The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-29
THE CAUSE Is UNKNOWN
The Railroad Claims it Was the Work
of Wrecke.s.
OTHERS SAY 1T WAS DETECTIVE TRfSTLE
Among The Injured We're Three Raleigh Men.
Mr.. Robert O. King the Most Seriously
furt. The Injured Brought
TO the Ho. piia.

The Seaboard Air Lines Florida and
Metropolitan Limited, northbound, was
wrecked at 1922 o'clock yesterday morn
ing about mile south of Cameron. in
Moore county.
The engine and five cars We're derailed
and six persons injured, as follows:
ROBERT o. KING, Raleigh cigar
drummer, hip seriously injured, nose
broken and cut about the face. Injuries
serious but not necessarily fatal.
DAVID X. WRIGHT, Raleigh, engi
neer, cut about the head. middle finger
of left hand broken, and body bruised.
Injuries not serious.
SANDY MIVER, (col), Lemon
Springs, train hand, legs bruised.
JOHNSON BATTLE. (col.), Lemon
Springs, train hand leg broken and
bruised.
JOHN ROBINSON, (col), Pee Dee,
train porter, finger mashed and leg
hurt.
HENRY PRICE, (col.), Raleigh, fire.
man, back arms and legs injured
slightly
| The engine and tender were thrown
on the side and partially across the
| track A mail car and the first express
car turned over and were piled one on
the other, While the second express car
| telescoped the second class car.
| Engineer Wright went down with his
engine and had to be pulled out.
| Fireman Price was saved by being
thrown from the engine as it fell.
| The other four that were hurt-King,
| McIver, Robinson and Battle-were in
| the second class car, which was tele-
scoped. There were four others in this
car. but none of them were hurt.
| The people in the next car were badly
shaken up, but none of them were hurt.
Many of the passengers in the rear
| Pullman were not aware of the wreck
until they reached Hamlet. the car
having been backed to that point, and
| the first intimation they had of it was
at breakfast.
The escape of all the injured from
death was miraculous, and the catastro-
phe would have been horrible had it
not been that the train had passenger
| for Cameron and had slowed down to
make the stop
The injured men were brought here
yesterday afternoon and King, Wright
and Battle the three most seriously In
| iured, are now in the hospital.
| The Seaboard people had doctors in
attendance from Hamlet, South
ern Pines and Raleigh at the wreck.
Drs. Rogers and McGee went from
this city and came back yesterday after
/ noon in charge of the wounded.
There are several theories as to the
cause of the wreck:
A defective trestle.
Rotten cross ties
| Wash out.
! Maliciously wrecked.
The last-named is the railroads
| theory and it claims to have sufficient
evidence to substantiate It,
A number of those who We're in the
wreck and examined the scene are,
however. of the opinion that it was one
of the first-named causes.
! Also one passenger stated here yes
terday that from the appear
ance OF the track he believes that the
rails had heen removed or unspiked a
distance of fifty feet.
Train No. So from Jacksonville and
No SO from Atlanta were run by Penn
broke and Fayetteville over the Yad-
kin Valley division of the Coast Line
and We're thereby delayed about five
| hours. No freight trains passed during
the day and the afternoon train South
The following official statement of
| the wreck was furnished the News and
| Continued on Fifth Page)