New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-17

The California Aquarium Car Wrecked.
We announced few weeks ago that ar
rangemen.s were being made &c transfer a
large naMhec of fsb from the Eastern
waters &c California, By means Of an aqua
! I;um car. From the Omaha Bee. CT TIE
eleventh. we learn that the enterprise ne:
with a railroad accident en- route:
TIE wrecsing o: the California Aquarium
! car II tue accident on the Union Pacific
railroad :as- Sunday at the EIkhorn bridge
| Is q heavy -Oss to the lakes .Id rivers OF
! California. and u most valuable acquisition
| % the ElhhOrn river OF Nebraska and its
! tributaries. as VIII be seen by rEe following
! detailed account Of the enterprise. as kindly
furnished us by one Of the parties cor
necreG with it:
Abou: the middle Of last February the
| California State Fish Commissioners sn.
gagged Mr. Livingston Stone, the deputy :or
the Pacific coas. Of the United States Fish
Commission. TO go East for a car load CT
| I've Eastern fish. FOR stocking the public
wate.s oI California.
NJ. Stone went East in March with
carte blanche from the California commits
s;oueIs Tor procuring the fish. and an ample
euIpiv OF means, and spent three months
| III collecting the fish and fitting Hp the car
The Car WAS furnished by the Central Pa
cite Hailroac Company, and was. sent TO
| the Cold Spring trout ponds, Charlestcvn,
! New Hampshire. where the fist were col
lee.ed, and from which point the car began
Us westward journey. 1t lett Charles
town Tuesday. June g. and was OF its sixth
| day out a. the time OF the accident. II con-
! .a;ueu twelve new varieties OF tsn not la-
| tive 70 California. They were OF al sizes.
from nat an inch TO nearly two feet ID
! length, as follows:
| Black bass, from Lake Champlain.
| Glass-e eyed pike. from Lake Champlain.
! Bullneads, from Miss;sIuoi river, Yer.
mont.
yellow perch. from Misaisquoi river. Yer.
mont.
Catfish. from The Raritan river, New
Jersey.
silvs, ee.s. from the Hudson river, New
! York.
shad eggs. from the Hudson river, New
| York.
Trou. from the Cold Spring trout ponds,
! Char!estown, New Hampshire.
Salt water eels. from near MaItha's Vine
| ward. assachusetts.
Tautogs, from near Martha's Vineyard,
| Massachusetts,.
Lobsters. from near Martha's Vineyard.
| yard. Massachusetts. and from MassaeDu-
! sets Gay.
Tne car was Well suited for its work. No
time. care. nor money had been spared to
make IT'S interior arrangements as perfect
as possible fer Carving the fish and keep
ing them alive. All the railroads took the
car along with their passenger trains, AID
| the suUerintendents OF all the roads had
been requested hy the Central Pacific Rail
road Company 10 extend all facilities 1cI
taking on supplies Of water while il transit
| The enterprise was the largest under
taking OF the kind ever attempted III the
world. The fish were prospering beyond
all expectation when the train left Omaha
Sunday noon. Every one knows what hap
pened 20 .he train an hour after at ElkhoTI
| river.
rum car. consisting OF MI. Stone, III charge
MIR. w. T. Perrin ana Mr.. Myron Green
assistants. Mr.. Perrin is a graduate o
Harvard College, and was member o1 The
Harvard base ball nine in its famous West
ern tour in 1870. Mr.. Green is a lumbel
dealer of Highgate. Vermont The occu
pants Of the ear were seated at ths
forward end eating dinner when the crasl
came. In the rear end were teur or tiv'
tons of heavy articles, weighing from 100 Il
1000 pounds each. which came flying across
the car, wedging in the occupants, and cut
ting and bruising them from head TO foot
| when the forward end of the car went down
! When the car began to sink in the river
| the water rushed in and loosened the tank
and ice, and afforded momentary oppor
| tunity to escape in the river before the ca
sank MI. Perrin came out first, PARTIAL.
, | stunned. and with one side Of his heat
: and lace covered with blood. Mr.. Greel
came cut next. with an injury in tn
: taci. ana lungs. which has since cause'
some splitting OF blood. Mr. Stone cam
cut last, somewha. lamed, but least hurt o
, | eli. although twice knocked back Into tn
! lower end Of the Car before escaping. Aite
| getting out into the !iver all three swa1
around again to the car. the upper end Q
which rested ON the suLken tender and wa
-. partially GU: Of water. They then climbe
= to the roof of the car. crossed over to IN
engine and escaped to dry land.
The fish were the lIost fortunate OF al
for they fell into their own element. probs
bly, without much injury. The Holsters 500
died. The oysters were recovered and a
once cooked up into oyster stews by To
wreckers. The tautogs mus. de. Dnt th
other fish VIII probably live and help to i'll
, | prove the stock of the E.khcrD river.
a special correspondent oi the New for
t Times, writing from Washington. June !