Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-12-15
Today's Telegraphic News
Frigh tfui Railroad Accident.

OQAllOtte, Ns VI, btC. lo.-1 heuL.
parsons are reported to have been killed
aud probably forty iIjored when pa:
senger train No. II, on the Southern
Railway, speeding south at the rate c.
,hirly.fi7e miles an hour, Iamped from
a trestle rs feet high and landed II
Reedy Greek, a few miles north o
Greensboro, early this morning.
The wreck was one of the most fright.
fol that ever occurred 10 the history o.
the Southern Railroad. Without ID,
slightest warning severRl cars of the trair
plunged from the bridge to the bottom
of the creek below. There vas crast
followed by the mu He'd means of TIL
surviving Injured as they fought for Lille
amid the twisted aud torn wrecksge.
The dead and Injured were buried Ii
three feet of water.
Following are among those reportet
killed, as wired to the Southern Railway
officers In Washington.
John A. Broadoa1, Greensboro, N
O.; V. E. Halcomb, q lawyer, of Mt
Airy, N. O.; Edward Sexton, Denton,
N. O; Frank W. -Kilby, formerly o.
Portsmouth, Va A. P. Gone, superin
tendent of the Richmond division of The
Southern Railway; d. O. Nolan, Poll
man, conductor; o. q. White, travelling
auditor; aagman, name unknown.
Mr.. Gone was assistant superIutend
ent under Mr.. E E. Lake before Mr.
G. V. Peyto became perinteudent ]
News OF the wreck was taken t.
Greensboro, whsre corps of physicians
aud nurses was organized and dispatched
10 the scene on special train.
George J. Gould, the New York mil
lionaire, Jay Gould and one of bis sons,
were passengers, but they we're uuin'
jared, according to messages received
mere. They we're travelling in the only
sleeper on The train,
The hero OF the day was Conductor
Gsorge Gable, who wss among those
precipitsted into the creek. NotSith.
standing broken leg, be GA Rled twc
miles to the nearest telegraph station,
where he gave the word, resulting 10
the ordering OF the relief train.
As soon as the surgeonn and nurses
and Rrecking crew had rescued the in.
jared passengers, the special train waa
started back to Greensboro with both
dead and injured. The latter we're taken
to St. Leo's Hospital.
Among the reported dead are The en-
gineer and fireman of the wrecked train.
They were the first to 90 down and The
passenger coaches piled down aud upon
them in crash that left them no chance
for their lives. The pilot OF the engine
stuck fast In the mud and the following
coaches au6 sleeper had the effsct of 6
driving hammer, pushing the big steeI
structure fully twenty feet under ground.
The wrecking crew is busy at work OF
to their waists in water digging for dead
who nay be buried under the mud. On
sccounr of The fact that number of the
passengers may thus be buried, no exact
estimate of the dead could be made.
Washington, Dec. 15.-Vice.P resi.
dent Acksrt Of the Southern Railway
made the following statement this after.
noon regarding the wreck In North Caro-.
lima:
sour passenger train No. II, which
ia operated locally between Richmond,
Va, and Atlantis, Ga, and carried
slespers from Richmond to Charlotte,
aud from Norfolk to Charlotte, was de-
rallied about six City O'clock this morning
about eleven miles north of Green's.
boro, N. O. As far as can be ascer.
tanned at this time the cause OF the &C.
cident was broken rail due to cou-
cealed defect. Two coaches and two
slespsrs turned over. The engine, mail
and baggage cara did not leave The
track. Eight persons, four of whom
we're passengers, are reported killed, and
a number of other hurt, but net ser
iously.
"Mr. Gsorgs Gould and bic son we're
10 the Norfolk sleeper. Neither of
them we're injured"