The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21
The Injured in the
Southern Wreck.
Continued from First Page.)

more than any of the others.
Beyond, a little way, stood the great
locomotive on the track. where the cars
had broken loose from the coupling that
! tied them to the tender.
Along the ploughed up place where the
track once was, there were several little
groups of people. One was about an old
| lady, Mrs Ellington, who patiently bore
her acute suffering, waiting for arrange
| ments to be completed to carry her home.
| A little farther on sat under an umbrella
to keep off the hot sun, Representative
Parker, of Wayne. his face and head all
bloody, and his upper limbs and body
almost paralyzed from the wrenching and
straining that his back had Underwent
BY his side sat Mr.. w. H. King, the
druggist, holding the umbrella
| Near by sat Mr.. w. T. Dortch, of
Goldsboro, laughing and talking and nurs
ing mashed finger. Between the two sat
Mr.. Tom Heartt, taking down kilograms to
be sent to the home folks, the suffering
men trying to word them so as to cause as
! little alarm as possible.
A few steps more, and there was an
anxious group about man lying upon two
cushions taken from car-seats 1t was Mr.
Elvin Fleming, who used to live in Raj
eigh and has a host of friends. BY his
side was Mrs. Clee Lee. his wife's sister.
He was suffering great pain, apparently,
though no word of his showed it. Grave
fears were being expressed for him.
And the condition of the track 1t is
simply beyond any description. For
hundred yards and more there was no
- eli lxr
scattered over the top of the embank-
ment were pieces of cross ties and broken,
bent and twisted rails. The pieces of ties
were nearly all rotten, so rotten that many
of them could be broken with the hands
or a cane or umbrella could be thrust
through them.
People were saying it was the worst
they had ever seen, that nothing but
criminal negligence was responsible for
such condition of affairs.
The engine stood there with every wheel
off the rails save those of the forward
trucks, and strangely enough Engineer
Rippey said that these were the ones that
went off first. They had thrown all the
rest off and then crawled back on the track
again.
The engineer said he was watching the
rails closely and there was nothing what
ever on the track. He declared it was
simply a case of jumping the track, and
that the rotten ties had nothing to do
with it. '@
In q little while the fat car came along
and the injured people were taken to the
Hospital under the direction of DR.. Roys-
ter
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The injured ones whose condition gave
most cause for alarm yesterday evening
were Representative Parker, Sheriff
Sharp and Mr.. Fleming. At about three
o'clock this morning DR.. Hubert Register
stated that it was still impossible to tell
just what was the extent of Mr.. Parkers
hurts. This could not be ascertain, he
said, until the muscular soreness and
swelling had passed off. Fear was felt OF
Injury to the spine.
Sheriff Sharp, the doctor said was suf-
fering from quite a severe scalp wound
at the back of the head, which had been
sewed up. He was delirious during the
night, and in fact had not come to him
self at all since the wreck There is a pos
sibility of confusion in his case, although
the doctor says it may be only a severe
shaking up.
Mr.. Fleming was said to be doing much
better last night and early this morning.
There may be some internal injury, but
the doctor is now hopeful that such is not
the case.
All three of the above named gentle
men were in the same coach. the second
from the front, next to the mail car. Eye
witnesses say that when Mr.. Parker was
found his head was thrust through the
veneerinG at the top of the car This
gives some idea of the force with which
he was thrown head foremost against the
ceiling of the car when it turned over. It
is remarkable that he escaped with his
life.
1t was reported yesterday evening that
little Miss Addie Hobbys arm was brok-
en-. This turned out to be incorrect. Her
shoulder was sprained but no bones were
broken
Mr.. Ivan Proctor and his fourteen-year-
cid daughter, Miss Jennie NJ. Proctor, were
beth hurt, Mr.. Proctor having the bridge
OF his nose split, and the bone broken
away where it joins the skull. Then he
has severe cut just below the knee on
the lett leg, and bruise on the right
thigh. His chin is somewhat swollen also,
and be received a severe lick just above
inc r1gpt eye.
Miss Proctor has an ugly scratch on
her cheek and several severe bruises about
cne shoulders and other parts of the
body.
Talking about the accident last night
Mr.. Proctor said Il was in a wreck
once before, and when l first noticed
check in the motion of the train thought
she was off the track. In a second or two
felt the car jumping and humping and
1 knew we were going to turn over.
don't know what l struck against; but
when found myself Was standing with
my feet on the ceiling Of the ear
when I saw the track il was in mighty
bad condition. The cross-ties seemed to
be rotten, a sort of dr., rot, 30 much so
that whenever the FEELS truck they just
seemed to break up and splinter 10 short
pieces
81 tried at first t. get cut If tho back
door but it was jaInmod and I could not
get il OMEN Then I ..aVIe6 out of a