The Sun (New York) Newspaper, February 9, 1871, Page 1

eae Fie cnc TT weno = THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. PRICE TWO CRATS. beneath. The track at this point was abont tw feet ulove the water, The engine of the expross TNE, HORROR DESCRIBED, | Freres etn ees ites water ported train went down atthe frat co g with it Tho Number of Lives Lost Still THO MEROIC ENGINEER, SIMMONS, Unknown, and bis friend. a Mr, Bartlett, who was riding with him, The locomotive, of course, sank through the fee and went to the bottom, which at thie point is about twenty-five fect deep, The express and oag- MANY CORPSES STILL UNDBR TOE ICK, | gage cars. 911i) burning, foliowed tuto the water and tank, The bageage master, on the frst rigaal of danger, threw bis door open and looked out, See- tug the imminence of the danger, he leaped trom bis THE GHOULS OF THE HUDSON, | caric time to save himself. The rst sleeping ear, in whieh the greatest loss of life occurrod, went down when the trestle fell, and penetrating partly through the ice, rested with about one-third of its A Train Sliding Down an [0 | 440 grove water. Tho part above water was ail Track, barned off, leaving the wreek partly submerged, Alled with water, and containing the remains o° the Keiilen ‘The two cars following {t also feil into the . water, and were destroyed. As oon as the flume MMONS, THB HEROIC ENGINEER. had subsided sufficiently to allow people to approac’ the wreck, the survivors and some citizens of New Hamborgh who had hastened to the spot began The Boginning of the Inquost in ARCHING FOR THE BODIRS. Poughkeepsie, The first body taken out was that of Dr. Ni erede, which was fished ont of the wreck of the frat sleeping car, It was found ina horribly muti: TARILIING PICTURES OF THR SLAUGHTER. } tad condition, the bead being darned entirely off arm nearly contamed. Otherwise tt figured, the clothing even aot being —_—_——. BTID —_————. THE RECOGNITION OF THE DEAD. | turne After the recovery of thie body no further efforts seem to have been made until nearly 4 o'clock in the nari morning, whens train arrived from Poughkeepsie The Bearing Away of the Corpses by with gangs of workinen, an underteker, and physi the Friends, ciuns, Toe services of the latter were, however, pot #5 Luore were mo wounded to be cared for. aster bad deen complete, and merciful in the =DAY, | thoroaghness of ite work. Ite victims wero all THE ROAD TO BE WORKING TO-DAY. killed outright, probably instantly suffocated by in baling the fearful, penetrating Mame, which instantly Billed every port of the fated cai The work te be done was wholly that belonging to THE UNDERTARER'S DOMAIN, Tho frghtful calamity on the Hudson River Railroad on Monday night, just below the Aittle s1u ion of New Mamburgh, by which upward | 154 15 she prosecution of this he was directed by of twenty lives are now known to have been lost, | the raitroad oficiais to do everything necessary and vory naturally created the wildest excitement | ensrge the bill to them, @long the entire road. Yesterday the confusi On the other hand, the Company's officers and wan oo great, ond the railroad officials were so | the workmon they orought from Pouzakeepsie im studiously reticent, that it was almost impossible | mediately Deewn the task of repairing the track. to get any intelligent version of the disaster, | Ard in this imoortant work they remained indus- But by ao more patient investigation, and conver. | ‘007 bicheptcny up to last evening, civing no at- satious with all the survivors who are accessible, | ven Mt pond Glia combent tes Ei taner the following authentic facts were gathered: duty, and tarrying in New Hambergb, volentecred The scene of the accident is s drawbridae, | (heir services and went to work with an earnest- about twenty feet in length, spanning @ little | ness deserving all praise in the humane work of creck, emptying into the Hudson at @ point about RECOVERING THE BODIES, balf a mile south of Now Hamburgh station, and | They continued the work indevatigubly from the nearly ten miles south of Poughkeepsie, This | time of the subsidence of the fire until late last bridge 1s approached from the north by a solid | erening, and were iostramental in taking out the embankinent, On the south the road is con- Set neat: oe ben leeches pon: teeatle Work for @ intance of about) Ported WA lone poise ce bess Boos: wish waren fone wnilied} 1A babe reaching an tmbank. | {8 408 im the Mooded acbris of the seeping ear. u Standing on the edge of the wreck, Aa bodice were ment. ‘Ihe trains were wrecked on this draw- | prongntto the surface ropes wore attached to them bridge, and the casualties were occasioned by | and they were dragged out upon the ice and thenes the hurving of the wreck and the bridge avd | taken to the embankment and jplaced in scar sta trestle work. tioned there to receive they Ovber theo these THe Lives Lost two men, who were volanteuis, the rescuing of t! were those of passengers and employees on the | Lodies and taking them to the place of deposit re second Pacific express, which left Thirtieth | mained wrolly with the undertaker and suea asstst etreet, New York, at 8 o'clock on Monday night, | #0t# ® Le could procure irom the bystunders, In end, cccording to the time card, should have Lee heteteare tctanacon sips a eerie passed New Hamburgh at 10:09, and was due | Si 0rc6 of the welzhtorhoud, ome scoundrels here at 10.85 that night. It was one of the | were ound toengege in the Work ostensiby from swiftest (reins on the road, making Bo stoppage | humane motives, but really for the opportunity of between New York end Poughkeepsie. This par