The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-10

Washington, July 7-Twenty-three
injured in a head-on collision on the
Virginia division of the Southern Raj
way at Rockfish, Va. at twelve MIN
utes after 8 o'clock this afternoon.
Passenger train No. 50. leaving Wash
ington at Ills a. M, today, for Atlanta,
Ca. dashed into local freight No. 6S,
standing on the main line of the road
at that point, wrecking both engines
n the baggage coach Immediately
following i telescoped. The coach was
occupied mostly by colored people. The
casualties thus far reported in detail
are as follows: -" .-L. g
Killed.: Engineer Davis. Engineer
Mccormick. who was riding as a pas
senger on No. 6S. A colored fireman on
No. 6S.
The freight train was in charge of
| Conductor Brubeck and Engineer Hale
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| the return run from Lynchburg to
! Charlottesville. Rockfish station is mid
way between these two points and the
track there is a single one. Engineer
Hale had orders to get out of the way
| of the fast passenger train, but for some
| reason which has not yet been explain
ed. he had overstayed his time and had
failed to take a siding so that the pas
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came together with a horrible crash and
a fearful scene of panic ensued when
| the occupants of the cars realized what
had occurred.
Train No. 35 which ran into the
freight and which left Washington this
morning at 11:15. was made up Of an
express car, a baggage car, two day
coaches and two Pullman cars. The
W Pullmans formed ar early morning
New York connection at Washington
for Atlanta and the south. The train
arriving here at 1922 a. N. from Boston
also connected with No. So. No. 35 was
in charge of Engineer Davis and Con-
ductor Mays. One of the passenger
cars of the train was Z second class
day coach and the other a vestibuled
! car.
N4S4-ONI -"OCOI IJ1Nh wiz wac d
passenger on the freight train was 60
ing to Charlottesville to take a train
south at the time he met mis- death. The
engineer of the freight escaped without
injury.
1t is estimated here that there were
in all probability 12O passenger on the
train, including those from Boston and
intermediate stations
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railway passenger train No. 80 south
bound, ran into an open switch at Rock
fish DEPOT, twenty miles south of this
city, at 3 o'clock this afternoon. smash
ing into a local freight on a siding. The
passenger engine and express coaches
were demolished and the baggage
coach telescOped through the second
class passenger in the rear. In the lat
ter was a party of immigrants. all of
whom were killed or injured. The dead
number twenty-four and the injured
number thirteen. Traffic was suspend
ed for eight hours. The casualties are
as follows:
DEAD.
Engineer James Mccormick. of Char
lOtteSVille: Engineer Charles DAVIS. OF
Alexandria. Va: Thomas Sheppard, of
Charlottesville. brakeman on freight;
Charles T.. Gay, of Charlottesville. fire.
man on freight; j. Z. Lowe. colored. of
Baltimore: Charles T. Leitch. coloreu,
dining car waiter: c. c. Owen, Philader-
phia. boiler INSPECTOR; Adam Vucosay-
lievch, Austrian boy: Barilani Guchel-
mo, Austrian woman: two kno
Austrian women; unknown mulatto wo'
man..
The injured are:
Engineer E. c. Hale. of Charlottes-
vile. injuries to spine: serious. H. A.
Sharpe, of Knoxville, Tenn. head and
legs bruised and back wrenched. Tur-
ner Asheby Henry. Of B~entonville, Va,
injuries to head. shoulders and legs.
Walter Jackson. cOlored, of Charlottes-
Vile. passenger fireman legs broken.
Four Austrians, @. joke Mrdic. Auglos
kap. kalarveras KANT and Oberon
Grubac. all painfully but not seriously.
T. G. Hudson. colored, Chattanooga,
Tenn, serious head wounds. T. c. Mer-
Ger. colOred. Washington. arms and legs
cut and probably internally. j. B..
Sterett. COlOred, Pullman porter, Of
New York. hands. arms and face cut.
]. W. Payne, of Alexandria. baggage
master: internally injured.
The work of rescuing the injured be-
gan Immediately. DR.. William A. Lam.
beth of the UNIVERSITY of Virginia, was
on the train and at once organized
measures of relief. The trainmen IN
der the doctors direction cut through
the panels of the baggage car and ex-
press car and took out twenty of the
dead. Probably a score of injured were
removed.
w. A. Word, the Union News agent
on the train whose home was in Wash
ington was in the fatal coach, but es-
capped.
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 re-
turned to the city about s o'clock bring