Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-09-02
From the Albany Evening Journal.
AWFUL CALAMITY!
CANAL BASIN BRIDGE!

ny 0aIohitous uiSpehSauon. AT O'Clock
this afternoon, Saturday just as the
Steamboats, were departing for New
York, and when hundreds ofPeope were
crossing the Bridge over the Canal Basin
the Draw Broke and precipitated from
seventy 10 eighty persons and three or
tour horses and carts into the Basin =.
they fell about twenty feet into twelve
feet water. The struggle for life among
the sufferers, was brief but awful We
shudder at the horrid recollection of it
Hundreds Of citizens, with dozen boats
sprange 70 the relief of their drowning fell
low citizens Al o'clock is dead bod
les had been recovered, of which we can
only learn the names Of the following:
James Human, Constable of this CITY.
MIR. DriScol!, Merchant of PALMYRA.
Charles Lyons, tobacco peder. of this
city.
A son Of Jacob Henderer, of Columbia
ST., IA years old,
A son Of Sybrant Kettle, Of this city Is
years old.
Roderck Davidson, an interesting and
promising youth, employed in this office,
10 years old.
: -Groesbeck, a boy belonging to the
Boat Mohawk.
Mr. Cavener, an insane man from
Westmoreland, Oneida County, under the
charge of Mr.. Stevens and Orrin |. Fuller.
OF Rome on his way to Hudson. Caven-
er and Fuller were lost and Stevens
saved.
James Van Buren,, of German Flats, a
Canal Driver, who was assisting Fuller
to get Cavener to the boat.
Samuel Fisher, Lamp-Ljghter, of this
city.
Francis Royce, Laborer of this city.
Wood, boy about IA years old of
this city.
Thomas Mcdowell of this city.
William l.. Marcy, of Burlington, Vt.
- Jones, of this city.
II. L. Hoffman, of Fultonvile.
Smith Matthews, of Troy.
a part OF the draw fell after most of the
sufferers were in the water, from which
many were injured. Others were woun-
ded by the struggling horses. The BODY
of Mr. Human and that of boy show
severe wounds.
Capt. Jacobs ofthe boat Col. Littlle-John,
who was assisting with the Insane man,
though in the midst of this destructive
scene, was saved
James Henry, Bookseller, fell outside
of the crowd and saved himself.
Among the Has recovered, was one
with letter, directed to g Jonathan Hart"
Mr.. Carr of the Pearl-st House, was
slightly injured but saved himself
Thomas Green, ofthe firm of Rathbone,
! Chaplin s. Green, who was surrounded
( by struggling men and horses, swan out.
A young man Samuel Ell. Ransom)
saved himself and an old man who was
exhausted and sinking.
Mr.. Wilson, of Juliet, Illinois, son Of
j. O. Wilson, of this city, SWAN out
Clpt. Morgan, of a Canal Boat saved
| himself.
A man, whose name we did not learn,
was saved with broken arm
Daniel Gavil, Engraver, swan out.
Several Carmen, among whome we
recognised David Terry, John w. But
Ter, Charles Rock, John Stackpole and
Peter Simonds, saved themselves and
horses.
This dreadful loss oflife was occasioned
by the refractory conduct Of the Insane
man, refusing to go with his keeper.
His resistance drew crowd which block.
ed up the passage until the mass of People
and Carts became too heavy for the Draw
Officer Hinmah, the moment the Draa
gave way was endeavoring to dispense tht
crowd.
A large number Of citizens continues
their search for the bodies until dark
Several missing persons are supposed t.
be numbered among the dead.
Medical gentlemen continued their ef
forts to restore life until hope expired
i All their efforts were unavaiing.
Several bodies were recovered With
!. Eve minutes after the fall, and we can onl
;, account for the ahortivcness Of every a
!. tempt TO aecusitate life by supposing tn;
r the persons lost were injured by the fall {
y wounded before they sunk.
% The Mayor VINO was early on the spc
n assisted to save Two boys who were near
>. exhausted.
: DEATH BY LIGHTNING. On Sunda
IN the Esd ult. the house Of Mr.. Samuel W
10 lard, in Northampton, Mass, was stru
ey BY lightning. Mr. Wizards son, a
Isl about Q years OF age was struck do"
il. and instantly killed; Mr.. Willard 5"
h. prostrated, and the chair upon which
b. was sitting, torn asunder; Mrs; WIIl'
r. received deep cut in the forehead lr'
en- piece of lookng-glass which was 81
tered by the lightning, Mr. and NJ !,
Willard are yet alive but in very d
fly oerous state. Fne house was not mi
Tor damaged, the lightning having descen
ole D. D.