Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-06-30
RAILROAD ACCIDENT

TrxRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT
ThrOws fram I'VE Track While
Crossing n RridSe-severai Per.
sons Fatally IDjnrea-General
Grant GOOD Luck.
LONG BRANCH, N. j., june % The
express train wh Oh left Long Branch
a s 05 this morning met With terri
hle accident while crossing the or.dge
ever the hr ,ncd If the Shrewsbury
river, uear the little Silver station.
Five cars, including four ordinary pas.
senger coaches, the smoking car, ana
the Puliuau pailOr car Ituobia, left
the rails and ran over the ties OF the
hridpo. 10 ",ns them 70 spinters.
The cars kppt on the bridge until the
train was halt way across, when the
four pas senger coaches and the smoK'
ing car wen over into the water with
a terrible crash. The cars landed in
about tour feet of water, the palace and
baggage cars being overturned The
scene that followed beggars description.
Il. l.. Bradley, of New York, was ia
ken out dead. &. W. Demorest, of the
firm of Demorest & Co, and James E.
Mallory, of New YORK, were fatally in
jured, and the former died few hours
after the accident.
Charles II. Foster, the fireman OF the
engine, pulled ex President Grant out
of the smoking car. j. Mitchell, OF
Scranton, Pa, Annie Irwin, Of Brook
lyu, n. Y, VIM. A. Mccall, brake
en-, Robert Robertson, of New York,
grocer named Edison, of Branchport,
James Brooks and Morris IL. Brown
were badly injured Chas. NJ. Wood
ruff, of Newark, n. , was terribly in.
jnred, and died about noon. Elk Presi'
dent Grant had one knee sigh tly
bruised. Among those slightly cut
and bruised are Il. NJ. Galloway, j. G.
Westervelt.
C. r. Fowler, William Dirkenspiel
and wife, G. II. Blanchard and II. B.
Minturn, of New York; G. j. Fox, of
Richmond, Va; A. H Stillwell and
wife and Miss Annie Scott, OF Phil
adelphia; G. H. Randall, of Camden,
N. j., and Henry Mordecai, of Dallas,
Texas. An inquest will be held to
morrow. The railway officials were
promptly on the scene and physicians
were summoned.
The badly wounded were taken to
farm houses near by, and promptly a :
tended to. There were about eighty
persons slightly wounded, either being
hauled over the seats OF being struck ty
broken window glass.
w, Il. Garrison, son OF Commodore
Cornelius X. Garrison, is at the point
| of death at John Hoey'S house, at HOl-
lywood Park. The track spread Just
as the train ran upon the bridge, and
the. train ran fully 800 feet before
| the cars went over into the water.
| The three rear cars had their trucks
torn off by the strong beam OF the bridge
| when the cars went over. There are
said to be several passengers missing
but their names have not been reported
nor aSCertained.
Railroad men who visited the wreck
condemned the lack of guard or safety
rails on each side of the track over the
bridge. G. w. Flickner, the engineer,
used the air brakes promptly, bu!
| could not stop the train, rs it was run
ming at high rate Of speed. But forthe
air brake nearly all the passengers
would have been killed. The accident
occurred about a mile north of the
Oceanport bridge, where terrible dis
| aster took place three years ago.
After it was supposed that all the
passengers had been taken from the
wreck one of the working men saw
linen buster floating en- one OF the cars.
He went out to get it and found 1t to
be a corpse. He called for assistance,
and the body, after considerable diff
Guilty, was dragged ont from the seat
where it was tightly wedged. Papers
were found to identify him as E. l.
Bradley, of 100 Seventy second street.
New York. His death was from dro Wn-
ing. Among those mostseriOusly injur.
ed are Robert Robinson, of New York,
from conclusion of the spine, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. H. Stilwell, of Philadelphia
who were removed to their cottage al
Asbury Park. Mr.. Stilwell is badly in
iured about the shoulders and his wife
has her right arm crushed.
The Railroad Company are at WORK
raising the cars, and have got two Of
them out ofthe water without discover
ing any more additional bodies. Coro
ner j. p. Cooper mpaneled a jury dur
ling the day, and viewed the scene O.
| the disaster. The inquest will be helt
to morrow morning. There are many
ru'nors of missing persons, but nothing
reliable can be ascertained in this re
spect, and the Railroad officials asser
that every one on the train is accounted
for.
| Mr.. H. T. Paddock, husband OF Mag
gle Mitchell, the actress, was one OF tn
reported missing, bat lie has returned
home safe and so and. having caught al
earlier trail. luan Inc one viii. Wa
wrecked.