Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-30
NEW YORK.

Over BridGe--A Long Branch Train
 EsIunSes Into a CrseEk-Five Passengers
 Killed and a Large Numbsr Injured-
 General Grant Among the PassenSers-
 Actor Raymond Badly Hurt-CommO- O.
 Garrison's Son KiIfed-DetaiIs of
 the Accident
 NEW YORK, June 29.-When this mornings express train for New York the Long Branch railroad, consisting of one Pullman, one smoking and four ordinary passenger cars arrived at Parker's creek, between Lit tie Silver and Red Bank, the smoking car missed switch on the treStlework at that point spread the track, and, after travelling on the trestle some eight hundred feet, turned over on it's side and went into the water. The four passenger cars followed. They were all filled with passengers, mainly the cottagers of Long Branch, Elberon, Asbury Park and other stations on the Jersey shore. Among them were General Grant, George R. Blanchard, E. M. Galloway, W. R. Garrison, Artemas H. Holmes, H. V. Newcomb, Arthur Sewell. John Sloane, Walter c. Stokes and many other prominent citizens of New York. The water was only four feet deep, It being low water at the time. Inc LEdIu was running aDOul Cl1rGy miles an hour on the east track, which was laid yesterday, the road being in process of double tracking.
 The first lntlmatlon the passengers received of danger was pumping and swaying mo tion In most of the cars many persons sprang into the aisles and endeavored to reach the doors, but were prevented from do- ing so by the jam of passengers and the speedy overturn of the cars All five of the naH ba ment, and the passengers found themselves waist deep in water. The passengers on the west side of the train. were more hurt than those on the east side, being thrown against the seats On the downward side. Among these were William R. Garrison, who suffered concussion of the brain by striking his head against seat. His seat companion, R. M Gallsway, was uninjured. Mir. Bradley, of Ocean Grove, WAS found drowned after the other passengers had left the cars, hay ing been caught 1n the car furniture 1n such a way that he could not extricate himself Four other passengers were seriously injured some twenty more were cut and bruised General Grant was in the smoking car, and was preci pitated into the water about breast high. He was drawn up through a window without injury, still smoking. The Pullman car remained upright although off the track. The locomotive alone remained on the track, and on the ground at the north end of the bridge. There was no guard rail on the bridge, and the fatal character of the acci- dent is attributed to this omission. much more serious accident was averted by the pl essence of mind of a brakeman nam ed Coombs, who scrambled out of the wreck and ran back across the trestle to warn another train approaching on the same track and only fifteen minutes behind. This train, when it arrived took the passengers of the express back to Lopg Branch.
 of No who passenger on the ill fated train, said that a5 the train reached the bridge, go- ing at the rate of about forty miles an hour, ti4e rails spread The engineer George Chickner, told him that he noticed when the cars bumped, and instead of putting the brakes down short-whieh would probably have resulted ln piling the cars one on top of the other-he put the brakes moderately, so tl.at he was able to carry the baggage ear and the parlor car over the bridge. Mr Berry said that about five other cars jumped the track and went off the bridge into the creek. He was in the last car but one. As he felt the car bump, he began to pull him. self through the window by which he was sitting, and as the car struck the water he was almost out of the window, which was on the upper side. Most of the passengers who were on the same side of the car as MT. Der ry were thrown against the other side which was in the water, and were cut and bruised by the glass and seats against which they were dashed. The water, he said, was from three to six feet deep. Water came into some of the cars and in this way, he thought, Mir. Bradley was drowned, probably being stun ned by the shock. The passengers who were not sthpeht d soon pulled themselves through the car windows, aud reached the bridge by blanks, which were extended to them by large number of laborers who were at work in the neighborhood Mr. Berry said that oft tha hro1 were on the train badly jared and shaken up, if not otherwise injured, that they returned to their homes instead of com ing to this city. A number of ladies on the train were more or less cut and bruised Many of the passengers returned on the re- lief train which backed down from Long Branch. Others came to this clty by a train from Bran shport, He went back to Ocean Beach aud then came to New York
 The killed were G. w. Demarest, produce dealer, No. 15l Reade street, and E. L.. Brad ley, of No. 15O East Seventy second street. whose body is yet lying in an upturned coach awaiting the result of a quarrel between each of the three county coroners who claim the body. The fatally injured are as follows Charles S. Woodruff, of Newark. He was badly shaken up and lay in water long time before being rescued. James H. Mallory, of POP Broadway, sustained similar injuries. J. l.. Mitchell, agent of the Equitable Life h. surance company, one of his ribs was broken and he inhaled a large quantity of water while awaiting relief Annie Irwin, of Brook lyn, has deep gash in her forehead and was unconscious. William A Mccall, brake. man attached to the train, was most fearfully injured. His throat was badly cut, besides which there is an ugly wound under the right eye and another on his arm. John T. Ray. mond, the actor, has his collar bone broken and is otherwise severely injured. Mir. Fox, his father-in-law, is severely injured