THROUGH A TRESTLE.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 100, 28 April 1888, Page 5

THROUGH A TRESTLE.

A FEARFUL ACCIDENT ON

THE RAIL,

NINETEEN KILLED AND MANY

INJURED.

The first section of the fast mail train from New York and Jacksonville went through trestle at a point seventy-five miles south of Savannah, Ga., March 17th. The entire train, except the engine, is demolished. Nineteen people are reported to have been killed and between thirty and forty injured, ten of whom are expected to die. The private car of President Wilbur of the Lehigh Valley Road, with Mr Wilbur and George Gould and wife and others in it, was attached to the train. President Wilbur is reported to be seriously injured. George Gould is unhurt and Mrs Gould slightly injured. Pielief train's have gone out with physicians. The accident was paused by a broken rail under the baggage car. The baggage car got off the track about a quarter of a mile before it reached a bridge over Hurricane river, but the train passed safely over the bridge Immediately on the other side of the bridge there is a trestle, several hundred feet in length. When the baggage oar struck the trestle-work it gave way and the entire train, with the exception of the engine, dropped through and, with the exception of one car, was completely wrecked. The train consisted of a combination car, two Pulman sleepers and the private car of the President of the Lehigh Valley road. ■ The second engine ran to Black Shear, a mile distant, for assistance. Soon all the

physicians m the pl ace were present, besides many who wore ready to render assistance in gettingout the dead and rescuing the wounded. Superintendent Fleming o*f the railroad, as soon as he heard of ths accident, left Savannah for the scene of the accident with physicians and nurses. All the afternoon and evening he had a full force of hands clearing away the wreck. About 400 feet of the trestle was carried away.

Up to midnight the only communication with tho scene of the wreck has been through the railroad ofncials.