Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-26
WRECK ON SOUTHERN
Northbound Train Derailed Near
Charlottesville.
COACHES TURNED TURTLE
Many Passengers Were Hurt, But
None Killed.
WASHINGTON MAN WAS INJURED
Several Other Railroad Accidents in
Various Localities-Ohio
Fatality.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. August 90
Southern railway train No. "a. northbound,
known as the New York and Augusta ex-
press and the companion train of NO. 3D.
on which President Samuel Spencer was
killed near Rangoon last Thanksgiving day,
had a narrow escape from total destruction
at 4 o'clock this morning. While approach
ing Red Hill, eight miles south of Char
lottesville the entire train. with the excep-
ton of the engine. left the track. and after
running along the ties was thrown against
a clay embankment Several Of the Sleep
ers left the trucks. but strange to say no
one was killed and but few injured.
List of Injured.
Those who were worst injured were:
Calvin Cowan, negro, Salisbury, N. c.,
badly cut about face.
V. w. Duvall, Hyattsvile, Md, chief
clerk in mail car, cut on breast and arm.
Hilary Goodman, Salisbury, N. c., mer-
chant, arm and wrist injured
John A. Boyer, mail clerk, Washington,
internally.
H. c. Golfer, go West 124th street, New
York, body bruised and arm hurt.
D. S. Rothrock, Winston-Salem. N. c.,
arms confused and body bruised.
Ellen H. Cotton. negro, 10 Burleigh street,
Cambridge, Mass. arms and body confused.
R. N Sturgis, Rock Hill, S. c.. arms and
body bruised
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bruised.
G. C. Miller, express agent, Columbia,
S. c., body bruised and arms hurt.
G. c. Richards, expressman, Greensboro,
N. c., head and arms hurt.
R. L. Holland, negro. Washington, D. c.,
arms and body bruised.
R. G. Upton, Whitney, N. c., arms and
body bruised.
Daniel Kerr, Nashville, Tenn, arms and
body bruised
H. Morton, 100 Ashford street, Brook
Ign, N. Y, hand hurt.
Ada Bullock, Greenwood, Va, arms and
body bruised and confused.
Richard Sweeney, Jersey City. porter,
chest injured.
All of these except Duvall, according to
the railway officials. are able to proceed
without assistance
The train containing the injured reached
Charlottesville at 1880. but only one-Cowan
was removed to the University Hospital.
Attached to the rear of the train was the
private car of Byrd Robinson. president of
the Missouri. Jackson and Kansas City rail-
He and his party We're unhurt.
All the passengers were badly shaken up.
Several Jumped from the windows while
the cars were running along the ties. Had
the accident occurred fifty yards further
the train would have been thrown from
high trestle.
The accident was due to a defective rail-
which is in possession of the crew. The
track is badly torn up the length of the
train and traffic will be blocked for the
greater portion of the day
The Washington officials of the railroad
company issued the following statement:
Train No IA of the Southern railway,
running at moderate rate of speed, was
day. The entire train turned over, except
engine and tender. No one killed and no
one seriously injured. Approximately
twenty-one people very slightly injured,
and these twenty-one proceeded on their
Journey, train having been promptly
made up at Charlottesville. near the scene
of the trouble, and this train now en-
route Washington. Cause of the trouble