Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-05-14
Topographic Items.
Terrible Railroad Catastrophe,
From the Plcayuue.

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Terrible Railroad Catastrophe.
Ncw York, May G., lS53.-The New Haven
train which ran off the drawbridg 60 at Norwich,
this morning, consisted of six cars, and was run
| ming at the time of the accident at the rate Of
| fifteen miles an hour. The draw was up TO
let a schooner pass, but the engineer failed to
observe it, although the usual signal was dis
| played.
Upto 3 o'clock this afternoon forty bodies
had been recovered, six ofthem females. Some
Of them are horribly mangled. There are
seventy persons wounded, twenty Of them
dangerously so. 1t ia feared that altogether
the number of killed will amount to sixty per-
sons.
All the conductors, engineers, fremen, and
and others connected with the train escaped
The excitement is most painful throughout the
| city, and it is impossible to obtain an accurate
! hist Of the sufferers. TIC. DAYTON, o Houston,
Texas, P. C. Dunbar and W. Dunbar, of Mont
gomery, are among the saved. One car is
to pieces. The baggage cars are now lying in
the river. The spectacle of the scene of disaster
is described as most horrible.
Nep York, May UP to the present. me-
ment fifty bodies have been recovered. Twenty
persons are still missing, and there is one car
yet submerged. The whole blame falls upon
the engineer, Tucker, who is severely Injured
The fireman and engineer are both arrested
B. +. Locser, a Southern gentleman. is among
the dead. Hicks, the artist, is also killed, and
many medical men who were returning from
the medical convention in this city. Among
them are Drs. Grey, Smith, Beach and Welsh
The Rev. John Lather 10 also killed.
Among the seriously injured are Richard
Grant, a Southern merchant, Drs. Warren and
Griswold, Ben Harvey, and the Rev. Andrew
Tenbroeck.
The train plunged h~eadlong Of the bridge
notwithstanding the usual signal was displayed
and could be seen a mile distant. So rapid
was the motion that the train nearly lsaped
the draw. The mails have been recovered in q
damaged state. At this moment the inquest 10
proceeding.
Nen York, May 1.-The search for the bodies
Of the victims still continues. Cannon are be-
ing fired to bring up the dead from the bottom
Of the river. Many Of the bodies recovered
are so horribly disfgured that they cannot be
recognized.
The train leaped a distance OF sixty feet
Tive cars are still imbedded in the river and
great efforts are being made to recover them,
as they are supposed to contain passengers.
1t is feared that the Roman Catholic Bishop
Of Connecticut Is lost. The inquest is still
proceeding. The conductor has been examin-
ed to-day. lie attributes the accident to the
engineer.
The Connecticut Legislature have appointed
a committee TO proceed to the scene of the dis
aster to report q full statement Of the facts. A
bill has been reported imposing a fine Of ten
thousand dollars for every person killed on a
railroad in the State.
ANOTHER RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
-NsD York, May lo.--A serious accident has
taken place on the Patterson Railroad, N. j., by |
a collision with an evening express train. Four
persons were dangerously injured.
THE STEAMSHIP s. 8. LEWIS.
The steamships. S. Lewis, lost on the Pacific
coast, was valued at 100000. There was no
She Was built at Philadelphia in
1851.
NEW HAVEN RAILROAD MASSACRE.
A great mass meeting has taken place at
Norwich, CT, in relation o-the recent dreadful
railroad massacre near that place.
The Legislature was memorialized on the
to take efficient steps TO prevent such
accidents from such causes in future, or at least
to punish the railroad officers severely when
they do occur.
THE N. HAVEN RAILROAD MASSACRE.
Nec York. May ll.-The coroner's jury
called to investigate the circumstances of the
ate terrible casualty on the New Haven Rail-
road near Norwich, have returned a verdict, in
which the chief cause of the calamity is attribu-
ted to the carelessness Of the engineer. The
jury also censure the conductor of the train and
tho company owning the road.