ROBBING TUB FBKSONS OF TUS DEAD. ticular train was composed of the locomotive, an | 1 wee reported that a deal of this shemem! work express car filled with freight and locked, oon- | was doue, One inhuman being was secn to wrench Asining no messenger, © baggage car, five sleep- |» yutuabis diamond ring from the Guger of Mrs. ing cars, and one ordinary passenger car at the | Pease, of Buffalo, which he secured on his own rear, The first sleeping car was bound for | Arxer. It \s said this morning that this wretch bas Buffelo, and was filled with passengers for that | been arrested, but the rumor Iacks confirmation point and places beyond in that direction, How | It teeme to be satisfactorily osceriained that no many passengers were in it nas not yet been | [vee were gi any of the cars buck of the first defiuitely ascertained ; but it is positively known | seine car. How macy passengers were in the - fret rleeping car i# altogether conjectare, The rail that applicants for berths in it had been rejected road officials say that they have found the tally-list on the ground that all the accommodations bad of the conductor of that car, but do wot produce it been token According to their representation of its contents, ns tan CAUSES OF THB DISASTER communicated to Tas Sum yesterday, it stowed was ao accident tv the track ofa car onan extra | pat fourteen passengers, But to show the fallacy oil t moving south from Poughkeepsie, This | of tuis story, 1s is ouly necessary to way thas train consisted of from twenty-five to thirty cars; NINETERN BODIES iv has not yet been ascertained defivitely what | have already becn taken trom the wreck oi that ear. the precise number was, Some of these cars | How many more it contains, buried among the were ordin:ry box cars filled with barrels ; others | broken couches and furaitare of the car, and buried ks filled with oil ia | (2 the dérve, comnot even be surmised. No effort has yet been made to raise the wreck out of the water, or Lo give It any further explorations than un be done by means of Asking in if with bout hooks end poles, ‘TLe inability of the retirosd company to teil how many lives were lost is seen by the statement of tue conductor of the train, He had coilected, le says, HY sleeping car pastenger tickets, Alter the acct deut 43 of toe sleepii ‘ar passengers went oa with him to Poughkeepsie ; 3 went back to New York; 8 sent to bed at New Hamburgh, leaving 144 miss. ng. Inaddition there are five employees of the THR TRACK BRING ICY, Compsny known to be lost, making 194 to all. The ‘tho besuan had Uutiiiieanes undertaker has the remains of three employees and antil sixteen passengers, and the engineer and hie friend were fits carrying howe t Dulk. Ae this train passed the New Homourgn Blation from quarter to bolf pant 10 o'e'o k, It ae Boticod that rometi ing was wrong about ihe truck ef one of tne cars Bowe reporis ey a wheel wae broken ; oters thatan wxle was Drok n, This cau not be determined until the trock iteell is @shed ont of the water undcr tne ruins of the bridge. Bat wiatever was the nature of tue breakage, it was Gixovered walle the train was pasting the Now Hamborsh station house, and the engineer began thecking his trum. He whistied duwa brake Peutouiy, vat, and the train ran on struck the drawbridge. Here the abecace "1 Of fill. Le'ween tbe tracke allowed the truck to | Bartlett are ali! keowe to be in the wreck, Tien fall urcug! and lodge, the rbock twisting the car | 9B¢ Other employee makes around und throwing itover un the eastern, or up TWENTY-TWO LIVES KNOWN trsea. The jerk of this emosh troke acoupiirg in | to be lost, or 34 more than the Company pretend to the 01! tinin, and the locomative and several cf the | account for, ¢ars which were Intact moved forward on the track ‘The bodies of Mr. Forbush, Mr. Gillett, Mr. and fevving the wreck behind, The engineer puilet ap | Mrs. Pease, all of Buflalo; Mr. Benedict of Clevo fravuutiy, ond seeing the Preife express coming up | land, and Mr. Germain of Rochester, were sent Just at the moment, he leaped from the tr in aud at | worth by the early train this morning in cuarge of temy'ed to #op the express by signalling danger, | their respective friends, Mr, Naucrede's body was ‘The ea) rose engineer saw tbe signel, and taken to New York this atternoon by his brother WHISTLED DOWN URAKRS, It ie pretty definitely ascertained that there wero no At the sare time directing his Oreman to pat on the | ‘ailé on the train that was destroyed, the throuch Pu'ert tra os, The Greman yuton the brakes ana | Malis being sent out ons Inter train, and tne teal lomped, escaping with some bruises, Jast then the | mails leaving New York earlier, crgine, +) ap eding onward rerardiess of the CORPSES IN THE UNDBRTAESR 6 BANDS, Lrawes. ecunded two shrick?, 9 signal to take off the Two bodies still remain in the custody of the un. brakes. It 18 euppored t as the engineer saw the | dertaker in Poughkeepsie whieh bave not been fully fmpormibinty of stopping in time te avoid the ob | identified. One te that ef aman about viz fect in Siruction, and therefore took the alternative of | belgbt, rather light built, durk hair and bigh fore Goshing sheod With all arved in the hope of Lreak- | howd, dark chin whishers and moustache, He wus lng throuvh it, Butte ore the effect of either of | apparently about 40 or 45 years old, He wore, when these min@urrer could de prodveed the locomotive | ‘ound, only underclolning. His left side, from the rtruch tLe wreck of the oll cars, Inetantly ihe | shoulder to the bip, was badly burned, Whole region Was wrapped in fame, The oil, ignited | The second is that of