Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-05-13


We have the following particulars add.
tional to those published yesterday;
Major Priest, the local superintendent Of
the road, happened to be on the accomm oda-
ton train. He at once dispatched sufficient
number of men to the relief of the sufferers,
and large number of the wounded were
brought to this city and taken to Bagg's Ho-
tel, the McGregor House, the Nolthern Ho-
tel, and the Railroad House. Others were
cared for at Whitesboro.' Physicians were
summoned, and everything was done that
could be to relieve their sufferings
IL 40 p. M-The following are the dead
up to this time "A. Moore of Rising Sun.
Ind; Daniel S. Brayton of Phelps, Ontario
county, N. Y; two children of Abraham
Mack of Cincinnatt one girl of twelve, and
the other boy of six years /; John Fitzgerald
OF New York, who had been to Detroit on a
visit to his sons; William H. Sharpe, a COL
ored preacher; Charles Bettman Of Gincin-
NATL aged twelve years his body was found
in the creek just before dark.
The bridge at which the accident occurred
was entirely rotten, several of the main beams
on which the track was laid being found de-
cayed all the way through. There is no doubt
but that the accident occurred through the
breaking Of these timbers by the weight of
the two locomotives passing over the bridge
at the same time. The greater portion of the
heart of the wood is like so much punk, and
the wonder is that the bridge had stood so
long.
The smash is most terrible one, and the
ruins convey vivid impression Of the horrors
OF the disaster. Between the stone abutments
OF the br dge Is a space of thirty two feet.
The ordinary length of car is thirty FIVE
feet; and the depth to the bottom of the
creek is nine feet Three entire cars lay
highways, crushed up between the abut.
ments OF the bridge, thus occupying the space
OF but little more than the length of one car.
The first and second cars cannot be distin-
guished one from the other.
The third car is entirely demolished, ex.
cept about one third of the rear.
On the sides OF the cars and on the timbers
of the bridge are irightful stains Of human
blood.
II o'clock, mtdaight child on the other
side, injured by this accident, cannot live out
the night.
One young man at Whitesboro' station is
dellrous, small hole having been made in
the top OF his head. He worked for some
time to rescue others, without knowledge of
his own injuries, until he became delirious.
The name marked on his shirt is G. g.
Knowles, and his residence is supposed to be
New Hampshire.
A. ]. Yates, canal contractor at Fulton, is
among the badly wounded hA
A. M.-The Coroner's jury tonight ex-
anined Benjamin Stotenger, Engineer OF the
up trAin, whose testimony shows that both
engines passed over the bridge at the same
time. He felt nothing until his engine got OH
the west side Of the bridge, when there was
suddenly jerk, and the tender broke short
of. He then looked round and saw the cars
piling up in the creek. The engineers have
orders not to run engines at the same time
over the bridge at Rome, but no such orders
as TO any other bridges. Both engines passed
over the bridge, and renamed on their roper
ate tracks. t ~
Chas. Champlin of Yorkville, was then
sworn--Helped get out the dead and wound
ed; had heard several persons talk lately of
the rottenness and insecurity OF the bridge,
and predict an accident there.
George Baylis, Justice of the Peace, of
Whltestown, deposed that two weeks since
he passed over the BRIDGE and was struck by
the rottenness of the wood. Many of the
beams were of bastard elm, apparently unfit
to bear their own weight He had stamped
his heel into them by the side of the rails,
and found them perfectly rotten. This un-
soundness was so apparent as to be evident to
his eye while crossing the bridge.
The inquest adjourned at IL P. NJ till P.
M. tomorrow.
The theory Of the railroad employees is that
the axle of the baggage car on the down train
broke, and this caused the accident This is
destroyed, however, by the fact that the bag
gage car was over the bridge when the break
took place, as well as by the evident rotten
ness of the bridge.