Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-01-12
The fatal Railroad Acoiaent--Death of Gen.
Pierce's Son.

The Boston Journal of yesterday morning gives
the following particulars of the fatal railroad ACCT
dent by which General Pierce's son was killed:
Weexcet dinghy regret to be called upon 70 an-
nounce the sudden aud iuStataneous death OF BEN
ianin Pierce. IL OF - years Of age, the son AID
only child ofGeneEal Frank Pierce, the President
elect. The sad event was cauSe1 by an unayolda-
BILE accident on the Boston and Maine hailroau,
and the circumstances attending it painful in
the extreme. The following are the particulars,
which were kindly furnished us by Mr.. Edward o..
Thomson one of the conductors oil the Boston aud
Name Railroad, and Mr.. Hall, depot master.
UDou the arrival at AndOver yesterday afternoon,
of tie exLress tain which left the depot in this
city, at quarter past IL O'Clock, NJ, Gen. Pierce
his wife and son, who had passed the night at An
dover, at the house Of his brother III law, Mr. Al
consisted Of the locomotive and tender, baggage
car. one passenger icar, in Which were about 60
Messengers.
The train proceeded at its usual spec until il
reached the Poor House Ledge. nearly opposite
the Andover Poor House, aud about half way TO
Lawrence, when the forward axl= OF the paSsen-
ger car broke, turning the truck and dragging the
car about twenty rods in that conLluon, when The
counting which attached TO the baggage car par
ted sud caused the passenger car to run off the
track and down an embankment of ten or twelve
feet. The CONSERVATION OF the passengers can
hardly be agned, much less described, as IN lar
less time than is occupied i'll pennlng The TACT, Tie
car in its decent down the embankment had turned
completely upset. so that the bottom was up, and
the TOP stove in pieces upon the rocks.
At the moment OF the accident, Gen. Pierce aud
his wife were seated on the forward seat but one
on che side of the aisle, willie his sat on the
forward seat ON the opposite side. AT the instant
of finding that something was wrong, Gen: Pierce
threw one of his arms around his wlle anu eSlsh'
ding the other towards his son, called him by name,
but in an instant the car rolledo and down the
embankmeni, and death had forever sealed The lips
of their much loved child, who was soon alter iound
with his head shockingly crushed.
Gen. Pierce and his amiabie ladyvery Fortunate
ly escaped with only few very slight scratches
and bruises. Their deep distress upon learning
the sad fate of their son. SorTowlul 10 witness
especially that of the almost heart broken mother.
As soon as the painful circumstances in which they
had thus suddenly fallen would permit, General
Pierce and WIFE, together with the remains OF Their
SON were conveyed back TO AndOveI, TO the resi-
dence of Mr.. Aiken, which they had but short
time before left in then usual health and spirits
Here every attention in the power OF kind hearted
friends was afforded the deeply afflicted parents
Mrs Pierce seemed almost inconsolable, and was
nearly frantic with grief; and at last accounts 1t
was feared that through excess of grief she might
be berelt of her reason; but it is to be hoped that
the will be preserved i'll her right mind, and be en-
abled to bear up under the heavy athlcnon winch
has SO suddenly befallen her.
1t is, indeed, most remarkable fact, that OF the
sixty passengers in the cars, but one lie was lost;
and it is equally remarkable tLat with that exceP-
were Mr. Newell, an elderly gentleman, who
resides in West Cambridge or SomeIville, near
Winter Hill. He was considerably bruised, and IS
believed to have or two ribs fractured, besides
receiving internal injuiies. MIR. Newell IS tather
Of Mr.. Charles 5. Newell, Of Lawrence, who was
member e the House OF Representatives last
year. This fact pTobShi" gave currency TO the rn-
NOR that it was the yv.S~y Of the two who was in
iured, instead of the rider. ......--.....
Mr.. Bailey OF Law renee, had one oil ms legs Dro-
Ken besides being badly bruised. ....f I
A lady whose name and residence were not as
certained, had a foot buddy CRUSHED. -,.l.y
With the exception Of tue four persons specified,
none of the other passengers were seriously injur-
ed, although several received comparatively slight
Commissions and bruises, but not to such an eXteut
as TO prevent them from eXtricating themselves
from the ruined car, and IN some cases TO render
assistance 10 others. iu .aa-... -I.aa. ..
Scarcely anipstant before the accident occurred,
Michael Donnevan, brakeman, was standing on
tide forward platform of the passenger car when
he had occasion to step across 10 that OF the Gag
gage car, and before he had fairly turned about the
coupling had broken and the car he had just was
rolling down the enbankment. His escape was
indeed very narrow one. ~ .-s1 80 - z
Immediately upon hearing of the sad accident at
the depot in this city the President OF the Corpora
ton together with the superintendent otlhe road
and two eminent physicians, started in special
train for the scene, former with the view otascer
tanning the nature and cause of the accident, and
the latter for the purpose of rendering such aid rs
was in their power to the unfortunate sufferers;
The car containing the passengers, it should be
mentioned belonged to the Concord Railroad, and
is of different manufacture from those owned and
generally used by the Boston and Maine Railroad
Corporation. 9E5ssil 9tSa
[BYTEDLEeRAPH. 10 .tIl fSElf
RECEPTIOF OF THE AT
~ CONCORD. qa
CoNcoRD, N. H.. January 6.-The greatest ex-
citement prevailed here on the arrival of the news
of the death Of Gen. Pierce,s son, The Legisla-
ture adjourned, amid demonstrations of the deep
est grief A gloom has been cast over our whole
community. s,a FoD
n-r.rhsl1ta aerrnnts d Daniel Webstsrit Is said