The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-08
Passenger Train Partly Telescoped
by Dashing Into Freight That Was
Standing ON q Siding.
TwENTY-FoUR PEOPLE KILLED
THIRTEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED AND
OTHERS LESS SEVERELY.
Many of the Victims Were Austrian
Immigrants Bound for the West
conductor Goes Insane.

CHARLOTTESVILLE Va, July T.
Southern Railway passenger train No. 35,
southbound ran into an open switch at
Rockfsh depot, twenty miles south of this
city, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, smashing
into local freight on siding. The pas
senger engine and express coaches were de-
molished and the baggage coach telescoped
through the second-class passenger in the
rear. In the latter were a party of immi-
grants, all of whom were killed or injured.
The dead number twenty-four and the Sc
verely injured thirteen. Others were slight
ly hurt. Traffic was suspended for eight
hours. The identified dead are:
JAMES MCCORMICK, engineer. of Char
lotteSville.
CHARLES DAVIS. engineer. of Alexan-
dria, Va.
THOMAS SHEPARD, of Charlottesville,
brakeman on freight train
CHARLES T. GAY, of Charlottesville,
fireman on freight.
]. E. LOWE. colored, of Baltimore.
CHARLES T. LEITCH, colored, dining
car waiter.
c. c. OWEN, Philadelphia, boiler inspect
or.
ADAM vUCOSALvICH. Austrian boy
BARILANI GEUGEMLO, Austrian wom-
an.
Two unknown Austrian women.
Unknown mulatto woman.
The injured are: Engineer z. c. Hale, of
Charlottesville, injuries to spine, serious;
H. A. Sharpe, of Knoxville. Tenn, head and
legs bruised and back wrenched; Turner
Ashby Henry, of Bentonville, Va, injuries
to head, shoulders and legs; Walter Jack
son, colored, of Charlottesville passenger
fireman, legs broken; four Austrians, Gjoko
Meidis, Augles Kap, Kalarveras Kanti and
Oberon Grubac, all painfully but not seri-
ously; T. G. Hudson. colored, Chattanooga.
Tenn serious head wounds; L. G. Mercer,
colored, Washington, arms and legs cut and
probably internally; j., b; Sterett, na colored
and face cut; ]. w. Payne, of Alexandria,
baggagemaster. internally injured.
The work of rescuing the injured began
Immediately. DR.. William A. Lambeth, of
the University of Virginia. was the
train, and at once organized measures of
relief The trainmen, under the doctors
6nsesSe 6iressnon car 9 and express. ear and took
out twenty of the dead. Probably a
score of injured were removed. w. A.
Ward, the Union News agent on the train,
fatal car but escaped. The shock of the
collision threw him through the window,
breaking his left arm. The special train
which went from here to the scene of the
wreck returned to the city about o'clock,
bringing some of the dead and most of the
wounded Thirteen of the injured were
taken TO the University Hospital. where
their wounds were dressed.
Most of the immigrants were Austrians.
and were bound for points as far distant as
California.
vi. A. Sharpe. of Knoxville. narrowly es-
caped death. He and Mrs. Sharpe were re-
turning from their bridal trip, having spent
thair honeymoon in Washington. Mr..
sharpe was In the smoker engaged in con-
versation with c. G. Owen when the col
,ision occurred. Owen was instantly killed,
his body falling on Sharpe.
w r. Brubeck, of this city. conductor of
the local freight, is reported in a critical
Condition. After witnessing the awful sight
and when found was five miles from the
wreck.