Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-07-10
s1.ItsvILLE AND IREDELL COUNTY.
A Wreck OF the Western. StatesviIIians
Come Down to see a Ball Game.
ststesyiIe Landmark. July 2-5.

statesyiie Landmark, July 2-5.
Mrs. w. F. K'rkman died yes
tardav afternoon at her home five
miles north of town and will be
buried today at Trinity grave
yard.
The vacancy on the board of
county commissioners caused by
the death of M. F. Nesbit was
filled last week by the appoint
ment of D. r. Turner, of Moores-
Vile. Under the law the clerk of
the Superior Court is authorized
to fill vacancies on the board of
commissioners and J. A. Hartness
last week appointed Mr.. Turner.
Mrs. Sallie Johnston White.
widoW of the late John W. White
died Friday afternoon at 1:3O
o'clock at her home on east Broad
street. Mrs. White had been in
feeble health for several months
and for week before death her
condition was critical. Mrs.
White was daughter of the late
Cook Johnston and was 60 years
old last month.
While running at high speed
about 10 O'Clock Sunday morning,
nine cars Of an ast-bound freight
train were derailed at a point on
the Western road one and quar-
ter miles east of the Catawba
river, nine miles west of States
vile, and as result w. H Bible,
of Midway, Tenn, is in the sani-
torium here painfully injured,
about 5000 chickens, ducks and
turkeys are dead or injured, four
cars are demolished and the road
bed was 80 badly damaged that
traffic was delayed several hours.
The cause of the wreck is yet to
be determined. The car contain
ing Mr.. Bible was one of the first
to leave the track and the others
piled sn it, mashing poultry into
jelly and covering Mr.. Bible be-
meath the huge pile of flesh and
splirtered wood and iron. AS
soon as the train stopped the
trainmen rushed to the chicken
cars. When they saw the sicken-
ing sight of blood and flesh they
decided that/Mr. Bible was dead.
But few minutes later groans
we're heard and after moving part
of the debris foot was discover
ed and a little later the injured
man was pulled from his perilous
position. The trainmen and sec
tion hands began work at once to
clear the track and the spectators
watched 1000 to 1900 chickens,
ducks and turkeys, of the lot of
1900, that had escaped unhurt.
or were only slightly injured,
scatter over the river bottom and
the woods. Many of the people
near by caught some of the chick
ems and carried them home, and
it is said that some of the ducks
made their way to the river near
by aud left by water.
Statesville was almost closed
town yesterday on account of the
Fourth. The patriotic merchants
suspended entirely; the drug
stores and postoffice observed Sun
day hours.
The Southern Power Company
is having some trouble in obtain
ing the right Of way for its lines
to Statesvllle and the trouble
seems to be located at or in the
vicinity of Oswalt, this county.
Arrangements have been made
for preliminary survey of the
Statesville Air Line railroad from
Statesville to Mt Airy. A COM
petent surveyor has been secured
and will begin his work in about
mouth.
Judge A. L. Coble has returned
from Alamance county, where he
was called last week on account of
the illness of his father, W. L.
Coble. Mr.. Coble is 80 years old
and very feeble, but his condition
is very encouraging and it is
thought that he will regain his
usual strength in a few weeks.
W. H. Bible, who was injured
in the freight wreck near the Ca
tawba river Sunday, and who is
at the sanitorium for treatment,
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