The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-29
BAD COLLISION
ON ELECTRIC line.
Five Persons, Two Of Them White,
Seriously Injured.
BIG RUSSIAN SHIP IN PORT.
Arrived Ahead Of Time to Coal, Which Gre
atcs Talk Of Expected War With Japan.
Glass Factory and Brick Plant
to Be Built at Berkeley.
Especial Dispatch to The Times.


NORFOLK, VA, March 2S.-This after
noon there was a head-on collision be-
tween two electric cars on the Norfolk
and Atlantic Terminal Railway Compa-
ny's line, near Tanners Creek. in which
five persons-two white and three colored-
were seriously injured.
Tonight it appears possible that no one
was fatally injured. Lawrence Poole,
chief electrician, acting 1notorman OF the
express, had one leg broken and one foot
crushed. He will probably lose one foot,
possibly both, but vii! probably live.
Thomas Bunch, nortorn1an Of the extra,
received seven flesh wounds and bruises,
but is not dangerously hurt Both legs OF
Benjamin Fleming, colored laborer, were
broken. VIM. Cook, colored laborer. and
Henrietta Holmes, colored, were injured,
neither seriously.
ONLY ONE PASSENGER HURT.
OF fifteen passengers on the express.
none save Henrietta Holmes was hurt.
This road is double track. The collision
was the result Of sending out an extra,
drawing a loaded coal car, on the track
on which the express was bound IN. II
was hoped to get the rear car and the
mcrtor-car on a side track before the ex-
press arrived. They failed and the crash
followed.
The russian cruiser Variag, to the sur
prise of every one including the Poca-
hontas coal people, arrived at Hampton
Roads this morning. Preparations are
being hurriedly made at Lamberts Point
to coal her.
A suspicion has arisen that the RUS
slams, anticipating a brush with the laps,
want to get the coal contrabrand OF war
aboard, and the powerful cruiser in
position to get out OF this port prior 10
of hos
Lieut. Vasslior, paynlaster. came
ashore and. courteously declining to
speak OF political matters, ordered LOU
tons of coal. Asked why the cruiser
came ahead OF time, he answered: we
needed coal. so came where good coal is.
coaling will begin next Monday. and
the cruiser will sail, it was stated. next
Wednesday week. She is rated as the
fastest and most formidable cruiser
:,foat Her speed is 2S ID knots an hour
She carried SO guns, $50 men and mas SIX
torpedo tubes. She is AGO feet long.
Lieutenant Vassilioff. who speaks Eng
ush f1uent!y, said Russians feel especially
kindly toward American Visitors. he
said. will be welcome aboard the VariaS
every afternoon, including Sundays. dur
ing his stay.
The Variag is white like our naval YES
sells, but has four tunnels. Her big steam
launch ran ashore near Lamberts Posat
this evening and at last reports had MT
been tioated
PLANT FOR BERlLEY-
Mrs L. A Hare was married here to-
day to Mr.. John A. Hollaman, a lumber
manufacturer. Bride and groom came
here from Tunis, n. c., to be married.
c. w Tabault, real estate operator,
saws he has secured the location at Berk-
ley of q. glass factory and brick making
plant which will employ some 400 hands.
He says Thomas Everett, OF WellsburG,
w. Va, and others will build the factory,
which Will secure needed sand in Louisa
county.