The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-19
Full Facts are Just Com :
ing to Light.
LIFE LOSS UNKNOWN
Thirteen are Known to be Dead and
Five are Reported Missing. Earlier
Stories Placed the Number
Lost as High as a Hun
dred.
(By the Associated Press.)

Norfolk, Va, Aug. 1S.-The removal
of the two Atlantic Coast Line cars
which plunged into the Elizabeth river
yesterday afternoon revealed the fact
that there were but two bodies in the
car, making the number of bodies re-
covered thirteen and with five report
ed missing.
None of the injured now in the hos
pitalS will die. but majority Of them
will be sent to their homes iii day
or two. The bodies of the dead will be
forwarded to their homes tomorrow.
a careful examination of the bot
tom of the river revealed no more bod
les and the Coast Line officials are con-
vinced that the death list is now COM
plete. The small casualty list in the
first car which, was completely sub
merged, is explained by the theory that
when the emergency brakes were APP
piled many of the passengers thought
a collision was imminent and they
rushed into the second car and all OF
them had time to escape except two
before the car finally sank beneath the
surface of :he river.
The official list of the dead follows:
Doc Henry, colored, Greenviile, n. c.
John Marble. colored, Greenville,
n. G.
NelSOl IeeUicS, coloIeu, bieelNiie'
Celia Mabrey. colored, Greenville,
sydney Thompson, colored, Grifton,
\. G.
Nancy Puryis, colored, Alden, n. c.
Mary Jones, colored, Greenville,
n. C.
Arthur Woodie, colored, Greenville,
y. C.
Shortie Barnes, colored, Greenville,
N G..
WaIter Forbes, white, Greenville,
y. G.
w. T.. Jolly, white, body not recov
cred, Greenville, n. c.
Collins Ferguson, white, bridge ten
der.
Norfolk Va, Aug. 1S.-Thirteen
bodies have been recovered to date,
and the death list of the wreck on the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad at Bruces
Station is yet thought to be far from
complete 1t is said that score Of
bodies fioated down with the tide
when.the first submerged car was rails
ed and that another passenger coach,
jammed with dead negroes, is now
buried in the mud OF the Western
Branch.
Many of these estimates place the
loss at over one hundred: even the
most conservative range between nfty
and sixty-five. That Western Branch
contains many dead body no one
who has viewed the wreck doubts.
When the first car was taken from
the water the coach was Slanting and
was mostly submerged, and when II
was removed it naturally reached dry
land at steep slant. AS result,
seats, chairs, etc, were washed out
and it is claimed that large NUMBER
of the bodies have been washed away
by the sweep of the tide.
The Work of Rescue.
Outside of grueSome aspects, TINS
work of rescuing is interesting ano
there were thousands who Travelled
. to Bruces Station today. Chains had
been placed under the cars by divers
and wrecking engines tugged ana pull
ed at the coaches until they were
brought to the surface, When tney
were gradually brought to the beach.
In a mass of debris lay the engine
and tender, and these have not been
brought out yet. Remnants of the
draw completely destroyed, tangle
about them, and the divers must clear
away timbers, twisted iron and tangled
wreckage. AS the circumstances ana
the fact that the great weight OF the
locomotive drove it deep into the SOFT
mud admit, the engine will be glrdled
with strong chains and picked up py
derricks. To any one accustomed TO
a wrecking train this operation is
wonderful and more wonderful In It's
simplicity when viewed.
Traffic on the Atlantic Coast Line
over this route, has been necessarily
suspended, and the trains are being
brought in by connection with the
Seaboard Air Line at Suffolk. Two
weeks of forced labor will hardly re-
pair the broken draw. Perhaps re-
placed would be a better word, for
there is nothing of the draw left
Leaping the chasm, the heavy engine
bore draw-bridge and all appertaining
thereto, to the bottom of eighteen feet
of water and the Shiny mud beneath
On top of this piled a coal-burdened
tender and two passenger cars, and
there is little left of the swinging
bridge structure but torn timber and
interlaced iron.
The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot of yes
terday gives the following graphic pen
picSure of the disaster.
Story of the Wreck.
The wreck occurred short before
noon yesterday A moment before the
train was due the draw opened to ad-
nit the passage through Of the tug
Glendale and a raft of logs.
Running nearly thirty >milcs an
hour and being unacquainted with this
section of the road, Engineer Reie
failed to see the danger until too late
He put on the emergency brake;