The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-16
FOURTEEN KILLED,
TWENTY-FIVE HURT
Terrible Wreck Of Passenger
Train on Southern Railway
Near Greensboro, \. c.
BROKEN RAIL CAUSE
OF CARS TURNING OVER
George J. Gould and Son en- the
Fated Train. but Both Es-
cape Injury.

GREENSBORO, y. c., Dee I5.-Lo.
cal passenger train No. II on the Sonth-
crD railway, known as The Richmond
aud Atlantic train. due in Greensboro
nj 6:40 clock. was wrecked this morn
ing AT 6;32 clock al Reedv Fork
trestle. ton mics north Of here. and n.
8 o clock tonight eleven bodies hsd
been removed from the wreckage.
Ii is said that fourteen are dead and
twenty-five are being cared for at a
hospital.
The Identified Dead
c, 2. CONN. superintendent Of the
Richmond aud Danville division OF the
Southern railway. Richmond
II. c. WHITE, travelling auditor
Washington D. C..
ISAAC Dammels. porter on the Rich.
mond sleeper.
c. E. NOLAN, Pullman CONDUCTOR,
Greensboro.
FRANK ". KILBY. Birmingham,
Ala, or Wilkesboro. y. c.
VIRGIL E. HOLCOMB, Mount Airy.
y. C..
ED SEXTON. Denton. \. c.
eRiCH ARD EAMES, mining engineer
CHARLES BROODFIELD, Americas,
! Ga.
JOHN G. BRODNAX, Richmond. Va.
The body of an unknown Waite mar,
! apparently . wears old, was recovered
late this afternoon.
Fatally Injured
Henry L. Stribling, Decatur. Ga.
Z: G.. Smith, Spencer, y. c.
Much time WAS required 70 remove
the dead aud injured from the debris.
George J. Gould. who. with his sou,
the train jumped the track and who
was reported dead. escaped uninjured
| He. with his son, JAY. aad a friend. r.
! II. Russell of New York, former editor
of tho Metropolitan magazine. had iust
got ont OF thcir bcrt6s when mo wreck
occurred. Mr.. Russell was badly hurt
| bN' coming in contact with car stove
and is at the hospital
Mr.. Gould and hls son came in on
! thc special bearing thc dead and in.
! iured. He left this afternoon for his
! hunting lodge fifteen miles from hcrc,
stating that the wreck had not dis.
arranged his plans for n week 5 outing.
Broken Rail the Cause,
The derailmcnt WIS caused by
broken rail about 20O feet from the
| tTcStlc that spans a small stream. The
train WAS compused of two baggage
express aud mail cars. three day coaches
and two Pullmans. The engine and
| baggage, mail and express cars passed
over in safety. whiie the day coaches
! and Pullmans were thrown from the
trestlc into the creek and along the
banks twenty 20 thirty feet below
At the point where the first coach
left the track, tho right rail was broken
about eighteen inches from Joint
| The rail WAS broken into fragments for
several feet and torn entirely from the
ties. The wheels ran on the ties I'M
til near the treStle. whep the out
side wheels went over. allowing The
brake beams and axles 10 fall on the
guard rails of the bridge.
Five Coaches Overturned
KS the last coach was on the tres,
lie. the fyc coaches toplcd over, broke
loose from the mail and express car
and tumbled into The mud and water
below
The Norfolk pulImon fell INTO the
water, while the Richmond sleeper, Just
in front landed only partially in the
water. Most OF tho injured and killed
in tine slecrers we're in the Richmond
car which was totally demolished
The Norfolk sleeper was also badly
torn up. hut fell on IFS side in the
swollen stream. submergiuG many pas
-epgcrs.
Some Bodies Mutila ated.
The appearance Of the dead at the
Iuodertakers shops showed that some
werr Scalded 90 death and Others were
badly mutilatcd, while one Vas cut in
half al The waist, his diSmemberea
parts being found at The opposite end
of thc coach
The railway bsd 2 corps Of officials
physicians and inborers nn the scene
soon after the news Was received here
AZ : clock this afternoon the track
was cleared. Three cars have not been
raised. and il is believed that sew
eral bodies viii be found beneath The
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