The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-29
One Badly and Other Only Slightly
Injured.
OFF ON MAD CHASE TO NORFOLK
The Wrecked Engine. After wild
Run With Throttle Wido Open,
Dashed INTO the Depot 1T Ter
rifle Speed aud Crashed Into
an Empty Coach, Knock
ing it TO Flinders.

NORFOLK, VA, June 2S.-special-By
.pa passengers and a work engine on the Nor
folk and Southern Railway this evening
one man was killed and two were injured.
The accident was followed by very singu-
lar results. Engineer of a yard engine.
Quillen. was ordered to follow to Kemps-
Vile the passenger train scheduled 20
leave Norfolk for Virginia Beach
at 5:15 o'clock and bring back
a work train. BY some misunder
miles out he met the fast train which left
Virginia Beach at 4:SO o'clock toward
Norfolk at the rate of forty-five miles an
hour.
REVERSED HIS ENGINE.
He reversed his engine when he saw
that collision was imminent and jump
ed, receiving slight injuries His fireman,
William Sawyer, was upon the tender, and
as the engine was going out backwards
was struck by the passenger engine. Both
legs were cut off and he4shortly died.
Engineer Purcell. of the passenger,
jumped and was badly hurt. His fireman
was not seriously injured. No passengers
were hurt.
After the collision, the freight engine
which had previously been reversed, or
rather the wreck of it. since the tender,
tank, cab and other portions were missing,
started for Norfolk.
Tht, wild wreck, with throttle wide open,
came into the depot at a terrific speed. 1t
passed a passenger train on another track
lust about TO pull out, on which were sew
eraI hundred passengers. and crashed into
an empty coach This il knocked to flin-
ders, then stopped doing no more damage
Strange to say, but one man was killed.
although the lives of probably 600 were in
imminent jeopardy.
The road is a Vanderbilt property.
Another Account.
(By Associated Press)
NORFOLK w, June 2S-This after
noon, as the 5:25 train on the Virginia
Beach Division of the Norfolk and Southern
Railway was on its way 10 Norfolk, While
turning a curve about a mile from the
depot in Norfolk. it met an engine and
tender going in the opposite direction to
get a train of logs.
The engineer on the passenger tram pieW
his whistle, put on brakes and reversed
his engine. as did also the engineer in
charge of the log train.
The engineers of both trains and the
fireman of the engine, that was light,
jumped from their engines. Mr.. sullivan,
engineer of the engine going out, sus-
tanned painful injuries. Engineer Pur-
cell, of the passenger tram, sidt tLlS manu-
broken, but was not otherwise hurt. Fire
man Bishop, of the passenger engine, re-
NAMED at his post and escaped injury.
FELL UNDER WHEELS.
Fireman Sawyer, on the light engine,
when he jumped, fell under the wheels.
One leg was cut off below the knee and
the other was left hanging by a few
shreis.
The injured were at once brought to
Norfolk, and Sawyer was taken TO ST.
Vincent's Hospital. Both of his legs were
amputated at the knee al o'clock, but
Sawyer died at 2. NJ a lady passenger
was slightly injured, and several others
were bruised. but not seriously The pas
senger engine was wrecked, and it tele-
scoped the baggage car.
The light engine was not damaged in the
first collision, but when the engineer re-
versed IT. and he and his fireman jumped,
it backed at a speed of about seventy
miles an hour into the Norfolk depot
going wild At the depot it crashed along
the main track into a passenger coach,
which il wrecked. and then came to a
standstill The passenger car was knock
ed across the street Il is thought the ac-
cident was caused by a misunderstanding
of orders. There We're number of New
England excursionists on the wrecked
train.