Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-01-27
FATAL ACcIDENr-On Tuesday nigh

FATAL ACCIDENr.-On Tuesday night
last, about II o'clack, the driver of the four
horse mail coach which runs between Nor
thumLcrl.nd AMI Williamsport via Milton
and Road Hall, stepped at the tavern near
the Chiiiisuuaguc creek, two mile. below
Lewi.burg, TO warm himself aud water his
horses. While doing this, the horses took
fright from some unknown cause, broke the
halter by which the leader was tied to the
hitehing post, and started of at full speed.
The passengers jumped out Il few hundred
yard, from the tavern, and the horses kept
Oh 70 the east end of the Lewisburg Bridge,
where tn. king-bolt broke, and leaving the
stage there, the horses cane over the
bril.e with the fore-wheels at full
specd-the gate-Aeeper hearing the racket
hoisted the gate in time to save 1t from
beng demolished. Two Of the passengers
were uuhurt. But We rcgre: to state that
James Armstrong, Esq, Of Wiliiamsport,
was 90 badly bruised iii the shoulder and
J. :. hat he proceeded home with difli:ul-
+ And Mr. George M'Ginness, Of Lime
et-nc Tp, Montour Co. (~ho was returning
with his nephew from visit to relatives
ia some Of the lower coun:ies,) had his
skull so badly fractured thar he died the
next afternoon, without having been SEN
s.ule for moment after he was picked up.
lir. MG was d mddIe-aged man, far
...er, but formerly carpenter, which trade
y. understand he learned in this place
4 driver was said to be very careful
man, and the team heretofore steady and
iractable
On the Sunday night previous, when
the four-horse coach on the same route
had Acared tne river, "a mile aud i half
below the Lewisburg brid ge, the bitt broke
ia the leaders mouth, when the team
lecame unInauageable and ran oil, precip-
italing horses and coach over the bank into
tue river. where one horse was drowned.
There were no Passengers, and the driver
Jumped off in time to save himself.
When the news of the accident reached this
town, the worthy proprietor Of the Eagle Hotel
despatched a messenger with the sad udings to
h IS family. Before the messenger came within
a hundred yards of the house, Mrs. NJ MGinness,
accompanied by her family. ran out TO meet
hiin. CRYING, "Oh. he's dead, he's dead" The
gentleman assured her Mr.. MIG. was injured
severely. and she had better go Immediately to
see him. but he was not dead. She would not
h. cumfprtel but continued 10 cry, dies dead,
dreamed II last night,' Truly a singular
conformation of a drean.-lhAolian
I'VE are informed that during the
riot, noticed last week, the house Of Maj.
John Guuly was both fort, and hos
1.,al, frr several days, and the worthy Maj.
kept the wounded, the young and the
alarmed with genuine German hospitality.
One woman fed barefootcd and in her night
clothes for shelter against the drunken
maraudcrs; a young girl with her arm
ransled, terrified children, men clotted
with blood from wounds in their heads
were all taben in, fed, and helped on their
way. Several well-disposed young Irish
m.n lost their clothes, and some went off
Without getting their pay.
Some Of the ringleaders Of the riot are
in Jail, and we hope an example will be
made Of them-such ss may deter others
Of their countrymon from alarming the
peace and eudang gerins the lives Of their
fellow beings.