The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13

The following detailed report of the
disaster is furnished by Mr. w. r.
Hudson, superintendent of this division
of the Seaboard Air Line. The I'M
known lady passenger is evidently
Mrs. T. s. McManus, of this city
The following is a report in detail
Of the accident just south of the Ca
tawba this morning. which you can.
give the IN case they de
sire same. Train No. Al in charge
Of Conductor Richard Yves. and Engi-
neer CASTOR Meares. was derailed
about one o'cIock this morning at Gre
tresIIe Just south of the Catawba
river, s. c.. twenty-five miles south of
Monroe. by what now appears to have
been 4 malicious attempt to wreck the
train. joints having been found discon-
nected. The engine passed over the
trestIe and went down the embank-
ment killing the cOlored fireman, Ed.
Roberts. who lives at Abbeville, s. c.,
>and seriously injuring Engineer CASTOR
Meares, who lives at Monroe, N C.
The entire train, consisting of one eM-
press car, one mail car, two coaches
and a Pullman sleeper, Wen down
a light engine and caboose, running
as No. 19, in charge of Conductor
Chapman and Engineer E. Y. Banks
dale who lives at Abbevilie, which
train was passed by No. Al Il short
distance east of the point of accident,
ran into the damaged trestle and or
top of AIS train, resulting in the
death of the engineer of train No 10,
the fireman CT Il and Mrs. Black and
anzunknown lady passenger. Two
Pullman employees, six railway en-
pIoyes, one mai clerk. one Southern
Express Company employe and TWEEN
ty-three passengers were injured.
A list of persons killed and injured,
with their addresses and the nature Of
their injuries, as far as can be obtain
ed is given below.
The killed:
ENGINEER E. Y. BARKSDALE.
Abbeville. S. c.
FIREMAN e. d. ROBERTS Color
ed, Atlanta, Ga.
MRS. BLACK.
AN UNKNOWN LADY PASSEN-
GER.
The injured:
Mrs. James Clay, Oakland, Tenn,
fracture of the jaw; T. C. Jerome. At
Ianta. Ca. slightly bruised; Mrs. I. {.
Jerome. Atlanta, Ga, shoulder and
IISdu lllluAONr -" O'
Athens. Ga, back injured: Mrs. Sid
Eey Herbert. Maitland, Fla, foot m
putated; Mrs. jerome Silvery, Atlanta,
bruised: G.. w. Hinen, Lenox, Ga, jaw
injured: Tom Mitchell. colored, Able
VILE s. c.. brakeman, head and shoul-
ders injured; Robert Henderson, col
orded. Woodward, S. c., head injured;
Pin Carpenter, Monroe, n. c., porter,
head and body injured George Nash,
coIored. Greenwood. S. c., slightly
bruised: Dave Williams. colored,
CIarkshill. S. c., slightly injured;
Jesse Nance. colored. Mccormick S.
c. slightly injured; John Evans, col
ored, Charlotte, N. c., slightly injured;
John Thomas. colored, Summertime,
Tenn; Alex. smith. colored. White
Oaks, slightly injured: Andrews Green.
colored, Columbia S. c.; John Hyman'
colored, Charlotte, slightly injured:
Arthur Brewer, colored, Mccormick. 5.
c., slightly injured; V. S. Elerby. col
ored, Atlanta, Pullman porter. slightly
injured; Thomas Jefferson, Abbeville,
s. c., fireman, slightly injured; G.. II.
Meares, Monroe, engineer, lagh n
jured: J. T. Duncan, Abbev1lle, brake
man, slightly injured; H. Chapman,
Abbeville1 s. c.. conductor slightly IN
jured: G. H. Davis, Atlanta, express
messenger, slightly injured; W. Fal-
man, Atlanta, mail clerk, slightly in
jured: r. West Monroe, conductor,
slightly injured: B. F. Meader, ad-
dress unknown; T. c. Horton, address
: unknown: F. G. Topleman, address u1i-
fknown: Mr.. Black, address unknown;
Robert Siegler, address unknown:
rMollie Griffin, address unknown,
slightly injured: Mrs. Sidney Herbert.
slightly injured.
Most OF the injured are only slight