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

Charlotte, N. u, Dc. l5.-Isenty
persons are reported to have been killed
and probably forty IL jared when pas-
senger train No. IL, on the Southern
Railway, speeding south at the rate OF
,hirty-6ve miles sn hour, Jlmped from
trestle Is feet high and landed In
Reedy Greek, few miles north OF
Greensboro, early this morning.
The wreck was one Of the most fright.
fol that ever occurred 10 the history OF
the Southern r iiIroad. Without The
sIIgh,est warning several cars Of the train
plunged from the bridge to the bottom
Of the creek below. There was a crash
followed by the mu fled means of the
surviving Injured as they fought for lie
amid the twisted and torn wrecksge.
The dead and injured wtra buried 10
three feet of water.
Following are among those reported
killed, as wired to the Southern Railway
officers In Washington.
John A. Broadnax, Greensboro, n.
O.; V. f. Hslcomb, lawyer, OF Mt.
Airy, N. O.; Edward Sexton, Denton,
N. O; Frank W. Kilby, formerly OF
Portsmouth, Va A. P. Gone, superin.
teudent OF the Richmond division OF the
Southern Railway; ID. O. Nolan, Pull
man, conductor; q. 81. White, travelling
auditor; hagman, name unknown.
Mr.. Gone was assistant superlutend'
ent under Mr.. z E. Lake before Mr..
G. V. Pey ten became superintendent. ]
News OF the wreck was taken to
Greensboro, where corps Of physicians
aud nurses was organized aud dispatched
10 the scene on q special train.
George J. Gould, the New York mil.
lionaire, Jay Gould and one Of bis sons,
were passengers, but they were uoin.
jured, according TO messages received
here. They we're travelling in the only
sleeper on the train,
The hero OF the day was Conductor
Gtorge Gable, who was among those
precipilated into the creek. NotSilh.
standing a broken leg, be claEled two
miles to the nearest telegraph station,
where be gave the word, resulting 10
the ordering Of the relief train.
AS soon sc the surgeons and nurses
and wrecking crew had rescued the 10.
jared passengers, the special train was
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 we're the first to 90 down and the
passenger coaches piled down aud upon
them in crash thst left them no chance
for their lives, The pilot OF the engine
stuck fast lie the mud and the following
coaches and sleeper had the efsct Of a
driving hammer, pushing the big steel
structure fully twenty feet under ground.
The wrecking crew 10 busy at work up
to their waists In water digging for dead
who may be buried under the mud. On
account OF the fact that number OF the
passengers may thus DO buried, no exact
estimate OF the dead could be made.
Washington, Dec. 15.-Vice. Presi.
dent Ackert Of the Southern Railway
made the following statement this after
noon regarding the wreck In North Caro-
lima:
"Our passenger train No. II, which
Ia operated locally between Richmond,
Va, and Atlantis, Ga, aud carried
sleepers from Richmond to Charlotte,
aud from Norfolk to Charlotte, was de-
rallied about six fifty o'clock this morning
about eleven miles north OF Greens.
boro, N. O. As far as can be sscer.
tanned at this time the cause OF the &C.
cidert was q broken rail due to con-
cealed defect. Two coaches and two
seepers turned over. The engine, mail
and baggage cars did not leave the
track. Eight persons, four of whom
we're passengers, are reported killed, and
q number Of other hurt, bat not ser-
iously.
"Mr. George Gould and bic son were
10 the Norfolk sleeper. Neither Of
them we're Injured"