The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-27
bor who was crossing the track. Tho
angina LEFT the track followee by tn


The combination baggage and express
car Jumped the track at the same point
and were saved from going down the
embankment by one end ,burr6winG IN
the soft earth: the trucks OF one end OF
the mail car left the track on the OPPOSITE
side from the rest of the wreck. Whl.e
the two passenger coaches we're derai I.,
they remained on the road-bed Inc
dead engineer was found In the track, the
enelne had broken ms 1t rolled down the
embankment and the cab cushion ana
mart OF the cab window by his SIDE.
WAS HORRIBLY CRUSHED.
:. ,s cnn,eetureti that the engine rolled
over him. Certainly he was hor ra
crushed. Fireman Snyder VAS founo
eome twenty feet from where the ensihs
lodged, his head cut and his left leg ana
arm broken. He also sn1erea 'i'te' iaii
injuries. ,,, p.,,o 90
muster Joseph w. Smith, were Brakeman
Edward Taylor and f. D. Fox, a trave,.
ing salesman. AS the car lett the TRACK
the baggageman grabbed the oraker,'al
and both were thrown from one END OF
tbe car Ia the other and pinned down
beneath pile of trunks. According 10
their story, they would have neen killeu
had not Mr.. Fox extricated them from
their perilous positions.
In the passenger coaches there was
more fright than damage, although some
OF the ladies' suffered severe nervous
shocks. Notwithstanding this the conduc-
tor declares the behavior OF the pasSen-
gers ms being remarkably self-controiled,
considering the situation. None of them
received injuries worth mentioning. Every
physician in Charlottesville and those Mt
The University were summoned, and most
OF them responded.
The fireman was taken to the UniVer-
slty Hospital but died as he was being
removed from the ambulance. The other
injured were cared for at the scene of
the wreck. The remains Of the engineer
and fireman were conveyed to PerleS ana
Sons undertaking establishment, and VIII
be forwarded tomorrow to their MONIES
in Richmond.
Engineer Hall leaves wife and sew
mal children. Fireman Snyder wife and
ono child.
THE boy who was the unintentional
cause Of this horrible affair was struck
on the head by Jumps Of coal and pain
fully but not dangerously hurt. The en-
ginc is completely wrecked and the baG-
gage and mail cars partly so. The track
is torn up for several hundred feet. .
SOME OF THE PASSENGERS:
It will take some hours to get the track
Engineer Hall resided at No SIC, North
Tenth Street Riehmond id an nn nad ne neln
forty years He belonged to the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers. having
his membership. with Richmond DIVISION
Fireman Snyder was under thirty, years
of age and had been on the road only
two years. =, Az
,oS5sa p,s eeess e Tsy1r s II
pulled the s&ietS call Sto9phngt s the e .pfn
train from leaving the track;
Hundreds Of people from the city enS,a and
the f 1pa to ' Kent wp S
iii NIGHT fall Photographers and STU
dents with kodaks secured snap shot
views of the, catastrophe l., ovor
the Southern Railway from Cuipepcr. l.,
Among the PASSENGERS on the train Il
were Mrs. Judge R. T.. W. Duke, MIS- MIS-;
smith. Of Shadwell, a sister Of Mrs. Jno.
B. Turpin, of this city.
One of the Best.
In the death Of Engineer Thomas y:
Hall, who was killed IN the wreck, ome
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway roses .s one
81 Lts four Years he had driven an en-
CINE over the road h msmiy S Seen al Old eli It
.Tn, he who ran the first through, train
over the completed Chesapeake and ONO
Railway bs obio sR ~ . Which Was ponr
ed into the James, thus signfying the
union not Of the two great rivers by the COM n,
pe9Sn Of the 6e had haed
and an tho thousands of passengers In safety
and made an exceptional record AS ,r one
who knew him remarked yesterna ~, r u,d
Hall was as true man as ever sraspeu
a hand and as brave and sklligl an en-
giner as any man that ever neg ne la ,rre"t
tie. His career Is history OF t ta'e SIIl.
railway system he served So la1tiAiui'9
For many Years Engineer Hall had h nae
the eastern run, from TINS nc CITY Soa 70 bnt
pnly few weeks ago was tTanste 81 ,,fsio at
Ills own request to the, western DIVISION on,
A year or two ago MS only son. WI, WHo
and since that time Mr. Hall always said
Il made him sad to run to that place.
Hence his request to be tr11
Thomas D. Hall had been living IN
Richmond for more than thirty-one of
his hfty-four years. He married Miss
died two Years .agd All of his daughters
are unmarried, and several are little girls.
He has two BROTHERS residing I'm ~ tn ms
another brother. William L. Hall, resd-
Ing in Louisiana; two slsters-Mrs. w. I.
Smoot and Miss S. Z. Hall, OF this city.
and another, Mrs. p. S. Robinson, or
Mr.. Hall was Mason, a Knight Tenn
plar and Shriner. lie was also mem
insurance and beneficial orders, and of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers.
Mrs. Hall, his widow, is Frustrated with
grief, and his daughters, though sorely
stricken by this great sorrow, are bear
ing up bravey striving to mitigate the
grief of his beloved wife, Friends and
reighhors have poured in to offer their
sorrowing household, In their sorrow
they have the solace of Knowing that
the husband and father was universally
respected, trusted and beloved, for sell
dom is sentiment SO unanimous In doing
honor even to a good man
THEY WE'RE NEIGITBoRs.
Fireman Lewis G., Snyder lived with
his wife and one child at No, 621 North
Tenth Street, almost opposite Engineer
Halls residence, He was about twenty
FIVE years old and had been on the road
three years, He was married about three
years ago to Miss Alice Clark of this
city Mr., Snyder was an excellent young
man and hard worker. He had only
recently gotten a passenger run, He was
originally from Roanoke county al OF
near Salem, Besides his wife and child
Mrs. Lacy Snyder. of this city; and b,
r