The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-09-01


.eusers Were Injured some Miraculous
Escapes.
A correspondent teiegraphs from Plea
san,ville. August 30th. the following par
tjculars Of the railroad wreck near Allan
ne CITY, y. j., Thursday:
The morning express train from Phila-
dclphia ran of the Narrow-Gauge road
hail mile west OF this place this morning,
md thirty people were seriously injured.
zsYbc train. consisting OF eight passenger
scr and a'baggage-car, left Philadelphia
M : o'clock. drawn by Engine No. 10. The
ffrnn-hands were Henry Taylor. engineer;
.fohn Petit. fireman; and Josiah Lee con-
ductor. There were 247 passengers. The
train was twelve minutes behind time at
EGG Harbor, and was running at the
rate Of thirty miles IN hour when the
PlcaSantville gravel-pits were approached.
Al that point a switch from the grayel-pits
rims south 10 the main track. Last week
the switch-bar al the main track got out OF
order and a new pm was inserted. This
hin was loose. and the Jars received from
passing trains shook it out and left the
switch UNASSIGNED. The approach Of the
express train tins morning ratified the
switch open and an instant later the ears
Strange 10 say the locomotive and tender
did not leave the tracks.
OVER AN EMBANKNENT.
At tins point the track is on an embank-
ment ten feet high, which is bOrdered by
corn-fclds. Alter running twenty yards
on the ties the ears began tumbhng over
the embankment. The baggage-car was
the first 10 60 down. IL turned over twice
and stopped bottom up. The sm0king-car
went end-Ovcr-cnd of the other side OF the
grade, and landed upside down in a ditch.
The next ear turned over once and laid on
It's side in cOrn-held. Coach four strad-
died across the track, and the one immedi-
ately behind it topped of its trucks and
sunk on the right side Of the track. The
other cars. with the exception OF the last
two. were of the track, but on the
embankment. Every coach was rent
and torn 10 flinders, and the en-
tire right side OF the smoklng-ear was
sliced of rs though it had been clgar-box.
Trucks and brakc-rOdS, and seats and TIM
berS were bent and twisted. and heaped up
I'm confusion on all sides. When the ears left
the track the passengers were tossed and
tumbled and turned upside down in the
most astounding way. The women rccoy-
cred their voices first. and their screams
were heard quarter Of a mile off. When
the cars stopped rolling the passengers
fought 10 get out. Men and women for n
moment forgot the children with them,
and Joined in the rush for the doors. The
aisles were choked with people, and the
most excited icgan smashing the windows
and crawling ont. Many were cut by the
broken glass.
ESCAPING FROM TIE WRECK.
,Iapeth Price and several other farmers
working in a neighb0ring field heard the
crash OF the collision and the screams Of
the frightened passengers. Price and his
companions ran 10 the scene OF the acct
dent, and found the wreck enyelOped in
dust. They at once began helping people
out OF the windows and rents in the
wrecked ears. Some OF the rescued pas
sengers were so badly frightened that, after
getting ont OF the cars, they ran across
the fields, and did not stop until they
reached Pleasantville. Five children were
the last persons helped out OF the coach
that turned over. Fifteen minutes after
the accident Mrs. Mary Bailey, Of Atlantic
CITY, recolectcd that she had forgotten her
fiitecn-months-Old baby in one Of the cars.
The little one was found lying in corner
OF the car, with bad cut on its shoulder
passengers began raking the df6riS for lost
property. John Dubois, OF Bridgeton,
lost valiSe containing Sl,l70, and found
it buried in two feet Of sand One young
woman, who was imprisoned by car,
begged Japcth Price TO let her alone until
he had gone to the baggage-car and rescued
her trunk. Many women tainted in the
cars, and men were dragged ont uncon-
scious and revived in the corn-field. Two
OF the cars were so badly crushed and torn
up that the rcscuing party experienced
great difficulty in taking the wounded
people out. Ezra ;. Lippincott, the road
master Of the Narrow Gauge, with the
baeeage-maSter. brakeman known as
"Funuy Bill" and newsboy, were in
the baggage car when the train lett the
track. They were all injured by flying
baggage. and LippincOtt was buried under
n ton Of meat that was going to an Allan
tic City hotel.
CARING FOR THE WOUNDED.
In IN incredibly short space Of time after
the accident country people began pouring
in from all directions. All PleaSantville
was on the ground. and many brought
lint, bandaeeS, medicine, and refresh
mentS. DR.. J. North. Or. C.. :. Kelly, and
Professor samuel Gaskill, OF Pleasant
vile. did everything in their power TO
alleviate the suflerings OF the wounded.
The majority OF the wounded were able
TO walk To the depot OF the West Jersey
railroad, where they took trains for Phla-
dephia and Atlantic City. The more
seriously injured were placed in a special
train and taken TO Atlantic City immedi-
ately after the accident. The locomotive
and tender OF the wrecked train ran to At
lantic. five miles of, and an hour or so later
there was a wrecking train on the ground.
The accident occurred at $40, and before
O'Clock the tracks were clear. The news
Of the accident created intense excitement
i'm Atlantic City. and hundreds OF excited
people surrounded the depot when every
train arrived.
A PASSENGERS STORY.
join McIlvaine, of 22ll South street,
PHILADELPHIA. who was on the train win
his wife. said: ave noticed a rafting
noise and became aware that the tram was
off the track. Then in an instant l saw
the car i'm front OF US coming Overtime topoI
our car and raising the roof from The coach
in which we were The people commenced
10 halloO and scream out. got flat down
on the 1oor and called out, BE STILL by
this time the train had stopped and the ear
we were in was a mass OF ruins, having
turned transyersely to the track. The
front end tilted up and the rear end down.
In the rear end there was an enormous
hole in the bottom of the ear, through
which my wife and i and many others
crawlcd In the mean time many OF them
had gotten out through the windows, the
sides OF the cars being mashed apart One
lady, Mrs. Conner, OF Philadelphia, mid
dle-aged and travelling alone, was cut
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