The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-09-16
RAILROAD WRECK.
[n [n Which Four People Are Killed
and Many Wounded.
,SE TRAIN FALLS ON ANOTHER
Arid Crushes 1t tn Atoms It !a
Claimed that tho RAILROAD
= Tres,le Was Tempered
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Exclaimed that tho RAILROAD
Tres,le Was Tempered
Shortly after l O'Clock Friday morn.
log train No. Al on the Seaboard Air
Line railroad, consisting of an ex-
press car, a mail car, two day coaches
and a Pullman sleeper, was derailed
at u trestle just south Of the Catawba
riser In South Carolina, and % miles
southwest Of Monroe, N. c., and this
wasfoilowed by the wreck of a light
engine and caboose, resulting In the
death of four persons and the injuring
OF 80 others.
Lie following persons were killed:
Engineer E. Y. Barksdale, Able
Vile. s. G.
Fireman Ed. Roberts, colored, At.
lantG, Ga.
Mis- E. L. Black, Haverhlll, Ohio
neck broken.
MIS-. Il. S. McManus, Wilmington,
N. G.
TILE WOUNDED.
Inc following were seriously hurt:
Mrs. James Clay, Oakland, Tenn.
fractured jaw.
L. 9. Jerome, Atlanta, Ca, slight.
ly bruised.
$ Mrs. It. c. Jerome, Atlanta, shoul-
der aid head injured.
Or. lard Banks, Athens. Ca, +,
back injured.
Mrs; Sidney Herbert, Maitland,
Fla, foot amputated; may die.
MIS-; jerome Silvey, Atlanta,
bruised.
G. w. Hinson, Lenox, Ca, jaw in
iured.
Tom Mitchell, coored, brakeman,
Abbsville, S. c., head and shoulders
injured.
Pink Carpenter, Monroe, N. c., por-
ter, head and body injured.
The following were slightly hurt:
V. S. Ellerby, Atlanta, colored,
Pullmau porter.
J.. G. Turner, Atlanta, Pullman
conductor.
G. II. Meares, Monroe, N. c., engi-
neer.
j. Duncan, Abbeville, S. c., brake
man.
II. H. Chapman, Abbeville, S. c.,
conductbr.
G. H..Davls, Atlanta, express mes
senger.
w. FSirman, Atlanta, mail clerk.
R & 9; s'&st, Monroe, N. G., conduc-
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F2U. Y .eman, address unknown.
L. Q. Horton, address unknown.
Mr. Black, address unkno IN.
Robert Selgler, address unknown.
Moliie Griffin, address unknown.
a number of colored laborers also
were slightly hurt.
WHAT ENGINEER MEARES SAYS.
The wrecked train was running
about 40 miles an hour when the tres.
tie, which is about 300 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 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 40 miles an hour as he crossed
the bridge. just before the engine
had swept entirely clear OF the struc-
ture, he felt it sinking, hut the impe-
tus carried the engine and all the cars
except the first class passenge rs car
and the Pullman clear of the yawning
gulf which was left when half the
bridge collapsed hut the engine and
cars were Swerved from their course
to the right, tearing the rail loose
from It's tastcnings and hurling the
entire train upside down over an en-
bankment to the meadow, about 30
feet below.
scene horrible beyond description
ensued. The accounts OF the survlv-
ors are terrible. When the train
went crashing over the embankment,
every light went out, passengers we're
thrown heads over heels against the
sides OF the coaches, bleeding and
bruised a natural panic took them
some were rendered unconscious for a
moment. Mrs. Black, sitting near
her husband, gave short cry and
when he managed 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 ia the
first accident,
THE BRAkEMAN's CRY.
AS the scramblng and shouting
went OH ia the dark, above the noise
IL brakeman with his head half way
out a window was heard to shout:
My God, the freight train is com
ing uGOn u.s.
In less than a minute the freight,
which had left Monroe 10 minutes be-
hind the passenger, came whiZZing
along the tracks, struck the open
space where the bridge had fallen and
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 of the freight train must
have met his death instantly. His
body was found in the cab of the