The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-04
NO LIVES REPORTED LOST
The Wrecking Engine Going to Re.
lief Goes Off the Track.
TWO OF THE ACCIDENTS NEAR RALEIGH
The Third One in the Suburbs Of Portsmouth
in The Series Of Accidents That Delayed
Travel Over The Seaboard Air
Line Railroad Yesterday.

Curled up like weary kittens after play
three wee maids lay fast asleep past
midnight in the Union depot in Raleign on
make believe beds improyised from settees
and chairs. Walking about, unable TO
sleep, wanting the coming of delayed
trains, were men and women.
Over allsthe dimly burning lights with
in the waiting rooms while from groups
here and there came the words:
Wreck, engine turned over rear
end collision" "cars smashed" and others
of like import.
Out at Neuse. ten miles away on the
seaboard Air Line two trains in tan
gle, engines smashed and freight cars
wrecked
At Millbrook within two or three miles
of Neuse, a wrecking train at stand
still, with engine turned across the track
and near at hand another engine sent
to aid the wreckng train.
In the suburbs of Portsmouth another
wreck, engine over and off the side.
At all the places men at work, Juggling
and hauling and pulling, trying to repair
the damages
yesterday afternoon and last night.
1T Neuse, some ten miles from Raleigh,
passenger train No. Al, headed for Raj
cgh and the South ran into the rear end
Of freight train No. % and smashed up
a number of freight cars, also damaging
and disabling the engine. This took place
about 8 o'clock, the train being due here
at $3.50 D. M In charge of No. Al was
Conductor Cain, while Conductor Powell
had charge of the freight train At the
late hour last night that this was learned
no one could tell who or what was to
blame for the accident.
A wrecking train was sent from the Sea-
board yards here, and had gotten as far
as Millbrook when the engine left the
track and laying across it barred further
progress.
To aid this second wreck the engine
which takes up the southbound Seaboard
train from here was sent out from the
depot to help get the wrecking train in
order.
This it did about / o'clock and the
passengers on the afternoon train
wrecked at Neuse were brought in by
the Atlanta Special, due here at 7:40,
which had brought them from Neuse
Raleigh. The aforesaid passengers
We're a most disguised lot of people,
Some had been anxious to get here to
make connections to other points, 9th
ers were on their way to marriage
that they will never see. But wrecks,
like other accidents, will sometimes oc-
cur on even the best regulated rail-
roads.
In the suburbs of Portsmouth later in
the evening another passenger train
was wrecked. The Atlanta special over
the Seaboard Air Line just after leav-
ing Portsmouth for the South, crashed
into a train Of the Norfolk and Ports
mouth Belt Line, which was standing
on the Seaboard Air Line crossing.
One car of the belt line was smashed
up and the passenger engine was badly
damaged. Fortunately the car was
empty and the engineer and fireman
jumped. No one was injured
No loss of life is reported from any of
the wrecks, and this is good news to those
who have people moving about either as
employees or passengers on the Seaboard.
No full details, or Geographic reports
Of any of the accidents were to be OBJ
tanned at midnight last night when the
information given in this article was re-
ceived 1t is certain, however, that the
three wrecks took place. ell
Another wreck took place on the At
Iantic Coast Line early Tuesday morning
at Hobgood, beyond Tarboro. Several
freight cars were badly smashed in this
wreck, but 10 one was injured and the
wreck was cleared away in time for the |
next southbound passenger train to get
by.