The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-09

Samuel B. Hance, Prince George county,
Everett Early, Charlottesville, Va, badly
Robert Ford, Hungary Station, Henrlco
county, Va, badly bruised in head and lctt
shoulder
Isham Ford, Hungary Station, Henrico,
dangerously in the head;
| John Green, of King George county, Va,
seriously in the stomach and back;
Thomas J. Winston, blacksmith, OF Rich
lmond, Va. slightly in the back;
| G. ". Clements, Of Henrico county, Va,
severely in the head );
| Edward Harris, Of Hanover county, Va,
Charles E. Hoge, of staunton, Va,
slightly in the head and wrist;
w. f. Crump, of Richmond, seriously;
John S. Pollard, of Montgomery, Ala,,
severely but not dangerously;
Colonel Jordan, railroad superintendent,
of Mobile, Ala, severely but not danger
NJ. kelley, of staunton, Va, hurt inter-
nally, and badly
George Tyrer, slightly u
John Spencer, residence unknown, badly
hurt;
William A. Mole, of Maryland, slightly.
Our correspondent at the White Sulphur
says:
"The first kilograms reported that the
car was showed from its place by the rear
engine, which was sgnalled from the front
| to nut down breaks but did not hear the
signal. This idea was evidently an error.
| for the train was going upon an upgrade OF
| one hundred and sixty feet to the mile, ana
| mt the speed of Only five or SIX miles al
hour.
DIT is asccrtained that one Of the wheels
of the front truck was broken, ana IL Is pc
lieycd that, the car being thrown from the
rails, the coupling broke, ana II Went over
the embankment. The rear engineer o. %
served that the car was injured, ana re-
yersed his engine at once. This would
have saved it had the coupling held the
car. ,.s;.
UThat your readers may understand 1t,
| I will endeayor to describe the scene:
"The railroad track crosses deepravine,
| at the bottom of which is the little, stream
called Jerry's run, eight miles from the
White Sulphur. Here it is designed to
have an immense ill, 1SG feet high. e.
| the permanent track will rest upon an en-
bankment 1870 feet above Jcrry'S run. But
| as IL required two years to maj ke this fill the
company temporarily rcsorted to trestle-
work about 100 feet below the elevation of
the permanent track. This is approached
| by sharp grades, to pass which requires two
engines. Great caution is used on this part,
and il was believed to be as safe from acct
dent as any part of the road.
"Thc accident happened, however, not
on the trestle-work, but on the ascending
Grade. five hundred feet west Of 1t. AT the
0oint where the car fell the steep side OF
| the Hill has a deep cut into it from the top
| 70 the mouth of tunnel, which was cut
for the county road which passed along
.Ierrv's run. and which, being stopped up
| by the embankment, the company opened
| this tunnel for its accommodation. Inc
| face of this cut is OF solid rock, ana Inc
track is upon its edge. Its diameter IS noC
the length of car. Therefore the car
must have started in its fall end-foremost !;
and as it was broken in two, and onc-halt
vested ON the other when it fell, 1t Is sup
nnsed that the foremost end struck the side
| Of the cut. and that the other immediately
struck the opposite side, thus causing it to
break in the middle and to descend in the
crushed manner it appeared. Those i'll
| fated passengers who were In the nall
which first descended were crushed 10
death.
"The accident is the most disastrous that
ever hapDened upon the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad. General Wickham is here.
and will have it thoroughly investigated. l
have no doubt that the result of the inyes-
tigation will bear out the views l have pre-
sented.
II trust that it will so turn out. Accidents
are inevitable, as they are III all machinery,
and indeed in I'LL the actions of life. But it
is better, and gives more confidence, when
we learn that disaster has proceeded from
la cause that human foresight could not
have avoided.
''The event has thrown damper upon
the spirits Of the sojourners here. But it
will soon pass away, as i'll all such cases.
Everything was done by the officers of
the company for the decent disposition OF
the bodies Of the dead, and giving inme-
date information to their relatives that was
possible. General Wickham ordered up to-
day metallic collins for them all. The
wounded were attended to most carefully
by the officers, by the physicians, and the
Messrs. Peyton, who now have eleven OF
them under their care"
;! BY telegraph.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, August SAIL
Of the wounded by the late accident will re-
cover. Strange to say they had no bones
broken.
In consequence of the accident, and the
presence of the wounded at the Springs,
the ladies decline to have the usual hop to-
night out of respect for the dead and SYM
pathy for the wounded.
The effects of the dead are here.
The thermometer stands at 800.