The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-10
MANY KILLED OR
MANNED IN WRECK.
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Chapman and Engineer E. Y. Banks
dale, which train was passed by No.
Al, short distance east of the point
where the accident occurred, ran into
the damaged trestle and on top of the
passenger train, resulting in the death
of the engineer of No. 10, the fireman
of the passenger train, and of Mrs.
Black and an unknown lady passenger
Two Pullman employees, six railway
employees, one mail clerk, one Southern
Express Company employee and twenty
three passengers were injured"
Running at High Speed.
The wrecked train was running about
forty miles an hour when the trestle,
which is about 800 feet long, spanning
a meadow near the Catawba river, gave
way. The engine and first car passed
over but were drawn backward into
the abyss and upon the other cars,
light engine and caboose piling in on
top of the train of wreckage before 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.
He said that he was driving at the
rate of forty miles an hour as he
crossed the bridge. Just before the
engine had swept entirely clear of the
structure, he felt it sinking, but the
impetus carried the engine and all the
cars, except the first class passenger
car and the Pullman, clear of the
yawning gulf which was left when half
the bridge collapsed, but the engine
and cars were swerved from their
course to the right, tearing the rail
loose from its fastenings and hurting
the entire train upside down over an
| embankment to the meadow, about
thirty feet below
Horrible Scene Ensued
A scene. horrible beyond description.
| ensued. The accounts of 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 and bruised. A
natural panic took them; some were
rendered unconscious for moment.
Mrs. Black. sitting with her husband,
gave a short cry and when he man.
aged to strike a match and find her
| body, he discovered that she was dead,
her neck having been broken. She
was the only passenger killed, or even
hurt seriously.
AS the scrambling and shouting went
on in the dark. above the noises a
brakeman, with his head half way out
a window. was heard to shout: my
God the freight train is coming upon
US"
| In less than a minute. the freight,
which had left Monroe fifteen minutes
behind the passenger came whizzing
along the tracks, struck the open space
where the bridge had fallen and plowed
it's way through the passenger cars.
The woman. whose identity could not
be discovered, then met her death, the
freight engine having crashed through
the side of that passenger car in which
she was. and crushing her body into a
shapeless mass.
The engineer of the freight train
must have met his death instantly. He
was found in the cab of the overturned
engine with his head crushed, but few
bruises upon his body. When his body
was dug out of the debris this morning,
his watch was still running on time.
His fireman escaped with few minor
I injuries.