The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-10
SOUTHERN RY. WRECK
Disaster Occurred Greensboro,
North Carolina.
4 KILLED and rs INJURED
Coaches Of Train Left the Track ON q
TrestIe and Plunged Into
Creek Below.

Greensboro, N. C.-Local passenger
train No. IL on the Southern Rail
way, known as the Richmond and
Atlanta train, was wrecked at Reedy
Fork trestle, 10 miles north OF here.
Fourteen are reported dead, and rs
Injured are being cared for at the
hospital. The dead bodies identified
are:
a. r. Cone, superintendent OF the
Richmond and DanvilIe division OF
the Southern Railway with headquar-
tiers at Richmond; H. G. White, tray
cling auditor, Washington, D. c.;
Isaac Dammals, porter on the Rich
moRd sleeper; C. B. Nolan, Pullman
conductor, Greensboro; Frank W. Xii
by, an expert accountant or Admission,
Ala; Virgil E. 4olcomb, Mount Airy,
N. c.; Ed Sexton, Denton, N O.; Rich
ard Eames, prominent mining engi-
neer of Salisbury, N. G.. John G..
Brodnax, Richmond, Va; Ed Bagby,
Richmond, Va; Charles L. Broad
field, Americas, Ca
The body OF an unknown white man,
apparently about rs years old. was
recovered. Among the patients at the
hospital who are fatally injured are
Henry L. Stribling, OF Decatur, Ca,
and f. Smith of Spencer, N. e. The
list of those seriously enough injured
to be taken to the htspltaI is as fol
lows:
Thomas w. Eldridge, Richmond
Va; John W. Phillips, Petersburg,
Va: David P. McBrayer, Anderson,
s. c.; B. Hill (colored), Reidsville, ~
c.; Jonas Anderson (colored), Rich
Ihond A. L. Harris, Reidsville; VII
Kinnon, Davidson College, n C.; SUI
trail aWtson, Baskerville, Va; Arthur
Watson, Baskerville, Va; Robert Rus
sell, New York; Burton Harye, Rich
mond, Va; Mrs. H. T. Cook, Norfolk,
Va; Thomas v. Chalkley, Greensboro,
N. c.; Philip Nelson, Greensboro, N.
c.; Richard Nelson, Greensboro, N.
c.: Richard Dobie, Norfolk, Va; W.
T. Carter, DanvilIe, Va; w. T. Car
roll, Norfolk, Va; w. T. Deberry
(colored), Portsmouth, Va; H. L.
Wood, Norfolk, Va; Mrs. Robert Ed
monds, New Orleans, La; q. H. Co
bic, Richmond.
George j. Gould, who, with his son,
Jay Gould, was in one of the Pull
mans when the train jumped the
track and who was reported dead,
escaped uninjured. He, with his son,
Jay, and friend, r. H. Russell, OF New
York, former editor OF the Metropol.
itan Magazine, had just gotten out
of their berths when the jump occur
red. Mr.. Russell was badly hurt by
coming in contact with a car stove
and is at the hospital
The derailment of the train was
caused by a broken rail about 200 feet
from the trestle that spans the small
stream
At the point where the first coach
left the track the right hand rail be-
ing broken, about 18 inches from a
Joint, the rail was broken into frag-
ments for several feet and torn en-
tirely from the crossties. The truck
wheels ran on the ties until near the
trestIe. when the outside wheels went
over. allowing the brake beams and
axles to fall on the guard rah OF the
bridge. AS the last coach was about
on the trestle the five coaches top
pied over, broke loose from the mali
and express car and tumbled to the
mud and water below.
The Norfolk Pullman fell in the
water, while the Richmond sleeper,
lust in front, landed only partially in
the water. The most of the injured
and killed in the sleepers were in the
Richmond sleeper, which was totally
demolished.