The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-08
Riflllmmn qispattlI.
MONDAY MORNING. AUGUST 8. sssa.
The Late Railroad Disasser-Further par
ticuiars.
The Albany Atlas OF August sth, gi,ls the

The Albany Atlas OF August 4th, gives the
following additional particulars:
The seeneof the accident is about seven
teen miles north of Albany, In The town OF
scaagneeke, Rennselaer county. At that
point the Northern Railroad crosses little
stream known as the Tomhannock, which
einpties into the Hoosic River, and thence into
ihe Hudson. On either side, at the railroad
crossing, has been built, in no very substan-
tiai manner, a stone abutment or wall thirty
seven feet high. From one abutment to the
other the distance is not less than sixty feet,
and this space is spanned by timbers some six
teen inches thick and ten inches wide.
These timbers We're boited and otherwise
supported by trestle work, and a few stanch-
ions projecting upwards from the abntments;
and all was rotten. Across these rotten tim
bers the ears had 70 pass andevery body in the
vicinity seems to be surprised only because the
structure did not give way long ago. 1t had
been noticed, not once, but frequently, espe-
cially of late, that as soon as a train ran upon
IL, employees and passengers Were aware of 4
sagging down. which became the more pal
pable as soon As the ears reached solid ground
again. A comparatively heavy train passed
over within an hour of the accident, and many
particularly noticed the 'sagging.
ut seems that the Company was aware of
the unsafe condition of the structure, and that
The bridge master had men employed there
that afternoon patching ii up, and endeayor-
ing 10 strengthen 1t. Between and 4, Il. M -,
a heavy rain fell, which caused the men 10
cease work, but whether they left it in a
weaker or stronger condition than usual has
not transpired II was hardly possible for it
10 be weaker At either end, the timbers,
where they rested on the stone walls. We're
rotten At least two-thrds OF their thickness.
at appears that the engine had barely
reached solid ground, coming SOUTH when the
tressel-work gave way. The mail and bag
gage-cars We're the first to go down; then fol-
lowed the first pasSenger-car, which fell on
one end, and thus stood until the second and
last passenger-car went down, falling, or slid
ing, it Were, partly under the first. The
tender fell over the mail and baggage-cars,
crushing the latter to atoms, but neither of
the passenger cars were SO badly broken up
rs was to be expected
From the Troy Daily Times, of August 4,
we make the following extract:
An engine always follows their last train
down over their road. After the Ten Eyck
stopped. the engineer and fireman thought of
this. They Immediately ran around and back
upon the track The engine was half a mile
above, at ''the Sag'-a place SO called because
the bedding of the track has slid away there,
causing ii TO sink sideways, over Il precipitous
embankment, in n dangerous manner-and
was coming down at its usual rate of speed,
when they signaied il to stop. As the bridge
was near Il curve, but for this precaution, the
locomotive wonld have been hurled, III q min
ute or two more, upon the wreck below.