The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-03-08
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Especial telegram to the Dispzeh.l
! HARRisosBURsy March 1.-THE TIT r. ID.
eastward. bound mixed passenger, freight
and stock train 90 the Valley branch OF TIE
Baltimore and Ohio railresd which left here
last evening (Mondayl broke down the high
trestle bridge at Marrow Passage, over Cedar
creek, in Shenandoah county, last night, and
fell into the stream below, instantly Killing
eleven persons, aud seriously, if NOT fatally,
mangling eight Others.
There were sixteen passengers on the
train. All of the railroad hands on the train
were killed outright, including Floyd Dun.
fniyan, engineer, and James Russell con-
ducter. Amongst other passengers on the
train were r. 4. Wood, of Virginia : a New
York sewing.silk.house agent; Andrew s.
Bower, of Baltimore, drummer for the firm
of Webb 6 Co., dealers in cigars aud tobae-
co B. Hughes of Wisconsin !; Fl. c. Baker,
agent for the firm OF Ffamm & Baker, con.
fectioners, Baltimore; John S. Baldwin salso
OF BaltimoreS Julius Sibert, of Craney
Island, Rockingham county, Va..;;- and
Charles Noel, cattie.dealer, of Mount Cliff.
ton, Shenandoah county.
The whole train of twenty-five or twenty
three cars. went down into the geek, 8 dis
lance of enc hundred and eighteen feet. The
accident occurred between and 10. p. NJ,
and has caused intense excitement and re.
greet ia this community.
| The accident occurred on portion Of the
old Manas sas Gap road, which was leased
| BY the Virginia Midland road to the Valley
Railroad Company.
[Second Dispatehl
rsRrHER AND FULLER PARTICULARS CT TEE
RRlGaTFUL ACC1DsNT-TEE SCENE AS WET.
MESSED BY A CITIZEN--THE LOSS SUSTAINED
DE THE CoxPANY-AN APPALLING sPBc7A.
T. CLE-Two HUNDRED CATTLE. sHERP, AND HOGS
MASGLED IN THE wRECK-THE FEELING AVA
KENEp IN THE VALLEY EY TIE ACcIDENT, XTC.
Especial telegram to the Dspatcb.L
| HARRlsosBURG, March 1.-Two trains
have come from the scene of the appalling
railroad accident at Narrow Passage bridge,
bringing other and fuller particulars than
were furnished by telegraph. The sight THIS
morning beggared description. There were
gathered at the bridge two or three thousand
persons, who looked on with shuddcring
sadness and profound sorrow.
The following is a list Of the names Of the
killed and wounded:
Killed: William A. Wightman, Edin'
burg, Va. Charles L. Noel, Shenandoah
county, Va; Reuben E. Harmon, ShsDan
: doah county, Va. R. L. Wood, Alexandria
Va; C. 81. Hodgson, Berkely Springs, West
Va, editor of the Mercury and member O
the West Virginia Legislature; S. A. Bald
: win, Baltimore, Md. Mr.. Guans, Winches
} ter, Va; A. C.. Bowers, commercial drum.
t mer, Baltimore, Nd; F. Donnivan, en-
gineer, Sandy Hook, Md; j. Chapman
! brakeman, Winchester, Va; S. A. Jefferson,
brakeman, Winchester.
r Wounded Julius Sibert, Rockingham
: county, right arm broken and bruised
Jacob HARM, Shenandoah, injured about
head severely, but thought not fatally; b
C. Baker, Baltimore, thigh fractured; Der
e nard Hughes, Fox Lake, Dodge county
I Wis. fractured leg and clavicle; james
, Russell, conductor, badly cut on head T
e Canning, fireman, both arms broken ant
= badly scaIded. His Injuries are very serious
P. NJ. Bird, Mount Jackson, slightly wound
ed about head, Two men who were 10 TIT
, seat in front, and one on the same seat will
: him, were killed,
!. The Masops OF Edpburg were promptly
on the ground, and gave attention to th'
dead and dying. Mr.. Wightman lived abou
j ten minutes after being taken from the wreck
: He and MIR. Wood were carried to Ednburg
:. Mr., Hammon and Mr. Noel were carried tt
\ Mount Jackson, the nearest point to where
they had lived. Some of the dead ant
$ wounded were carried to Woodstock, where
r citizens eyinced great interest in the melan
choly accident.
The train was very heavy one and Valu
2 able. There were ninety.siX fat cattle, sixty
r hogs, and. a large number of sheep in the
e cattle.cars. A gentleman living near the
bridge describes the accident as one OF tht
most fearful sights be ever beheld.
He saw by the moonlight the train as 1t
approached the bridge; saw the engine a:
D | it went down into the abyss below, and al
R the cars with their freightage Of human life
and poor dumb animals take. the fearful
!. plunge on the rocks below. The train o.
! cars was piled up for thirty or forty
! feet. The wonder is that anything that had
! life was not instantly crushed. or the one
hundred cattle and more than hundred
sheep and hogs, but solitary steer had
,, sign Of life remaining when daylight broke
, upon the scene. The cars were broken into
fragments, making the wreck thorough and
! complete. The accident has awakened
deep sensation all through the Valley.
E The bridge has for some time been con
/. sidered insecure, and the Baltimore ane
e Ohio Company were preparing to repair o.
: reconstruct it. The loss to the railroad com
pany cannot now be properly estimated, bu
), it will be very heavy, especially II friends
and kindred seek for damages for loss
!. nun'n mo rBy Associated Press.J
. Another Account.
e List OF THE KILLED AND woUNDgD-THl
J, DEAD REMOVED TO wIECHEsTER-A nsABEE
|. OF THE WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE AND
:. CITIZEN OF RICHMOND AMONG TIE FuABER.
B.1r1aoRE, March Last night between
~ - ord 10 O'Clock. while the the Way.freigh