Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1888 — TEN MEN KILLED. [ARTICLE]

TEN MEN KILLED.

A terrible accident occurred on the Norfolk & Western railroad, at Forest depot, about eight miles from Lynchburg, Vai, at 1 o’clock Sunday morning. Ten men were killed. A freight train, which left Lynchburg about midnight Saturday night, collided at a cut near Forest depot with an east-bound material v train, causing a comp ete wreck of both trains. Engineers Henry and Harris, Darnley, the fireman of the material train, and several colored trainmen, whose names are unknown, were killed. Fireman Mays, of the freight train, was fatally injured. The conductor escaped with slight bruises. The accident was caused, it is claimed, by the conductor of the material train misunderstanding orders. ' '