New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-01

| LONG BRANCH, June 3O.-Ine scenes OF
excitement and activity in connection with
the distressing accident at ParkeTs
Creek yesterday morning were to-day
confined almost wholly to Long Branch Village and
to the place of the wreck. At West End all things
pursued their accustomed course brokers came
and went and all tho individual adventures
having been told and retold innumcrable
times, little was left as n subject for conversation
except the condition OF Mr. Garrison. concerning
which very general interest and anxiety were ex-
pressed
In the village the coroners inquest engrossed at
tentiOn, while at the creek the SLOW work of remov-
ing the from the water was witnessed by
! hundreds OF persons during the day. Mr.. COnOvers
! farmhouse, 80 unexpectedly transformed INTO
hospital, was emptied by noon Of the victims of the
accident, but not until more victim had
/ been added to the list of The dead James T.
Mallory died there at half past a. m, surrounded
/ by his friends. He was attended all night by Dr.
Brown and DR.. Pemberton, and the willing hands
of his mother-in-law. brothcr-in-iaw and
son helped TO ease his last hours. His
brother-n-aw and former partner in business,
Alr. Blackwell arrived ut the house yesterday after
noon, shortly after o'clock. His other relations
came at 10 o'clock at night. Mr. Mallory did not
recover sufficiently to converse with them. though
he gave signs that he realized their presence
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into frequent stupors. from which be was aroused
with great and always increasing difficulty.
When ms son, lad Of seventeen years, came
to his bedside Dr. Brown aroused the sufferer into
q seui-cCnscious state and permitted the boy
to address his father He did and
the dying man gave an indication that he knew
VINO was speaking to him; but he was in too great
pain to speak and soon relapsed into the state in
which he when taken from the wreck. lie
seemed to rally for short time afterward, but after
passing through two nervous chills, to which his
relations said he subject when in health, he
gradually began to fail. After o'clock this morn
ing he could not be brought TO con-
seriousness, and he died at half-past 8. His exter-
nal injuries, the physicians said. were not serions
enough to have caused death, and he died from con-
gestOn of the lungs. brought on by the irritation
caused by the large quantity of brackish water
which had entered them His body removed
| to the undertakers shop AT Long Branch Village
| to be viewed by the coroners jury, after which
permission was given for its removal.
MRS MTCHELIs SEARCH FOR HER HUSBAND.
While Mr.. Mallory lay dying in one. room, John
l.. Mitchell in another slept much as the pain
from his broken arm and other injuries allowed
him, and awaited the coming of his wife, who had
started from Scranton for the OF
the accident soon as she coud
after hearing of it, collision between
two locomotives on the road from Scranton TO
New-York detained her several hours, and she did
not arrive until this morning. She was in n strange
place, and after leaving Little Silver station, went
straight TO a group OF men near the creek.
"Can you tell he where l will find Mr. MITCHELL"
she asked
Yes" responded of them carelessy; Eyes,
he's over to The undertakers"
"1hat can't be-" replied Mrs. Mitchell, her check
paling and her voice faltering; he's among the
wounded"
81 know replied Tire man; he's dead, tell you
| and over 10 the undcrtakeI's."
The laundering answer, given with an air OF
! pOsitivencss. by one who seemed to be i'll n po-
sition to know, was a crushing blow to Mrs. Mitch
ell, and all the more cruel because utterly without
reason. She staggered under it, and swooned be-
/ fore the trIth could be made known to her.
A few minutes later she at her
husbands side in Mr.. Conover's house, and
preparing Ter his removal 10 New-York. This was
accomplished without difficulty on the train which
passed Little Silver station at quarter before l p
IN. Mr.. Mitchell was taken to his former residence,
! No "a West Twenty -fourth-st He suffered no in
| ternal injuries. Three of the who sat nearest
| him in the dead, bu, he escaped with a
broken arm disOcaed shoulder, cut on his
head and thr crushed fingers.
MI. GARRIsoNs CONDITION.
William X. Garrison renal ed in an unconscious
state at the house Ol John Hoey until the middle of
the day. He then revived sufficiently to recognize
his sister, Mrs. Van AIKEN. who was in the room
at the time. He opened his eyes and moved slight
ly. Mrs. Van Auken SAID to him:
DO you know me 7"
"Kato-Kate," he answered, speaking With great
difficulty and calling her by her first name.
At this moment Mir. Hoey entered the and
approached the bedside of The sufferer
"Do YOU know who this is 7" asked Mrs. Van Au-
ken.
"John-Joln" said Mr.. Garrison still speaking
with great difficulty.
"Hoey," said Mrs. Van Auken. to assist him.
"HO-llo-ey" said Mr.. Garrison.
After that he was unable 20 speak any more and
no attempt made to i'll HIN to do
so, as the physicians forbade it. DR..
Sands arrived here in the morning and passed the
day with the injured man. Commodore Garrison.
Mrs. William r. Garrison, the Misses Garrison Mrs.
locy and Mr.. HOey were in constant attendance in
the sick chamber all day and all last night. A
horse and phaeton stool at the side
door of the house all day. and Mr..
Hoeys two sons, George and Frederick.
assisted by Mr.. Garsons coachman, carried mes
sages to different points. On the train reaching
Long Branch at O'Clock Captain f. $. Bawby, Mr..
Garrson's lifelong friend, arrived from NewYork,
and went Immediately to the bedside OF his injured
friend The captain had little say and seemed COM
petely overwhe med wi sorrow at the accident.
An intimate friend of Mr.. Garrson's. who visited
him to-day for the express purpose Of learning his
real condition, SAID this evening:
81 consider his chances of recovery just about
even. His pulse is strong, little higher perhaps
than it onght to be- but by no means dan
gerously high his respiration az a rule Is good al
though somewhat laOored at times but what ]
think is an exceedingly favorable symptom is that
there are not the slightest signs of fever His con-