Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-10-29

: iaiiing every which way piuuet
5 them as 1t fell. With strength
: which fright lent them, the,
: fought their way out.
Shaw. who is sturdy. rushet
to the tool rack in the smokin,
: compartment. seized an axe ant
, chopped a hole in the wood
work. Through this he and hi.
two mates clambered TO the tor
OF the car. After them went the
two Chinamen--the only one,
OF all their company who es
capped.
From their perch on the roo,
where they we're helping out
whom they could, they heard
the frantic cries of the wretches
prisoned iii the day coach and
the sleepers astern, which still
hung to the steeply slopine
shore.
Only three of the six sleepers,
the Glen, Alpide. .Hermes and
Niobe. had left the rails. The
coupling breaking with the
strain had left the others, with
the battered Rochester car Diana
at their head, standing safe at
the other side of the cavernous
gap where the track had given
way.
The porters and the few half
naked passengers who rushed
out from the cars on shore
watched in the fog>dimmed, gray
morning light the fearful scene
which lay before them. They
saw Conductor Parrish and his
breakman standing on the tops
of the half sunken cars, and
helping the imprisoned ones to
scramble from the windows.
They saw Ackert, and Shaw
and Smith working away on
the rescue of people from the
day coach. They saw the SHAFT
tered glass fly from the sleeping
car windows and men and wo-
men clambering out in scant
railnent and clutching their
valuables in the mad hope of
saving them.
There were men swimming
iii the swift running tide water
and helping along their fellows
who could not swim. There
were boats. coming as swift as
oars could bring them, from the
lazy craft which were creeping
up. river through the morning
mist.
The early boatmen on these
vessels were the sole eye wit
nesses of the heavy trains leap
to destruction.
Awful hours followed. Peo-
pie came hurrying from far and
near, and lent what help they
could to the desperate labor of
rescue. Little by little the
crowd on the banks grew. Wo-
men who had been brought off
half clad from the partially sub
merged sleepers Hermes and
Niobe. and the Glen, which was
lost to view entirely, tainted
when they knew they were
saved, and were bundled in
blankets and put to bed in the
other cars.
One after another the trains
which had given the place Of
death to forty-six came up, and
aboard them, too, the survivors
of the wreck were taken for
shelter.
The gathering of the saved
grew steadily. Bruised. spent.
bleeding, they made their way to
the shore.
Clinging to the jagged rocks
off the shore was a man, dying
and screaming to men who
could not reach him, begging
them to put an end to his suffer
ing. His left arm was torn from
its socket. Both his legs were
broken. The people cried to
him to hold on. At last a boat
from tug which had halted in
its journey up the river came
and took him off and brought
him to land. Then his strength
all left him. In less than half
an hour he was dead and his
body lay covered with a sleep
ing Car blanket On the bank
where the train had lett the
track.
Surgeons came from the
neighboring towns. Injured men
and women were taken away to
neighborins hospitals.
And then the sad-procession
to the city began.
By the light of lanterns and
flaring torches, all through the
night, the work of search for
the dead and missing has gone