aman about five feeteignt by te fre of the engine, was reattered throughout | in bright, and weighing full two bundred pounds. a circa) o' abundred fee ,communirating a quick | He wore abeayy and full iron-gray beard, dut no fire to every con.bue ible object with which it came | moustache; hair of adarker shade of gray, He had in convact, Iran in on only a pair of drawers and a pight #hirt. ‘Ihe Grand oe carina eek body was pot badly burned, bot blistered in spot, Gown the splice of the trestle work, and along the | efPecislly about the bead. ‘Thiets supposed to be Uwlers of the bridge, enveloping all te a adeet of | the body of W. C. Curry, cashier of the Bre. Ih ci vere the exr ress bwegace and frat seep OND NATIONAL DANE OF KRIE fog Cor of tre exprerm train, and in a twinkling | The friends of Mr. Curry are expected in Pongh those vehicles were a masa of flame, It ran away | keeptie to identify it, A cont Msked out of tue An rivers oF iv on the ice Meluw, and filled the | Wreck near to the piace where this body was found whole since ir » circuit of more than a bnatred | contained a sealed letter of introduciion addresse feck wiih Uiistering fame. Tne passengers ia tne | to Mr. Boatty of 67 Bleecker strect, Now York econ rivesing cor. and those in the rear of It, | Which reads as follows; sprang fron FOUCHES and eacoped with ebriek This will be handed you by the bearer Mr.W ©. ©! Wwrser, inteveifed by the feartul heck to whice | Crea eaeuler af the.Seednd Natiousl Rauk. Erle. We Aber were Isnanily tapoesa Another coat found in the wreck contained a NOT A 8OlL EACar Wollet, in which was a card, inscribed from the first car, whiclt, miuort simultaneous wit the cul ision, wae covercd as With @ eee of far Ath als Ti is suppreed, however, Wut the passengers to the EC ALLEN, | Other crs eocajed None as yet are known to have te a ae Leen lost, ‘The second and third sleeping ears were quickly on Ore we thorooghly a the Grat, bus tive | The wallet also contained receipts for muskets In Vo re. were vncoupled and pushed back ous uf | [rnisbed by @ manotacturer In Milwaukee, and anger, affording Several notes, tin types, and other articles, On 0.6 MGADRAR ROK cERAGLAUIZORL f the pictures was a slp of paper, on which was Poltowing t!¢ firrt collision and communication of | WTiMe# "Lille A, Lovell.” A cuid im the poc te Metut hero was a report Leard like the | °F He Coot read Oxp\.sion O «cannon, and the air waa again filed Cod WANES } With 'yia fame, Mis snppowed shat this wns tue | ; Nor ily Nariel #ireet, ; @2ploe 60 Of &weCond Of Louk. How many oll ears | * nem, Sunk ra Femuinod ov the Lride and trestle at the time of | From all thin it ls inferred that the coat belonged termined, avall were burwed, | to thy Bret described unrecognized body, who Ww ‘Tue Wools aud bridge sovm became Ore-eaten, and | survosed to we Cat, KM. dave U5, 4. The it | correct Ist of the bodies thet have however, of the caso of Mr. B. Van Stoamborgh, of been recovered, identified, and claimed by their Fishkill, who also does bustneas in New York. jcnger on the wrecked train bound from New York to Poushkeepsic. eller on the road, and one accustos When loaving New York, he sought ae- odation in Mr, Vosbarzh's car, the frst ono, acqnaintance with Vosburgh, burzh told him he tind no place for him, Therenpon ho went {nto the second car, Where he was at the time of the eollision. He bad thrown off bis coat and vest, and was dozing at the He eseapned, leaving bis garments behind, Fis wallet, containing $59, Was In bis coat pocket After saving himself, we THOLONT OF OTH who might be In tho cal frat sleeping car tying on ite Fide, inclining to the east, and parallel with the track. 4nd no hetp conid bo given thoes tnside, @ inqnest then adjourned autil Thursday at o'clock in the afternoon, time no more bodios have been recov: i but the grappling still continnes Bodies fount thus far have desn are nineteon of them, Geo. & Henadict, Ci Artbur W. Peaso snd NO TIDINGS FROM THE TENNESSEE. It was lo flames IS If A MURDERER OR NOT?’ mB sSTROUDSHURG, RBSUSCITATED, apt. Harty R. Lovell, New York, frequent tray. George 8. Benedict, Cleveland, O ed to stady his PA, MURDBI reso Muspended, a Wastinarox, Feb. 8.—This afternoon a rumor spread like a flash over (he eapital that the Tennes- #00, With the San Domingo Commission on board, and all on board perished, Senate sod House Interviewed at the Jor Police Statlon—Whas became of hy fdentided, There ncrede, New Yori. W. A. Fora The Rev. Morrill Fowler, wife an’ thr Lncius A. Rtont, Butta'o George R. Thompron, And two unknown, moking SIXTEEN PASSENGERS IN ALL RECOVERED. Of the emplosecs of the Raiirosd Com following have be Peter Vorburgh, conductor of the sleeping car, be Jonging in New York ford, who ran @ dammy engine In New car with Crow, bad been lost at #0 When it reached th business was almost suspended, tne ‘nd small knots of members gathered over the Hous the news and its probability, Anything produced suen a profound sens: Falee- Reporting Tribune was quoved as authority for the statement, and soon the wires were brought into ase to appeal for light, Was no news from the vesael since she left, and Suspense which bas daily beon in: as the facts bave become more gencrally Clarke Tells A.A: ailtett, Boftelo, mith, confined in the Police Contrm Office of Jersey City on sutpicion of having deem implicated to the Stroudsbourg, P. X whose information the other Wore last night interview: Thoy ate confined im separate cells, and epartely Drought up to be questioned. Clarke Ho in short, well-bulle fe ani tnrce childrin, Dr, Bamgal J. J, UFR, porte’ Beoffora, New fore; WH. Forbush