Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1853-05-13
,i;.. AWFUL IAiAMiTt
ON THE ~ YORK AND FEW HAVEN hAiLi>'A
Finy-two Lives Lost.

.IHI. AWFUL. iAi.AMiIf
lnS TIE n YORK AND FEW HAVEN RAILROAD.
i Fifty-two Lives Lost.
E'uU p ,ri:cullrs of The Sc.: The Killed and HoHHdE"-
| Remarkable Escupes-- - hraHtHg l"c'deatS &c.
rn ru York p,u,r. are filled wit! the details oil the
rriohr(I lisa ser at NorwaS Connecticut on fTday ias :
II .rp,as The Irain which left Ne" York al octoch' ~
~ consisted o baggage cars aud trcc hfst class pas
senspr cars The baggage preceded the passenger cars
and in the rcampst baggage was the snoR'nS
The number ui passengers in Tie train was ao"o' 10 d
near as can be- a-ceraned The Courier and Enquirer
The train proceeded usual until reached No" =,
miles distant halt past O'Clock. iiah n''e 80
the Norwak station is bridge across Tue c,eth' "u
The channe! draw The bridge sixty rct IN %
The rules Of the roud require that the speeu u ~; ,
should be- checked the Norwak station ana ,e run
yell in ha nd untI the engineer obtains slght "
red ball upon pole thirt' feet hish winch 70 H. a.
ne,y half mile from the bridge This signal / ON! T
olay,d when the draw i. closed aud The Track ciHA''
ih 80 precautions neglected upon TINS orrasIn %
n.,J Stacked the statnn the slshhi "' s''
~. h..n withdrawn fall ten minutes before TIE lfain APP
nn,chd hui needless Of the warming the engineer aaSneu
m al rate ii nearly thirty miles an hour until he reached
-, draw when such the momentum that The en-
min, ,runp across Casm OF sixty eel ohshne against
,h ,lumrn the opposite side bul 'e oeo" me ":'
81 Ih. line Of the rails. The draw hh oee open !" permit
,I t,mboa Pacific from Nor"ak Tor We" iofk 10 pass
nnyn and she al barely passed as The Tram dashed m
The engine was followed by the tender "hic fr. "'"
, ~, G,.r b,poaec car went partly upon The tendr anu
y, ~" ng.ir; The second car containing The smoking
went alongside the fist baggage car ana Two ol
t,I,.G frat ola
h;h n,,reJed heil while the bottom OF the last car was
broken in Two crosswI-e The forward part being dragged
inro the submerged ruins, having "nrhai inc pos a'
M mir. sides and the track. me wafer III nv
neI over which the draw placed is from len I" twelve
feet deep al hl9h waict .:., L,,,
The inghllnl scene uia' 'ie' 'y ma, ,,o -. ,,h,,
,b, those who ne s-ed The occurrence, nor nose VINO
vim their lives can give any adequate description
rive c,rs were broken that those VINO ia h"l ss'e"
anv injury from the collision, instantly s'.",' :"
himr the windows AMI broken to"'s, and II Wonderful
n, nuI,, The circumstances many Succeeded III i. 81
nr,s II is supposed that al in IT." !'Sl ; sschIl
n yrr. dragged iorwar! the brn;@n iinT he''S
W. go, ., The wreck escaping with lew bruises THOSE
vho we're in preceding ne hs' WEI. a. ii
d - N. water h a. lar a. be- ascrrtinsd, most o
,.,, verc rescued. The lht hccritht "crWtcu
there w.rc strong and willing hands which ian'n S'ha"
boats fortunately lying haar ami hy !I' 'n",tS III.
If IA. saved elected. Many .: a" IN 'icsC cur su
;J n,,usinns of uea,er or less severity Bu' cw o
those in The smoking escaped ana II - 'hc Quinn
Dr. Mclean OF Nofwak who was III hl'enaa!e ma ,%.
4 of those "ho lost fhc'r hfcs "'It sh'""H' '' - "
crushin. oi 10" car.
q STATEMENT or PASSENGER
The concu-sion the last car was very W"h' ana II w"
H n,; mill Icarcd u! ii that kn"" ic 'A'hht ~ u"
# FIJI catastrophe winch ta!l.i description "i"'nt any
din hurried the cdG- "i The hri'-" ahd uIe:, !" my
ho,rnr .i."l 4 that shall not forget hnl The DAY
q die The was stuck deep m" 'c '"i "h INC '''
side ard was followed by baggage s'noSin" ana "n rs
% senerr carr ~! Of Them being totally snhmcs'a Iah c
# .urf,ceuf The water The engineer Mr. Tucked iah most
mrorn,us escape with his lie bnt the CONDUCTOR Mr. Com
!, stock did not well. fle was ii i@ smoking car al
The time escaped out Of the door mo NE river mere
:, mrcs b., eventually succeeded in reaching The shore IN
very coadnn his head hei's severely Bruised
=. hi, Carr dis f, urrd AMI mis- vrs di=lpcaed
The melancholy ani hcartrendng pcon o my story yet
al remains 10 b. told Both Of The passenger c"t- as SAID
J. befure wholly submerged IN the "er III" ild" being
l hnh IN. time and the loss 0 III WAS nl course very
i. prea There were fact only about TX or seven persons
al who escaped with their lives all the amounting I" near.
