The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-07-04

| SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE BALTIMORE AND
ONO EAnRoAD-Ihe Cincinnati Express
! TRAIN Ihro,rn Off the Irdck-SeUerat Cars
| Smashed and Passengers Injured:-Ih!e
Cincinnati express train east, due III lhls
city at S:45 last night, met with serious
accident OH the Baltimore ana ONO luil-
road when about four miles thls sue 0! Inc
RELAY House. The train was coming IN on
time and was running ut q rapid rate,
When ali of a sudden the engine jumped
the track and dashed ahead for ut least Sc
vnntr.tlye wards, the wheels OF one side
running on the sleepers, and those OF the
her side between the two tracks, until
thnt side became so embedded in the earth
thnt the engine was compelled to stop.
Eortunately the engine did not turn over,
and the damage done to 1t Is not very con-
siderable. The cars that immediately fol-
lowed the engine, however, were terribly
smashed.
the two tracks, the baggage car turned
completely over on its top, and tossed off
ON the north side of the track. IN this car
was Conductor Taylor, who had charge of
| the train, and was engaged ut the time in
putting away his tickets. He Waa badly
| bruised ON his wrist. leg, and head, the
| conclusion stunning him at the time, but
no bones were broken, and his injuries arc
not considered any way dangerous. The
haggage-master was not in the car at the
| time.
| The next was the smokers car, which
was dragged along the south side of the
track, and one end Of it driven into an EN-
baukInent. In this car the most injury was
done to the passengers, one of whom was
found covered with debris, smashed seats,
&c, and it was with difficulty that he could
| be taken out. He was badly bruised and
cut about the head, and evidently very Sc
riously wounded, He remained in an un-
conscious state, occasionally opening his
eyes, but too much hurt to speak. He had
the appearance Of being railroad laborer,
and Conductor Taylor says got on the train
ut the Relay House.
| About six other passengers were consld-
erably bruised in this car, none, however,
very seriously. The lights in the car were
all put out, and seemed AS if it were about
| to turn completely over, when It struck the
hank and came back on its bottom. The
| trucks from under this car and the baggage
car were all torn away. The second pas
sencer car ran off on the north side of the
track, up against the baggage car, and by
| the side of the smoking car. In it were only
three or four passengers aud MIR. Joseph
Hummer, the agent Of McClintock's bag
gage express, who was badly hurt in the
side, and it was thought, perhaps, one of
his ibis might be broken. He was taken to
u house near by and properly cared for.
| The third und fourth passenger cars,
which completed the train, remained on
the track, and the passengers in them were
uniniured. in these ears were a few ladies
and children, the only ones on the train !;
all of them were badly j0lted and of course
much frightened, but nothing more. From
the appearance Of the wreck Of the cars.
heapod together in such inextricable con-
fusion, smashed and torn, it lis miraculous
that no lives were lost.
Being u Sunday train, there were, for
tunateiy, not many ngers,-Bathmore
Sun, Sd.