New-York tribune., 1885-07-18
questions Secretary Whitney is expected at the yard
NEHS FROM TIE SUBCRBS.

DRIVING A LOCOMOTIVE INTO AN OPEN DRAW.
The locomotive Of fast freight train on TIE Long
plunged iU into the open draw o. bridge the E.h
way River near Carteret about 3:l5 a. M yesterday.
il carries meat and provisions Long Branch and other
seaside resorts the New Jersey coast eI Jersey uy
rate OF speed as he had many s,oppages to make and
the train was due at Long Branch at ga m There were
as heavily SnaSS SSa% wss SUs But Ensneor Cole
discover II until It was too late aud the cnse ' ~
pivot bier 81 the bridge The coupling between
and tender broke, and the tender was cit nssng na M
c"rs The engineer was severely injured about the legs
and was removed to 81. MichaePs Hospital Ne"arh
Wrockug trains were summoned and diligcnt efforts
made to clear tho track but owing 10 the awkWaru Pos
n was not unt Yesterday afternoon that travel could pe
resumed In the meantime the Pennsylvania Railroad
trains were run TO Long Branch by that route
The responsibility for the accident seems 20 res' %
was open were right could be seen after the acc
dent They automatic and cond only % cnamgedi vsi
draw s at v'iss sa. to hour DO Rd''H a''p
Ha. Ss Sass as e"ser
draw when he heard the distant rumbling OF tao d
but as the signals all right he supposed II w9uu
stop. When hc saw the locomotive leaping toward MIN
the ohasm he was paralyzod with fright u,,, In
Engineer Cole said that he saw tho white ignt IN
dicating that the draw was closed and the track clear
There was damage done to either bridge OF me track
Cole died last night
SETTLEMENT OF THE BARBOUR WILL CASE
Mrs. Thomas Barbour the widow Of tho thread manu-
facurer OF Paterson ~ j. who died In Ireland ahd o.e
whose there contest has arrived nouc: nu
her sOn william. the principal beneficiary unaer etnst
OF the oonhictcd Wills Is expected early next week.
being made to settle up the estate ~
with the decision OF the court ia Ireland
sustaining tho Irish will which left large sums 70 s
tors of Thomas Barbour. In Ireland The money 70 pay
the Irish will DO raised In this country and the
estate will be settled without further litigation Inc oe
fcated party consisting OF Mrs Barbour aud her ron
hud filed notice OF appeal In the court at Dublin put
they have decided not TO press tho appeal anu tno
famous Barbour Will case Is practically at an ehl
Mrs Barbour under tho Will which was sustained ~
entitled about $3.50 900 moro than she would nave n
was obtained from the testaor Dy wrong nnuoncc Oh
diving man. she refuses 10 profit by what sne con
siders Injustice and fraud. She has voluntarily sgneu
paper waving all claim TO Onc-third OF thc c1pta s
beaueathed her by the will that was sustained am
transferring all that portion OF tho estate 10 nor son
bestowed upon her by the American VIII, when she re-
CARDS as the real will OF her husband mrs. barpours
friends SHE Ia also a-erse 10 the pckeng au
ouarrope which would result from continuation OF
leg fight and the dragging OF her husDands memory
into an unpleasant controversy.
Although Mrs. Barbour would nave beeh pehentou py
the Irish will joined her son III tho contest IN ireland
against that will. which is claimed was oDtansd py
the Influence OF Digby Johns an Irish lawyer. III was
nut in evidence tho trial that Johns wrote the rish
will when Thomas Barbour was dying and unconseioas ~
on the % OF January last; that Johns read the VIII 70
the diving man. who could not hear him aud was unable
TO sign IL and that Johns took the hand of the dyng
man and put pen In It, and IN thls WAY traceu ING
testators name Johns gets $1,000 under tho irish w
and Is OF tho executors.