% ~ Gfy ursons were drowned lhcS iw0 cars the
ouIy ones in any lives were lost The ba9Hagc car and
car smashed 10 pieces att cuflnns To say not
f. single life lost The baggage MISTER MI Fuller, who
"A isl
second before The accident took place SHOWING lh some
thing wrong he 10 The door ohIs ear bn could not
Is ne, out lie then hraccI himself iny the and
parcG fer The crash which took place few seconds The
car bcrg brosen he escaped through III" wreck uninrei
viii, tn. exception .. . deep the nose
Az soon a. possible the bodies % ne unfortunate beings
in the two passenger seiup, ana Ia! out IN The
re depot Those killed were inr the mot part nen-Iiany Oh
whom medical men who were 'thfhin5 lrotl me '"
yeniDn held IN Few YORK.
Men engaged up 10 late loE that evening IN renn
y Wing the bodies from the wreck Tc excitement IN Iown
is intense and everybody 81 onin that the accident wa
" caused by the negligence Of The srcr who was property
warned by the lowering OF bail. ut I!r bridge wa1 up
II He however never Needed The sigt The passengers III
those cars which not pitched no The river wrrc mol
=. injured IN the least
The most curious portion OF The thai only 'w"
or three persons injured whlcnot legs Than iy spn-
were without any warning hun d before iie throne OF
Is their maker rhc eight O'Clock from Boston passed
thrnuph about I O'Clock lc bridge uyiun by been
safely repaired. Tie iInn tw .Of. were crowded
u passengers containing til" r nH and relatives {" IN
killed alany bitter tear was nri hy Them over me
monaucrs % his road, would be- and happy but now
IRE numbered with thu dead The disnann o those pas
scnrrrs who saved was cyoi description, several OF
alleging that the engineer 'ioid he jh .i1 G'''S
e saying he should he shot
On Saturday morning, hundrea Of mourning friends !
reached Nprvak search Of mis- relatives and others
The bodies many oil the led wrc however, :" dlshgur
e ed as 10 r tr Identification Impossible. During tar
nint bodies miic and making .. III all
u --werr recovered bur not Identified
prena atoms making Saturday, morning 10 drag
m. creek which is very deep H. discovery bodies
purpose ci disturbing the waters, nd compelling en |"
Weld W dead The locomotive ., which at low water
on Frlay could c covTcd found on Sat
urday morning. almost entirely hur III HE oPpoeile bank
= OF The creek.
The Roman Catholic Bishop OF Connecticut, (Itev Barn
ard { Rc,y il !a feared was on ard the lraio Also
Rev Walter Clal, Rev. oliver Sa pastor Of The Suffolk
street Christian Church, New FORK, among the killed
THE cORoSER's $50 EST.
The evidence uddnced inquest, previous Ia
the adjournment Friday night was principally corobota
live ri the statements already made With regard
at the draw bridge having hoaed The arnns signal al least
minutes before the arrival Of the traa, and that whistle
I'd by any o the surviving passengers The e2am
nation u the conductor Ol the Train commenced ub
Saturday morning.
:: FURTHER INCIDENT.
The CT. in which Mr.. Comstock, The niucor, vas sunk
and three times, when he succeeded Ceiling
Of the and reached The shore rccsin" severe
; injuries from the conclusion "i the wrfH.
Mrs Or. Grlswnd Of New York, rescued with some
slight bruises. Her daughter taken OF for dead, has been
brought TO b. ~ py sicans and prom incr out III danger
The body of Dr. samncl scrch al Eiigcpnrr, Connect
cut taken from the water, gave sy.drace u e bat
The utmost cxeon7 Of The physicians snd others present
10 the body proved Of as, and after lew
. pssps Of breath all signs OF life were cxlnct.
;. THE SCENE HOUSE
The lie rail road station no II: in NOrwaIk, III
u the afternoon, appalling In SNAIL apartment were
twenty eight ghasy corpses rigid IN dalt and in another
seyencen--hickly covering the floor Among them nn
nervous surviving friends eagerly scrutinxing each
cnance, with mingled hope and lea searching for h"
L., s. after another identified The scene was
u.cn painfully affecting Infancy, you ani old were
al rltrscnird alG"ng the tcai The dy OF beautiful
female child scrniE. 10 be almost anna I'll with lc cc
I'D ,xciam,lo.s iro many. Almost II tho bodies
pra Nv ,sioured with bruises and cuts and probably IN
majority 81 instances Injuries q: 'hls knd Sufficient
c,use NJ DEATH fcw evidently died slrang i.on hv
wafer Before dark nearly all H.: hol: Invested Il
their cJlrg PIT in c"rs III bars alnu: Gnh for
e wardrd to their friends.
J, RES. RD's sT.TEI,.T.
Capt Rcnari oi The sean,".a: Pac Iass Wick The
: fatal trawbrdgc raised, says W h@d go about
thirty or UIty yards tie draw wh. Ic,r,i he
coming iu! speed. Tho draS /. upGR, and thu
. ball down Two paascngeT into The opening