The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-04
The Late Railroad Calamity.
MELANCHOLY DETAILS.
PRosE Gu TIoNoF THE COMPANY
MORE EVIDENCE.

PRosE Gu TIoNoF THE COMPANY
| MORE EvIDEKcE.
| The papers bring u further narrowing particu
lars In regard to the late Railroad slaughter on th
Camden and Amboy Ra ilroad.
| ~ v THE INJURED. sf
| The condition OF the wounded, yet remaining IL
Burlington, has not materially changed. Every
attention and kindness that generous and hu'
| name people can hestow 10 literally extended oJ
the good citizens of Burlington, each endeavor
Ing 70 outvie the other in noble acts OF phiar-
thropy. ~
PROSECUTING THE COMPANY.
We are panied to add thar Mrs Gillespie. Of
Misc sissippi was compelled on Friday TO have her
left leg ampuated. She bore the oper alton with an
extraordinary degree of fortitude. s-
Mr Gillespie her husband, whose leg was ans
putated the previous evening, 10 rapidly sinking,
and 1t seems impossible for the recovery Of either.
This is, In Iced, cad and truly distressing case
| Husband and vile. 10 advanced years, tar from
home, but not without kind friends. suffering un-
/ wiss than narrowing 10 the feelings of the most
stout hearted. 90 Friday, Mr. 6 made q will, be-
queathing properly to the amount of $60O,0OO,
believing that his death was Eear approaching 1t
Is stated that he directs that in case of his DEATH
that of his wife, the railroad company be prose-
cuted to the last cent OF his fortune. e
Mrs Boyce, of GEORGETOWN, D C, is better and
out of danger. Lewis Lichtens,ein, OF Richmond,
Va, left for home on Saturday. Dennis O'Kane,
OF Georgetown, is doing we'll Com Smith and
bis wife and DR. Whelsn have sufficiently recovered
10 be able to proceed to Washington. Mrs Phelps
aud daughter are nearly recovered. Mrs Phelps 10
the authuress of a well known work on botany
Her sister, Mrs Emma Willard, OF Troy, celebra-
ted as authoress of school history of the United
States, arrived at Burlington on Friday evening.
and afforded such aid and consolation as only a
sister can give. Tho distinguished ladies will re
ceive from public to which their virtues and ta-
Tents have endeared them, the livelest sympathy
in their sfictions William Hughes, of Bosten
whose arm was broken and otherwise injured, re-
turned to his home on Friday. Mr. Otis Fisk. of
Middletown, Conn, had portion of his foot ampu.
tsted on Thursdsy night. All the rest of the
wounded are doing well.
VISIT TO THE SCENE OF SLAUGHTER.
reporter of the Philadelphia Ledger visited In
company with the coroner's jury the scens of the
accident on Friday, and found that the wrecked
care had been removed. and ell that was LETT to
mark the spot were small splinters, newspapers,
some OF which we're spotted with blood, the stuff
ing OF seats, and evidences of recent repairs the
road. The place where the last car (or first when
backipg) ran of or across the road, 10; by actual
measurement, two hundred and fifty.iVe yards
from the crossing where the car came In contact
with the horses and carriage and from the spot
where Or. Henekin says he first heard the rum
bling OF the train, unobstra acted view of the rail-
road track may be had for some FIVE or six hum
dred yards. An evidence of this fact was given
by the running OF train along the track and back
while the jury obtained full view OF 1t for sever
al hundred yards farther down the road than that
occupied by DR.. Henekin. A full examination OF
all points OF the road seemed to have given diff.
fereDt current to the views of those who had ex
pressed opinions without first ascertaining by
obser vaor the actual or position of the road
Toe horses of Henekin are buried on each side
OF the road, at the spot where they were carried
by the force OF the collision.
EXCITEMENT AT BURLINGTON.
