The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-10-11
TRAIN WRECKED.
Three Men Fatally Injured AID 7hJre
teen More or Less Injured.
Tho Tram Takes Fife and Is Nrlraed Wstf&
the Exception Of Ono Cara Con On
tho Track Caused tho Wreck
Financial Loss Is 100000.

! BRIsroL, Tenn, Oct. s.-1ho wcsx
bound Washington & Chattanooga vese
tibulc limited, over the Southern Raik
way, was dashed to destruction 81
Vance's station, four and a hall miles
west of this city ut lis Sunday after.
noon. Tie injured are:
Engineer Samuel Smith, Knoxville
legs broken, sides, hips and shoulders
mashed, fatally.
Fireman YIN. Holmes, Bristol, scald&
cd over the body seriously.
4 German, name unknown, enrouto
to San rancisco, head and body badly:
mashed.
All three Of them will die.
The tram men injured seriouslyi but
it Is thought not fatally, are:
Henry Simpson, Joncsboro, baggage
master, arpn and body injured:
u. Rogers, express messenger.
a. J. Tucker. Newport, postal olerR.
c. II: hardwood, JonGsboro, postal
clorl
Union News agent, name unknown!
- Harmon, train porter.
The passengers more Or less injured
are: Mike Coleman. Tom Mcdonald
Thomas DaEsGcld, L. J. McKeagh, SOL
CAN'T, Z. l., McNeer. !. E. Strarhen y
The train consisted OF vestibule cars,
Us follows: One mail, one baggage, ons
SMOKER and d sccond-class coach, onc,;
frSt-class coach, orc Pullman dining
car, die Pullman sleeper en- route from
New York to Memphis, one Pullman
sleeper en- route from New York 10.
New Orleans.
The train left Bristol on time al p
IL. II vas drawn by compound passeR.;
ger engine No. 254, tho finest On thq
line, with Samuel Smith, veteran
engineer, at the throttle, and Capt. NJ
j. Bell, the oldest conductor on the;
road, in charge. At the place rnenr'
toned the engine struck lNrgo bolt, !
placed on the tract. by soluc unknown
person, and was thrown headlong dn,,
its side. Every car, with the exception
Of the rear sleeper, left the track and
piled in shapcless mass on top OF the
engine. Sliraculously to say, only che
train crew and eight passengers were
seriously injured The other passon-
gers were only bruised slightly and
badly shaken up.
Hardly had the passengers regained.
their senses and escaped from the train
before tire 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 tho fire, and Che
entire train, with the exception Of the.
New Orleans sleeper, was reduced tO>
ashes, together with the contents Of
the cars, consisting Of mai, baggage
and express. The only marks left tn
tell the tale were the chnrred aYa
blacheaea pieces Of wood and the irola
wheels and steel fixtures about the
cars and engine.
Immediately after the rcceip: Of tho
information at headquarters here @
special tain was made mp, which coz
veyed General Managev Hudson, sup,
sntendant !Iuger, General 'Roadm1ster
| Lnm, Assistant General Passenger
Agent Benscoter and Chief Surgeon
Drake to tie scene OK the accident Ar
irving there the chief surgeon gather
CT s. score Of assistants about him, and
after attending TO the wants Of the ip-
jured and bleeding, removed them to
l:ristol The loss on the train will
reach 200. coo.