New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18

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| DISPATCHES TO THEIR FRIENDS HERE SAY THEY
| ESCAPED WITH FEW SCRATCHES.
| Only brief messages came to those of the family
of George j. Gould and his wife who are In town
yesterday afternoon regarding the disaster but
they assured them of the safety Of the travellers.
Few of the friends of Mr. Gould, however, knew
OF the peril Of himself and his wife, and Russell
Sage informed of the fact in the evening by a
TRIBUNE reporter. No alarm was felt after the
news Of their safety arrived, but particulars were
entirely lacking
George Gould and his wife left the city on
Thursday nj ght taking the regular O'Clock train
on the Pennsylvania Railroad They were driven
10 the jersey City station in carrla &c, and were
not accompanied by any one. Their destination
was Fcnandna, Fla, where Jay Gould is eX-
pccted to arrive at any moment, and their object
to come home with him 10y rail George had
had final talk Thursday afternoon with Mr.
Sage on business mattors, which be was to lay
before his father immediately upon meeting him.
After dining at his home III Forty seyenth-st., he
and his wife went over to the train.
In the afternoon yesterday Mrs. Kingdom. the
mother Of Mrs Could, who lives with her son-in-
law, received a dispatch from Blaclshear Ga,
stating in substance that the latter had been IN
a railway wreck, but was not hurt, beyond few
trilling scratches. Mrs Gould also said TO
be uniniurcd No mention was made in the dis
patch of the extent Of the diastcr, or of any of
the passengers who were huft killed Mrs.
Kingdom has been confined to her bed for few
days and was not able TO see reporters.
little after noon yesterday a telegram from
Black. hear came 10 Edwin Gould, the brother Of
George, at the office Of the Missouri Pacific Rail
way in the Western Union Telegraph Building
reading follows:
Have boon in a wreck, but are all rghtt with ex-
ccptOn OF few scratches g. J t.
Young Could However. stayed at the Office only
a short time in the morning and he went away
with "A friend before tine dispatch arrived lie
did not reach lis home until after o'clock and
hc found the message waiting for him. There
was also u note from General Thomas l. Eckert
brief dispatch from Charleston stating
that George Gold and his wife We're safe. Cen
crl Eckert said iE his note:
The luclo~ed comes from electrician SIr. Fenn)
who IS temporarily II Charleston. bur ! haf trie-
gram from ON superintendent Al Ja'H-'nViiie' '~r ~
INK NJ tha, nothing serious had happened to your
brother sister and that they would 20 on 70 Jae n
souvillc o. night tel"craphcd our superintendent
Mr. Dillon Al Jacksonville To- do all In his power 70
make thom comfortable on their arrival AZ that point
am happy feel that neither your brother or sister
are H. auy way injured beyond tle shock that such
an accident would naturally ca1se.
Edwin Gould said that this comrised all the
Information he had received and he f. no turth,
alarm about h.s relatives. ~ 10 the report OF
his fathers arrival a, Fcrnandna. H. said ih4i lac
did not think 10 "as correct. or Ae Would nave
heard from him in some v"v.
Russell Sage e. pressed satisfaction that George
aul MS wifo bad been So fortunate when tie WORD
received hy Edwin was told 70 Linn. " 30 not
believe 'hnt Mr. Gould has reached Fcrnandlna.'
Mr. Sage remarked. for have received no lis
match fr. m him. sent li,patch 20 him at = At
place ~ be ,i,ey.d tho mon, ~ be arrived and
think ~ woull have called forth reply II he