The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-15
l FATAL COLLISION.
Conductors Dreadful Mistake That
Cost Many Lives.
TWENTY-TEREE KILLED.
The Man Whose Oversight Caused
Death and Destruction Insane
From Mental Anguish.
Further Details.

Further Details.
Twenty-thrce persons were killed
and nine persons were Injured in a
head-on collision on the Virginia Mid
land division of the Southern railway
at RockfSh, Va. at y minutes after
3o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Passen-
ger train No. 35, leaving Washington
at lI.I5 a. M, for Atlanta, Ga.
dashed into local freight No. Us,
standing on the main line Of the road
at that point, wrecking both engines
anl the baggage and express car OF
Nc. =" The baggage car and the
second-class passenger coach immedi-
ately following il teleScopcd. The
coach was occupied mostly by colored
people. The casualties thus far re-
ported in detail are as follows:
Killed:
Engineer Davis.
Engineer Mccormick, who was rid
ing as a passenger on No. IS.
A colored fireman on No. 6S.
The freight train was in charge of
Conductor Brubeck and Engineer Hale
and at the time of the accident was
on the return run from Lynchburg to
Charlottesville.
Rocktish station is midway between
these two points and the track there
is single one. Engineer had orders
to get out of the way OF the passenger
train but for some reason which has
not yet been explained he overstayed
his time and had failed to take sid
ing so that the passenger train could
pass. The trains came together with
a horrible crash and fearful scene of
panic ensued when the occupants OF
the cars realized what had occurred.
Train No. 35 ran into the freight
which left Washington Tuesday morn
ing at ll.45 was made up OF an OK
press car, baggage car, Two day
coaches and two Pullman cars. The
Two Pullmans formed an early morn
ing New York connection a. Wash
ington for Atlanta and the south.
The train arrived there atl0.32 q. m.,
from Boston also connected with No.
35. No. 35 was in charge OF Engl-
neer Davis and Conductor Mays. One
of the passenger cars OF the train was
a second class day coach and the other
vestibule car.
Engineer Mccormick, who was a
passenger on the freight train, was
going to Charlottesville to take train
south at the time he met his death.
The engineer of the freight escaped
without injury.
It is estimated here that there were
in all probability 120 passengers on
the train, including those from Boston
and intermediate stations.
It was at first reported that Bag
sagemaster Payne Of train No. 35 had
met his death in the wreck. Later
reports, however. show that this is IN
correct. He was caught under one
of the coaches and was badly stunned,
but later he revived and probably will
recover. It is now said to be almost
certain that I9 were colored persons.
as the secon6-class coach which was
teieScoped was occupied almost exclu-
sively by them.
Later advices from the scene Of the
wreck are that the freight train which
was on the main track had been there
for six minutes longer than the orders
directed when the collision occurred.
LATER ACCOUNT.
a special from Charlottesville, Va,
says: Southern railway passenger
train No. 35, southbond, ran into an
open switch at Rockfsh depot, 20
miles south Of this city, at 3 O'Clock
TUESDAY afternoon, smashing into a
siding. The passenger engine and
express coach telescoped through the
second class passenger car IN the rear.
In sthe .lattrr was a party II imml-
grants, all Of whom were killed or in.
iured. The dead number II and the
injured number l3. Traffic was Sus-
pended for eight hours.
The dead, as have been Identified.
are:
Engineer James Mccormick of Char
iotteSvillle.
Engineer Charles Davis Of Alex
andria.
Thomas Sheppard of Charlottes-
vile, brakeman on freight train.
Charles T. Gay Of Charlottesville,
fireman on freight.
J. E. Lowe. colored, Of Baltimore.
Chas. r. Leitch, colored, dining car
water.
C. O. Owen, Philadelphia, boiler in-
spector.
Adam E. Vicocsavlievich: Austrian
boy.
Barilani Gugelmo, Austrian wo-
man.
Two unknown Austrian women.
Unknown mulatto woman.
The injured are:
Eayineer Hale of Charlottesville.
injuries to spine.
II. 4. Sharpe Of Knoxville, Tenn,
head and legs bruised and back hurt.
Turner a. Henry Of bentonville,
Va, injuries to legs, head and shoul-
derS.
Walter Jackson, colored OF Char
lottesville, passenger fireman, legs
broken.
AuStrians, all painfully but not Sc
riouSly injured.
T. G.. Hudson, colored, Chatta-
nooya. Tenn, serious wounds on
head.
r. f. Mercer, colored. Washington,
arms and legs cut and probably in
iured internally.
J. S. Sterett. colored, Pullman por-
ter. OF New York, hands, and face