The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-04-20
TWO WRECKS.
BLOCK TRACK ] ! ] 4. c I (.
Passenger Train Pl low, Into Into Boz Boz
Cars and Through Depot
Building.
ALI ARE SET !: Il ON ) FIRE ! R
Jefferson Jones Held for the the
Killing Of His fatl,e e:r. n-L La "a
New Hotel Virginia Beach.
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NORFOLK, ~, April 19.-Thc Atlantic
Coast Linz tracks, near hore. are blocked
by two wrecks, ono OF its own own fast fast
mail. near Wilson, N. O., and by q
freight train OF tho Southern, which was
using the Coast Line tracks into tho
pInncr's Point terminus. Twelve cars
wero uitched in the latter wreck
rhe accident occurred near a rmistead,
about two miles from Plnncr's Point.
twelve loaded cars arc III the ditch at
4 that point, and they arc broken open
and their tcnts arc scattered IN IN every
direction. 8s 6E " NJ i1s Z.
5 tn Is believed that the breaking OF a
truck caused the disaster. None of tE.,
s brakcmen happened to be on any OF
tIe cars, which were derailed. The ems
Cine did ot@leays the track and is ul'-
injured. II "A 3 VI I, ~
II Is denied that the car which broke
& down " hil1 the train was moving at high
spced was overloaded, but It Is claimed
that faulty material in tho construction
Of tho cur truck which broke IL k lilc
\ caus., OF the accident. tis u, Il Il Y
,s>ST @ BADLY BLOCKED. If al
b rho track was badly blocked for some
time. and all trains were dctoured VIA
the Belt Line and the seaboard air
Lines tracks to the junction point be-
You'd the wreck ~ 5fi "A .l&
Coast Limo people state that tho &c
x pot at Luca ma, near Vilson. was bu rned,
tocether with fourteen cars In the fast3
mali wreck. The engine seems to have
Il Moved right into tho depot buildings.
b showing tho freight cars with which IL
lad collldcd ahead OF 1t, and settlng
Y tho whole mass on fire. asB5
Thirteen OF the burned cars were box
cars. The engine OF the passenger train
was completely demolished, and the mail
car with all It's valuable contents Was
K destroyed. the only thin saved I, ! peihs
N eleven registered packages. The mall car-
Il ricd By this train Is very heavy H and.
az course important. It's dsstructio on $in-
.tlIcts an irreparable loss upon those 70
whom the mail was addressed. w N
5s HELD FOR MURDER
.rhe coroner's Jury In the case OF the
killing OF John Morgan, holds his SON
in-law. Jefferson Jones. OF Portsmouth,
responsible for the crime. One witness
,estIfied that after Morgan was felled
by Jones, he saw in the latter's hand
d 4 closed knife. This fact may account
y FOR tho wound in the left temple OF thel
dad man, which was supposed 20 nave nave
been caused BY tho fell he sustained
The two men have been at daggers
drawn ever since Jones was arrested arrested
for snaltreaung his wife three years ago.
That there was an anirnus. the Com
tnonwealth Will endeavor to show a. 4}t ne g.
I preliminary trial tomorrow. The coro,
ner' inquest to-day was held behind
closed doors
TANK BLEW on I. S .
AZ tho blowing out OF the tank OF
CHEMICAL engine at a fire which destroy
Cd the home OF Richard Bacchus, at Lam lam
hcrt's Point to-day. John Temple was
seriously injured. He will recover. how
q eyer. .
a now hotel Is to be built ut Virginia
Beach. II will cost upwards of 500, coo.
The work will be started at an early
x date Local capitalists are behind tho
scheme 4.