Ing car condictor; Wim. ©. Lovell, New York. ‘Two more bodies aro yet to be recoverod, that of Bimmons, the engineor, and Lawrence Moony, the brakeman, which makes TWRNTT-oNB VicTr Tam told that s child’ the ice marked Ella Shields, Underwood, the conductor of the oil train, to-meht, He says the accident was caused by a broken axle It broke on the switch at New Ham- Durgh station, and as the caboose passed, some one atthe station “hailosed.” that was possibio to stop the train, run on the bridze, and saw it adout to cross on trata was th ‘Woll etreet, New Yor, bys Son re and went baek to render Ho aided In getting Mrs. 0. B, Farwell with her Tt soon came that there pearance first, man, with @ very ordinary fa pression in his face except that of igaorance, this moment of caution and timidity. # tramp or pleXer-up of odd Jobs. At tho request of the reporter told bis story at his ease, “Well, air," be Farwell, of Cuteago, out. nd occapled the foremost stateroom in the fine escaped La her nightdress, losin Hier hurband lost everything out He had $890 when ho started from few York, He hat purchased throngh tickets for himeetf and wife to Chicago and seats in the extra He fost nll ts remaining money, as well tickews and clothing MAPPILY RSCAPRD, Mr, Barnor, salesman for Messrs, Barnes, Ban- croM & Co., of Batalo, who it was suppored was B.D. Barnes of this elty yesterday that he bad arrived at lis destination and only added to thi Ooderskirt was found on T have seen Edgar the baggage man, and bureh, colored, porter of the sleepin: car. MEROIC ENGINRER STILL MISHING, ‘The bovies of Edward Simmons. Lowrence Mooney, brakeman on the tleoping car, It is disputed to-day that He looks like It la now twenty-three days is from five to ee three to four days from Samana to mesenge received from the ports no tidings yet received. An order was given t to Adniral Poor to send « de spatch Dost to Havana as soon as the Tennessoe arrived, ‘This boat should have reported at Havana leven days azo The Tennessee ts really on her trial trip, hi been rebuilt and with new engines, been on so ton e sailed. The days, and from De pataloons, time to Sama: took a seat, an@ on an oil car. tter place to-day re- id, “ last Monday night T come here to get @ lodging, and when 1 got down In the lodgers’ room, have pot yet been found, Brorything wae done Bartlett, of the Oswexo and Midisnd Ratiroad, w: riding with Simmons, but nobody seems able to ta, Bartlett 19 atill miss ing. The friend of Mr, Barns of Buflalo, who was Derth in the fatal sleeping car in till In Poughkeeps! body, which bas not yet beon found. Kom to these missing ones, the Coroner received ingulries yesterday for Mr, Kinsella, ITALIAN CONSUL AT MONTREAL, Laces, attached to the it ie feared, were on the train, secon or heard of them in Poughkeopsie up to this by the Presid 1 Mey SMITE. as we are talking of. I hadn't seem him afore, you know, but afters while I heerd nim s-askiog a Dutchman the op track ; to when he got off on the mo track, and his brotner on the down track, both looking for the ap train, brother immediately shouted, train." Every effort was mato to stop it, bat it looked a8 if no power on earth could do it. the locomotive strike the ear, when tho flamos barat out in every direction. stato positively. rly stopped, He ts the mai known to take lost, telegraphed to Mr was hear ‘im fora ‘The Dutchmas be woulla't let ‘im {t,and Smith then goes to a-swoarin’ at the Dotchmaa. I then said to Smith as T had beerd the Duteh were not wery liberal, and thas made him talk to me, and ho told There comes the looking for the lied to resort to canvas, Aman named Rosontual, seattle drover, was to the first steeping car, and escaped. Among the passengers who were on the train of Hydeon River Reiiroad that was wrocke! ex Juage Henry R. Loew, Treasnrer of the Midland Ratiroad Company, and his brother. @ sleeping coach thet was not burned, aud thay escaped injary A LITTLE COMMON SENSE. “ Why not have aeystem of colored rocket lights on railroad trains at nignt? Had afew red rockets been sent ap tmmadiat accident to the freight train, it might have prevented the collision.” SAND DOLLARS Lowy, George B. Port, a traveling agent for the mana’s>- turing Jewelry house of Miller Brothors at Newark, who was on the wreckod train, escaped with sight Druises, but lost atrank of sample Jewelry worth out $1000. The trunk was fished up, but was tadly smashed, and Ils contents were missing. OPENING THE ROAD. * Mepsoy Piven Davor, Th rtieth eiteet, New Your, tracted af New Ham: on R ver Railroad wilt Aypenoivt.” have been worried story as you wants t me consulate, who, ing has been raphical Sketches of ¢ Mr. Benedict, who was killed, began life as @ printer's boy in the Cieveland Jerald office, tng the progress of his career he was at first » news. boy of New York, next the pupil of a farmer's daughter, who tacght bim English grammar end mathematics, and classics and general |\teraturo. t yeara he acquirod the po: tor-it-chief aad proprictur, whic be beld until his Prossion on the former that hi party and denied himeeit to vis The wife of the commandin hotel and does not express any alarm for the safety of the vessel, shared by others, ead for once Sa or no friends. ave up bis din Reporter—Now, sappose you tell mo what be sate They were in to you, and make it as poarly like Micer is here ate is words as you THA SCENH AT NEW MAMNCROM rEsTE The village was crowded tached to all kinds of convey: led with curious 2 Domingo has few ———____—_ THE TIMOTHY J. CAMPBELL BALL, Clark—Well, sir, he said to me harm, will itt ‘The Chief of Police and some others who wore