Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-15
NEW YORK.

Republican State Executive Committee.
 NEW YORK, July 1.-The Republican State Executive Committee met in the Fifth Avenue Hotel at l o'clock this afternoon and re- mained in session about half an hour. There were present Messrs. Chester A. Arthur, Jacob North, Jacob M Patterson, B. Platt Carpenter, William B. Sirrett, George H. Sharpe Theodore z. Root, James s. Smart, James w. Frooman and E. M. Johnson. MT. Carpenter was elected temporary chairman, and Thomas c. Platt was chosen permanent chairman of the committee. The question of securing permanent headquarters for the committee was referred to 8 subcommittee composed of Messrs. Platt, Arthur and Johnson, and this same committee was au
 thorized to open temporary headquarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel The matter of the vacancy caused by the resignation of Abram J. Wood of the First district was referred to B. D. Hicks member of the State Con- mittee from that district. Henry A. Glidden
 was chosen secretary of the Executive Con- mittee, which then adjourned.
 Swept From a Train-A Shocking Acet- C dent-Twenty-one Laborers Injured. NEW YORK; July 14.-A terrible accident
 occurred this morning at a point between Pearsall's station and East Rockaway, on the Long Island railroad, by which twenty-one
 Italian laborers were injured, several of them
 fatally. About 10 o'clock gravel train, con-
 posed of seven fiat cars, was going east at a 1 rapid rate of speed between the points men tioned, having on board at the time about thirty-five laborers, chiefly Italians. On the right side of the track stands an immense derrick which had been used in digging a | large well. For some cause unexplained the 1 rope or guy which sustained the derrick | slacked up as the train approached, knocking 1 the whistle off the engine and sweeping the l cars The unfortunate men were thrown | violently to the ground, and their screams of 1 pain and terror were heard for half mile. The engineer stopped the train as soon as 1 possible. The engine detached and run 1 back to Pearsalls, where temporary assist
 ance was procured. The poor Italians, many
 of whom were maimed in a shocking manner,
 were placed in cars and dispatched to Brooklyn. The officers of the road sum-
 moned physicians, sent an engine with l two passenger cars, and had the wound ed men placed on them and taken to 1 she depot. They telegraphed their approach | wagons be sent from both the Eastern and
 Western districts. The wagons reached the
 station with number of surgeons just be- 1 fore the train came in with the wounded men. 1 Their wounds were temporarily dressed and 1 they were then carried to the wagons in l stretchers and taken to the different hospi-
 tals. The injured men could not speak Eng 1 fish, but they were able to tell where they 1 lived. Some had their skulls fractured, others had broken arms, others broken ribs and
 others broken legs. Two or three of the men
 were believed to be fatally injured as their
 skulls are badly fractured. The surgeons
 could not tell immediately the extent of the
 injuries. The train from which they were
 swept was going, it is said, at the rate of ten
 miles an hour.
 1 The derrick in question had been used for
 the purpose of digging huge well for the
 Long Beach hotel, and the men were making arrangements to take it down. The guy ropes
 were heavy wire ropes, and one of them 1 stretched over the track. Unfortunately it
 was lowered just as the train was approaching | and was just low enough to sweep everything from the cars. It is surprising that none of l the men were instantly killed.