Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-12-22
APPALLING WRECK
Two Coaches and Three Pl'-
mans Hurled fram Trestle.
ARE KILLED OUTRIGHT.

A Score OF More Injured in Various
Degrees of Severity-Wreck Be-
lieved to Be Due to Broken Rail
Occurred at Reedy Fork Greek
North of Greensboro.
Greensboro, N. c., special.-Three
Pullmans and two day coaches-two
Of the Pullmans partially submerged
in the waters of Reedy Fork creek,
four Of the cars splintered into an I'M
recognizable mass-are lying Tuesday
night, ten miles north of Greensboro,
a vivid picture of the most horrible
railroad accident that has ever occur
red in North Carolina. Twelve dead
bodies III the undertaking establish
ments in Greensboro, some OF them
mangled beyond recognition, and a
score or more injured in St. Leo's
hospital, tell further Of the awful
calamity that came without a mo.
ment's warning to southbound local
passenger train No. IL at $50 We'd
nesday morning.
The engine, mail car, express and
baggage cars passed over the bridge
in safety, the first a to leave the
track being the day coach, which
probably left the rail about midway
of the trestle, which is about l5O feet
long. This ear did not leave the
bridge until it had reached the south
end and it turned completely over
down the embankment and lies prob
ably fifty feel from the track almost
off the railroad right Of way and
probably one hundred feet from the
nearest a j. The second day coach
lies on its side battered into kindling
wood at the foot of the bridge which
is 30 feet hign. This car and the
three Pullmans behind it fell the 30
feet, dragging a number Of the heavy
bridge tinlbers with it. The first Pull
man car in the train was probably
TIE most complete wreck of all. This
was Pullman car Ephesus from Rich
lnond bound for Charlotte. The see
ond Pullman is the Norfolk-C Charlotte
Pullman. This is also Il complete
The rear car was u dead
head coach, and no passengers were
in this car.
The following is the list Of the
dead: A. p. Cone, superintendent.
division, Southern: II. C..
White, travelling auditor, Southern;
Richard Eames, Salisbury, mining
engineer; John G. Broadnax, Rich
Va, wholesale liquor dealer;
D. c. Nolan, Greensboro, Pullman
conductor; Virgil f. Holcomb, Mount
Airy, attorney; Edward Sexton, Dem
ton; Charles Bagby, Manchester, Va,
fagman; H. i. Stribling, Winston
travelling salesman; F. W
Admission, Ala; Charles T.
Americas, Ca, Virginia.
Chemical Company; Isaac
colored, Richmond, Pull
man porter.
The injured ire: John Phillips,
Petersburg, Va, head bruised; Stuart
Watterson, Baskerville, Pa, bad scalp
wound: Arthur Watterson. Basker-
vile, Va, scalp wound; Avis Harris,
tobacco manufacturer,
head bruised. left leg broken and
back s%prained; Rev. Benjamin Fill,
colored. R~eidsvile, head bruised; Will
liam Kimmon, Davidson College,
slight injury to the head; William
Monroe, colored porter on the train,
slight scalp wound; Daniel. P. Nc
Anderson. S. c., seriously in
jured; Thomas W. Eldridge, Rich
Va, baggage master on the
train, leg and head injured; James
Anderson, colored, Norfolk, Va,
slight head wound; a. S. johnson,
Norfolk; Pullman conductor, slight
bruises; Philip Nelson, Greensboro,
civil engineer on the Southern Rail-
way, leg broken; Thomas V. Chalkey,
Greensboro, employed in engineering
department of Southern Railway,
back hurt; Richard ~. Dobie, Norfolk,
superintendent of public schools. not
seriously injured: w. T. Carter, Dan
vile, travelling auditor Southern Rail
way, injurics not considered serious:
George r. Wagner. Danville, South
ern loeomotica engineer. Injuries
not serious. Was travelling as a pas
senger; W. T. Carroll. Norfolk, city
agent of the Southern. Not Sc
injured: NJ. T. Deberry, col
ored. Portsmouth, Pullman porter.
Not seriously injured: Mrs. Mary T.
Norfolk, suffering from shock;
r. Smith, Spencer, Southern Railway
employee. Unconscious and probably
injured; Burton Mayre. Rich
mond. roadmaster, Richmond division
Railway. Seriously injured
about the head and body; c. L. Cand-
Ter, Norfolk. agent Southern Railway.
Not seriously injured; II. L. Wood.
Norfolk, Pullman superintendent.
Slightly injured. Was removed from
hospital to hotel in the afternoon:
Mrs. Robert Edmonds and Robert
Jr.. New Orleans. Both
bruised and shocked; Robert II. Rus
sell, New York, painfully bruised and
bone fractured; Jay Gould, Jr..
son of George Gould, severe nervous
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