Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1888 — FELL THROUGH A TRESTLE. [ARTICLE]

FELL THROUGH A TRESTLE.

A terrible accident occurred on the Virginia Midland railroad early Thursday morning. A through Southern train went through a trestle between Orange Court House and Barboursville, a dis--tance of fifteen feet, killing five persons outright and wounding upward of forty, some About two miles south of Orange is a trestle forty-eight feet high, which was known to be weak, and the railroad company was engaged in filling it in. The train was moving at a speed of six miles crossing the trestle,under regular orders. The engine had passed safely over most of the trestle, when the smoker, mail, baggage and express cars went down with a great erash dragging down the engine and tender and two passenger coaches. Two sleepera On tbeTrestle: —-The engine went down pilot end foremost, thus communicating no fire to the wreck. All the lights were extinguished in the fall- The dead and some of the wounded were taken to Orange. -