The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-08
Fearful Hedd-On COllis-
ion on Southern Road.
PASSENGER TRAIN
STRUCK FREIGHT
One Car Was Telescoped and
All Occupants Killed or Hurt
MOSTLY NEGROES
OR AUSTRIANSS
Or. Lambeths Of the University Of vlr.
ginia. Who Was Passenger, Worked
NobIy for Those injured, and l
Was Ably Assisted by
the Lady Pas
sengers. ,55,

sengers. .ss % ~
Especial to the Times -Dispatoh.) ~.
7 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. July q
Train No. 35. known as the New Orleans
Express. left this city, southbound. this
afternoon, twenty-five minutes late, and
at Rockish Station. twenty miles south
Of Charlottesville, ran into an open 4
switch. colliding with local freight No.
6s. killing twenty-odd people and wound
ing probably as many more.
The freight train had just been shifted
from the main track to the siding. and
the failure to close the switch led to the y
terrible result. The engines were driven
from the track on opposite sides. The
first passenger coach was telescoped on
the combination baggage and express car.
the latter coach plunging UP from the
track and into the passenger coach. and
senger coach at about the height OF the
seats, crushing the life out OF most OF
those in the car. Il.
Work of Rescue. Il
The work Of rescue began Immediately.
There was but one physician on theAtrain.S
Luckily he was a good one, with q steady
hand and administrative ability.
This was DR.. William A. Lambeth, OF
the University tof Virginia. He was the
first out OF the train and organized at
once relief force. He found Engineer
Charles Davis, of the passenger train. a T.
ready dead, and Engineer James MeCor-s
mick, who WAS to relieve Davis at Mons
roe, also lifelessi Engineman e. g. Hale OF
the freight. was pinned down under all
engine, bnt not fatally hurt. II
The trainmen, under the doctors sdirec-S
ton. cut through the panels OF the pa pa 81
gage and express car and took out twenty
one of the dead Probably a score of
injured we're removed. No one is pre-
pared to say that all Of the dead have
| been recovered.
Miraculous Escape.
w. A. Ward, the Union News agent on
the train, whose home Is on Third Street,
Washington, D. c., was one OF the leW
| in the fatal coach who escaped. Z he vas =
standing at the end Of the car when u
! threw him through the window. breaking
hlsileft arm and lacerating his head. II
"The first thing 7 saw. after my fall,
| said Ward, was the head OF a man hans-
| ing from the car window. II haa Ds1.t
nearly entirely severed frop the trunk
Fifteen or twenty people must have been
| killed in that car"
Dr.. Lembeth found in the ladies' ready
and sympathetic helpers. They wasnea
| the Crime and blood from the faces OF,
/ the wounded and did everything IN their
power to make them comfortable. Much.
Il n q
| been done before a special tram tooK
physicians to the wreck.
! This train returned to Charlottesville
[ at & O'Clock this evening. bearing some
! or the dead and most OF the wounded. An
l Immense crowd was at the stauon 70 set
nle news OF the disaster. Only vague IN
/ formation had been given out Ihere
were rumors that more than twenty We're
/ dead. but these runlors were denied with
nrNwd
i DISPOSED to believe the worst, and the
| worst turned out to be true.
( The sound of sobbing and waillng was
| heard more than once.
Thirteen of the injured were taken to
the University Hospital, where they were
put upon the operating tale as rapidly
as possible. and their wounds drsssei
INCOMPLETE List.
| It is simply impossible to give a com-
| plete list OF the dead. They can only he
] counted. The most of them were emf
| grants, some of them Austrians. bound
for points as far distant as California.
or the twenty-four dead bodies which
| reached here at 8 o'clock from the scene
or the disaster and are now at Perley &
Sons undertaking establishment. the fol-s
| lowing only have been identified.
ENGINEER JAMES MCCORMICK, Of
Charlottesville.
ENGINEER CHARLES DAVIS. Of
| Alexandria. Va.
THOMAS SHEPHERD, OF Charlottes-
| vile, front brakeman on freight,
| CHARLES T. GAY (colored), OF Char
lottesville, fireman on freight
j. e, LOWE (colored). OF Baltimore.
CHARLES r. LEiTCH (colored). dim
Ing car waiter.
G. c. OWEN. Philadelphia, boiler in
spector,
sARlLANI ouaHELMo. Austrian
TWO UNKNOWN AUSTRIAN Wo.
MEN.
I! UNKNOWN MuLATTo WOMAN.
I THE INJURED,
Among the wounded are these:
ENGINEER e. c. HALE, OF Char
lottesville. injuries to spine; serious
RI. A. SHARP, of Knoxville. Tenn,
head and legs bruised and back wrench-
ed.
TURNER ASHLEY HENRY. of Ben
tonville, Va, injuries to head. shoulders
and legs.
WALTER JACKSON tcolorsd). Of.
Charlottesville. passenger fireman, legs
broken.
Four AustMans-- 6Joko MRpIc, AN
oEuos kAP, kALARvEHAs kANTi
and oeERoN GRuBAc-all painfully
| bur not seriously injured,
T. G. HUDSON (colored), Chattanooga.
Tenn, serious head Wounds