The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-14
RAILROAD WRECK.
In Which Four People Are Killed
and Many Wounded.
ONE TRAIN FALLS ON ANOTHER

ONE TRAIN FALLS ON ANOTHE1
And Crushes it to Atoms. It
Claimed that the Railroad
Trestle Was Tempered
With.
Shortly after l O'Clock Friday morn
log train No. IL on the Seaboard Al
Line railroad, consisting Of an ex
press car, a mail car, two day coache
and a Pullman sleeper, was deraile'
at a trestle just south Of the Catawb
riser 10 South Carolina, and % mile
southwest of Monroe, N. c., and thi
was followed by the wreck of a ligh
engine and caboose, resulting in th
death of four persons and the injurin!
OF 35 others.
/ The following persons were killed:
Engineer Z. Y. Barksdale, Abbe
vile, S. c.
Fireman Ed. Roberts, colored, At
lanta, Ga.
Mis- F. T. Black, Hayerhill, Ohio
neck broken.
Mrs. T. S. McManus, Wilmington
N. c.
THE WOUNDED.
The following were seriously hurt:
Mrs. James Clay. Oakland, Tenn.
fractured jaw
T. c. Jerome, Atlanta, Ca, slight
ly bruised.
Mrs. T. C. Jerome, Atlanta, shoul
der and head injured.
Dr.. Edward Banks, Athens, Ca.
back injured.
Mrs. Sidney Herbert, Maitland
Fla, foot amputated; may die.
Mrs. Jerome Silvey, Atlanta
bruised.
G. W. Hinson, Lenox, Ca, jaw in
jured.
Tom Mitchell, co,ored, brakeman
Abbeville, S. c., head and shoulder!
injured.
Pink Carpenter, Monroe, N. c., por
ter, head and body injured.
The following were slightly hurt:
V. S. Ellerby, Atlanta, colored
Pullman porter.
J. G. Turner, Atlanta, Pullman
conductor.
G. a. Meares, Monroe, N. c., engi
nesr.
]. Duncan, AbbeVille, S. c., brake
man.
II. H. Chapman, Abbeville, S. c.,
conductor.
G. b. Davis, Atlanta, express mes
senger.
W. Fairman, Atlanta, mail clerk.
R. T. West, Monroe, N. c., conduc'
tor.
B. F. Meader, address unknown.
F. G. Topleman, address unknown.
r. c. Horton, address unknown.
Mr.. Black, address unkno Vn.
Robert Seigler, address unknown.
Moliie Griffin, address unknown.
a number of eolored lahorers also
| were SHgnuy lluIG.
WHAT ENGINEER MEAREs SAYS.
The wrecked train was running
about 40 miles an hour when the tres
tie, which is about 800 feet long,
spanning a meadow near the Catawba
river, gave way. The engine and cars
passed over but were drawn backward
into the abyss and upon the other cars
the light engine and caboose piled in
on top Of the train Of wreckage oe-
fore it could be tagged.
CASTOR Meares, the engineer OF the
passenger train, escaped with some
bruises and a painful scalp wound.
How he escaped death is beyond his
own or any one else's comprehension.
BE said that be was driving at the
rate of 40 miles an hour as be crossed
the bridge. Just before the engine
had swept entirely clear Of the struc-
ture, be felt it sinking, but the impe.
tus carried the engine and all the cars
except the first class passengers Cal
and the Pullman clear Of the yawning
gulf which was left when halt the
bridge collapsed but the engine and
cars were swerved from their course
to the right, tearing the rail loose
from its fastenings and hurling the
entire train upside down over an en-
bankment to the meadow, about sc
feet below.
a scene horrible beyond description
ensued. The accounts Ct the SurViv.
ors are terrible. When the train
went crashing over the embankment,
every light went out, passengers were
thrown heads over heels against the
sides OF the coaches, bleeding ano
bruised A natural panic took them:
some were rendered unconscious for a
moment. Mrs. Black, sitting neal
her husband, gave short cry ano
when he managed to strike match
and find her body he discovered that
she was dead, her neck having beer
broken. She was the only passenger
killed or even hurt seriously in the
first accident.
THE BRAKEMAN'S CRY.
AS the scram bling and shouting
went on in the dark, above the noise
a brakeman with his head half way
out a window was heard to shout:
My God, the freight train is com
ing ugon US!
In less than minute the freight
which had left Monroe Is minutes be.
hind the passenger, came whizzing
along the tracks, struck the oper
space where the bridge had fallen ano
plunged its. way through the passenger
cars. Mrs. McManus then met hel
death, the freight engine having
crashed through the side Of that pas
senger car in which she was, crushing
her body into shapelesS mass. The
engineer CT the freight train must
have met his death instantly. His
body WAS found in the cab Of the
overturned engine with his head
crushed but with few bruises on his
body. When his body was dug out Of
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