Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-09-28
TRAINS W|LDPLUNGE
Jumps from IS Foot Trestle
While Running at High
Rate of Speed.
NINE KILLED; SEVEN INJURED
frestle Goes Down with Tran-scene
Of Disaster Presents Terrifying AS.
peet-crate of Canary Birds is In.
injured.


Charlotte, N. c., Sept. 2s.-While
running at high rate of speed train
No. 81, on the Southern railway, the
southbound fast mail train, jumped
from trestle Is feet high half a mile
north of Danville, Va, and was almost
demolished. OF the crew of 16 men,
including mail carriers, on the train,
nine were killed and seven injured.
The Dead.
Engineer j. A Broadly, Saltsville,
Va: Fireman A. J. Clapp. Greensboro,
N. c.; Conductor J. T. Blair, Danville.
Va; Mail Clerks J. L. Thompson,
Washington; w. T. Chambers, Mid
land. Va; D. T. Flory, Nokesville.
va; P. N. Ardanwright, Mount Gin
ton, Va: a 12-year-old son of j. L.
Thompson; Flagman S. J. Moody, Ra-
leigh, NJ c.
The Injured.
Mail Clerks Louis w. Shiers, Ma
nassas, Va; Frank E. Brooks, Char
lottesville. Va; PercivaI Indenmauer
Washington; Charles E. Reames, Gull
pepper, Va; Jennings J. Dunlap
Washington; NJ c. Maupin, Char.
lottesville, Va, and J. Harrison Thomp-
son, St. Luke, Va
The express messenger, w. F. Pink
ney. escaped uninjured.
All of the injured men are seriously
hurt and have been taken to the hos
pital in Danyille. The recovery OF
Mail Clerk Shiers is not expected and
other clerks are thought to have re.
eeiyed mortal injuries
New Engineer Responsible.
The trestle where the accident oc-
Cured is 500 feet long and is located
on sharp curve. Engineer Brodie
was a new man on that division of
the Southern and it is said he came
to the curve All very high rate of
speed.
The engine had gone only about so
feet on the trestie when it sprang
from the track, carrying with it four
mail cars and an express car The
trestle, wooden structure, also gave
way IOF space OF bu feet.
At the foot of the trestle is a shall
low stream with rocky bottom.
Striking this, the engine and cars
were reduced to mass of twisted
iron and steel and pieces of splintered
wood AS the cars went down they
touched the sides of the Riverside cot.
ton mill, which is very close to the
trestle
All the dead men were killed In
stantly, 1t is thought, and all were
greatly mutilated. The skin and hair
on the engineer and fireman were torn
OF by the impact Of the steam engine.
Bodies Badly MutiIated.
Several thousand people were soon
at the scene of the wreck No one
on any of the cars had made an eff
fort to jump and the bodies of all
those killed were found in the wreck.
age of the different cars to which
they belonged. Ladies who drove out
to the wreck from Danville tainted at
the sight of the bodies, some of which
were crushed to a CHASTITY degree. II
have escaped. for each car falling with
the engine bounded from it and COM
pletely collapsed after striking the
rocks at the foot of the trestle.
All the express matter in the ex-
press car was practically destroyed,
except six crates full of canary birds.
None of the birds were hurt, though
the crates were in the thickest of the
debris
Wreck Threatened with Fire.
The mail bags in all the mail cars
were torn open and the letters and
packages were scattered, but 1t is be-
lieved none is lost Fire. which ap-
peared in the wreckage shortly after
1t occurred. was quickly extinguished
by the Danville fire department.
In loss Of life this is one of the most
serious wrecks that has occurred on
the Southern. and it is the third time
that the fast mail has been almost
entirely demolished. On account of
the wreck all traffic on the central
and northern divisions of the Southern
will be affected It will take several
days to repair the damage to the
trestle.
The Southern is arranging to run
| its southbound trains over the Nor
| folk and Western from Lynchburg,
via Burkville. to Danville, new trains