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Show Terrible AY reck of Passenger H Train on Southern Railway Near Greensboro, X. C. ' B BROKEN RAIL CAUSE I OF CARS TURNING OYER George J. Gould ami Son on the I FakMl Train, but Both Es- eune Injury. U Ji E ENSBOTfO, X. C, Dec. 13. Lo- I cal passenger train No. H on the Sonth- H cru railway, known as the Richmond H and Atlantic traiu. duo in Greensboro H nt (5:lu o'clock. .was wrecked this mom- H in.g at G:.T2. o'clock at "Reedy Fork H fte?tle. ten miles north of here, and at fl 0. o'clock tonight eleven bodies had B been removed from the wreckage. Jjfl It is said that fourteen arc der.d and SB twenty-five are being cared for a I a H The Identified Dead. H C. P. CONN, superintendent of tho fl Richmond and Danville division of the II Southern railway. Richmond. Sm H. C. WHITE, traveling auditor, jfl Washington, D. C. (J ISAAC Dammels. porter on tho Rich- H tnond sleeper. H C. E. .NOLAN, Pullman conductor, ?H Greensboro. M FRANK W.' KLLBY, Birmingham, I Ala., or Wilkesboro, N. C- I VIRGIL B. IIOLCOMB, Mount Airr, X. C. ' ED SEXTON. Denton. X. C. RICHARD EAMES, mining engineer of Salisbury. X C. CHARLES DROODFIELD, Americas, (7 a. JOKX O. BRODXAX. Richmond, Va. j The body of an unknown white iuac, . apparently 2 vcars old, was recovered f late I his afternoon. j Fatally Injured. Henry L. Stribliug, Decatur, Ga. F. G. Smith, Spencer. X".. C. i Much time was required to remove i the dead aud injured from tho debris. : George .). Gould, who. with his sou, ' Jay. was in one of the Pullmans when f .the .train jumped the track, and who ( was reported dead, escaped unininred. ) He. with his son, Jny. and a. friend. Tt. II. Kiiisoil of New York, former editor of the MctropalitaiL.snapyizine. had pist I got-0Tif 'of 'their berths when tho wreck i occurred. Mr. Itussoll was badlv hurt by coming in contact, with a car stove and is at the hospital. Mr. Gould ami his sou came in on j tho special bearing the dead and in- f jured. He left this afternooa for his 8)1 hunting lodge fifteen milps from here. tm stating that the wreck had not dis- B arranged his plans for a week's outing. jl Broken Koil tlio Cause. The derailment was caused bv a I broken Vail about "200 feel, from the trestle that spa us a small stream. The H train was coinnoserl of two baggage, jjH express and mail cars, thrco day coaches tlH and two Pullmans. The engine and RH baggage, mail a.nd express cars passed U over in safety, while the day coaches H and Pullmans were thrown "from the W trestle into the creek and along the H banks twenty to thirty feet below. fl At the point whore the first coach m left the track, the right rail was broken about eighteen inches from a joint. The rail was broken into fragments for i several feet and torn entirely from the ties. The wheels raw on the ties un- I til near the trestle, when the out- ' side wheels went over, allowing thf , brake beams and axles to fall ou the N guard rails of the bridge. fa Five Coaches Overturned. 1 As the last coach was ou the tres- J tie. the five coaches topled over, broke m loose from the mail and express car jl and tumbled into ihe mud and water J below'. 'J The Norfolk Pullman fell info the ,M water, while the Richmond .sleeper. ju?t I iu front. landed only partially in tho l water. Most of tho injured and killed SI iu the sleepers were in the Richmond jl car. which was totally demolished. ' The Norfolk sleeper was also hndly torn up. but fell on if s si do in tho v swollen stream, submerging many pa- I. seogci-s. I Somo Bodi03 Mutilated. r The appearance of Ihe dead at the undertakers' shops showed that som F were f cabled to death and oihers were badly mutilated, while one -i?as cut in j, half' al the waist, his dismembered 5 parts being found at Ihe opposite cud L of the coadi. . sj The railway had a corps of officials, g: jihvsic.ians and In borer? on the scene B soon after the news was received here. I At ." o'clock this afternoon the track f i was cleared. Three cars have not been ' raised, and it is believed that se- V oral bodies will be found beneath the wreckage. |