New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-17

sacrificed by the accident at Norwalk, on the
New York and New Haven Railroad, besides
seventeen persons injured, one Of whom, the
daughter of Rev DIR. Griswold, it is feared, will
not recover.
1t is believed that the bodies of all who went
down with the train have been recovered. About
one hundred men were employed during Satur-
day dragging the stream and removing the
fragments of the cars.
The jury were on Saturday principally occu-
pied in attending to those who came to identity
the bodies, and as the great majority were not
relatives of those they identified, much that un-
der other circumstances is painful to witness
was not seen.
A Joint Committee from the State Senate and
House of Representatives of the State arrived
on Saturday morning, with the following ere
dentials:
GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IS. HARTFORD, CT. !
May Session, May I, 1858.
hereby certify that Hon. John B. Hyatt on
the part Of the Senate, and Messrs. Josiah G.
Beckwith, jeremiah Halsey and z. W. Bissell
on the part of the House are appointed Com
mittee in pursuance of resolution passed TO
repair to the scene of the late disaster, near
Norwalk, and report to this Generally Assem-
bly,, all the facts relative to the cause of said
disaster, which they may be able to obtain.
[Signed] julius S. STRoNG, Clerk OF Senate
1t is understood that they viii commence an
investigation, Independent of that of the Jury.
on Wednesday next.
Our Eastern exchanges are filed with heart
rending particulars of this frightful accident.
The NewYork journals of Monday publish cor
rected and full lists of the killed and wounded.
Mrs. Maria Fluent, the wife of j. M. Fluent,
Esq of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was
suddenly killed. was not married the previous
night, hut in January, 1852 The husband re-
Gently received Geographic dispatch, giving
him the painful information that his mother
was lying at the point of death. He imme-
diately started with his unfortunate lady for
the East, and they were on their way to visit
her at Portland, Maine, when death overlook
the one, and frightful injuries were received by
the other.
A Hartford paper has been requested to state
that Right Rev. Bernard 0Reilly, the Catholic
Bishop of that Diocese, could not have been in
the cars at the time of the sad accident at Nor
walk, Conn, for he did not arrive in the Asia,
on Thursday, as was expected.
A dispatch from Norwalk to the Baltimore
Sun, dated the 9th, says:
All the dead bodies have now been taken off,
and the few wounded remaining are doing well.
The trunks and tenders Of the cars, which were
embedded in the sand, have been removed, but
no more dead bodies recovered. The impression
| is that all have been found. The company is
now engaged in erecting derrick, with which
| to raise the locomotive and tender.
Ill II -
! ing for this evening, to adopt measures regard
| ing this terrible tragedy,
The Engineer persists in stating that he saw
| the signal up, while there's overwhelming proof
| that it had been down ten or fifteen minutes.
The NewYorl Times, in an editorial, states
that gentleman who had just arrived from
the scene of the disaster. informs them that sc
tree had lately been trimmed SO as to resemble
the signal ball. when seen from a distance
but the jury are disposed to think that the En-
gineer is honest in asserting his belief that he
saw the ball"
The NewYork press generally lash Engineer,
Conductors, and the Company Unfortunately
The Express says of Tucker, the Engineer
" It is unfortunate for the unhappy man that
his own body is not among the corpses of the
slain, for if he lives, he must live to be branded
as a murderer, and to be stunned as CAIN
And the Tribune;
''We know that the outcry of public indig-
nation is mainly directed against the Engineer,
who is in the hands of justice, and who, we
| trust, will be punished as he deserves; but we
| cannot, on that account, acquit his employers
| TiIuIe are points on which the guilt of the Com.
pany, and its share in this awful massacre, be-
come undeniable."
And the True Democrat
1T is well to imprison the engineer, who
madly threw his human charge while he took
good care of himself) into the jaws of destruc-
ton 1t is well to arrest the conductor, who to
crafty little personal spleen, was willing to
risk (since he could and did save his OWN the
lives of the two hundred souls committed in such
confidence to his safe keeping, But, where are
the equally culpable influences that placed men
like these in position in which they could so
conveniently trihe with all that humanity holds
precious, and the heart cherishes as sacred 7
May they walk our streets, simpering at the
havoc their cupidity has manufactured May
they look into our eyes, and hypoerihcally tell
us Of their grief, while, with their fingers in
their pockets, they count over the dollars they
have saved in the employment Of such cheap as
sassins, i'll lieu of more costly help, whose abil-
ity and consciousness would have been a guar
autee for the public security -
And the Courier and Enquirer
g New laws must be made for the government
of railroads, and should some Draco write them
in blood, few and feeble would be the voices
which would denounce his severity for he might
lip his pen in rudy pools which mark the track
of the locomotive far and wide over all the land -
In the list of the dead the New Y ork Times
notes the following:
So A lady with fair complexion, auburn hair,
aged about q years; supposed to be Mrs Har-
ley, wife of the celebrated artist at Baltimore,
Nd. In the pocket of the deceased We're found a
gold pencil case, portemonnaie, small ladies'
penknife, and in her bosom was diamond
hroaoh, having the name Of Frances c. Sherman
engraved on the back, which is believed to have
been her maiden name.
80. Lying beside this body is an infant, aged
about six months, which is undoubtedly the child
Of Mrs, Harley as it was found clasped in her
arms, in the ruins. The disposition of these
two bodies is explained in another column of our
report.
The Times, in another paragraph referring to
the above, says;
The remains Of beautiful lady designated
as No 3S in our revised list Of the dead) was
discovered in the forward part of the first pas
senger car, with one arm clinging around the
waist of an infant designated as No. 800 The
faces of these forms were but slightly disfgured,
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