The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-28
Freiqht Train Crashes into
Rear OF Passenger.
NO ONE WAS KILLED
Escapes We're Marvelous-Some OF the
Cars Thrown into Hardware River,
Hundred Feet Below Where
Collision Occurred.
ESPECIAL to The T4mes.p,spatch.)

yesterday at the report that aHo"eA
wreck had occurred on the Southern Rail-
way, south OF Charlottesville, and that
twenty lives had been lost. Scores OF peo-
pie, on their way from church services,
elocked to Union Station TO set further
Informal ton. and great was the relief
when official Information came at
o'clock that no lives had been lost. The
railway officials preserved an attitude
OF reticence. for the reason. It was stated.
that they did not want to give out any
Information that was not authoritative.
Yesterdays accident occurred. two
miles south Of North Garden. fwelfe
miles south Of this city. on trfstle
within A few miles OF one OF the most
nanrarous cut, and curves on the SOUTH
ern Railway. 1t was rear-eno coiiislon.
ELEVEN INJURED
Eleven persons were injured and $So'oo
manage sustained.
The injured are as follows. most being
parauvely slight:
Miss Ethel Hughes. OF Greenway. BUCK
Ingham county, both legs broken
Miss Mabel Burks, OF Nelson county.
right leg broken and body bruises.
Mis-, Lillian Galaday, OF Buffalo Sta
ton. Va, left leg fractured.
Mrs P. T. Profit, OF Lawrenceville,
Va, left leg broken, face badly cut
Miss Ruby Munday. OF Lynchours'
Blight body bruises
Ernest Munday, OF IynchourS. injuries
In groin, wrist sprained
Cary Munday, of Lynchburg, right knee
cap broken. r.,a..
body bruises and painful sprains.
Mrs Laura steanett, OF Amherst Couss-
house. had cut on head. ankle sprained'
por,an oo1ored of ALEXANDRIA,
fireman on first section OF freight
sprained limbs and slight cuts.
Unknown tramp. slight hurts, sustained
in jumping. ,,,s
Six Of the injured were bTough1 10 .li's
city on a special train. which leit heie
at noon for the scene OF me az I,ynhs
TIE four ladies who suffered broken h,pps
iyere taken to the University OF virginia
Iosntal One other was cared Tor at
The Colonial Hotel, and one OF the Nun
fay children is at the home OF lis reia-
t,yes. on west Main Street.
PECULIAR ACCIDENT
-rhe accident was unusually peculiar. IN
,dditon 10 its other features. The first
section OF through freight No. IS was de-
1,ved about an hour by the engine
rreakdown. Local passenger train NO. ~
.rhich rms between Denville and Wash
tnrton. and is due In this city at o:ec
o'clock a. NJ, was hfty minutes late
!
tho freight was sent back TO wave down
~ passenger train. and II stopped be-
yond Coleman's cut.
IL was found that some time would be
consumed in repairing the freight engine
70 that the decision was reached 70 az
tach No 10 TO the caboose OF the lreisnt
and push the train 10 the siding at No1th
0arsen Meantime the passenger fagman
IA. seut back to stop the second section
~ fhe freiCht No. IS.
For reasons not explained. the ia gman,
Charles Turner. OF Alexandria either old
rot signal the freight engineer IN tlme'
or else Engineer Sharot did not see the
signal. AT any rate. the second secuon
OF No. IS. running fully fifty miles an
Your. dashed around the sharp curve IN
the deep cut, across the trestle, but
twenty yeards from the cut. and into the
rear day coach OF No. TO-
TELEsCOPED CAR
Tho passenger had been attached TO the
rear car OF the frst section OF the freight,
as was proposed, and was standing with
the rear coach. the day car. on the trestle.
The other cars were a combination car,
baggage and mall coaches. In the crash
trat followed the collision. which occurred
on the trestle. the rear passenger coach
was raised high in the air and preclpitated
on the adjoining combination car, tele-
scopng the latter for more than half Its
length 1t plouGhed through the latter
coach at the height OF the seats, and but
for there being no passengers in the COM
biration car the carnage would have been
terrible.
Other coaches OF the passenger were
not damaged, mail clerks and baggage
and expressmen escaping unhurt, The
passenger engine was thrown into the
caboosd OF the forward freight to which
4, had been attached. The collision lifted
the caboose ten feet in the air, holding 1t
suspended between the engine and the
box car adjoining the caboose. The en-
CINE headlight and cow-catcher were
smashed, but no other damage was done
It, The caboose Is complete wreck,
while the adjoining box car was little
damaged
FELL INTO RIVER
The engine OF second section OF No.
A8, the train which did the damage. was
smashed In the front. the cab was almost
demolished except on the engineers box,
and the tender, together with the first
box car, WAS preciptated Into the Hard
ware Rivers north prong, one hundred
feet below. The four box cars next TO
that which fell into tho river were de-
rallied, that on tho southern end OF the
trestle being thrown nearly across the
track These cars were all on the trestle.
In the wrecking trains attempt to re-
move them later. two fell into Hard
ware River and one rolled down the en-
bankment at the tfestes emo
BY proyidsntial provision. half OF
the passengers on No 10 had left the
train 10 ascertain the cause OF the delay
and escaped injury, The combination
car waA. as stated, vacant, Few re-
manned In the day coach. These were
pinned down by the wreckage. being re-
leased by the trsinnen with axes.
One passenger. Mrs, I'rofii,. was caugh
by the legs between two seats OF TIT
day coach. Holding her baby, whose
lip was cut and bleeding, as high a
possible above her head, she cried II
heartrending zones for some one 10 saw
hkr child. Assistance soon reached he
and tender hands cared for her Tn
others were laid on car seats on IN
track side and cared for tenderiy unit
the wrecking train and special arrive,
with physicians from this city
GRAPHIC ACCOUNT.
Among the passengers on he train va
Mr. Cary r. Munday, OF Iynchburi
clerk for the well-known firm OF Josep
COINS Sons, Mr.. Minday, who had Wit
nhi IN