The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-12-09

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i An accident which came neaf bssne Int.
tended With great loss or life occurred on
the washington City, Virginia Midland and
Grea. Southern railroad about 4:2D yesterday
morning, az Orange Courthouse, VAN point
seventy -four miles south OF Alexandria.
Tue passenger train bound north. under
charge OF Captain John aFossett, had been
detained some time near Gordonsville on &C.
count OF an accident TO the eccentric of the
engine. Running out of time, Orange Court.
house was reached, when the machinery
again got out OF FIX, and another stop was
made to repair damages. just atthts time a
stock.srain, which had bean ordered
to follow 10 the wake of the passenger
train, made its appearance around a
sharp curve 10 the road, and despite
the efforts Of the engineer his en-.
CINE ran into the sleeping coach OF
the passenger train with great force. detach-
ing the coach nom the ladies car, and carry
ingterror to its occupants, who were nearly
all sleeping. Of the twenty.seven psssen.
gers In this Car only three escaped Injury,
kuouSby tRC NSuuuSt NlSC6ltSu
were generally Of q slight character. One
passenger was Knocked through che window,
Of the cur, and landed on terra trma some
ten feet OF. The car was complete wreck,
the windows being badly smashed, and the
seats torn from their places and badly broken.
The occupants of the car were principally
Knights Templar, from Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, aud other, northern cities, with
oDry polf AZ
coach had been detached the remainder Of
the passenger train started down a grade
seventy feet to the mile towards Rspidan sta.
ton, and the engineer, after having put on
steam, for some cause jumped from the
speeding train, followed closely by the fire.
man. -1--..-
AT this juncture the situation became crit.
ical, promising the destruction Of the remain
ing sixty passengers, when two brave young
men, named Spears and Kemp, craWled
through the baggage. car and over the tender
to the engineers cab, and shut off the steam,
by which means the train was brought to a
halt, after running six miles. 1t was found
that the ladies' car had also been badly
wrecked and large number Of the occu.
pants wounded. In all, some forty persons
were more or less injured, and it seems mi
Amongst the travellers were bride and
groom from Wisconsin, occupying bertbs in
the sleeping-car. The groom was pitched
out of bed and badly cut about the head and
face, while the bride escaped without o
Grating Captain Fossett from any dere-
LECTION of duty, but are of opinion that
there was want of proper precauaion some.
xY,hn roSn yroo Iify IiSno her
from Alexandria to the scene OF the disaster,
afternoon. Nearly all the male passengers
wounded were Knights Templa-, returning
from the trieunial convention at New Orleans.
Their injuries amounted chiefly to scratches
and bruises some had head and face-cuts
and bruises which will show rather badly
when they return home to their wives from
Baltimore, the Knights Templar and other
Several Knights injured rather painfully in
the general smash.up rested in Washington,
and others remained over in Baltimore. MIR.
George L. Mccain, Past Grand High Priest
Of Baltimore, was in the sleeping-car, and re-
ceived slight injury.
A press telegram from Washington gives
the following concerning the accident:
About twenty of the Washington Tenn
plars on their way home from New Orleans
were slightly bruised, none seriously. The
engineer of the freight train, when he first saw
the approaching train, jumped to his post
and opened the throttle.valve. but too late,
The train being in motion he was thrown
off, and on it sped. Knowing there must
have been such an accident, Mr.. james
Kemp, an engineer of the Baltimore; and
Ohio railroad, who was among the passen.
gers, succeeded in reaching the engine and
stopping it, after it bad run about aye
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