Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1903-10-03
MANY PEOPLEKILLED'
wOmes Who witnessed The Accident
Nay Die From Fright.
BAD WRECK NEAR DASyIlLF, VA.
The Train Was Running nc the Rate
OF SO OE6c TILES an hour and Left
the Track on an IS" Curve.

Dsnviile. Va. Special.-No. 81. the
Southern Railways fast mall. plying
between New York and New Orleans.
plunged over a trcstle north OF this
city Sunday afternoon. killing nine /
men. injuring seven others and COM \
pletely wrecking three mail and one I
express cars. The killed are:
The Dead.
]. L. Thompson. railway mail clerk. |
OF Washington.
W. 5. Chambers. railway mail clerk.
OF Midland Va
D. 2. Flory. railway mail clerk. OF
Nokesville. Va
P. NJ. Argelwright. railway mail
clerk. or Mt. Clinton. Va.
J. A. Broadly. engineer. OF Placer
vile. Va
]. T. Blair. conductor. of Spencer.
NC.
a. G. Clapp. OF Greensboro.
.Flagman 5. J. Moody. Of Raleigh.
y. c.
l2-year-old son OF J. L Thompson.
The Injured.
The injured are:
Lewis ". Spears. OF Manassas.
Frank o Brooks. OF Charlottesville.
Percival Indenmauer, OF Washing
ton.
charles 2 Reames. OF CharIottes-
vvue.
Jennings J. Dunlap o. Washington.
/ -. c. Naupin. OF Charlottesville
!. Harrison Thompson. OF St Luke.
All % the above are railway mail
/ clerks II is said that this is the first
time that Engineer Broadly ever ran a
nail train and the suppositior is that
&c was running too fast and was not
( entirely familiar with his road-bed.
The wreck occurred on a steep grade
/ the latter embracing the trestle. which
is in the shape OF the letter 3 The
train was probably running at rate
OF between 50 and GO miles an hour
when the engine left the track The
train ran some distance on the cross
ties plunging over the trestle ar q
tangent. when the engine was about
hale way across.
The engine and all OF the cars Eel
r feet 10 the water below. The las
car tore up a considerable section @
tie rrestle. The engine struck and va
buried in the bed OF the creek IN
, cars piled On top Of the engine. all o
them being split into kindling wood
The engineer was found some little as
lance from his cab. horribly maneie
and dead All OF the bodies save on
D have been recovered.
? The train carried nothing but ma
} snd EXPRESS. The mail was not niue
damaged. considering the extent OF n
. wreck. Some loose registered letter
and the valuables % the dead me
+. have been recovered. The express rla'
Z ter was considerably injured
: The mail coaches were taken
Y charge BY r. 3. BouldlnE. a clerk WI
: rpends his Sundays In this city. he a
rived on train within half an hoi
after the disastc- Mail clerks we
sent on special trains from Rich@on
Charlottesville aud Greensboro. y {
O. assist n rescuIng the governmei
property.
10 The wreck itself beegars descripuo
All o. the cars ere battered into kin
re- ling wood. and the engine Is buried
m tho mud OF the creek. A wreckii
!. crew Is laboring 20 remove the deb.
y. go that the trestle can be repaired (
-, the continuance 81 traffic al as ear
IA an hour as possible tomorrow.
ia All OF the injured mail clerks ~t
" taken 70 the Home for the sick In u
IN city. where they received medical
be tenticn
as The other victims may recover.
though the physicians can give out
-. definite information as 10 their con
80 ton. one man. name unknown. U.s. g
ia In the wreck. He can be seen. bun
NJ debris under which he Is lying has
. been removed.