Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-30
TERRIBLE RAILROAD DISASTER.
Twenty Persons Killed-Sixty or Sevent
Wounded.

1t becomes our melancholy duty to record a
terrible railroad disaster, which took place
yesterday.
A dispatch from Philadelphia, August 20,
says:
The O'Clock train from this city for New
York met with a serious accident near Bur-
lipstOn by running over q horse. The train
was thrown from the track, and it is reported
that five or six persons were killed, including
the engineer and fireman. A train with sur
geons from Camden have gone to the assist
ance of the disabled train.
The road being blocked up so IS to prevent
the passage of the trains, the passengers by
the early train from New York had to come by
way of Taconey.
SECOND DISPATCH
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 90, P. M.-The report
of the terrible accident on the New Jersey
Railroad is fesrfully verified. The accident
occurred two miles above Burlington. The
up-;rain waited at Burlington for the down
train, which was behind time ten minutes, and
then went on slowly.
vehicle at the crossing waited until the
train passed up, and then started to cross the
track. Just at this moment, the engineer of
the up-train hearing the down-train approach
ing, suddenly reversed his engine, and coming
back encountered the vehicle, crushing it to
pieces, the occupants fortunately escaping by
throwing themselves from it. The collision
with the vehicle threw the whole train from
the track with terrible results. One car ran
completely through the next car, killing or
manning nearly all the passengersin it The
following are the names Of the killed, 30 far as
they are asceTtained:
TIE KILLED.-Catherine Bigelow, Jno. Dali
lam, D. f. Haywood, Thomas j. Meredith,
Edw. M. Green, G. W. Ridgway, G. NJ Bar
clay, an unknown female, Edward C. Bacon,
Wilson Kent, Alexander Kelley, 0he above
are mostly Philadelphians,) NJ. J. Stoughton,
Martin Conneli, of Wilmington, Del; Jacob
Howard, of Lebanon, Tenn; Harry Rusk, of
Georgetown College; Capt. Boyce, U. S. Navy,
and his daughter James Lincoln, of Ellieott 8
Mills; Charles Bottom, of Trenton.
The wounded are said to number seventy.
Among them are the wife and two daughters
Of Captain Boyce.
THIRD DIsPATcH.l
The wife of Capt Boyce, of the U. S. Coast
| Survey, was killed, not his daughter. ThOs
J. Meredith and John Dallam are merchants
| of Baltimore. Edward NJ. Greene is not killed
Chas. Bottom, of Bottom & Co., Trenton, had
Mr.. Green's bank book in his pocket, which
OccaSioned the mistake.
| colt, of Salem, New Jersey, the wife of Rev.
Mr.. Prescott, Baron De st. Andre, the French
Consul at Philadelphia, and colored woman
| named Catharine Brown, are also killed.
Mrs. Barclay, who is among those killed,
was the wife of Clement c. Barclay, of Phila-
| de,phia. She was on her way to Europe.
Mr.. Ingersoll, son of Lieut.. Harry Inger-
soil. who was greatly injured, died at Bristol,
| where he was conveyed.
| The WoUNDED.-The following are among
| the wounded: DR.. William Wheelan, of the
Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Wash
| ington; Commander Joseph NJ Smith and
| Spencer McCOrcle, of the Coast Survey; Mrs
| Harlan, of Jersey City; Dennis O'Kane, Of the
District of Columbia; II. s. Hughes. Shank
| land express agent; and Charles w. Olden.
| burgh, ofPhiladelphis; William c. McClay, ex.
member of Congress from New York, seriously
wounded; Mr.. Fisk, of Connecticut; John F.
| Gillespie and wife, of Natchez, both seriously;
Mrs. King, of Charlestown, Virginia; Mr.
| SOwerback, of Pittsburg; John Kelly, O,
Pittsburg, badly; Mr.. Kent, of Mississi ppi.
[FoURrH DIsPArcH.l
The vehicle which caused the terrible acct.
| dent was driven by DR.. Hannegan, and con.
tanned his wife and two children. All escaped
l with trifing injury, but both of the horses
! were killed. The driver was hard of hearing,
| and did not perceive the train returning.
Having seen the train pass he supposed that
| all was safe.
Drs. Gaunt, Trimble, Chaloner, aud Butler,
of Burlington the brothers Bryant, of Bevsr.
| ly; Longstreet and Cook, Of Bordentown
Reed and Stratton, of Mount Holly; Roscan
| and Cullum, of Camden; Pugh and Wetherill,
| Of Philadelphia, were in attendance upon the
| wounded, administering all the aid in theil
power. The ladies Of Burlington were also
| most devoted in extending assistance to thu
! wounded.
The down train from New York, when il
stopped, was within one hundred feet of the
train wrecked by the collision with the We.
| hicle.