and lay mass Of debris at
the brink Of the river.
When the crash came the engineer
was at his post with his hands on the
throttle; the fireman was in the cab.
Neither OF tho men had time to lump,
and when the engine fell on the right
SIDE Hardy vas buried beneath il and
was killed at once. Mr.. Noftsiuger
reached the platform by the side of the
boiler and was thrown over the engine
into the river. He managed to swim
TO the shore, although badly sc,lded by
the escaping steam. After he was
pulled ashore his wounds were dressed
by Or. D. 5. Stewart, OF Jonesboro,
Ienn., wao was on the train. No ono
else on tho train was injured
A wrecking train was sent to the
scene from this city as soon as the news
was wired hero. On the train was
Superintendent Bransford, Of the Roam
oke division, A. Il. Ravenal freight
claim agent, and X. A. Buckner, man
ager of tho Adams Express Company.
Where the engine struck tho track
the rails and ground was torn up for a
considerable dis stance, and it was neces.
sarY 10 m Ike up Il train at Roanoke To
transfer the passengers. This train
reached tho city On the return trip lust
before noon, and had tho passengers and
the body of the dead engineer on board.
"A force of men was set to work clearing
the track, and the train due at the RoA.
nohe station at 4:2O m. was only
delayed twenty minutes.
Besides 5hs engine and tender, which
were demolished, and the baggage car,
WHICH was somewhat INJURED, the train
was not damaged.
DIR. j. Fl Mapp, the Norfolk and
Western physician at Buena Vista, was
sum moned and was on the spot before
the wrecking train or the relief train,
which left Roanoke at $3.50, arrived.
The wrecked engine was No. 4Ol. and
the train was made up of an express
car, dining car and three vestibuled
coaches, and was running at the rate of
twenty five miles an hour when the
accident occurred.
Tho train was in charge OF Capt john
Clements as conduc tor, who i'm mediately
wired the news to headquarters.
Among the Roanoke people on board
were 5. l.. Mayo, also an engineers Good
win Figgatt ana o. nj. Nelson.
The dead engineer. Jacob Hardy,
resided in this city at 231 Shenand Dan
avenue n. W. with his wife and three
children. He was an intelligent and
steady man, and left his family we'll
provided for. Besides bank balance
OF about 81, 900, his life was insured for
about $1,000, OF which $1,000 was car
ried in tho Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Engineers.
Whom tho relief train reached tho
city at noon ye sterday tho body was
taken to tho establishment of Oakley Il
Woolwino, whore it was embalmed and
prepared for burial. The details of the
funeral will not BIO arranged until to-
day. The burial will occur Saturday
afternoon at the City Cemetery.