The Statesville Tragedy II
USE SOME COMMON SENSE!
Safety is a matter of common sense. Don’t place yourself in a position to be hurt. No one wants to be the next ghost to haunt a site.
The Statesville train wreck at Bostian’s Bridge claimed 25 lives on 27 August 1891. The number nine passenger train bound for Asheville, NC was running late and the engineer had the locomotive howling to make up the time. The train jumped the tracks at Bostian’s bridge and plunged 60 feet into the valley below. The carnage was horrific, the worst rail disaster in North Carolina History.
Fifty years later on 27 August 1941 a woman sat in a stalled car adjacent to the crossing below the bridge. While her husband went for help, the woman saw a train coming. To her alarm the train derailed on Bostian’s bridge and fell into the gorge. she ran down the tracks hoping to help any survivors, but when she reached the wreck she saw nothing but the creek valley below. This was the first recorded sighting of the Bostian’s Bridge ghost train. Since that time paranormal enthusiasts have met at Bostian’s Bridge on the anniversary of the wreck hoping to catch a glimpse of the ghost train.
When you hunt for any form of paranormal oddities, you owe it to yourself to observe common sense and basic safety considerations. Observe warning signs and stay off posted property. Unfortunately, last year a group of people did neither. They stood on the bridge while waiting for a ghost train to appear and realized too late that they were watching a real train. The freight was faster than they were. Now, one is dead and another injured.
As of 27 August 2010 the death toll from the Bostian’s Bridge train wreck of 1891 has risen to 26.
The story from AOL News: 8/30/2010 – Looking for Ghost Train, Man Killed by Real One
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© 2011, Thornton Austen
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