New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-30
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY JUNE 80 Isse-TEN

madeup rescue train ready 10 start the mattress
| and its burden were pr on board. Upon consuitta-
| ton, after vain effort to arouse the insenTole
man. it was deemed best by his friends to take mn
to the house Of John Hoey, not far from tne WesI
End Hotel Mr. Garrison's own cottage ~ ihrther
down the road toward the Elberon Ho'el, out II
was feared that 50 long journey might have al
tpon the arrival Of the party at Mr.. Hoey's
house every facility was furnished ra aDf
Drs. Hunt and Hunter of Long
Branch, were promptly summoned, and Dr.. Green,
the physician employed by the Central OF New
jersey Company, all soon arrived there, ana tel-
eegraphlc messages were sent to New-iork Ior
Drs. Sands and Bull, who arrived at Long
Branch in the afternoon The physicians could not
decide whether the patient had siuef ,ba
brain. lie lay unconscious until after O'CLOCK
in the evening when he recognized his ply
and his nurse he doctors were IN hopes OF iaE-
oTabe change in the case to-day; during tne
evening the sick man visited by George IL
Blanchard, of the New-YOrk Lake Ere and Nes-
tern Company, Mir. Galway, John sloane
aud Mr. Sewell. The wife aad daughters OF the III
Jured man are with HIN. The most extrayagant ac-
counts were sent TO New-IOrk of the accident 10
Mr.. Garrison. 1t was falsely reported that both us
legs were broken and mis- ribs crushed in.
At midnight his condition wa; Unchanged. Dr.
Sands said N thing could be told till twenty four
hours from the time OF the injury had passed
GEORGE r. BLANCHARDS EXPERIENCE.
GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENE IN THE
WRECKED TRAIN-MR. GARRls)N's CONDITION.
FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNEl
LONG BRANCH, June 29.-George Il. blanchard
vice president OF the New-York. Lake Erie and
Western Railroad Company, was not so severely in
jured that he could not eide ont in the afternoon.
In the evening he told the following story of his ex
perence to a TRIBUNE reporter
When the train stared Mr.. Blanchard entered
the third coach behind the smoking
The seats Oh the west shady side being all
filled, he took seat about seven seats from the
'front.' door. the east ocean side. To this fact
MIR. Blanchard attributes his escape from more
serious Injuries, when the car3 toppled over into
the water on the right-hand side Of the
bridge, the passengers on the west
side of the thrown against
the arms Of the lower seats the gas fixtures aud tho
rack, for holding bundles Mr. Blanchard was read
ing HE TRIBUNE when, the train struck the
bridge, he noticed that the wheels were of the
track. 1t had been unnng, he thought, at the rate
of about thirty or thirty-ye miles an hour. The
were Jared by the putting of the air brakes,
and he hoped that the train would cross the
bridge safely. 1t got along little further, when the
smoking-car pitched over into the water and the
next car Immediately followed it. The morning
was chilly and only few of the windows
on the LIST side were open. Hence! the
closed windows acted a cushion
when the car struck the water, although
afterward 10 began to settle. Mr.. Blanchard was
thrown against the side of the car and completely
submerged.
When l rose TO my feet continued Mr. Blanch-
ard, d" the scene was startling and pIteous. The
water had poured into the car and about waist
| deep. Many of the passengers covered with
blood for of course even light wounds
bed considerably and made the appearance Of
Al
was great deal of excitement, and some young
persons calling for their parents guardians,
So that the scene was one which could
not be forgotten soon. Still, l must say,
on the whole, the people behaved hand
somely" Mr.. Blanchard, after finding
that he was not severely injured, started for the
| door. On his way there nc stumbled across q man
| whose body was submerged. As best be could with
his hurt arm ne drew the man up out OF the water
Proceeding further he came across another man
wedged III between the seats under the water.
! Wi h the assistance of the brakeman, the man. who
| proved to be Mr.. Demarest, one of the fatally
injured passengers, was gotten ont and laid on the
| side of the car which was out OF the water. The
other passengers climbed ont on the side OF the car
| through the doors ana windows; Inc ear lay some
feet away from the trestle-WOrk of the bridge so
! that the passengers could not reach the brlage.
! BY this time, however,, the unhrrt
passanRers of ths parlor car and persons from the
neighboring farms in skifs were coming TO the res
/ cue of he passenger IN the wrecked cars Planks
were laid rom NJ bridge to the cars and the pas
sengers taken of over them
Mr. Blanchard added The accident could have
! been prevented If there had been guar1-raI be-
ginning about 200 feet each side of the bridge and
! running over 1t on each side of the outer rails
| of the regular track. This would have
held the wheels of the car on the bridge after they
had lef- the track. 1t Is shame that this precau
ton l. not taken the road at this place. vi hen
| the trains run fast, and when so
many prominent persoBs are constantly
| tray ling over the line. The bridges
/ between Brauchp1rt and Red Bank have never had
! puard-rdIs. Mr.. Garrison was taken out uncOn-
| scous. lie was provided with a mattress by some
! kind person IN the neighborhoOd and taken back TO
! Long Branch. Tie carried 10 Mr..
! hoev's cottage as IL was feared that he would
own co tage whIol was considerably further dis
| lance on toward the West End. | have just re-
| turned from MIR Hoeys Mr.. Garrison is sun I'M
| conscious and u Is impossible TO tell whether
not he viii iecOVer Or. sands and DR.. Bull, from
New York are there, as well as three physicians
| living here"