New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-09
A CITY HAPPY.
THE NASHVILLE RAILROAD DIS.
ASTER.
Incidents and Details

1t has already been mentioned by tel
egraph that two passenger cars and on,
sleeping coach fell through a bridge a
Harpeth river, on the night of the thirG
| instant.
We copy further details from cur ex
changes. Special dispatches to the Louis
| vile Ledger state:
There were fourteen passengers in the
| front passenger car, about thirty in the
| ladies car, and three in the sleeping car
| Most of those in the ladies' car were on their
way to Kingston Springs to enjoy the
Fourth of July. The train. as usual, re-
duced speed on approaching the bridge over
| Harpeth river, sixteen miles from the city.
| The engine and baggage car passed over
the pier in the middle of the river in safety.
| The front passenger car had reached the
| pier, when the bridge gave way under it,,
| and it was precipitated twenty feet into the
| river falling on its side into eight feet of
water. The ladies' car fell end up onto this,
| all the passengers falling to the front, and
the seats breaking from their fastenings and
| falling on the passengers, one conner of this
car being under water. In the front car
was Mr.. John Campbell, of Nashville,
| whose leg and head were hurt, but who,
| with another gentleman, were the only per-
They swan through the car and extri-
Gated eight or ten others, and brought them
| out with but slight bruises. Others who
were under seats were killed or drowned,
and their bodies had not been found at day
light. In the ladies car thirteen out of the
thirty were killed instantly, and their dead
bodies, with the broken seats, were piled up
with and on the other passengers. In this
condition they were left-the wounded and
Il fho Il o,1-,, -,f, -
ing car run half way over the break and
lodged against the upper end of the ladies'
car. The three persons in it were bruised,
but soon extricated themselves and climbed
down and commenced taking out the
broken seats piled up on the dead and
dying, and after about an hour succeeded
i'll relieving many.
The engine and baggage car hurried on
to Kingston Springs station, where they
Colonel Thomas, superintendent of the
road. News reached Colonel Thomas at
half-past twelve. He at once started with
wrecking train and number of distin-
gulshed physicians to the scene of death.
Arriving there at near to two o'clock, they
went to removing the dead and dying. All
this time the wounded were fastened under
the dead bodies and debris, unable to move
hand or foot, some praying for mercy,
others bemoaning the loss of dear ones, and
others rejoicing that it was no worse with
them than it was.
1t was extremely difficult for parties to
reach the wounded without standing on or
holding themselves up by some of the
wounded or dead. One of the wounded,
MIR. Williams, a stout man of Nashville,
proved himself hero by telling one of the
doctors to stand on his hip, the leg of which
was mangled and crushed; telling the doc
tor to never mind him, but relieve the
others, who were in worse condition than
himself. j. NJ. Thompson, of Amherst
Courthouse, Virginia, was cut about the
head and hip, and having his bowels
mashed, since dead, was under the impress
sion that he had been in a great battle and
cannon ball had struck him below the
knee. When they brought the streteher to
take him out, he told them: "Oh, know
what that is; have been wounded in bat
tie before and taken off the field on a
stretcher." He was very cheerful, but
died soon after reaching the city.
Mr. John Scott, an employe at the Nash
vile depot, was in the centre of the car,
conversing with Miss Heard, of Trenton,
Tennessee. John Marshall, of Nashville,
and Judge Hornbenger, of Clarksville, both
distinguished lawyers, were seated OppO-
site, and Henry Pollard, fronting them,
were conversing. w. Z. Yeatman and wife,
of Memphis, were seated on the next seat
to the rear, and Charles Campbell and wife,
Miss Celia Case, of Granville,
Ohio, and little year old daughter, were
seated next to the Yeatmans. These were
all instantly killed, except Mr.. Yeatman,
who escaped with dreadful wound on the
head and, it is feared, some internal injury.
MT. Scott was under all these. and escaped