The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-10

The aasirOad Disaster la Missouri.
we nave iurtler particulars of tue receut tneiauchoy
asss,sr on he i.cuc Railroad The papers inform Us
anu OF respect and sympathy for their oereayed
The f,lowirg are added to tie st Of deaths:Adophe
Abeer, merchants Jos. fiDnegan leuten nigh,
guard ~hsm A'hey, clerk in essor's Office and
were Eslsak ssenty-four were c'izvns Of St louis
we tahe the following from the st. Louis InJsncr
ofNov, o.
THE WOUNDED.
II has been impossible for Obtain exact iusorma-
tion as to the wounded Scarce any tho train Tex
ep perhaps in the carr escaped without bruises
oil e. injuries less severe but opinion
Mr. Mi'tenW Griswold, Of FraakIip county was said
to have biz back broken. He brought the train
Friday evening from Hermann to Berger creek landed
| opps,ite bis hous+, at bis own request.
D. II. Armstrong, Postmaster ofSt Louis, right arm
1 fractured the shoulder.
Dr. Philip B. Reilly, Alderman of Second ward, cut In
right eye and In the back and chest but hoped not
riously
| WILSON Primm left broken tae shoulder and
! face badly cut.
Mr.. George x. Budd seriously wounded leg broken
/ badly.
Nj, hcIane, Of Franklin county, knee cup injured.
James McDerm0tt leg broken.
Mr. Felps jailer badly hurt about shoulder.
Capt. nelly right leg injured
Edward colston, badly cut on head
Peter Oehnan, badly bruisAd.
Mr.. DYSON firm Of Taylor b Dyson, lower law broken
and otherwise badly injured.
John G. Ivory, much cut and bruised.
Vim. Lindsey, shoulder out Of joint.
Vim. d. Anch, right arm broken.
Julius Bush, face cut buddy
r. Court Iodos, boil! arms broken and feet mashed.
Geo. X hctiunnegte, Jr., manager telegraph office,
confusion OF knee pan and head.
On Saturday morning, the steam ferry boat of Wash
the wopnaed the remaining passengers and ths bodies
Of the dsd at Washington where tho train from the city
met.
Mr. Field, of the house of Field Beardslee was in
jured after the accident by having hand pass
his body He was going to the of the disaster and
meeting locomotive, attempted to bach his car in do
ing which his coat became en.angled Ia the cesnk and
be WAS thrown on the road. The hand passed
HIM, severely, though not dangerously bruising him.
the celebration, found his time much taken up with
wounded friend-wa, chilled with the wet and Sd
on Saturday evening, only able to give par
ticulars from memory. He states that he in the
car with Dir Bullard in the forward ond of rhch
by the crushing In f the roof under another car four
teen persons were instantly killed.
gentleman who visited the of the disaster
Friday states that the wreck of cars WAS astonishing
and can only account for its extent from The force with
which the train moving. There eleven In
the ain ten having left the city and another added
Hermann The was left with ITS truck,
the track, but the rails under it partially displaced
The front truck resting the rails but the rails
drawn oil the eDbankment to the lett and the
was only retained in upright position by the coup
ling which held il up to the end Of the from
the which turned ta side and resting at
angle OF forty five degrees op DOWN on the bank The
third from the is also It's side at forty five
degrees top down In these cars, it believed NOR
tai injuries were received.
The fourth car had reached the ahu tnent with its
front truck and turned completely bottom up.
principally occupied by the guards, but believe
ono in 1t killed. The backs of the seats remained
suspended in tire the body of which did not to
be much injured.
The fh car hung by its end the left corner of
the abutment its front pitched forward and to the right
and incnng at angie Of about 40 degrees Many
wounded in This car-but none, we think, killed.
Tie sixth bad dropded oil the abutment to the left
with its front uck coming down the next in ad
vance The forward part Of this car was much broken
up ana had the last spoken OF fallen from the abut
Dent, many lives would have been lost in 1t.
The seventh car (from ,he rear) inclined to the
left and the II mt half Of 1t mashed in by the sixth
which had followed il in the train and fell On II from
thu abument Fourteen killed this at east-put
none, believe, seriously wounded. Mr.. Atolphus
Meier had remarkable escape; he sitting with Mr.
Case and MIR. Dubois Mr. Dayton, Dr. Buiiard and Mr.
Abeles have heard named among those killed In this
ear
The eighth thrown between the abutment and
the pier right angles to the track and broken up so
entirely that the different parts could not be recognized
There several Of the inmates killed. but the es
capes, unier the circumstances, we're wonderful
The ninth and tenth pitched off to the right,
ur were much broken but no Others fell on them, 80
that the mortality was not great as IN those last
mentioned.
Ibe eleventh (baggage carr settled off TO the right but
alehted on its bottom, and not much broken
might have been expected Its front end close to
the pier.
Remember that this numbering il from the rear. The
distance from the end OF the last car where 1t
poised the broken track to the abutment about
175 feet The track for the whole distance entirely
swept of by the taDgenta force acquired by the
the curve
The tender dropped along side the forward part of
baggage the left and the left of it again
the engine it's baok with the end against the
pier and the front towards the abutmen having turned
complete sommerset.
But of the timbers of the bridge scafoding
be seen between the abutment and pier