prevent, assured him (bat and he theo continued: “All right, sir, if itdoo't hart me PN toll yom, but you see, If it would he did—bat thie bezearet description. ‘with country tean ances, and from all directions, people come to gaze opou the awful wreck. eager crowd of morbid cur! the ire ail aronnd the fatal spot, bankments of the chosm. The railroad company had two large gangs of workmen UBPAIKING THE TRESTLE AND BuIDGR, There eangs nembered at least one hundred men Other gangs were in reserve, and by af) stew of reliefs the work Is kept constantly going. ganze of track repairers are at work on thee bankments, repairing the track where torn ep, a patting In switches to run both tracks lato one to cross this broken plice. All these energies are con wetting the western, or river eide track, In running order, which will pe accomplis'ied by to-day ‘The wreck of the fatal train Nes baif submer, the water, and ice beside and inside of the ral the old trestle and briace. workmen give the wreck no further atteotion than to destroy and remove such portions of it come In their way in the p: A correspondent asks had no need of fear, sity seekers covered ad flied the em nda Blaze of Disti MN, ORORGR R, THOMPSON, Another victim is Mr. George R, Thompson, of 47 Mr. Thompson wos a ris ing young lawyer, and Lighly respected by tae New He resided at 163 Adelphi street, Brook: lyn, and leaves a wife and child. New York for Albany on tho {ll-fa ing to arrive home on Tuesday evening, ner, Mr. Town, not tearing from him, and learning Of the isaster, sent ® friend to Poazhkoepsie, rt me, I know ir, he said as he had once got inte a fzht with some Dutchmen tn astore, he and @ comraid and the Dutchman follere’ ‘em out and DUTCHMEN Got sor, But Sith said as he had been slot too, and he two buckshot bit him arrested, but he and I sembly met last night at Irving Hall todo honor to the popolar young Assembly: man, Timothy J, Campbell. with red, white, from the dome to the galerie festooned with scores of American flags, Numerous fountains sent forta fragrant odurs, and birds of all bes warbled sweetly, parency adorned one end of the ball, with the word: dell Association, 1871 Wall etrect, tn this city, Suen eas usa 0 ball was tastefully and blue atre: and the latter were Mr. Thompson leit showed me bis arm, wh He ana his comrade w broke out and ran away, but the comrade got sick, ‘and they bad to lay to «barn, because, you see he couldn't carry his comrade e would have done it if bd and vo ue left big, aud andsome tran A bridge lias b2¢a © ya tomorrow mornt aga wy n0F He left bim after ¢ of the band. could; but he could comraile was arr "3 Way, and they didn't get him since, Did he tell you that his comrade had said as he got foor years. Reporter—What did you do wueu you hourd bis to Montpelier, neon's father, under a bage beam of Ue bridge, burut away. Ml the residence of Tue body was foaud half fo that trains can pass Povouxuersix, Feb. 8. The Coroner's inquest f the recent railroad accident was com menced here tu-day before Coroner Andrus, upon the body of James stafford. The first witness called was ex-District Attorney Pouztkeepeie, who testified as That's all, sir, Gen, Wm, M. Tweed, Jr., Aldermen Bill. Healey and Riley. the tonerabie ex-Alderman § Micuncl J. Shandiey Jeon P. J. Bogart, Joun from the Oriental Club, the and a deputati I been hanged ? Chirk —No, sir; udied aw at the Montpelier Uni Versity, anu practiced (or a tino in bis native pice. About tirtoen years ago bo came to New York aud y Ho was orivi- the Ora of Andrews, Colby & Thompson. but about three yeara ugo Li partner of Mr, Town, iaweyr,and througn his twelve years’ practice city as made tos ay yesterdiy the ofice many Iriends of the deceased gentleman. HARRY B, LOVELL, $ last recovere ‘The aworm of raliros’ ‘ow York Bur, Wm. J. Tuorue of nally connweved w: TL said as they would arrest hice if pe told thet story in Little Washingten over here or in Swoudsbourg. Reoorter—What made you say that, Mr. Clark ® Clark—Well, sir, Lsaw as bis looks was just like of a mani as was arrested over here in Little od that ‘ore man wad toe ealiant Maj dam Thompson was af Jas. EK. Boyle, jonohue, the genial Capt Capts. Clineny and Alla Matthew Patten, Pr I was in the rear ear of the train and asicep ; heard the crash; ereut con! out and walked up ine outside No FFFORT WHATEVER is making to recover any of the missing bodies, save a+ the eworm of curious country people poke about with poles to see Wiat they can stir up, Fragments of broken and taif burred trunks and express pace. red ubvot in all directions, remn of clothing and the wrappines of passengors burned beyond further use, cover the ice broken ears and parts of core, Wheels, with Dent and twisted axtes tora and ruined, drapery from the sleeping cars, rerips of gaudily colored vanecring and oll cloin, lining riebly unhoistered, seats. and conch d With smoke, and saturated with water, scrape of highly plated ware fon ensued, and 1 got { tbe esr on the of the Association, Capt, ireds of others too ‘sume: he Hon. T. J. Campdeil. crowded by the arrested Lecas then sald Hm WAS THE STRAWDSROURG MORDERAR, Roporier—Was tuat m: bis ions? Did he answer the description of tne At precisely 12 o'clock, nccompanicd u Hon Larry O'R One of the three bod fed as that of Copt. Hurry R, Lovell of 4 y years Capt. Lovell was enzazed tn busi ness in and about Wall street. minded, honorable gentieman, and enjoyed the re. sectand esteem of a vast number of merciants He was aso a member of the Masonic iraternity, and was recegniaod as @ bright brethren of the mystic te und basinoss matsors he was sting dese