Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-05-12
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ample medical aid. The mails and the
baggage are saved in damaged condi-
ton
The draw-bridge was opened to let
the steamer Pacific pass, and she had
Just passed through.
The locomotive, baggage-car, and
twelve passenger cars were plunged into
the river, in fifteen feet water. Every
person in the two first cars were either
killed or seriously injured.
The following persons are missing
VIM. Harris, three children and servant;
G. and L. Dunbar, of Montgomery,
Alabama; and Mr.. Chambourne and
daughter, of Racine, Wisconsin.
SECOND DIsPATCH.-There are sew
eral conflicting accounts of the disaster.
One report says that three cars were
demolished and fifty persons killed and
drowned. Another says that two bag
gage cars and the smoking car were
submerged, and only those in the smo-
king car were drowned. But dispatch
dated O'Clock this p NJ. says about
fifty dead bodies had been recovered up
/ to three O'Clock; that all the employees
of the company escaped with slight
bruises. The train was running fifteen
miles an hour, and it is stated that the
blame rests on the engineer, as all the
usual signals were displyed by the
bridge tender; but in regard to this
matter there are many conflicting state
ments.
STILL LATER.-NoRFoLK, May 6, 7
P. M.-The worst anticipations are
more than realized, the result of this
frightfnl calamity is shocking. Forty
nine dead bodies have been taken out of
the water, and in addition to this there
were twenty injured, two of whom
have since died, and others are so badly
hurt that their recovery is impossible
Among the lost is the daughter of D.
Griswold. The following bodies have
been recognized; D. A. Welsh, Hart
ford; d. Beach, Bridgeport; Mr.. FLY
ent, Lancaster, Pa; Rev. Mr.. Sehof,
Williamsburg; DR.. Smith, Springfield;
John Moss, Gardiner, Maine; David B.
Newell, ditto; J. S. Gray, Springfield;
Walter French, Manchester, n Hamp-
shire; and Walter Parker, Woodbury.,
Connecticut. There are probably ten
or twelve more bodies not yet recog-
nized.
LArEsT.-NEw YORK, May In
addition to those reported yesterday the
following bodies have since been recog-
nized: r.
Nathaniel King, Jr., Athens, Ohio;
Mrs. A. L. De Sangua, Philadelphia;
she has daughter living in Pittsburgh;
Francis w. Sayly, Boston; T. NJ
Hutchinson, B. W. o. Forester and
Oliver Barr, the latter supposed to be
collecting agent; d. w. Dimmock,
Mansfield, Conn; Miss Ellen Goss,
Poughkeepsie, n. Y; w. Bacon, BOs-
ton; W. c. Dwight, Brooklyn; Anna
B. Lang, supposed to be from Boston;
Mrs. DR.. Landress, supposed to be from
Baltimore; Beverly Parks and Mary E.
Robbins and daughter, Lennox, Mass;
Sampson Goldsmith, Bellows Falls; a
nan named Carrigan; Mrs. Hanna,
Eighteeenth-st., n. Y; Mr.. Sparks,
Pittsfeld, Mass; DR.. Josiah Bartlett,
Mass; Abel L. Pierson, Salem; Isaac
Goliath, Richmond, Me-; B. S. Davis,
residence unknown; Miss Mitchell, Hart
ford; DR.. A. G. Pierpont, Salem, Mass;
a physician from Boston, name not as
certained; Mr.. Vandewater, Newark,
formerly President of the India Rubber
Company. A large number of the lost
are physicians who were. returning from
the Medical Convention at New York.
Drs. Ives and Wilcox, of New Haven,
went down in the baggage car under
the water, but broke out and escaped.
Oliver Barr, who was killed, is the
President of Antioch College, Ohio.
Among those injured is J. NJ Fluent, of
Lancaster; he had been married the
night previous, and his wife is among
the lost. Elizabeth Burke is badly in
jured; also, Warren Screwell, of Geor-
gia, and j. A. Hopkins, of New Jersey.
Mr. Newell had his ankle broke.
Fifty-four bodies have been recovered
from the river at Norwalk, nearly all of
which have been recognized. The last
were nearly all from the eastern States
none from the south or west but those
already reported.
The Coroner's inquestis still progress
sing. The evidence appears to estab-
lish the fact that the bridge-tender
promptly gave the signal-that the
draw was open, but instead Of holding
up the engineer appeared not to notice
the signal and dashed on at full speed.
Efforts were being made this after
noon to recover all the bodies from the
river by dragging, firing cannon, &c.
The Connecticut Legislature, this
morning. appointed special committee
to investigate the case; and bill was
also introduced imposing fine of ten
thousand dollars on all railway compa-
nies within the State for each person
killed on their roads, as well as heavy
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