Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-01-12
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RALEIGH, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 10, 1853.
THE FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

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We publish in another column brief telegraPhlc
statement in relation to the lamenta6le accident
by which the son of the President elect was instant
" killed and many other passengers severely IN
iured. We gather from the New York papers
further particulars, as follows:
"The train was composed of baggage and pas
senger only. The exact cause of the accident is
not definitely ascertained; of the axle trees is
supposed to have broken; say it was the ourn-
al on which the wheel plays. The day very
cold-the thermometer pointed al zero-and the &C
cident doubtless owing 10 the frost in the iron
works of the i'll fated
Mrs. Pierce and the deceased son had been absent
four weeks visit to relatives in Boston and An
dover. The accident happened the latter place.
Gen. Pierce went to Boston Tuesday morning,
and with them attended the funeral of Mrs. Pierce's
uncle, Hon. Amos Lawrencs, on the same afternoon.
They remained at Mr.. AIken's, in Andover, whose
lady i3 sister of Mrs. Pierce, and we're expecting
TO return in the evening.
The train in which they went left Boston noon
Thursday. and the accident happened just after
It left the Andover depot, twenty miles from Bos.
ton, at about They had not been in the five
minutes.
Gen. PIERCE after the accident, appeared compos-
ed, but Mrs. Pierce taken away in a very high
state of mental anguish. Her screams were agon!z-
ing. The little boy was their only child, an elder
brother having died some ten years ago.
AT the time Of the accident, Gen. Pierce was con-
new Mills at Lawrence. Prof. Packard, a relative
of Gen. Pierce, was in company with Mrs. Pierce
and her son, and the party occupied the forward part
Of the car, which divided in the middle. They
all thrown into a heap, one over another. Mas
Pierce lay upon the floor of the with his skull
frightfully fractured. The cap which he had worn
had fallen eff, and filled with his blood and
brains.
A little girl of Mr.. Newall, of HiIIsborough, rad
her foot crushed. and it must be amputated. Mrs.
NewaIl was badly injured, and Mr.. Newall had leg
broken. Mr.. Horace Childs, bridge builder, of Hem
nider, badly but seriously bruisd. Several
women were severely bruised.
The is said TO have broken the middle.
The baggage in front not thrown off. A
brakeman stood on the end of ii and witnessed the
accident unframed.
A dispatch, dated Concord, Thursday evening
says:
Considerable apprehension is felt here lest this
melancholy fatality may prove serious in its conse-
quences TO Mrs. Pierce. She has been for several
years in delicate health caused partly by the loss of
her first child. The boy killed by this accident was
almost dolized by his mother and father.
The announcement of the accident. at 4 o'clock,
caused great excitemen: in the House. A member
in and said that Gen. Pierce himself was dead
The floor and galleries were crowded-the charge Of
bribery against Judge Butler being under considera
ton the Governor, Council, and most of the Senators
present. Instantly every member his
feet, and EXPLANATIONS of regret were heard from
every
The veteran Ichabod Bartlett, of Portsmouth, the
o4ueSt WelhoeE-d poHtlcdI opponent, OUT SIonp per-
sonal friend OF Gen. Perce-was observed to weep
like child. Others were much affected.
The House adjourned Instantly, and the members
rushed to the hotel and telegraph office. and the most
intense anxiety to obtain particulars has prevailed
since.
The lille boy great faVorile with town
people. He was agreeable, kind and generous, and
much beloved by his pIaymates. When asked, the
other day, Veil, Benny, how do you expect to
like living at the W hite House % he REPLIED, 81
don't know about going there to live at all. would
rather 90 out to live on FARM