tion. fault “und very hyepitable, who is nearly erazot y erly a resident of! on it. T saw nothing in every di ction ; every aied to be @ sacet of Bre. the bridge woieh hat got falien from © The fre wust have enveloped everything I directed a man I raw next ear to bis, wi ul a large deputation trom Albany, arrived, an! received a tremendous ovatiun from the ladies and gevtlemen oresent was resumed nod kept w loft Ormly impressed with t Divman Campbell und to dream of bis mext aunual arrested on accoant of wotil daylieht, and all rita kamae ir, not as T heerd of, I heerd be wag he sald sometuing about his a-belag Juter as was the Str 8 occurred on the drawbridge. four care were destroyed. re vetting out of the funrw The fre was very bot; one would keep ‘All that could be seen Lourg murdere Teporver—Accordivg Fosemolauee to ington does mot affect the question oo WAR IN FRANCE. My iunpression ts here and abroad. ng from tt ail the while, and shiving light by ¢ Tn conversati und outspoken, de! co-The Germa France-Prop tthe Armiatice, Loxnox, Feb. &.—The Times of to-day, in an editorial upon tho aitaation, says that all the Infor mation received from Faris indicates lo ging for The French provincial press and band rails, by of sheet fron once forming the charred timbers, and every able type of destraction /tffer th The remains of the fated thougs the portions © destroyed are alt "t way as ho is guilty, ir. oF innocent, Kuces, to ilk here, Suite jor wot I kno: porter f understand, Sr, Clas ONK ORFAT VOLUME OF FinR, T oug.t to be re were stroaks of a He was gener ke with the @amo one buudred feet cars plied up they could r tue Mares, e ties that she car ran of too The oll cur was on re until struck by the locomotive of the up d brew half @ doze nob baye deen sew irom the lovks of track at New Hamb all this wroek and ruir press train ure clearly traceable of the oli train that ® bey ond recognition, es OF OLD ION. The chinnel of Wappingers creck at the point of stor ran beneath the Grawbridge, where at between twenty and twonty five At the souto end of the bri ige the water rapidly shoals, anti! it becomes five or eep two hunared feet away covered by & trestie leading to ment be) ond. damage occurred dire locomotive of tellin Smith's story fay his looks has aay meaning. I only day as be lovks like the otuee Reporter—What dia he @ would be arres: told bis story peace at any price generally urge peace. TUB GRRMANS PREPARING To OVERRUN ‘Tho Daily News says the i day in entire dependence arn the good faith of It is tmpoasible to compieve negotia- tions for peace betwoen tle meeting of the National sembly and the 18th, when the armist: and when Oghting may be reaumed, tinves the News, that the Germ: overran the wholoof France, in that eveut, ary of the most formidahle character. PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THS ARMISTICR . 8.—The Brasso! ay when you told htm wore brougat to this city din Siroudevoure if he CHARLES Coss’, CoNDUCTOR : We left New York at six minutes past § o'clock Monday even ing; we should hare left at 8 P.M. Here Tristram Coffin, Di for the people and coaductod the proceedings. Witness continuing—I was sitting in the rear end Jeeping car with Str, Scott, the con ihe frat whi Pkill Miteen minute buried with Masouic donors in the family vault sir, he said as they would again; but he didn’t say anything more Jat me as if he wanted to remem L waited til I bad a good ¢ came up and told th terent ceil since, bat THEY DON'T TREAT Me RIGHT, ‘They don’t give me Lalf enough to oat, T don't know that, sians will vote to ew York Mercha Ticket for Berth N Mr. Walter A. Lyon of Cincinnati, who, says the Hrening Telegram, bourlit bersh No. 10 in’ Bu accident another geuthman got this berth, and he th Warrant- tne Germans. high tide there ie feet of water, rict Attorney, appeared w York, bas 0 aieopiug car. Tt ts said, con preparations to This rpace was solid embank- ‘The collision test canted the serio: on the draw bridge. ¢ express (rata apd the bend of the train having erosred this two handrod or more feet of trestle, tbe engine, when it strock the wreck of seems to have been THROWN FROM THE TRACK ON THE RAST or inner side of the bridge, and plunged into the Water directly against the ston tue northern boands of the bridge, and where the ‘The trom express car crowded hard on the engine, and when tho tntter plunged {nto the stream 4 followed, falling partly the engine. and rolling over o1 (0 tle ice beyond or Ligher up the creem, CRUSMING TIROTGN THR ICR hrough ina broken condition. Then wed the heavy baggage car, finding a temporary reek of the submerged engine and it was completely burned, This wreck filled the channel of the ercek, and the rest of the train came to ® stand atill on the trestle work 4 embankment at the south end, They do not teem to bave been injured at all by ond were pot even thrown ‘rom the track, Bat the moment the ENGINE STRUCK TU the air was Billed with flame for 60 feet in every diree tion, commanicating fire to everything with which it ‘Ibis blinding, blistering, penetrat- ne doubtless filled the frat sleeping coach nianeously and suffocated its occupants ping car at the same Chief of Police (astonisued) T'sl wee to your case to-morrow. Clara (irigt te: and was thrown forward in his berth. od)—1 don't say as you did It, sing bat tuey're wstarving me as 1s here a witoe: Mr Clurk, Waat mady you teil the Cape tain Were uf what Srith bi Clare—Lguew about heerd as two us he believed the car had oaly track, and, as it was fearfuily cold, bh fermined not to stir uulil the {thing he saw was the on fre and drupp! TWENTT-AIK MINCTES PAST 