The Portland daily press., 1882-06-30
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Five Cars Thrown from Bridge.
ABOUT 100 PERSONS INJURED AND
SEVERAL KILLED.
General Grant ON the Train, but I'm.
hurt.

LONG BRANCH, N. j., june 29.-An express
train which left here at sos this morning met
with terrible accident while crossing bridge
over a branch of the Shrewsbury river near
Little Silver station. The accident was no
doubt caused by spreading of the rails Six
cars four ordinary passenger coaches, smok-
ing car and Pullman car, left the rail and ran
over the ties of the bridge, tearing them to
splinters. The cars kept on the bridge until
the train was half way across, when the four
passenger coaches and the smoking car went
over into the water with terrible crash The
cars landed on their sides in about four feet
Of water. The scene that followed beggars
description. An unknown mon from Ocean
Beach was taken out dead. The cars were
filled with passengers aud the number of in
jured is unknown, but there were about one
hundred hurt. Mr.. Demarest, of the firm of
Demarest & Co., New York, was badly in
jured ct the base of the skull. He will die
VIM. r. Garrison son of Commodore CARR
son. was terribly hurt on the chest. Charles
M Woodruf of Newark and j. Mitchell of
Scranton were also seriously intared- 1t is inn
possible to get the names of the others at pre-
sent. All the physicians around in the neigh
boring towns have been summoned. Charles
H. Foster, the fireman of the engine, pulled
ex-President Grant out of the smoking car.
Grant was not injured. Robert Robertson,
iron merchant, from New York, who has the
Seller cottage here is injured badly. A grocer
named Edison of Branchport was crushed ter
ribly; James Brooks of the firm of Brooks &
Dickson theatre troupe of New York, had his
collar bone broken; Norris H. Brown, son of
Thomas j. Brown, superintendent of the Erie
Railway received severe blow on the head
and his back was injured; G. j. Fox of Rich
mond, Va, had his hand crushed; James e.
Malloy, 2O2 Broadway, was SO badly crushed
he cannot recover
The dead man has been identified as James
G. M. Demarest of New York is dead. Presi-
dent Galloway of the Elevated Railroad was
slightly injured. VIM. r. Garrison has been
unconscious since the accident; he is suffering
from conclusion of the brain. He is at Holly
wood PARK, the residence OF John Hoey. Geo.
Il. Blanchard, vice president of the N. Y. L.
e. q Western Railroad, Robert M. Minturn,
ex-President Grant and Arthur L. Sewell are
among those only slightly cut and scratched.
New York, June pa Long Branch dis
patch says Annie Irwin of Brooklyn has deep
cash in her forehead and is UNCONSCIOUS. VIM.
A. Mccall, brakeman, throat badly cut be-
sides an ugly wound under the right eye, and
another en- his arm.e Mr.. Mitchell's condition
is precarious and he has sustained internal in
juries Mr.. Woodruff and Mr.. Malloy are
about breathing their last.
The following passengers from the Long
Branch accident reached this city this after
noon FL. A. Higley of No. 80 Pearl street,
bruised; J. s. Merritt of Last Orange, n. j.,
injured; Charles Willard of 127 West SD
street, Now York, arm fractured; w. B. Frank
lin OF Asbury Park, cut in the head and lip;
j. s. Park of 275 Union street, Brooklyn,
haHd cut; P. f. Ketchenhall of Trenton, N. j.,
and Chas. Webb of Brooklyn are missing.
[LATER.l
LONG BRANCH, June 29.-G. W. Demarest,
produce dealer, of New York, has just died.
The other dead man is E. T.. Bradley of New
York whose body is yet lying in the upturned
coach awaiting the result of quarrel between
each of the three county coroners who claim
body.