The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-19
RAIL HAD BEEN WARPED I: ~
4. BY THE xCESSIVEs HEAT
This Cause Of Accident in Which
Lives Lives Of Nearly 400 Persons e
Were Inperilled The IN VI
jured and , Their Injuries. II
Train Brings Pas
4 sss,f: sengers Here. 5.s
& LIST OF INJURED.


mond one rib broken N 4 q II syi
MRS. GEORGE BOWEN, N >. s1s est
Gary Street. Richmond + left side hurt.
# JAMES 4 oWisON, !, agent Smith AN
Premier typewriter Company, Rioh- vi
r1ond, resides Iii Ashland ; bruised In III
a W. S LvEsTER Norfolk; bruised
arm. III 5f M SS{
MRS. Il. III 3. sHAckELToN,5 No 5os y
5Freemasnon 50 Street y Norfolk Internal in
Fjuries 4g f ;GS
The above summarizes the list Of fn-8
Sjuries sustained by passengers in the 5de-
graiment&of the eastbound Norfolk and 81.
Western special s5sS train Az near Prospec
Prince Edward county. yesterday al ter
noon about ~ o. clock S lxsl Of he nineS
Sconches Of the trhi IN left the track and
@oyery1rne a fea ~ iasid es. tfs
passefig ers falling through tiles Icy. OPEN
5dows of the cars sas they went over,
Friends Became Alarmed.
The wrecked train was known as the, Il
mountain, special, and left this sci ty5S tE
noon last Saturday for Lynchburg and II
Roanoke with $50 to 400 passengers, an
&BIt left Roanoke at 70 80 P.& NJ yes terdayE
on Its return, and was ex pee ted here
about Z P.43 NJ Reports were receives as 4
early as 6 o'clock Of a derailment, but
the Information was sd rneagre mat It e: $
was far from tory, ! and 4 had the h
etroct Of intensrying and exaggeratlng5
the alarm OF those In this Eoit y who hads II
kindred and loved ones aboard the trei n.55
When the train wa sreported 5 late ana 4
gradually tho hour Of expected arrival
was moved up and still up. uneaslness be-
came alarm. Many persons were at tt e.
railway station at various hours, and at
midnight ten or more were awaiting I he II
arrival Of the special train which had ~
been made up at Crewe and sent TO y y ~
scene to convey the passengers q y heirs
destinations. OF the total passenger lis
IT'S to 200 were from this city, the re- us
amainder Il coming from Petersburg and 4
Norfolk. # Z. 55 4 .3s s3f5fi
Escape Almosta a Miracle.
@ With the meagre information conveyed
in special kilograms It seems miraculous Z
4 that with slx coaches overturned on thelr t S
sides and all OF them filled with pas {
sen1ers. some OF them were not cauBnI 83
under the falling cars and crushed 70 n
death. Tho Times-D ispntch received n 9 4
report from n regular correspondent VINO VINO Il
8huDpenc.i to be a passenger on tho tralll'
and who was himself among the 53llhJuteu. III ll,,s
The fact that the six cars betW eens the 4
engine and tender and the other ~ !t'' teu
cars were not only oYerturneMu, M .5s put X
thrown across the track some d1'Latl d1stat.cls. IN
makes 1t all the more marvelous st'ii'a ti't9.
many casualties did not result. Ell VI a
S5 tine wreck OF the train appears to have Il
&heen due to what IS known as a ''bucklec
mil. that is to say Il rail warped ana u
wrenchcd from the parallel as q result q 4
Btha longitudinal expansion OF the steer steeA
rail under the intense heat OF the 'i, sun.
,rrnckmen had been at work repairing
this wronched rail, but i IS not cleIrEl
that they had completed thelr VOTE. - -
n,av ma that the rail again buckled s.ft Ter
haInr repaired or that 1t had not been q
s,Irficiently secured, and that the work
Man dcsisted to lot tho train pass. As the
train was a special, 1t may not nave
beon anticipated by the track WORK.
4 Naturally the utmost confusion and ~
tense exoltemont prevailed a1ter sne
cars left tile track. There was q y uh'Yel el
sai scramble among the passengers 20
axt,,ca to themselves from their perilous ~
nositions In the overturned cars. put "A
YEARLY ali seem to have been successful 4
IN doing so without injury or With CONS
IN ratively smul hurt. The Wreckeu
coaches had evidently como practlca4lyt ta
10 a standstill when tho wrench Reeleu \
them on the side, and when they fell i
they remained stationary, asa 80 a'u n.y. 1u ~
drag the escaping passeng gers.
Account From Prospect,
The details of the Wreck ure u,il''u's
to obtain, but sufficient nave peeh ,N @ 30
n,,,ed "a esta bllsh the fact that II was
a thrilling escape and one difficult 20
fully account for, ,,o,, q
Prospect says: ~, No... y
"a special train known IS so the ~ Nor, eae
folk and Western excursion iFui' ,.sl,, ~
to the mountains. which left {, ,liss Mo,feaIk5 as5
t,st tnst class nassengers from Richmond as
,veli Vas completely wrecked here th's
osSsk sa$sstS % y ~ ns fsssfpas pas
srtp, saIsa, az, ches and one express car.
dsaSsr deaTn by soaSaa engine NO No osa Ensineer
Perkins, Of Roanoke, and Conductor Al q 3E
.sIx coscies LEFT the, track and were
turned over their sides aampins ~ pas
Siding In a cloud Of dying .tmheFs and u
dust. 5 II Rs51 Z, ", i, II, I, ,,,,t ~,
r.,,t ~ of the water taaa, three hundred
wards west OF Prospect. on tbs main I'M