10; wns seventeen minutes behind at Fishkill ; our time correspondent of the Telegram says that Odo Russell, the British at Vorsailies, bas been instracted to sustain the demand made by M, Favre for an ext sion of the armistice. a went Into « Duteaman's ato Stroudavare ® couple o' years ago, aud rob: ng to the ground io ctoders, then sugposed tuat tley hid ran olf the track lato Evea theu he did not stir aati! the capsized oll cai platform aot con. Representacty followed me out, and put on the brake on the other car; aa Laot my brake ou and turned to wke hold Of the other I felt the engineer revorse his engine. In a siort time, two or three seconds, I felt a #hock car thed went on fifteen or twenty feet, we to 8 dead stand. Its prolongation LONDON'S GIFTS TO Panis, Fifty railway tho car fs one fre ! At Lie sime timo toick volumes of black smoke rusiied in through the fir end He jumped up in Lis shirt and pantaloons, svized a ‘aud rashed from tie car. Way he manazed (0 pick up his other she, aa | dress. ed bimso!fon the traca outside His otner clos Ingcage were destrived. could have el: dursting for.n of toe dines, occapied the berth, wach he showed the reporter a ticket yesterday, whicu be iis death warrant, was duraed to desta. near wherw | worked, and tleord a3 one murdoree Was caueht ina bara, ant the other he ran away, and they diin's ketch him, they didn't, Did Smith say where this quarrel of hia wad occurred t butment formir abutment forming Loxpom, Feb. 7. with provisions, entered Paris on the 31, ail bearing the iuecriotion * London Gifs to Parts," the ear from bun, ‘There were but’ two wa glare of light, and looking out Iwas on the river side. The Hehe finshed up like water is deepest. coat and one 5: saw a mass of flames. stant the train stopped th cunpowver, There was no fire ti/l the engine the oil from the oi! ¢ r then entered the fre the engine, and became iguiied. like a wall of flame, ep in the dre, he didn't say as tt wai Ho only said a6 1b was loog ago, Ab ull, oF any tune, Not s moment, he says, sed between the collision and th Lonvoy, Feb. 7,—The E: covciaded his again to-day, 'Y retired, matters astern Conference met With represeutstives ignatory Pow ‘The lice of Bre fore part ot m; I beard no explosion, except France. Then the bate Fue prisoner, James Smith, was then called a (hat ® pucide «olution of the eutire Bastern question THE OIL TANKS Wane BURST by the engine ronning Into them nothing because of the fire, then gut all the passengers out of the car. It was the second mleeping ci oniy one in front of tt }e loromotive, express evr, Dageaco car, ig cars. and one ¢ second ear L thon lodgment on th express car, wh A Singular Rallway Cat-Caught up by a Cow-Catcher, An express train on the New Jersey Railway started out at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. i-way through the Bergen cut. smuke borne down by the moist atmos. every onject on the (rack, biew the whistle tor turcing the brakes, Coulter, the o dest conductor on tL survived ail accidents ‘or thitty years, made bis way quick y to the locon You conid vee Accident int Mr. Scott aod myself t indentation near tii ‘on the right bud appearance. Illness of the Hon, Lawn of was in circulation yesterday afternoon lar Clerk of the Board of Education— ‘han—wae lying at the A representa. Kiernan's residen co D. Kiera questioned blo closely, but could get little or no information ow the Hon, Lawrence D, Kh point of death from typhoid fever. tive of Toe Stn evled at Mr. $B) Kast Thirty. Afto. atree formed that Mr. Kiornai waa pronounced out of by bis physicians, Prot, Clara and Dr, A.B THR TRUTH OF CLARK'S STORY ht the flames would fers were then out of part of the tr ne oll train had one south, ant the other part was farther back, When Tot to the third car the for {form was on fire, tt had put the prake on saved all we could; that the threo sivcpers were torward to see what was the Leould see pothing all the was ap to the Which soraed 60 rise solid y 1 kuow wothi road, Who bos the third eat had vot occurred between Ubem a between (hem, ae suid, had mado by Clurk about ‘The conversatio arisop with some remork broge lvoe and 11 the engineer, “1 eness Fle mast be lying sume four or Mve strack 9 man. Ing @ swelling pandred yards back."* iu which there had Tom Allen’ which be had received at the came in contuct atlenge to Joo Coburi n Alien, the ex-champion of Americ ourn to Mant Alion ofors & Coburw iso Aight Mace in jumped out to see how matiers’ stood, nnd found 1 of lying @ mutilated mass nguliriy on the cow catcher, He lay on his back, hit vp in that position, and carried that the victim, behind the train, wa dying, but in no'way mangled bridge for the flam (wenty-five or t irsy feet. about the accktont except 1 DID THE NECESSARY TRLRGRAPTING, T have no aber of the track ; on'y conjecture, becond sleepers were we sid. had beet arrest gear Bridgeport for febting, ik He dewied havinc ead t bad ever shot uny body oF auytbing, and posit It enveleped the second time thocgh with less penetrating force, the affright- ngers esesping by the rear door as and about bis were placed in position to ASU ES PEKOM THR OCK im whore ho | N CABLES. non to West End. good lovk ing Gua brownish Stroulsbourg ‘Tho war in Bolivia continues: But Oghts in Lima ore revived. 