Litchfield enquirer., 1853-05-12

who were unknown were stripped ,aud lhei clothing and vsluahles placed safely away end upon their persons clean linen shrOudi were arranged.
 On Saturday afternoon the SUpeiinIen' dent directed Mr. John Austin, daRUeFreO' typisi, iO take pictures of some Of the cOrpses remaining.
 The physcians and many of the cili1ent and ladies 0f NOrwsIk have devoted them selves 10 the care Or the injured, and com. fort of the afflicted, ever since the Occur' renee. '.';' '''~
 Mr. Jonathan Trotter, President of the Board of Assistant Aldermen of N. Y. was much iDiuFed by spliniers in his chin and IlIr0ats and somewhat internally. He sat beside Mr. Vandevenier, who was killed.
 The news Of the catastrophe was dis patched to all parts of the country witI. lightning speed, and every train that arri- we'd from the East and West was crOwpec Wifh persons iN search of their friends.- The scenes which ensued were of the most heart Tending descriptiOn. Num,begs could be observed bending ever the dead, , weeping in frantic griei; others were hunlin4 from house iO house in search of a wounded mother, father, brother, sister, hasband or wife and, up tO the arrIval of Ihe latest train at at NUrwalk, on Friday night, it was estimated that over 9,0OO persons had arrived there fbr this one sad purpose.
 Only one of the dead bodies, Jacob G. Vandevenier, was removed from the num- Der on Friday. The remaining bodies were guarded all night by watch set by Mr. Whistler, Superintendent, of the Com pany. The remains of Dr.. J. NJ. Smith aud Dr. J. H. Cray, were placed tn ma. heQany cOiIins and forwarded iO Spring. field, Mass. by Saturday mornings early express train. There was the most in> sense excitement throughout that city, and the immense depot of the Western Rails road was crowded with anxious friends ard relatives of the deceased The bodies were taken iO the Massasoii House, prior lo being conveyed 'O their respective dwe- iines, fearing that they mieh, be too much disfgured to be seen by their heart broken families. Groups of persons were cOngre- gated in all parts of the city, relating incl denis connected with the massacre.
 The bodies were all pu, into decent cul: fins, supplied by the New Haven Railroad C0mpany, and most Of them removed on Saturday by ther iriedds or relatives.
 The remains of heauiiinl lady was discovered in the Forward part of the first passenger car, with one arm clingin9 around the waist of an infant. The faces of these forms were but slightly disfgurcd but the mother tad receiOej two or three iright:GIcu,s, in the back par, of her head, which undoubtedly haslened her deaih.- Her maiden name was Frances P. Sher. man, q native of Boston, who, two years .-o ..>n .,,oIAaI s< nr KY. .l~., nnI .,;sl, her husband removed to tHe city of Bali- nore, Maryland. The mother and babe were neatly shrowded in white, on Saiur- day evening, and separately placed in air tight, metallic coffins. by order of Mr. Whistler, who selegraphed to Baltimore for information concerning them.
 Rev. Dr. Oncken, German Baptist Nils. sionary, was somewhat injured, but is do- ing well. This gentleman is we'll and hOnorably known as the indefaii9able head of the German Bapiisis. Ms. Oncken's place of residence is Hamburg, and his present visit to this country is for the pur. pose OG obtaining the sympathy and assists aDce of American ci,uruches ior the ops pressed and persecuied Bapiisis of Prussia and other German States. IL is e source of peculiar qualification that his valuable life is one Of those provi6entialIy spared in she midst of the horrible run and death al that fatal bridge.
 The following is the statement of M r.. Thomas Hicks the artist, who was report. ed among the killed. His escape and that of the lady who accompanied him was tru. iy iemarka ble.
 Me ThOmas Hicks, artist, was in the second car, wish Miss King, of N. Y.- They occupied seat within four of the rear end of the car. on the right hand side [acing the en0,ne. Mr. Hicks describes the scene ss follows: Tue cars were seem. iagiy going at tie usual rate when, with cut warning or intimaii0p of any kind, he beheId the front part Of the car rushing towards him in fragments, the passengers being tossed in the air like chsf', dashed up against the top Of the car, and thrown about in hurricane of destruction.
 The shock was such as i0 break off III ahe seats and even the umbrella racks, and to push f0rwsrd all who were sitting in che rear ui the car. Al the same dime the roof was split in two, and the larger part Of it fell in. covering many persona, inclu. ding Mr. Hicks himself beneath.
 The scene under these he describes as horsiblein the extreme, persons gasping in death, mutiiated bodies, heads broken, and some who had apparently only been stunned drowning in UncoUsciOusness of their condition. stretching E'r,h their hands in the instinctive grasp after aid they were destined never tO receive.
 He began feeling among the wreck and under ihe the water for hs cJmpaDiID, but she was nowhere to be found he cOnlin, Ned ihe search tll the water had risen O alis chin, sslnHe which he jn6ged to have been about ten minutes, when despairing Of aer recovery. he hoked about for mode Of escape. Jus, behind him, st :he corner Of the car, he beheld an aperture through which he crawled our upon the aOp; here he fingered with view 10 re- new the search GOr his companion; when he was sccOsted by come one, who asked hiIn for whom he was looking; he de-