Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-10-08
another SOUTHERN WRECK
NEAR THE SOUTHERN PART
OF THIS CITY.
Two Engines Were Smashed Up
and Traffic Was Delayed
Until Noon.

The Southern Railroad had a
wreck on Tuesday, less than a half
mile from this depot. Engineer Har-
ris of 1O7 jumped and sustained
slight injuries in the back. Fortu-
nately none of the passengers Of
either train were injured. A young
man named Elmore, from Mt. Olive,
saw the approaching train and jump
ed. He lost his gold watch.
The wreck occurred between the
passenger train due to leave here at
1920 and the passenger train from
Greensboro due here at 1880. Both
the engines were damaged consider
ably and were thrown from the
track. Traffic was delayed until
noon to-day. The engines were not
damaged to very great extent. The
pilots were broken off and the front
part of the boilers were broken in.
The wreck occurred at an early
hour. but in less than half hour
hundreds of people were on the
scene. It was first reported in the
city that several passengers were in
jured and this caused numbers of
people to flock to the scene in We
hicles hoping to render assistance.
The place where the wreck occurred
is at the sharp curve just outside of
the corporate limits. There is a deep
cut at this point and it was impos-
sible for the engineers to see each
other until the trains were within
few yards of each other.
There are several rumors af1oat as
to the cause of the wreck and as is
usual with railroad men they refuse
to talk, hence it is impossible to verify
or contradict the rumors. It is
known, however, that the incoming
passenger train had orders to meet
the outgoing train at Grants brick
yard, which is just about one mile
from the city. When this train reach
ed the meeting place the crew dis
covered that a fire last night at Grif-
fms brick yard had burned the
wires down. The outgoing train had
not shown up andit is supposed that
the incoming crew thought that the
outgoing crew had not received Or
ders on that account. Engineer Piper
sent his fagman out and proceeded
slowly around the curve. Passengers
who were on the train say that the
fagman was only two telegraph
poles ahead of the engine and there
fore the engineer of 1O7 could not
have seen the fiagman until the two
engines were right on each other.
On account of the wires being
down the crew of the train due to
leave here at 1920 had not received
orders at the regular leaving time
and pulled down in front of the
Hotel Kennon to load the baggage
and take on passengers. When this
had been accomplished the train
went back again to the freight depot
to get orders. Whether or not they
got orders cannot be found out. In
few minutes the train came by the
regular starting point without stop
ping and went on down the road to
the place where the wreck occurred.
While the train was gone to the
freight depot orders were received
over the Atlantic Coast Line wires by
way of Contentnea stating that the
incoming train had orders to wait at
Grant brick yard. These orders
were not delivered because thew
were received while the train was
| passing the telegraph Office. These
are the grounds for the conclusion
that the incoming crew did not COM
| ply with their instructions, but took
it for granted that the outgoing crew
could not receive orders on account
of the wires being down and sent out
a fagman and tried to get into the
city.
There were not many passengers
on either train. Mr.. W. r. Simmons