Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-06-30
An Express Train PIunges Over >
Bridge Into the Water.
Several Persons Killed Outright, and
About . Hundred Injured.
Ex-President Grant Pulled Out Of
the SMOKING Car Slightly
Injured.

Long BRANCH. June 20.
The express train leaving Long Branch at
at {. 05, this morning, met with terrible ac-
cident, while crossing bridge over branch
of the Shrew sbury river near Little Silver
station. The accident, no doubt. was caused
by the spreading of rails. Six cars, four
ordinary passenger coaches. smoking car and
Pullman car left the rails and run over the
ties of the bridge, tearing them to splinters.
The cars kept on the bridge until the train
was half way across, when 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 follows beggars des-
cr:ption. An unknown man from Ocean
Beach was taken out dead. The cars were
filled with passengers and the number of in
iured is unknown, but there is about one
hundred hurt. Mr. Demorest, of the firm of
Demorest & Co., of New York, was badly in
iured at the base of the skull. He will die.
VIM X. Garrison, son of Commodore Gar
rison, was badly hurt on the chest. Charles
NJ. woodruff Of Newark and J. Mitchell of
Scranton we're also seriously injured. 1t is
impossible to get the names of others at pres
emit. All the physicians around the neigh
boring towns have been summoned. Chas.
H. Foster, fireman of the engine, pulled ex-
President Grant out of the smoking car
Robert Robertson, iron merchant from New
York, who has the Teller cottage here is in
jured badly. grocer named Edison of
Branchport, was crushed terribly. James
Brooks of the firm of Brooks & Dickson
theatre troupe, of New York, had a collar
bone broken. C. j. Fox of Richmond, Va,
had hand crushed. james f. Mallory. POP
Broadway, was so badly crushed that he
cannot recover.
The dead man has been identified as James
L. Bradley, produce dealer of New York
G. w. Demorest of New York is dead. VIM
r. Garrison has been unconscious since the
accident. He is suffering from conclusion
of the brain. George Blanchard, vice pres
ident of the N. Y, L. E. & W. r. R., Pres
ident Galloway of the Elevated R. R., Robert
Minturn, Gen. Grant and Arthur L. Sewall
are among those only slightly cut and
scratched.
New YORK, June 20.
A Long Branch despatch SAYS that Annie
Irwin of Brooklyn, has : deep cash in her
forehead and is unconscious. VIM. A. Nc
Call. brakeman, had his throat badly cut,
besides an ugly wound under the right eve
and another on his arm. Mr.. McCalps con-
ditiOn is precarious, and he has received
internal injuries. Messrs. Woodruff and
Mallory are about breathing their last. John
L. Raymond, the actor, has his collar bone
broken, and is otherwise severely injured
also Mr.. Fox, his father-in law, is severely
injured.
The following passengers from the Long
Branch accident reached this city this after.
noon II. A. Higley of No. 30 Pearl street.
bruised; J. L. Merrill of f. Orange, N. j..
internal injuries; Charles Willard of l27
West Sd street, New York, arm fractured
w. B. Franklin of Ashbury Park, cut in the
head and lip; F. KetchenhalI, Trenton, n
j.; and Chas. Weber of Brooklyn, are
missing.
LONG BRANCH, June 90.
G. w. Demorest, produce dealer, New
York, just died. The other dead man is +
L. Bradley of New York, whose body is ye
lying in an upturned coach awaiting the re-
suit of quarrel between each of the thret
county coroners.
The four passenger cars were all filled
with passengers, mainly cottagers of Ions
Branch, Elberon, Ashbury Park and othcl
stations on the jersey shore. The train wa.
running about 30 miles an hour. No guard
rail on the bridge, and the fatal character o
the accident is attributed to this omission.
Charles M. Woodruff, of New York, dice
at noon. William r. Garrison lies at the
point of death. Gen. Grant had one knee
slightly bruised. About so persons slight,
injured, either by being hurled over seats OF
by being struck by window glass. Tnques
| to be held tomorrow.
There is said to be number of passen
gers missing, but none of their names can be
ascertained.
The report that John T. Raymond was in
jured in the accident, this morning, is no
correct. He was not on the train.