The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-03-05

SHOCKING ACCIDENT-Three Women Killed. |
On Tuesday last, says the Poughkeepse On. " |
Eagle of the 22d ult, Coroner Taylor called to
hold an inquest over the bodies of three women,
named Betsy Mcdonald, Bridget Convey and
Nancy kearnan who were killed on Eggleston 5
section of the railroad near the village of Hyde
Park. The particulars Of this melancholy acct
dent follows 1t appears that Mrs. MELON
aid, who occupied the shanty where they were
killed. taken i'll this morning, and the two
other females named above had called in and Were
near her bed minlstering to her wants. AT half
past o'clock blast was discharged on the line OF
the Railroad short distance from the shanty, and
u huge mass OF rock, weighing about one thousand
pounds, thrown into the air, which descended
directly upon the root oil the building, and was seen
by the men at work to penetrate it. They i'm
medlatey repaired to the shanty, and upon enter
ing il behel1 the mangled and leless bodies of two
Of the females, and the third Frustrated and bleed
ing, but not quite dead, although she lived but
fewtnconscious moments afterward. The women
were all -of them married One was torty-nine
wears of aye, and leaves five children. Mrs Nc
Donald was twenty-slx years and leaves two chill
dren one of them mere infant The third vic
tim was twenty-iour years old, and had been mar
rled about a year.
IN&ENpIARIsM-T Trio Men Burnt TO Death.-A
hay press was burnt at Philadelphia, at three
o'clock on Sunday morning, the 23d ult. 1t be-
longed to Benjamin Martin & Sons, back of Green
witch street, above Front, and was totally destroyed
The Ledger says:
"The barns had always been used as sleeping
places by number of Migrants, the propretors
never hinderng them, as they deemed their pres
ence safeguard against the designs of the incen-
dla.y.-The first attracted to the fire saw three
persons of this class leaving the burning barn, the
last one, old decrepd man, having to rush
through the flames to escape. 1t was feared that
there were others still in the barn, but it was then
impossible to search an after examination OF the
ruins led to the discovery of two half-consumed
bodies, all trace OF form and feature being destroyed
deying the possibility of recognition. From tbs
fragments oil clothing left upon one, it would seen
that he had been OF better class than usually sleeI
in barns, and the fact that upon one hand were the
remains of kid glove, corroborated this impress
sion. Beside the other bottle the content
of which had probably caused his sleep to be 81
profound, that the fire failed to awaken him.
THE ARMY OF PRUssGA.-Lts calculated tina
by the military service Of Prussia, not reckoning i
the time spent when the army, by any chance,
nnobtHssd a direct tax is laid on the workin
classes of ten per cent upon the value OF their abo
The army OF Prussia is reckoned roughly at $4,000
men; though it is probably more The support {
it costs little less than hall the whole income
the State. e. about $4,000 600 thalers an
reckoning the number OF men in the kingdom, cap;
bic of labor at three millions, between The ages
seventeen and forty-five, 1t results that out OF tn
small number more than sixth part are taken
the State, every year, for more or less time, to
military service And as these data mos Il
taken from former computations the proportio
now is probably greater. One can imagine what
yoke 1t is on the people.