The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-08-08
THE DAILY DISPATCH,
Friday aieruinE, Auyast 8, 1883.

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Friday aieruinE, August 8. 1898.
THE ACCIDENT on THE BALTIMORE RAILROAD
-Eondsrfal EseaAe.--Ths telegraph has men.ion.
ed the concurrence Of an accident on the Baltimore
Railroad about II o'clock Tuesday night. The oc
currence took place at Gray's Ferry within mile.
of Philadelphia:
The locomotive struck two cows and the "catch.
err not being sufficiently powerful to throw then,
from the track, gave way and struck tho .lseners
and in An instant almost, the body of the locomo.
tive was severed from its trucks and each WA
thrown in fragments down . slight embaukmeut
into marsh. and upon them were piled In RAGGED
runs the baggage car, Adams s. Co.'S Express
car, the mailca and the onward end of the smo.
King car. "A more perfect ruin was never witness
ca. There were hvs passenger cars in the train
these were driven Int each other with great fsrc
aid all were more or less broken; three of them
were completely splintersd. The foremost passer.
ger car was driven into the mail and baggage car
dashipg IN the rear of the latter and throwing the
roof of
As soon rs the engineer Mr. George Evans. div
cerned the cattle, through the darkness ne re-
versed his engine and blew the wbistIe as a signal
to put on the breaks The break man obeyed mos,
promptly. and the train was checked withio the
space OF lis length. Tho passengers were terror
struck at the shock, their fears being greatly
he'shtehef' DO DOUBT by the memory OF the man y
e0.
The first business was to grops amid the ,ia rk
ness and ruins for the injured or dead there bsia
no land lanterns on The train
The fireman, MIR. John Fow, was taken ont from
oenealh portion OF the baggage car. One leg
was broken aud he was otherwise badly bruised :
Mr Joseph Ball, the mail agent was found
oiuseo oenea'h the mali bags and portion of the
man car he was severely cut in the head and
MS ieit leg was severeiy cut and jammed.
MT Abram Schuneman, a passenger was in the
mail car with Mr. Ball at the time of the accident
and he was found under MIR Ball with an immense
weight upon his body, which was found to be
badly crushed. 1t was feared that his wounds.
which seemed internal, would prove fatal Sever.
al passengers We're moro or less Jared, and one
man. whose name was not rcportsd see ned very
much deranged in mind !
There were between three and four hundred
passengers on the train, and singular say, there
was not a regular ply sican among them The
nearest tnat came to 1t was dentist, who did the
best he could
The conductor, Mr.. Jeremiah Smith, sent imme-
diatey to Philadelphia and procu cd another train
which arrived about O'Clock on Wednesday morn
ing, with gang of men. 1t was then ascertained
that most OF the baggage belonging to the pass
gers was so badly smashed and scattered that ii
would require the assistance of daylight before 1t
could be collected aud forwarded.
The injured were carried on to PHILADELPHIA No
blame whatever can be attached to the conductor
or engineer.
The escape of so many passengers without Sc.
flous INJURY IL wonderful indeed
YALE COLLEGE AND SHARP's RFLEs-A cor
respondent of the New York Herald, writing from
New Haven, intimates very plainly that the mis-
cradle fanatieal utterances of old Prof Silliman
at the notorious Kansas Aid meeting last spring,
have done Yale College little benefit. He says:
The part which Professor Silliman took in the
notorious Kansas meeting, held in New Haven
last spring-where Brother Beecher perpetrated
that awful "killem" pun which has picknamed
him '.Killem Beecher"-has been misiuterpretsd
20 the Injury of the college. Professor Sliman at
that time was not officially attached to the col
lege, and his attendance at that meeting was an
Individual matter. He did rot represent the col
lege there IN any capacity; and though his opin-
ions on Kansas affairs, when given to the public
are entitled to consideration and respect, they
should not be taken as the political manifesto OF
Yale College. That meeting unfortunate
affair for Yale; and If Brother Beechsr had kept his
puns and bis rites at home tie treasury of Yale Col.
hge nouid probably this day be is much better pros
p.ctios condition.
THE ELECTIONS Dispatches received at Gin.
cinnati give the returns from 10 counties In Ken.
tucky-Bultt, Hart. Hardin, Boone, Franklin,
Grant, Nelson, Campbell Pendleton, Harrison and
Brocken-shOwing an American gain of 53l and
a Democratic gain of l 72r Iu the 9th judicial
circuit the Democrats have 525 majority for their
Judge.
Nine counties are heard from in Missouri. Pike
county gives fOlk LOT NToV6FnOr ana the whole
Democratic State ticket IS maj It gave the
same majority At the Last Governors election
Marion county elect the eutire American ticket
by from 300 to 400 maj. 1t gave 2l6 Whig mai in
so. Geneveve county gives Polk $50 maj over
Ewing. 1t gave l40 Dem maj In 80. Monroe
county is reported to have given $50 majority for
Ewing, the American candidate for Governor 1t
gave l67 Whig majority in 1852. Rails county
gives Ewing American, 200 maj. 1t gave A Wb'g
msjority in 1853 ST. Charles county gives Benton
majority and elects WhiO aud t;o
Representative. 1t gave $50 Democratic majority
In 1852 Cole county-Polk beats Ewing 300 votes,
aud Benton beats Polk rs votes. 1t gave 392 De.
mocra,ic majority in 1852 Howard county is re-
cratic majority In 1852 Clinton county, reported
gives $50 majority for Polk. 1t gave Democrats
majority in 1852.
The above returns compared with the last
| Governors vote in 1882, when Price, Democrat
| carried the State by l3, 46l majority.
| The SLAVE CAsE-The Mobile correspondent
Oft New York Herald says: 1.-THE slave recent
~ carried to Boston on board the crowler, belong
ed to +. G.. Ewsrs. livery stable keeper here; and
| II mat vessel or her captain ever make their ap
pearance in these waters again. there will be such
gro"i raised as will annihilate both"
| THE ARTISAN WELL IN NEW ORLEANS We
learn from the Picayune that the work of digging
| the Artesian Well of that city has been abando ned
| by the Common Council because it has been found
the depths, the casting being of insufficient
to admit of the requisite pressure the topInOst
end. The we'll bad been dug six hundred feet.
THE GREAT TRAyELLER.-.Fremont is q great
| traveller. He was 80 days in the United States
Senate. and drew, it is said. $4,000 for mieage
| Constructive mileage this was for Fremont was
traveller this occasion, he is great states
man. by construction. Fremont is "the coming
| man" and he charges for looming" and going. and
thirty days service IT the rate of $500 per day
Aibaay Argus.
DEATH OF AN ARMY OfFIcER.-Br Major ID.
Fraser, of The u. s. Engineers,in command of Fort
Taylor, died the morning Of the 9th, of yellow
| fever. Major Fraser was stationed in New York
city several years, and was in command Of Fort
Ksox, Bucksport Me-, when ordered to this sta
tion.
LEAN DIET.-A Methodist miaister at the west
who lived on q very smal, salary. was greatly
troubled at time TO get his quarterly install
ment. lie at last told the paying trustee that he
must have the money, As his family were snffsriag
for the necessities OF life Money replied the
steward, You preach for money! l thought yon
preached for the good OF souls Souls, replied
III.