The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-09
THE DEAD
GRUEsOME WORK FOR OFFICIALS
OF RAILWAY.
ALL THE BODIES RECOVERED
SAVE THAT OF PASSENGER ENGIN-
EER DAVIS.

List of the UnfCrtunates Who Were
Killed or Injured in the Calamity
ON the Southern at ROckfsh, Va.
Many Foreigners Included-LittIe
Children, Who Speak No English,
Are Left Orphans-Accident the
Fault of Conductor Brubeck, Who
IL Insane because of 1t.
Charlottesville. Va, July S.-The
work of identification of the twenty
two dead taken from the wreck on
the Southern Railway at Rockfish sta
ton, twenty miles south of this city
yesterday afternoon, when passenger
No. 80 ran into an open switch and
crashed into freight No. 6S, was COM
pleted at noon to-day. All the bodies
have been recovered except that of
Passenger Engineer Davis of Alex
andria Va. The dead are:
Engineer James Mccormick, Char
lottesville, Va; Engineer Charles
Davis, Alexandria. Va; Thomas Shep-
herd front. brakeman of the freight,
Charlottesville; Charles T. Gay, col
ored, fireman on freight, Charlottes-
villes, Va; ]. S. Lowe, colored, Balti-
more; wife of Charles West, colored,
Chattanooga, Tenn; Charles T. Leitch.
colored. dining car waiter; c. C. Owen.
Philadelphia, boiler inspector; Adam
Vucosavlievich, Austrian boy; Barilanl
Gughelmo, Austrian woman; an un-
known colored man; Carson Henry,
white, Front Royal, Va; William
Thomas, colored, of Washington;
Charles w. Hamilton, white, Chase
City, Va: Stefo Simrak, a Greek pas
senger; Angeles Sangelli, a Greek pas
senger; Maria Sangelli, wife of the
above, supposedly; p. C. Bum, col
ored, Burkes, Va; James Arnold, col
ored porter Of the passenger train,
Alexandria, Va; Mike Tuckevitch or
Bario Balorin, a Greek passenger; an
unknown italian woman of twenty
years; an unknown negro man of
probably forty years, with one leg and
one arm.
The Injured.
The injured are: Engineer E. c.
Hale, Charlottesville, Va, injuries to
spine. serious; H A. Sharpe, Knox
| vile, head and legs bruised and back
wrenched; Turner Ashby Henry, Ben
! tonvine, Va, injuries to head, shout
| ders and legs; Walter Jackson, color
| ed Charlottesville, passenger fireman
! left leg broken; four Austrians-OJokt
Modio, Angeles Kap, KalarVeras Kaut
and Oberon Grubac, all painfully bu
not seriously hurt; T. G. Hudson, col
ored, Chattanooga, wounded in head
r. c. Mercer, colored. Washington
arms and legs. cut and probably in
ternally. but will recover; j. B. Ster'
ratt. colored, Pullman porter of New
| York. hands, arms and face cut; J
| w. Payne. Alexandria, Va, baggage
master. injured internally; Mrs. Long
Bonneville, Miss.
Read His Orders Wrong.
The tracks are now clear, and trains
are running on schedule time. The
! cause of the disaster has been Official
! ly reported as inattertion to orders
! the freight conductor. w. B. Brubeck
! reading his orders to mean that the
passenger was one hour and twenty
| minutes late, when it should have peer
! twenty minutes. He allowed the switch
| to remain open. Brubeck is insane
| from mental anguish.
About ten small children escaped m
| Jury, who, being foreigners, cannot tell
| ANYTHING about their parents, VINO were
| killed in the wreck. The little ones are
| being cared for by the people OF me
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