The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-03-24

gage car, and three Pullman coaches. In
the mail cars were ali the postal clerks,
who had Just finished the work of asGort-
ing the mall matter taken on at various
points north of Charlotte, y. c., the
southern end of this division, according
to postoffice reckoning.
AS the locomotive and cars left the
track there came terrible jar. Coaches
piled upon the engine and still other
coaches PILED upon the first cars; so that
a great mass of wrecbage was thrown
from and strewn along the track for .
considerable distance Within very few
minutes. fire added to the horror of the
situation From the engine, the flames
spread to the wrecked coaches. aud the
debris burned fiercely for a time.
Assisting the Injured
The crew of the train and many of the
passengers, most of whom were awakened
from sleep as the crash came went TO the
assistance of the injured. several of
whom were found pinned down by the
wreckage. Conductor Rust and others
wired to Charlottesville and Monroe, Va,
nearby towns, for assistance, and wreck
ing trains were sent to the scene OF the
disaster from both places. At Charlottes-
Vile, because of orders sent out by high
d
cial train was made up and sent TO Coves-
Vile for the passengers. These were
taken aboard and brought north, arriv
ing in this city yesterday afternoon
shortly after o'clock. The schedule time
for their arrival on the illfated train
was GAP o'clock yesterday morning.
On the first alarm surgeons from the
University of Virginia went to the scene
of the wreck to render what assistance
Mtlf
Rawlings were thus early on the scene,
and the latter two physicians accompa
MED the relief tfai1 to tins city. When
the physicians first arrived at Coleman's
Cut they found the wounded lying upon
the ground wrapped only in what little
clothing had been saved from the flames.
Arrival of the Doctors
The doctors reached the scene of the
They worked necessarily on the wounded
all the way to this city.
The wrecking crews reached Covesville
two hours after daylight Prior TO this
passengers and members of the crew OF
the limited had discovered the remains
of white man, apparently forty years
old. badly mangled, lying some distance
from the mass of debris. II was appar-
ent that the man. whose body has been
identified as that of Edwin Daugherty,
and about whom very little is yet known,
had been hurled from the Inflated tram
as the crash took place. Railroad Off
Gals believe Daugherty was a tramp and
that he may have been stealing a ride.
Steps to ascertain his home address and
relatives have already been taken.
Half Il hundred passengers. being una
BILE to crowd into the three remaining
sleepers stood shiyering for hours in the
cold OF the early morning, watching the
work of rescue and clearing away the de-
bris from the tracks. Until the relief
train reached the scene of the wreck, sew
eral hours after the disaster, these pas
sengers had no protection from the chilly
winds. Many OF them had narrowly es-
capped from the wrecked coaches with
their lives and had saved only their night
clothes. AT best such persons had only
a wrap which they had hastily snatched
as hey fed in the darkness from the hor-
ror OF the wreck. Some few of the pas
sengers walked to Covesville, half mile
away, but the town is SO small that but
little accommodation of any sort was TO
be found there.
AS assistance began to arrive in re-