The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-09
FLORIDA vESTIDULED WRECK
South Bound Train No. 81 Runs
Into a Tempered Switch.
TWO KILLED; SEVERAL INJURED
Owing to Broken Staple The Engine
Crashes Into Cars on the Siding.
Every Coach Derailed. The
Speed Was Fifty Miles an
Hour. Casualties.
E7 Southern Associated Preps.

"ACoN, VA, MAI cn g. Specials
from McRae, Ga. say: Tho Florida
Nostibuled train No. 81, southbound,
conductor Hubbard, engineer Dave
Moore, was wrecked at Scotland, Ga,
about o'clock this morning by "A
tarnpcred switch, the stnple being
broken. The train consisted of throe
Pulimans. first md second class
coaches. mail and express car, every
ono OF which was derailed,
one OF the coaches was occupied by
tho Roland Reed Company and the
others having n full complement of
passengers. That there was not greater
damage IL miraculous. The schedule
running time is fifty miles an hour and
the engine crashed into some cars on
the side track. tolescoping several box
cars. Mrs, &. ID. Suthere, of Pickens.
Miss, with IA ticket to Ocaln., Fla. was
killed. 5-year- old daughter of Mrs.
Suthers wns also killed.
lnIured-Kolnnd Reed, badly Injured
IN legs and back; Mrs. Mnry Myers. of
New York, severely wrenched in back
anu shoulders; james Douglass Brook
lyn, slightly injured; Miss Rush, New
York, slightly injured; Julian Reed.
nhiiadeipnla, slightly injured; w. w,
Bernan,. New York, slightly Injured.
All of the above of the Roland heed
Company. who cancel their dates and
returned to Atlanta.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hoffman Elvia, of
Ohio, ana Mrs. Morton, of CIucinnati.
are slightly injured. MIR. Roland Reed
distinguished himself at IL grent risk by
rescuiuS three OF the Indies from the
upturned car. Mrs. Suthers' nursing
babe escaped uninjured.
LATER DEVELOPMENTS.
1t has developed that schedule time
OF the train was thirty-two miles nm
hour and that the train was running on
time. The switch was changed hy
drawing tue spikes out of the track.
making the rnils of the track fit thu
rails of the siding. The lock to tho
switch had been tnmpered with but
was not broken, but key found near
tue switch shows that an effort was
mAdo TO unlock 1t.
Railroad men ascribe the changing
OF the switch to some party who.
through motives of revenge, sought to
wreck the irain. All of tho cars of
the tram were thrown off the truck,
but the iirst-class coach and tho first
Pullman were the only ones that
turned over. The Pullman caught fire
ntter beng turned over, but the fire
was stopped before any damage WIS
done.
There wore seven members of the
Roland Reed Company on tue over
turned sleeper. Mrs. Myors is proba-
biy worse hurt thnn any other member
OF the company. Her back was injured
by having been thrown Violently
against the end Of the berth partition.
Miss Ronsh, Of New York, was thrown
through a window and her right arm
was badly cut. The injuries to the
others were more or less on account of
the shock.
Mrs. Snthers, who was killed, was
rldlng III tho first GLASS coach and held
her yenr.old child Ill her arms. They
were thrown through the window and
both were killed almost instantly. Her
S-months old baby was sleeping on n
seat on the opposite side of tho coach
nnd escaped without injury.
lhe wrecking train arrived et the
scene few hours alter the wreck aud
travel Is now going on as usual.