Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-08
TWENTY-0NE KILLED
Terrible Collision on the
Southern Road
AT ROCKFISH STATION
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER
TRAINS IN COLLISION.
freight Conductor Misread His Orders
Went Insane When He Saw
the Result.
AT ROCKFISH STATION
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
CHARLOTTESVILLE Va, July S.-The
work of Identification of the twenty-one
dead taken from the wreck on the Southern
railroad at Rockfish station, twenty miles
south of this city, yesterday afternoon,
when passenger No. 35 ran into an open
switch and crashed into freight No. 6s. was
completed at noon today. All the bodies
have been recovered except that of Pas
senger Engineer Davis of Alexandria, Va.
The dead are:
Engineer James Mccormick of Charlottes-
willie, Va; Engineer Charles Davis of Alex
andria, Va; Thomas Shepherd of Char
lottesville. Va, front brakeman on freight;
Charles T. Gay, colored, of Charlottesville,
Va, fireman on freight; ]. e. Lowe, col
ored. of Baltimore; Charles T. Letch, col
ored, dining car waiter; c. c. Owen, Phil
adelphia, boiler Inspector Adam Vucosav-
lievich. Austrian boy; Barilani Gughelmo,
Austrian woman; an unknown colored
man; Carson Henry. white. of Front Royal.
Va, a passenger; William Thomas, colored,
of Washington, bound for Atlanta; Charles
W. Hamilton, white. aged about fifty, Of
Chase City, Va. passenger; Stefo
Simrak Greek passenger; Angeles
sangelli, a Greek passenger; Maria
Sangelli, wife Of the above. suppos-
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Burkes, Va; James Arnold. colored, of
Alexandria, porter of the passenger train;
Mike Tuckevitch, or Bario Barlo Balorin.
Greek passenger; an unknown italian W y
man of twenty yeats; an unknown negro
man of probably forty years; an unknown
mulatto woman, stout of build. aged prob
ably forty.
The Seriously Injured.
The seriously injured are: Engineer L.
c. Hale of Charlottesville, Va. injuries to
spine, serious; H. A. Sharpe Of Knoxville,
Tenn. head and legs bruised and back
wrenched; Turner Ashby Henry of Benton
vile, Va. injuries to head. shoulders and
legs; Walter Jackson, colored, Of Char
lottesville. passenger fireman, left leg
broken; four Austrians, Gjoko Modic, An
gelos Kap, Kalarveras Kaut and Oberon
Grubac. all painfully but not seriously hurt;
T. G. Hudson. colored Chattanooga, Tenn,
serious head wounds; T. c. Mercer colored,
Washington, arms and legs cut and prob
ably internally. but will recover: J. B. Ster-
rett colored, Pullman porter of New York.
hands arms and face cut; ]. w. Payne Of
Alexandria, Va, baggagemaster, internally
injured.
Conductor Goes Insane.
The tracks are now clear and trains rum
ming schedule time. The cause of the
disaster has been officially reported as in
attention to orders, the freight conductor,
w. B. Burbeck. reading his orders to mean
that the passenger was one hour and
twenty minutes late when it should have
been twenty minutes He allowed the
switch to remain open with the result
chronicled Brubeck is insane from the
mental anguish caused by the scene that
met his eyes after the crash.
Another Estimate of Casualties.
By Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, July s.-A revised story
nf ba on he W. af
Rockfish yesterday afternoon puts the num-
ber of passengers killed at eighteen. The
impression at Charlottesville is that the
dead, who cannot be identified will be
buried in that city by the railroad COM
pany. About ten small childen escaped in
jury and who. being foreigners cannot tell
anything about their parents, who were
killed in the wreck. The little ones be-
ing cared for by the people of the city.
The body of Engineer Charles Davis or
the passenger train, which was imbedded IN
the debris of the engine, had not been
rescued up to 6 o'clock this morning.
Reports from the scene of the wreck
state that there are several bodies which
had not been rescued up to 10 o'clock this
morning. The entire crews on both the
passenger and freight trains said to be
either killed or injured. Another wrecking
train left Charlottesville this morning for
the scene of the wreck.
One of the unknown Austrian women in
the list of unidentified published this morn
ing has been Identified as Maria Sangeila,
and the unknown mulatto woman has been
identified as the wife of Charles West OF
New York.
A Department Messenger Killed.
William Thomas. a young colored messen-
ger in the Interior Department, was one of
the victims of the accident on the Southern
railway near Charlottesville. His father
Buck Thomas. also employed at the de-
partment. received message today from
an undertaking firm at Charlottesville that
they had the boys body, and asking what
disposition was to be made of the remains
Young Thomas was eighteen years old,
and was employed about the office of the
Secretary, who had become very fond of
the young fellow. He was on his way to
his home at Atlanta to spend his vacation.
He had a splendid record of service here.
Few Details Received Here.
Few details other than contained in the
newspaper dispatches regarding the wreck
on the Southern railroad at Rockfish, Va,
late yesterday afternoon had been received
at the general offices of the company in
this city up to o'clock this afternoon
Assistant General Manager r. A. Dugan
In the absence from the city of General
Manager c. H. Ackert, was at his desk
the greater part of the night and through
out the forenoon.
AS soon as the news Of the accident
reached the general offices a wrecking train
was dispatched from Charlottesville, and
also one from Alexandria, the latter carry
ing Mr.. w. G. Choate, superintendent Of
the Washington division of the Southern
railroad. Another wrecking train was sent
from Lynchburg. Each carried physicians
and the necessary appliances for caring for
the dead and wounded.
Superintendent Choate and his assistants
did everything possible to alleviate the
suffering OF the injured. Their wounds
were dressed and those who needed hospi-
tai treatment were sent to Charlottesville.
The dead were also taken to that city and
prepared for burial.
Message From Supt- Choate.
Superintendent Choate sent few tele-
grams to the general Offices during the
forenoon. His official report, based upon a
careful investigation of the causes, is ex-
pected later. According to his statement
wired about noon today twenty persons
were killed in the wreck. The number of
injured has not been officially reported by
him.
Assistant General Manager Dugan said