The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-16
THE DAY COACHES AND PULLMANS ARE THROWN
 INTO \ SMALL STREAM 
Several Bodies Are Believed to Be Buried Under the Wrecked coaches-Georee Gould
 and Son Escape.

Greensboro. N. C., December 15.-Local passenger train No. II. on the Southern , railway, known as fthe Richmond and Atlanta train. was wrecked this morning at 6:32 at Reedy Ford trestle. ten miles : north of here and at 6 o'clock this even ing Il dead bodies had been removed from the wreclsage Fourteen are reported dead and 25 injured are being cared for at St. Leo's hospital here. The dead bodies so far identified are A P. Cone. Richmond Va, superin- tendent of the Richmond and Danville di- vision of the Southern railway Charles T. Broadfield, Americus, Ga
 H. c. White, travelling auditor, Wash ington, D. c.
 c. B. Nolan, Pullman conductor, Greens boro, N. c.
 Frank ". Kilby, Anniston, Ala,. or Wilkesboro. N. c.
 Virgil F. Holcomb. Mt. Airy, N. c.
 Ed Sexton. Denton, N. c.
 Richard Flames, prominent mining engi- neer of Salisbury, N c.
 John c. Broadnax, Richmond, Va Ed Bagby, Richmond Va. Isaac Dammals. colored, porter on the Richmond sleeper.
 Among the persons at the hospital who are fatally injured are Henry L. Strib- ling of Decatur, Ga, and F. Smith, Spen- cer. N. c.
 List of Injured. The injured in the hospital include the following:
 Thomas VI E1aridge, Richmond, Va !. John w. Phillips, Petersburg. Va: David P. McBrayer, Anderson, s. C.; A. L.. Harris, Reldsville, N. C.; Will Kinnon, Davidson college, N. C.; Sutral Watson, Baskerville, Va: Arthur Watson, Basker- vile. Va: Robert Russell. New York; Burton Marye, Richmond, Va; Mrs. H. T. Cook. Norfolk, Va; Thomas V. Chalk ley, Greensboro. N. C.; Philip Nelson. Greensboro, N. C.; Richmond Dobie, Nor folk, Va; W. T. Carter, Danville. Va. i; w. T. Carroll. Norfolk, Va; H. L. Wood, Norfolk, Va; Mrs. Robert Edmonds, New Orleans G. H. Coble, Richmond. Va
 The injured were brought to this city as rapidly as they could be extricated from the wreck and placed in St. Leo $ hospital.
 George J. Gould, who, with his son, Jay Gould, was in one of the Pullmans when the train jumped the tarck and who was reported dead escaped unnjured. He, with his son, Jay and friend. k. H. Russell of New York, former editor of the Metropolitan magazine, had just got ten out of their berths when the wreck occurred. MT. Russell was badly nurt by coming in contact with stove and is at the hospital. MT. Gould and his son came in on the special bearing the dead and injured. They left this after noon for MT. Gould's hunting lodge, 10 miles from here.
 Cause of Wreck.
 The derailment of the train was caused by a. broken rail about 200 feet from the trestle that spans the small stream The train was composed of two baggage, ex- press and mail cars, three day coaches and two Pullmans. The engine, baggage, mail and express cars passed over In safe- ty. while the day coaches and Pullmans were thrown from the trestle into the creek and along the banks some 20 to % feet below.
 At the point where the first coach left the track the right hand rail was broken into fragments for several feet and torn entirely from the cross ties. The truck wheels ran on the ties until near the trestle when they went over, allowing the brake beams and axles to fall on the guard rail of the bridge. As the last coach was almost on the trestle, the live coaches toppled over, broke loose from the mail and express car and tumbled to \ the mud and water below. The Norfolk Pullman fell in the water, while the Richmond sleeper, just in front, anded only partially in the water.
 The most of the injured and killed in the sleepers were in the Richmond sleep CT, which was almost totally demolished The Norfolk sleeper was not so badly torn up, but fell on it's side in the swollen stream, submerging many of the passen- gers.
 Conductor Injured.
 The conductor of this coach, Captain Johnson, was only slightly injured, and killed.
 The trailing coach was day passenger coach. and 1t Is not known whether 1t contained passengers. The front end of this coach was split wide open and par tially submerged in the creek.
 The Richmond Pullman is a mass of wreckage, scattered over the wet and muddy bank of the stream, part of 1t being buried in the mud. At II o'clock parts of two bodies were visible from the edge of this mass of wreckage and 1t Is not known tonight how many more if any were under it. Railroad men, who were working hard to rescue the unfor- tunate victims. and to recover the bodies of the dead, were practically certain that a removal of the debris would reveal more dead bodies.
 The two day coaches in front of the Pullmans were also complete wrecks, be- ing smashed into kindIng wood. It is thought that all the victims had been re- moved from these two cars, though a force of men were hard at work making q thorough search for any that might re- main. Scaded to Death. Of those killed, some were scalded to death, others were badly mutilated. while one was cut in half at the waist his dismembered parts being found at the op-