The melancholy aft air continues to excite great
attention among the people OF Burlington The
hall In which the inquest is held is crowded during
the entire sitting by anxious listeners, Who when
OUTDOORS, express their opinions very freely, and
more forcioly than elegantly. Friends of the In
Jured are constantly arriving, and such of the
wounded as were not 80 seriously injured as to
render them helpless are already departing.
cloud OF gloom seems to hang over the place
Even the children wear a mournful expression
The horrors of last Wednesday seems to be indel-
IDLY fixed upon the minds of all.
STATEMENT OF PASSENGER.
Mrs Phelps, of Eilicons Mills. Md, received
painful sprain of the LETT knee, which still detains
her at Burlington The injury is compar atively
triaiug. Mr. Miller, Bishop Dosne, Rev Mr. Har-
bsugb, formerly of FrederickD and many others
threw open their houses to hersei and her family,
but she preferred remaining quietly In her room in
the City Hotel, where she fret carried. Her
youngest daughter Myra Phelps, 1t appears did not
sustain the slightest injury. The report that she
was DhUIy DTule6u tuTDs out 10 Do q mistake. She
remained beneath the ruins some five or ten nil
uutes, during which she suffered intensely from
difficulty of breathing, her face being almost buried
10 the sand. Her escape from being crushed was
almost miraculous. The broken fragments AID
spinters arranged themselves around her BODY in
sort OF frame or tressel work. and thus supported
the immense superincumb 5nt mass of tmbers
trucks and broken car bodies. Fear of bringing the
whole impending weight down by disturbing any
OF Its props prevented her being priced ou. soon.
She comes on from Philadelphia this morning
to attend her sisters funeral.
Miss Lincoln vas extracted from beneath hesp
of Fl We or six bodies. The only wounds visible
were a upon the cheek and an abrasion of the
skin upon the threat, but her face was discolored.
showing that she died from sutfocatou She was
literally buried alive by the dead. Her body was
kindly taken In charge by Mr. Miner, put 10 Ice
and removed to Philadelphia for preservation. 1t
will be brought on by her friends this morning.
and inferred in Green Mount Cemetery, the funeral
leaving Grace Church at l2 1.2 O'clock While
crossing the brdge at Rancocas creek she called
the attention OF her friends to the spot and remind
ed them of the fatal accident that had happened
there year or so before. The last words she was
Ia connection with her sad fate After the motion
of the train was reversed she remsrked-"I won.
der why we are going back 80 fast" Her lips had
scarcely ceased to move when she was hurried into
eternity by the awful crash.
Mr.. Phelps left his seat by the side of bis mother
but few minutes before the accident walked
through the forward car; returning to re-.
join his party, and had got back to the car Inn.
mediately iu front OF the one he had left when
percsiving the train was starting he set down
where he was, preterring to wait until reaching
the next station before crossing the PLATFORM
Soon the whistle gave rapid succession of those
sharp jerking screams which always thrill one
with presenIiment of danger; the motion was a.
most instantly reversed, and in half minute more
he was brought staggering to his feet by a sort of
mufied crashing shock. Rocked violently to and
fro, jar followed jar 10 rapid but distinct success
sion rNearear and nearer, louder and louder, on
came the ruin, ripping and tearing, swapping and
crashing; until with one stunning, bewideripg
shosk, in single moment all was for an insalt as
stti and silent as the grave. He found himself
upon the g. ound, and upon his feet perfectly un-
hurt but is unconscious az to how he got there
whether he leaped off the car, or burst from its
midst Ike missile from an exploding shell. OF
course bis first thought wss for his friends, but
where or how TO search for them was the question.
90 three sides he was Invested by barricade of
ruins hurled biz b up 10 mad CONT sion
There was nothing by which to determine the
lativr position of the cars; there was nothing In
| fact, which could be identified as car at all
single glance around revealed the true nature OF
the scene, with all Ito accumulation of horrors
The idea was sue gsstsd OF GU se hash OF splinter,
ed wood aud chopped up human bodies There
was smell as OF a butchers shambles on a
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