The Morning herald., 1878-07-01

cars. He was very much bruised, particu>
larly about the head, and was at the time
unrecognized. So the search went on until
near morning, and at the same time large
force of men who had come down from
Philadelphia, and many men from this city
assisted in the work of clearing the debris
and at last the search was given up. Bes
tween and 6 O'Clock in the morning the
wrecking train from this city returned
bringing down the bodies which were taken
to the dead house, and shortly after another
train went up to assist in the work of clear
ing the track.
HOW THE WRECK LOOKED.
Early yesterday morning representative
| of the HERALD paid visit to the scene Of
| the disaster and found desolate picture.
The huge engine lay half buried in the
high bank on the west side of the road
| like mighty warrior shorn of his armor.
Most OF the cars are more or less damaged,
and two of them, almost totally destroyed,
were strung along the outside of the south
ern track, and on the opposite side lay the
Adams Express Co.'S. car, upside down.
The messenger on this car, Thomas
Streets, as soon as 1t upset escaped from
and mounted to the top of it, where, res
volver IN hand he kept watch over it's COM
tents until the break of day. The frag-
ments of wood and iron were strewn
around in wild confusion, and the double
track had been torn up for ten or fifteen
yards, which had been repaired and the
workmen were busily engaged in getting
the cars on tie track again.
STICKING TO HIS POST.
While at the scene of the wreck the re-
worter spoke with one of the directors of
the road, concerning the dead engineer.
"They found him, poor fellow )" said he
"right by the side of his engine, and
know George Babe. we'll enough to say
that when he fell crushed, from his en-
gine, he did so after he had performed his
duty and did all In power to save che train.
He might have saved himself, but he
would rather brave death in order to save
his passengers. There will be sorrow in
his home; he was a good husband and a
} kind father, and then to lose son and
Yes sir, young man, George Babe died at
his post, and you may say so too"
Babe is very highly spoken of as man j.,
and was considered one Of the best and
most trustworthy engineers on the road.
He has been In the employ of
; the P, W. g. B. R. R., for over 20 years,
and was fireman in 1855, when Mr.. N.
W. Gookin, station master at the depot
here was an engineer. He leaves wife, a
son IA years old and daughter several
years younger. His son, who died with
him is also highly spoken of.
i WHAT CAUSED THE ACCIDENT.
The cause of the accident was cross
tie which some person maliciously placed
across the track, just this side of a little
|culbert bridge, about quarter Of a mile
from Claymont. Who did this is not known
to certainty, but special Officer Legg ar
rested man by the name of Harley j.
Brown, who is very well known here, on
suspicion. Brown was very demonstrating
for some time after the accident, stating
that he did all in his power to prevent the
smash up, but upon being interrogated as
to what he did, he said that he was coming
from Chester to Wilmington with gentle
man in carriage, and that he had gotten
out at Claymont, desiring to walk the rest
OF the way. As he came along his foot
struck against the fatal tie, and he tried to
remove It, but found 1t fastened. He then
started toward Claymont, and hearing the
train approaching, ran to stop 1t, but fail
ed to attract the attention of the engineer
Something In the mans tone made officer
Legg suspicion him and that he answered
certain questions confirmed that suspicion
very strongly, and he was arrested and is
now confined ia the Hall.
THE INQUEST COMMENCED.
At II O'Clock yesterday jury was en-
pannelled as follows VIM. H. Quinn, tore \
4 Toh n
| Bush, Jr., j. 8. Traphagen, 8. W. Shultz,
Charles Thomas, Jacob Butz, George Nc
Govern, W. W. Simmons, Amos Kane, John
s. Moreland, Thos. B. Nickcrson, 2. Fl.
Mitchell, Thos. D. Gibson, G. F. Schoen,
j. W. Vandegrift, B. F. Vandever, W. g.
Baugh, John Wainwright, D. Vuvalenger,
VIM. H. Lee, Thomas L. Sutton and John
Mcbride.
| The papers found on the bodies Of the two
unknown men were examined, and one was
identified as G. R. Krauch, formerly of this
city, and grandson of Robert Fl. Parry, of
| this city. His father, whose name is Julius
Krauch, removed from this city to Balti-
more, Md, some years ago, and resides at
No. 147 Cough street.
| Theother was identified as William r.
Hough, of Washington, D. c., and tele-
gram was sent to his sister, Mrs. Hoover,
residing at No, 1925 Sixth street, telling Of
his death, and an answering telegram was
received by the Coroner last evening, direct
ing him to bury the body.
| The remains of Mr.. Babe and his son
were taken to Philadelphia at S o'clock last
evening. The Coroner's jury will re-assem-
BILE at $50 this morning.
LECTJTRE