Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-02
TRAIN GOT AL00SF
Prlshdul Flight Down Grade Of q Chesa-
peake and Ohio Freight.
ANY CARS DEMOLISHED.
Two Engines Badly Damaged-One
of Them at the Bottom of the Dock.
Four Men Hurt, hut None Seriously
Injured.
Injured.


No. 2g7, OF Chesapeake and Ohio railway,
about 5 o'clock last night. while the To-
comotve was pulling heavy freight
train OF coal and grain over the connec-
ton track. between what are known as
the Second and the Orleans-Street sta
railroad accidents Richmond has expert
enced in ten years.
The train. consisting OF some thirty
five or forty cars, loaded with the com"
modities aforesaid. was on Its way from
the Second-street yards to the Orleans
Street-Station. and thence to Newport
News. While upon the long Chesapeake
AMI Ohio trestles. which has a very heavy
grade toward the eastern end. one of the
air-tubes burst. and Engineer Golfer
blew the whistle again and again for
brakes. No response appeared to come.
and the speed OF the train was rapidly
Increasing. one blast followed another
from the whistle OF the locomotive. but
the speed OF the freight INCREASED instead
of slackening and the crew bsyan pre-
parations TO leave the wild and reckless
train.
LEAPED FROM THE TRAIN.
AS soon as the yards-just at the point
where the tracks cross the dock, about
Twenty-eighth street-were reached. the
men began TO leap from the flying cars.
as an accident was then inevitable.
When the switch, just at the end or the
curve, by which the tracks turn across
the dock. was reached by the train ii
sped along over IL upon a side-track run
OF Of ha usr of
water This siding IL only about 80
yards In length, and ends with
a bulkhead, near which stood locomotive
No. 2G4, OF the Chesapeake and Ohio,
In charge OF Engineer J. A. Spears and
Fireman Clarence Jones. both of whom
realized their danger. and left the en-
CINE They did not make their departure
much too soon, however, for the heavy
freight bore down upon the standing To-
comotive at full tilt, and. crashing into
engine No. 2ss. No. 291 careened over and
was in an instant almost entirely buried
under the waters Of the dock. while the
trucks and wheels and timbers Of fifteen
or twenty loaded cars were grinding to-
gether and being piled up In great
mass.
The wreck was the ugliest ever seen
here. Coal-cars, piled high with that
commodity, left their undergesring and
stood upon ends. in all sorts of posi-
tons: while their trucks congregated into
shapeiess mass extending almost
as high as two-story house. In ALL
about fifteen or eighteen cars were COM
pletely demolished, and, while the ex-
tent OF the damage 10 the engine AT the
bottom Of the dock cannot be told. the
locomotive standing upon the track had
it's tender smashed up and was otherwise
injured.
FOUR MEN WERE HURT.
In jumping from the train four men
were hurt. though their injuries are by no
means serious.
Engineer William Collier, who lives al
No. 1924 north Seventeenth street, was
bruised and cut about the face.
Conductor Robert l.. Lindsey. No. 100
north Twenty fifth street. sustained an
ugly bruise on one of his hands
Brakeman f.. c. McFadden, No. Ill
south Belvidere street, was SCARED about
the face, had four teeth broken out and
received Il cut about two inches long
under his chin.
Fireman J. L. Mann. No. ioS north First
street, was badly shaken up.
As soon as the accident occurred the
ambulance WAS telephoned for. and soon
responded. with DR.. Luxford in charge.
All the injured men were able 10 walk
home, except Brakeman McFadden, who
was attended by the physician and then
taken in the ambulance to his residence.
The train passed over the trestie al so
rapid a rate of speed that a part of II
broke loose and stopped upon the long
bridge.
The negro man who has charge Of the
switch just where the tracks cross the
dock says that the switch was all right.
and that he was walking aSJss the little
iron bridge when he reaiized that
wreck was immnent-then he did not
know how he ever got across the dock.
Immediately after the occurrence large
crowd Of men congregated about the
wrecked cars. Superintendent Doyle was
soon upon the scene, anc IL was not long
until the wrecking forces were. at work
clearing up the debris and strengthening
UP the track.
The men on the fated freight when the
air-hose burst were those mentioned and
Brakemen Smith Ridgeway and John
Dent. All Of the injured are white men
with families.