Show TRAIN RUNS INTO OPEN DRAW plunges into abyss with human freight thirty being killed norfolk va between twenty and thirty negroes nc groes occupying the first car on an atlantic coast line excursion train for kingston N C to this cl city ty were killed hilled or injured six miles from this city abor shortly fly after noona noon thursday the train consisting of the engine and six coaches plunged through an open draw ot of the bridge at bruce station the engine and one coach being completely submerged in about twelve feet of water and the second coach partly submerged it Is difficult at this time to estimate the number of the dead it Is believed that every person in the first car perished none having yet been accounted tor for with the exception of tho the train crew and the promoters of 0 tho the excursion fill all aboard were colored the engineer fireman and conductor escaped the specific orders ot of the road to stop mop all trains at the bridge whether the draw Is open or not was vas apparently ignored the train plunged into the abyss both engineer and fir fireman an discovered the open draw too we late I 1 a t to 0 stop the air brakes were applied but did not work property properly |