The Morning herald., 1878-12-06
ONE CENT.

of cars had 1t been placed on the track; We
had absut rs passengers on board that
night; four persons were killed, namely:
George Babe, the engineer; George Babe,
Dr., the fireman, aud two tramps who were
stealing o ride; the cars throw of were !:
the engine and tender, two express cars, Q
postal car, baggage car and two passenger
cars; one OF the sleeping cars lost its front
trucks. .*" s'l / z aa
Cross-examined-About 80 seconds pass
ed between the blowing Of the whistle and
striking of the obstruction: would not
have noticed Brown had he not come to mo;
he was nervous, pale and excited. 9gaalg4
Redirect did not know, any one Was
killed when l first saw Brown, and when
Mr.. Lawson took him away did not know
the accident had fatal result.
Edwin M. Lawson: Il am the station
agent at Claymont; on the night of June
2Sth went up from Wilmington, reaching
Claymont near 10 O'Clock: Just after that,
train No, 81 passed along; / had seen
Harley Il. Brown on several occasions pre-
vious to the wreck; Just after. the accident
l went down the track and when near the
scene of disaster, met Mr.. Phillips, whe
told me what Brown had said about seeing
the crossstie; said I would like to see
him, and Mr.. Phillips said he would find
him; after going down to the wreck and
assisting for short time, T. again met Mr..
Phillips; he soon found Brown and spoke
to him; Mr.. VIM. P. Clyde, Mr.. Foster, Of
Baltimore, and myself then came up.
Brown then went up to the culvert with US
and explained to US how he had found the
tie wedged In under the east rail on the
south bound track, and resting on the west
rail, and tried to pull 1t out and failed:
while doing this, he said, he heard the train
approaching and started up the track to
warn it to stop; he waved his handkerchief
and tried to attract the engineers atten-
tion, staying so long on the track that his
life was in danger. "a wooden model of
the road just at the culvert was here ex-
hibited, and the witness pointed out the
position the parties occupied while Brown
was explaining and showed how he under
stood the tie to have been placed While
Brown was telling us about the tie the pas
sengers came around us In such numbers as
to ca use nae to suggest that we go up the
track, which we did; while walking upto-
ward the station, Brown explained the flnd-
ing OF the tie, to Mr.. Clyde, Mr.. Foster and
myself, two or three times; detained Brown
until Detective Legg came and he took him
Brown said that he had been to
Chester, had rode down to near Claymont
with man who let him out, that he had
asked man when the next train left Phila-
lelphia, and told IL. 80; he concluded to
walk down the road to Hollyoak, as he had
)lenty of time, and take the cars at that
,lace for Wilmington. a,if ga ,-,7.g
When l saw Babe that night he was dead;
had no difficulty in recognizing him as :
was acquainted with him; he was cut In
he forehead and completely disemboweled;
le lay about 10 feet from his engine and
midway between the engine and tender,
which were about 20 feet apart, the tender
having shot completely ahead of the engine.
Cross>examned-I do not now remember
whether asked Brown to make q ystate-
nent to me, or whether he did it volun-
arily; however, / asked him how It was
nd he told the whole matter very clearly
nd frankly several times; the train which
vas wrecked had been running for about .
ear. '..... ....... ...
Cornelius L. Cook-I reside in New York
ity; was passenger on the wrecked train
0 the smoking car in which there were
bout 12 PERSONS; just after the train pass
d ClaymoHt l felt the application Of the
rakes. and then slight shock, after which
re brought up with crash; got out and
ound number of cars off the track and
ome of them upset; the men killed were
he engineer, the fireman, and two men
7ho were evidently stealing ride between
wo cars. . .,-.
The Court adjourned at few minutes Of
TX O'Clock. aI.a.4 10 Tfv,rfrs