The Portland daily press., 1869-04-24
NEW YORK.
TERRIBLE RAILROAD AccIoHNF.

NEW YORK, April ga horrible acsidsnt
Is reported on the Long Island Railroad The
disaster occurred TO the train which left Hun
ters POINT at TO- 30 o'closk, on the arrival Of
tne extra train from River Head. The train
ran Off the track about mile west of Queens,
caused by broken rail. In the last car were
fifteen passengers. The coach was broken to
spllnters, and eight passengers and the brabe-
killed. The following are the names Of the
killed, as far as could be aseertained amidst
the great excitement which prevailed: Mr..
Shanahan, the contractor for the construc-
ton OF the branch road from Sag Harbor to
Manor; Mr.. Rushmore, president of the At
lantic Bank of Brooklyn, and child named
Adams. The parents of the child are terribly
injured and cannot survive. Mr. Craig of East
Thirtleth street, was badly cut about the head
and had his hip dslocated. Several others are
veyed to Minneola and Jamaica. Everything
possible was done to alleviate the sufferings Of
the injured.
CITY AND VICINITY.
The National Board of Underwriters to-day,
after a long discussion, informally voted in ia.
vor of appointing an Executive Manager, with
an Advisory Committee to discharge the Ex-
ecutive business of the board. Objections were
raised to taking final vote on the question,
which will be further considered. Various
substitutes for the scheme were referred to the
Executive Committee, with instructions to re-
port plan to the board.
The y. 5. Commissioner to-day refused $1O,-
goo bail for Wilson. who is charged with heavy
drawback frauds.
THE FREsAETs.
WATERFOWL, April 23.-The food continues
with unabated violence, and the scenes of de-
struetion are indescribable. Black River place,
six miles above here, has lost chair factory
saw mill, dwelling, and an iroa bridge costing
seven or eight thousand dollars. At the upper
dam in Watertown, Mr.. Dougherty's saw mill,
Messrs Wilson & Stewards wagon factory and
Miser's tannery, with fume and bulk-head for
all, are swept away; and Remington's magnif-
icent dume is loosened from the rock to which
it was bolted and for over seventy feet o hole
was broken through and much damage done
to it. They have anchored it to the shore with
strong cables and hope to hold the timbers
from floating out at the next dam below. Bag
ley q Swell's iron foundry and machine shop
have been assailed to-day with great violence.
The boom on the upper dam, holding seven
asres of timber and the food of wood which
came down the river, broke and swept down
stream, carrying in its obstructive course one
of the buildings of Bagley & Swell 1t broke
a huge hole in the underpinning of another
and it is believed il will crumble it to pieces.
One pier of the railroad bridge on the ORdsns-
burg branch has been taken out. Lower down
on another branch of the river, Doughertys
grist mill has been torn down and swept away,
and KillbalPs barley mill broken into and con-
siderably damaged. Coming down into the
city the ruin wrought furnished Sc specta-
cles The dam and magnificent fume that fed
Vaname & Smiths cabinet factory, Howard's
machine shop, Knowlton's paper mil, Lord 8
piow and moving machine factory ard destroy
ed. Mr.. Lords loss is the heaviest in amount
DEATH OF THE GEN. M,ALIsTER.
BUFFALO, April 23.-Brig. Gen. Miles d:
ScAnster, S.aa OF the Engineer Corps of the United
S'a'eS' oied suddenly this morning.
RESUMPTION OF TRAVEL.
fouGHREEPsIE, April 23.-All trains ON the
ularly. nv" Au"s -ss