Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-05
HURLED MANY FEET.
AZ a. e. T.. TRAIN sMtsHEs INTO y
HuLL-sTREET CAR.
OTHER ITEMS FROM MANCHESTER
v.,,,e from This city Goes to Pow
batan Courthouse to FURNISH jury
,or piIl.iuton Case-Rey. carey Nor
gan TO Preach-iIriefs.

A frlghtful smash-up occurred at the
Hull-street Aianchester railway ana
car-lne crossing last evening about e:5O
o'clock
A train ran into a street-car and sent
It whlrlng many feet away. Fortunately
no passengers We're on the car at the
time. or The casualties would surely have
been serious.
The accident happened about $3.50
o'clock. Hull-strect car No. 10 had reach
cd the track Of the Atlantic-Coast Line.
There are gates at this crossing. \ watch
man is kept there. also. by the railroad.
The Manchester Railway and Improve
ment Company requires their conductors
10 flag their cars at this place. \ con-
ductor must leave his car and run across
the track TO see that all is right before
he waves his car 10 cross. II appears
that last night neither the flagman nor
the conductor saw the approaching
train. AS sailors say, the car was struck
"amidships" The conductor, Mr.. Arnetti
had already crossed over. No one was
on the car but the mOtorman, Mr.. {. NJ
Catlctt His escape was miraculous Inc
car was sent 30 feet away, one man sald,
IL was certainly true that it was smashed
up. The machinery underneath was III
juIed and the body smashed in
Workmen from the shops i'm Richmond
were summoned. After much work they
succeeded in getting the car i'm condition
In be put back on the track and taken TO
Richmond. This car is called the four
teen-hour car. the only one on that line
which runs so long. Mr.. Catett is consid-
cred one Of the best motormen in either
city. This is the first accident Of any
serious kind he has ever had.
TO TRY MR.. PILKINTON.
The Manchester venirc of thirty, from
which the Jury to try W. q. Pilkinton VIII
be selected. went 10 POwhatan Court
house Yesterday at noon. The following
are the gentl, men who went: Messrs'
James VI. Graves, Thomas tishet
Thomas Neisler. James u. Abbott. NJ. a.
Campbell r. w. Shumaker, A. y. Snot-
well. Joseph J. Galloway }. ID. Mathews
/ A. q. Evans, George W. Franklin. Mat
thew Morton, r. /. Hancock, n. l..
Jones. II. l.. Galloway, f. 4. Lamp, =
H. Gibbs. G.. W. Gibbs. Joseph l.. DAVID
son. A. II. Thomas. Charles l.. Pettlt, H.
b. Priddv, W. Nelson, W. X. Nelson
George II. Burress. r. W Wilkerson,
Harry b. owen, and r. L. Patram.
PERSONALS AND BRIEFS.
Judge b. A. Hancock is out Of town on
legal business. ,...
Miss jamie Davidson IS confined 20 her
room on account of sickness.
Mr.. A. y. Tyson is spending the week
81 home. lie has been at work in Roa-
uoke for several months.
Mr. W. T. Green has gotten hack from
Washington, where he has been Tor the
last week.
MIR. Emmett /. Winglield. former
well-knoWn druggist of MancnesJei Du.
now of Columbia. ). g., is the guest Oh
Mr. W. J. Carter
Rev Carey T.. Morgan. the new pastor
OF the SeVenth-Street Christian church
will preach at the COwardin-AVenue
Christian church tomorrow night.
Mir. William H. Williams, the drummer
evangelist. delivered his lecture Last
Romp with the Tiger" i'm Manchester last
night. He had large audience AT tne
central Methodist church. II. lecture
was listened to very closely and impress
cd all present.