The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-01-22
s{ABOARD AIR LINE WRECK
Officials Claim Switch Had Been
Tampered.
Scene Visited by Large Number OF
People-Inspection Of the National
Guard-Two Marriages Yesterday
Large Amount of OdeIl Cotton Mill
Paper Owned in City.
The Messenger Bureau,

Raleigh, n. c., January 16. 1907.
Large numbers of people went out
this morning to Pamlico Junction, two
miles north of the city, to see the
wreck Of the Seaboard Air Line Florida
limited train, but nothing was to be
seen except the derailed engine anu
tender and the iron works of two Pull
man cars and a diner and of three
freight cars of the Raleigh & PamlicO
road The switch, it is declared, Dy
the Seaboard Air Line people had been
tampered with and the engine took
the track of the Raleigh & Pamllco
road, ran along it for little distance,
then jumped and is now between the
two tracks and clear of both, the train
also going on down the Raleigh &
PamIicO Sound track until stopped py
the freight cars, and the three cars
named of the passenger train catching
on fire and burning the freight cars
also. The passengers, who were noL
very numerous, were taken north by
way of Durham. There was only d
pile of debris to mark the place this
morning and the SeabOard Air Line
trains were passing as usual. The
crossing place Of the tracks about Is
yards north of an embankment, which
at one point is 40 feet high.
EX-Lieutenant Governor DOughtOn,
now a member Of the house, when ask
ed today what he thought the railway
passenger rate would be made, sad
he though II cents fiat.
A charter is granted the Farmers &
Merchants bank of Newton, capital
stock 100000 with leave to increase 20
$10O, 900.
Adjutant General Robertson today is
sued an order for the inspection OF the
national guard by Colonel Struggled,
beginning at Raleigh, February 18TH,
and ending at Waynesville March 2Ist.
The company at Wilmington Will be
inspected February 21st, that at Char
lOtte March 18th and that at Asheyllle
March goth. Another order allows IN
fantry companies to increase their
number to 65, it being now co.
The trial of the Nall case continued
in the superior court today and will
not end before tomorrow night The
state rested yesterday afternoon, but
has more witnesses to put on.
North Carolina to the Jametown expo
sitiOn will go before the committees
of the legislature to urge favorable
report on the bill increasing the ap-
propriations to the exposition $25,OO.
The governor has urged this increase
and the commissioners will lay the
matter very strongly before the COM
mittees.
1t is learned that nearly 100000 OF
the paper of the Odell Cotton mill is
held by Raleigh people.
This morning Miss Nola UzZell,
daughter of Mr.. E. M. Uzzell, state
printer, was married to Mr.. J. l..
Gill. at the home of the brides parents.
Another wedding today was that or
Miss Mary Andrews to Mr.. William M .
Person at the church of the Good
Shepherd A reception was given the
bride-elect yesterday by Mr.. and Mrs.
Brown Shepherd, and dance was
given in her honor last evening at the
Raney library.
A favorable report has been made
on a bill 50 amending the law that
only active farmers can be members
of the state board of agriculture or
commissioner of agriculture. Under
the law enacted some years ago only
farmers could be on the board but IN
some way no member of the board
seems to know how this was changed
in the revisal.