New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-30
ACCOUNTS FROM OUR REPORTERS

The tain which LEFT Philadelphia for New-fork
Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock and 20 minutes, when
about milo ths side OF Burlington, N. j., mot with
one Of the most shocking and life-destroyng aeei-
dnts that we have had to record since the dreadful
Norfolk calamity, by which thirteen human beings
were instantly killed and large number very badly
Injured.
A tecsrsphio dispatch announcing the occurrence
vvos we'd Yesterday afternoon in time for the even
Ing paper, bot with that ingenuity possessed IN such
an eminent degree by railroad employees and tele-
,,,b ,norAtors the ma ter was whitewashed so that
Re tale was not half told and the magnitude OF tho
calamity VISA not known here until the arrival oil the
train at Josey City at II o'clock The circumstances
ofthe sad occurrence as definitely as we could learn
them from a passenger who was on the tram, ana
who arrived in the train last evening, we give oeow'
Mr. James L. Ray, merchant dong business al
No los Bowery, was on board the tram, ana was
somewhat injured but not seriously. he sustained
cut upon the bead and had one breast OIL DIS coa'
completely torn of and his shoulder slightly injured
II wa with difficulty that he oxtrcaied himself rom
The wreck Of cars and deems his escape almost MI
raculous.
Mr Raw ssys that the train consisted OF engine,
tender, baggsgy .car and four pHssenger-cars w'h
one hundred and eighty passengers and left Phnade'
rAia - the usual tioie 10 O'Clock and 20 minutes.
The, had run about twenty ono miles ara were Two
ms this aide of Burlington, n. j., when the engineer
discovered the morning train from Ne~'Nofk ap-
proaching. and there being but single uacA' no
reversed the engine and commenced backing the Tram
~ the Burlirgton switch in order TO allow the Tram
10 mass. Thoy had gone backward about
nile ADD were about the same distance from the
switch. going at the rate OF twenty or tweoty 'hVe
n,ies an hour. when the accident occurred IN th'S
Ms. A musician named Harrington was driving
sps, 4 horses before carriage IN which were i'0r
or Eve ladies' and attempted TO cross The track aheau
oftbe train; but the horses just got upon tue uacA
when thcy were struck by the fret passenger car
ard instantly killed, one being thrown on one
side ~ fe tack and his mate the other Neitho'
Of the persrs in the car iage was m'teraly inufeu'
although under the circumstances seems
The train being on the move backward inc eas"e0'
did not s. the horses and carriage, aud was NOT a"aic
Of The collision until he saw OF the caTasewhee
lying on tho track as the engine passed over H. LOG
the horses and carriage and sppenende
that the train would strike them bat the berope was
out Of order 10 hat be could not warn the eng'iecr
lie started through the cars, for the purpose O. uos
n SOD but was too late. and the car ana hoiseS
~ before be could get there. The conclusion
~ nwA.t passenger car of the track ana COW"
AoAsuA..-ra s;ght or ten feet high and with the
nosssAm a. ske train had at the time, the next tTo
psseness - vee drawn down, one after the otnef'
On Top Of To erst, while the fourth was thrown ceaf
over al Of them with tremendous force The iourn
Passenger car became detached from tho baggage car
sno his, together with the engine and tender, was