The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

Smlthneld, got on the tram at Raleigh
Miss Esther Kirk, of Palmerville who was
going to visit his family being with him.
He said I'VE were in the rear coach
near the centre. At first l thought the
engineer was putting on the emergency
brakes, but as the coach began to tum-
BILE l knew a wreck was on. We went
over and over and l caught the scat
! in front of me- 1t tore loose from the
/ floor and the coach seemed to roll over
| two or three times as we went down. The
seat struck Miss Kirk on the temple and
across the bridge of the nose, making it
bleed. helped her out a window and
STAYED in the coach trying to get others
out. Mr.. Frank Daniels, of Goldsboro,
and three children we're in the coach as
was also a young lady, Miss Ida Powell,
of Fair Bluff, who was going to Selma
She was bruised but has no scars. MI,
Daniels was bruised but the children
with him were not hurt and behaved
splendidly. The little fellow in white
worth Bagley Daniels) was brave little
chan and took it remarkably easy. He
started to cry but bit his lips and stopped
when he was told to be man. Just dS
soon as we were out of the car he asked
"Is there anybody killed." The boy and
girl (Josepnus Daniels, Jr., and Mary
Cloves Daniels, daughter of Mr.. Frank
Danlels) took the trouble calmly. Mr..
Daniels aided in getting out passengers
until finally some people outside battered
down a door with cross-ties and the chill
dren were taken out. Mrs. J. c. Ellington
was carried out by a colored man. She
was the last to get out and did not
seem to be hurt. She was perfectly help
less and was found near the end of the
car. All the ties l saw seemed to be
perfectly rotten. I never before in my
life saw so many rotten ties and every
body at the wreck was talking about
these rotten ties to which they ascribed
the wreck. l think the rails spread We
we're going along fast. at least fifty miles
an hour and know I've never ridden on
that section SO fast before Just as the
wreck occurred Miss Kirk asked me if
the road was bad and as she did so the
car began to jerk and over we went She
did not know till she got outside of what
had happened and said she did not re-
member coming out the window and Miss
Powell said she did not realize what had
happened till she was outside She was
bruised by falling about but do not think
she was badly hurt"
Mr.. L. w. Hullinger, of Springfield
travelling for the Thomas Manufacturing
Company, dealers in agricultural nipple
ments, was on the train. Il had gone into
the smoker" said he, 'and the conduc-
tor had Just taken up my mileage. l do
not think there was a large number OF
passengers on. l first noticed that we
were running very rapidly, fifty or sixty
miles an hour and suddenly the coach
seemed to go to one side and / was thrown
in a corner l heard the glass crashing
as / fell over. 1 twisted about the crawled
out of q window In a short time / found
that my shoulder and back were giving
me trouble. At one time / stood on nay
head and money dropped out of my pock-
ct. The ties on the road were as rot
ten as I've ever seem they were like pie
crust and people stuck umbrellas into
them It's a miracle we escaped 1t is IA
disgrace that there should be such al
road for no one knows how to trust his
life on it,
Conductor ]. w. Coble was seen last
night. He said that he thought there
were about twenty-five people on the train.
He said that he was in the smoker taking
I'D tickets when the tran went over and
that he was thrown up, or down, against
the lamps, his neck being hurt and his
and shoulders were hurt. He said that
his first thought was to keep the passeE-
gers from getting excited to keep them
quiet. He went out of the smoker through
window and then helped to get the
ladies out He tried to keep down any
excitement He saw very little blood ex-
cept from scratched faces and not one
lady tainted. He said the coaches were
not so badly damaged and that the falll
down the embankment had been twenty
FIVE or thirty feet In the wreck he lost
his cap, his punch and all equipments He
did not think the train was going over
twenty miles an hour. He said the en-
gineer, W. W. Rippey, of Burlington, was
not hurt and that the other men on the
train were H. G. Griffin, baggage mas
ter, ear cut and bruised Jack Hamilton,
of Greensboro, fagman, and Major Ray,
porter, unhurt; Jack Bethel colored, Of
Salisbury, the fireman, not hurt r. r
Burwell the negro postal clerk, he said
was bruised but not hurt severely"
Mr. Ernest Poteat, of Durham, had his
knee sprained. He was thrown about in
the coach and finally managed % get out.
He speaks of Master Worth Bagley's cool
behavior and says he is a brave little fell
low Miss Mary Cloves Daniels he says,
took matters calmly and after the wreck
was bathing the faces of the other chill
They we're the spunkiest children I've
seen," said he
Mr.. E. l.. Daughtridge, of Wilson, tells
of being bumped and thrown around in the
wreck. He tells of the rotten cross-ties|
as do the other passengers.
Among other passengers on the train
we're Messrs. D. Gilfllan, of Atlanta; L.
Gregory, of Chase City, Va; T. s. Rags
dale, of Smithfield; H. A. Bynum. There
were bruised and scratched. Mr.. Green,
city passenger agent of the Southern, says
he sold about twelve tickets from Raj
eigh There was a rumor late last night
that two ticket were unaccountcd for and
that perhaps some one was dead under the
overturned cars. Two gentlemen from
Clayton were in Rosengartens store last
night, one with hand hurt the other with
breast hurt 1T was caused by rotten
ties, they said.
Mayor McLane InaugurAted.
Baltimore, Md, May 19.-Mayor elect
Robert NJ McIane was inaugurated to-