Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-05-21

Foley woods. The train then backed nearly
half way to the lane | got off and meetlt
man with blue blouse and over-alls asked him it
they had run over ANYTHING. lie said yes.
asked him what 1t was, and he replied that be
did not know for he could not We went
on till we reached wagon lying in the ditch and
told him it was there and perhaps some one was
killed. have watched for trains at night and
lave seen headlights onefourth OF n mile coming
around McConoghys curve never but once be-
fore saw a locomotive on the road without head
light. My wife, two children and another lady
were ON the train with me when the accident oc-
CURED | don't think the train was going much
faster tLan usual. At the distance OF mile you
could not tell what kind OF light the locomotive
| had The ashpln does not reflect much light.
| Springer 5. Grubb Sworn-On the night of
Dec. ~, 1872 / was skating on Folly Woods
pond saw that train pass by it had no head
| light. 1t was u cold windy night The wind
was from the east or north east, How knew
was we had torch on the pond 10 see by
| The woods closed around the pond on all sides
| but the east; the wind was blowing in from
| there and blew out the torch.
Delaplaine Lyman was sworn-and corro-
borated the preceding statement as he was
| there at the time with Mr.. Grubb.
| George Jackson swOrn-ab0ut five or six
| weeks ago at the request of Mr., Bird went
to John l.. l.ynam's house to look at passing
train. There were several persons beside my
self. 1t was clear starlight night but no
moon, we measured n distance of 2,j0 PAGES
from the lane center by theliailroad down the
ltailroad towards stanton and stood a person
in the field about fifteen PAGES opposite With
4 lantern with instructions to rast, the lantern
rs the train passed. There we stood in the
lane thirty PAGES from the Railroad. Near 10
o clock | first saw the train some distance be-
: yond Stanton bridge, Did not hear any sig
nal from the train after coming through ihr
bridge the headlight cooked very distinct,
: did not see the lantern raised bur gentleman
> in the party called out that it was up. The
headlight was very bright and no one coming
Gown the lane with their eyes open could have
7 failed to see that light before il reached the
. man we had stationed 2G0 PAGES from us
A There was ample time to cross the track at d
tair walk
=; Court adjourned until L. NJ
= AFTERNOON SESSION
a. pon the assembling OF the Court one of
: the Jurors Jown w. Woodward being found
:, to be the next friend of Miss Lyman and I'll
- bert Lyman, in whose name the suit was
" brought, the counsel on both sides executed
= an agreement to 90 on with the trial before hie
a remaining eleven Jurors This agreement
a was ordered To be- a record.
n Alexander W. Eyer+on, sworn Il was pr,s-
t. en the occasion testified to by the last wit
Ii ness and the others present were, think Frank
liz Finn, Howard Finn, Reuben Satterhwaite
o and Mr Otto. was standing fifteen PAGES OIL
q the side OF the road opposite the end of 2GO pace.
II II from tho Railroad end OF the lane had a Ian
70 tern and WAS directed 10 signal by throwing M
- the lantern as the train passed did so. The
~ rest OF the witnesses testimony in Corrobora-
~ ton Of Mr.. Jscksons as to the briliiancy fthe
10 headlight etc,
80 John ono, sworn And corroborated the
~ testimony Of Messrs. jackson and Eyerson and
y adding that before the train passed Mr. Eyerson
the headlight threw his shadow against Mr.
~ Bird and Jackson over 2G0 yards away farther
W W down. In his opinion there was ample time To
10 | safely cross the Railroad at the lane
!, }. II. Lyman, re-called--We always relied ON
an the headlight, never stopped my horse at the
N crossing 10 lock for trains the head light was
in always a sufficient warning.
le Mr.. Bird offered in evidence almapacs of -
s. TO prove the time OF sunset and rising OF the
10 Moon.
at pr. Luhens, sworn-T am physician living
!" near Newport, was called TO see paintif on
~ ~ ChIistmas eve 1872. She was lying in bed whom
90 got there. Drs. Kane and Draper were there
ne Her right eye lids were cut through, two of her
o. ribs broken and she Was much bruised and shaL
IN en- internally l attended her for several week,
To once ,r twice a day | think she was bodily IN
nj jnred. The fracture OF her Ibs has resultel in
IN what Is called adhesive OF the rleura, which
or may never cease to pain her, her hip causes her
81 >utlering Ia this day; and she has dimmed
| sight aud a running VI ielrs whenever she at
= empts to sew or read, the healed eyeils BEING
h. too short 10 cover and moislen tie eve pr Nj
ho din WAS also in the house.
nj lis. Name, Draper anu W elulu rendered sur.
OF rcai aid TO Miss Addie and to Gilbert. do,
nj know whether or not they dad ANYTHING lar Mr.
,e- Lyman. | Gderstood they gave her some lau5 !,
rst NUN.
l." Annie u. Si,dhan, sworn am Mrs. I.y-
ol sam : sister anu hlr~eu her. / got to
fr- Mrs Lynam's the afternoon after the arTi
IL dent. Sho was iellrous on that ,lay (WsJ
he nesday1 and So continued until SUNDAY
NV She suffered worry much and needed CON
ii slant care, night and dav. | WAS that,
nine weeks; nr. Weldin, now in Irelsu1
Ily dressed the wounds. pr. Lukens attendah
81 her atterward. She necessarily complain. :
or OF sharp, severe pains III her side, uf din,
ny and watery eyes, and her hip hurts her cn,,
ey stantly. She can't close her eye even ,,,,
ad fully.
ng - 1,u, 80 ,.i,,, r,.
two or throe minutes after the train hati
ast, passed. heard sharp whistle. was get.
nat ting ready To go To bed and had my she q,
"as off. The thought of a collision sudden IA
= struck me- This was tho only time TIM
las whistle sounded. AS | rose, the door opel
OF eel and Addle came in. My wife and tvs
am daughters in the loom with mo commence ed
'nn to cry, and knowing something WAS wrong
est pulled N NV shoes, tSok up ihy hat anu
mi s,,r,a1 o,,t L',nn1 NIar,, nfai,,,, a. T., =.
~, 'he gutter, thirty or thirty live feet from tn,
JUS railroad crossing, unconscious. and Gilber
there also in the same condition. Could no
~" lift them myself and went 10 the house fol
az. help. Ry that time, Robert and John wert
there AMI took hold of the bodies. Tn,
- | Railroad men then camc up and he ped
nall i n " ~. ~ 49,, nra,,ar ar.;,'l t,
ca O'Clock. suppose the Railroad Company
,,,n sent them and paid thom rs they never pre-
-. | scented mo with n hill. nr. Weldin Wal
ahr present. nr. Lukens arrived aboGt i