Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-08-16

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In the Middle Ststes rising barometer, nort1er'
" to easterly winds, COOL ana genorsI1y clea'
wasther, eS cept possibly rain areas IN Virginia
THE LATE RAILROAD ACCIDENTAL addl
ton TO the particulars already given, the
Lvnchburg News furnishes the following:
''At the time of the accident the ram was
mourning down 10 torreuts, and had been TOT
several hours, and the light was so DARK lna .
nothing could be seen. The casually occurreu
at point where the road crosses sn1ail
branch, a tributary of Harris creek, ana usu 'lly
20 Insignificant 10 size that chlld couia step
aoroSs + IT any point. This stream passes
thronph a culyert at least forty feet below the
road he'd and was spanned 5y short trestle
hr;dpe. /, is believed that water spout pro
,}nrs1 The food of water which undermined the
trrs,Ies and washed out the earth around the
Ir;}ye, making gap of ninety feet vide and
Cant. Thomas Pierce, the conductor, had
noon nroceediug very slowly, owing to the
ra;n, ,vaminiug all bridges and culverts OF
which he had any fear and had returned to
,h,, caboose huf short Time when the acct
,Inp, o.rurrcu. rbe train num0ered thrice
ears besides the cab,ose, all heavily loaded
with mules, horses, grain, groceries and gen
cral merchandise. The engine leaped into the
fearful torrent 10 which the water must have
been - or 81 feet deep; the tender followed,
and was succeeded by twelve cars, with sixty
five mules and other freight OF various descrlp-
transformations the most complete wreck, per
haps, that was ever seen IN this section ul tue
country. The brakeman IN the rear OF the
train says be tet jar and lustantl; put on the
brakes, which saved one Car loaded with bacon
and the caboose. though the former stopped
within few inches of the chasm, ADD Was only
saved by becoming unc 'uped.
Our reporter on Sunday visited the scene
of the disaster, which cannot be described.
The stream had SuoSidcd but the course oil the
food more than hundred yards WIDE, Was
marked with dead mules and horses, remnants
of the broken cars, aud almost every descrlp.
ton of freight. Several hundrad persons We're
on the ground, and large force OF hands enl'
ployed in removing the wreck.
':rhe BODY of Mr.. Reyes, the engineer, was
recovered with but little difficulty, and m'De-
diat"ly taken charge of by q delegation OF
Musons from the lodges 10 this city at the re-
quest of Andrew jackson lodge, IN Alexandria,
Of Which the deceased was an honored mem
Der. A coffiu was procured IN this city, aud the
deceased removed to GordonsVllle, where his
wife resides, for intermcnt.
"1hc body OF Mr.. Anderson was not recover
ed until yesterday. l. was lying on the engine
and uuder the tender, and Was shocklngy
crushed. He was buried yesterday evening at
The Presbyterian Cemetery.
Forty seven of the mules apd horses We're
either crushed to death or drowned, aud the
remaining eighteen saved themselves in more
or less crippled condition Nearly all the most
valuable freight was savcu, aud It is believed
the engine is not very much injured No in
tclIlgcut estimate can yet be made OF the
amount of loss to the company, though well
informed officials do not regard It so seriously
as at first much of the freight which had been
given up Tor lost having been removed IN good
order. The heaviest loss in frog is the de-
srucion Of the mu es and horses, which we're
worth tr1m five to tx thousand dollars. We
are not dciatcly informed as to vino will sus
tain the loss