The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-26
SEABOARD rear
End COLLISION
Freight Trains Wrecked and Two
Main Lines Blocked.
ONLY ONE MAN WAS KILLED
Ten Cars Smashed and One Engine
Badly Damaged-Trains Use an ln-
prov:scd Track to Get Around
Wreck-Air Brakes Failed.

Especial Dispatch to Inc Times,

{SpeCsDl D1Sp4lCn Inc lIkues.t
RALEIGH, NC, April CA rear
end collision OF Seaboard Air Line freight
Z trains occurred here at the joint sea
board and Southern block-house at .
O'Clock this morning. and blocked inc
tracks OF both companies until o CLOCK.
this afternoon. There were ten cars '
smashed and one engine badly damaged.
It was finally necessary to buiid se en-
porary track around the wreckage on the
Southern side, as il will probably De
late hour tonight before the debris can
be cleared and the main line tracks put
tn condition.
1MPRovIsED TRACK
The Seaboard used the improvised
Southern track in order to get their north
ward trains past. One tramp was kilico
In the collision. and two negro trainmen
were painfully but not very seriously in
cured.
When the collision occurred one OF the
trains was standing at the block-house
awaiting orders from the Johnson-Street
Station dispatcher. W. e Garrett was
engineer ana Captain Gill conductor. The
other train, Engineer Walter Harding
and Conductor VIII Eatman, was coming
IN from the south.
AIR BRAKES WOULD NOT WORK
There Is a four-mile down grade run
leading into the Union Depot, and when
the engineer saw the fiagnan Tor the
train In the block it was found that the
air brakes would not work. After vain
efforts to check the speed of the train
and when the other train was seen ahead
Of them, everybody jumped and lett the
wild train to dash into the rear OF the
one at the block-llouse, the engineer OF
witch made futile efforts to get the
block-house switchman to open, SO that
he could get out of the. way.
The Secretary of State Incorporated
the Southern Brass Company, of Lifting
tor, with $4,000 capital authorized.
A SENSATION.
A great sensation has been stirred up
throughout the State by an open letter.
by Major J. W. Wilson, Of Norganton.
TO the Democrats of North Carolina,
charging that Associate Justice: Walter
Clark. the only avowed candidate for
the Democratic nomination for chief JUS:
tice. because he fought Democracy dur
in,- the fusion regime and is morally I'M
lit for the place. -
The Principal basis Of the charge of
moral uiliitness is that during his term
as associate justice he has secretly insti-
gated suits of various character and then
when they came to the Supreme Court
OF Appeals has sat in judgment in many
instances writing the opinions in line with
his wishes as to the termination Of the
suits. and taken undue interest in the
execution of the orders.
Leading Democrats the State over, re-
gard the charges as most grave and say
81 they arc not refuted the party cannot,
under any circumstances, give Clark the
nomination. Wilson states in his letter:
IT any charge i make is untrue, Judge
Clark has his remedy in a suit for libel:
md i1c may be sure l shall plead justl-
IEca.ticn and produce proof.
FCBLIC SCHOOLS.
AZ on
cheers In North Carolina received salaries
amounting to sss2, 2a.1S, OF this amount
sslz. 772273 81 being to white teachers and
s21a, ssl. 80 to co1orcd teachers. There wac
an increase OF SS3,oa521 over the previous
year.