4 Colombia are 6 tment of Bleqn through the ventilators in the roof and the shattered pm this car the escaping passengers were compelled to pass through the third sleeping car to reach solid footing which was ouly found at the rear of that car, ing car® were therefore standing on the trest the rear of them, two sleepers and one common passenger coach, wore at once uucoupled and shoved back down the track beyond danger, leaving the three #iceping ci THE MERCY OF THE FLAMES, which had already taken hold upon the third before Thus thoa these three ears the bridge, and the flames Ho aduitte! that James Smith was not le onl He had on two fo sound of anything but t Peter Vosburg was conductor of the Orst sleeping Fdon't Know wheite ing of the flames: rling at each other Hoy as Torkish Mio ece Causes & jainsul Impression In Athens. wens's extensive Two Men Killed by a Locomotive, na Patrick Down and dain zon the track of the N an encine whi t brakes were #8 were bebind the Castle, ln Westchester dan were stand was takii or ‘The coxernces with which be b owas taking. wa Foudsbourg amd Fuaps DO re Niue hundred operatives brake would not have been affected after bad put rer bes her inanr ersed afer Wo bad rua disclaimed all of (he Svroudsboure murder markably lor aman wccused of murder: A reply (x being awaited in Jersey City from the, authorities in Stroudsvourg, about ten rods Not TRYING TO MAK In cold weather, our orders are not The engineer was considered a ao There is a Mag-than at the draw he told him to put out a red light as he passed Grst rienal we got was forty yn The engineer of the oil train bad jamped that the cars fn the oll train which ran off were rather back of the centre of the Asa rul., we are on time en behind time tie secident would not Lave oc. Pievented their engine, which was LOSSES BY FIRE, fo wilom a telogra seut, avking fur particulars rd's dwellini don Tuesday wito died in child-bed at 2 o'clock yesterday alcer rang Warwick, Mase., was & Franklin's jewelry manufactory in War y Was partially burued ) vstorday from the bridge. Reakirt's Forgeries, An extensive series of ron Reakirt, of the Arms don and Januey it was wholly empty, JOIIINGS A stood on the track enveloped in flan upporting the track being also furiously burnin and a wild and spreading ce about in all directions, and thus they burned gn- je gave way beneath tiem, setUing ere dually and letting thom over on their sides on the nner side of te track, and tn comparatively Where the parts of them remaining above til the water's edze was hour they remain, with all THEIR WORMIBLE BKCRETS uspected dead. Pareaperrura forgeries commi ‘barn to North Broad atreet Tuesday night 1 it Downing ot died saddenly ou Puc Mary Hocker of 146 and J ect Wore ound dead ta (i If we bad not $5.00 ; iwsutance § A lirge four-story lager Deer brewery on Waslt- orcel stree'a, Wil a of flame covering the and are seat Spectiye Femara vos Tue Board of Kaueation last evening aapamm bo the following pew texctiers btead, school No, 69, M. No.8} and Mrs,"Naucy ¥ au ous by the burning of the American § works to ‘Treaton, 4 $40,000 on the stock 7 Mits Willilition st Bare Deen engaged in private stock 7 “3h ut boeu a larze deale in nearly all tho b Used to further his operations Cover tho amount of his torgeries Arius ana Keskiev's father The banks concerved havo kept Lie mutter secret, u hoves of haviug ihe losses refunded; bub the de tails have at last Veen divalged n reading, and he bas thirty passengers i the ks of this city, wh could vecupy the whole rooms in the first sleeping eas T should judge there were al enteen in she first sleeper; Lmade the sta Which appeared in he Poughawepsie Aagle relative but hot sudicient to Both the aboro ‘re among the continued to bura And thus to th The Worst Side Wg resolved to peliuion tm O'Brien, im witempting to save the property, was badly Fears to ran. to be aipled fo tie Completion Of ae SPARKS FROM Tf TELBGRAPA of untold and on shape ess outlines Their ponderous, tly traceuble, filed with water, on which foat masses of torn and unrecog. garments, and the finery with which they ‘The margin of the ke Mhemeclves is perfectly secure, giving standing place to hundreds who 4 amuse themselves by on old man withe snonidered a well-e Howsiy, and wus walkiny of wi He was locked up, SIXTY-TIVE SLOBPING-CAR TICKETS; I found one or two more persons who were in the frat slecver, (oem down they could pot tell: 1 bad in my car forty-seven passengers who told mo they were In the sleeper; (hore were biree Dersons who went to bed a New Hamburel: ‘The Boston French Lelief Fuad pow amounts to bot wuen Teame to HOURS OF LEISURE, lere arrested hin use of Representatives yes torday ratifled ibe In & Baltimore salo: struck James P. Beagge of & aud killed bisa, were originally up to the very Mr James Parton will lecture in Associstion Hal A Twenty-third street, this evening ura ©, Holloway lectures to Hroute'" Iu the fwes WASHINGTON NOTES wrth avenue ai n yesterday Iwanc M thirteen missing head with & piicuer in the sleepin, T got no tickets 0 One LO Fesy Collector Murphy bad ung interview with @e that T got a balf ticket f two sislehildren; I foun a hall Uicket; pnavivania has sizned ship company between Fhiladel: Secretary Boutwell elaiins forty majority incorporating @ iS OR SPOILS, Vly until the Hud LONG ISLAND and here they will son River Railroad Company get their track fully {red avd in ranning order, when possibly they may be lifted out and their dread secrets exposed, giving perhaps ead termination to ti pense of the friends of mi the tide may float thelr contents away, and remove from reach the testimony that might compel she rich corporation to DISGORO® ITA TREASURES who have thas been bereft of their wain reliance in life A ton of Win 4, was drowned in \ Harrington, Mase ren river on Tuesday ie hearing in the case of the New ¥ Raliroad serip diyiveud tax bas Deon postponed w ribed the patent brakes, but could not say whother they wore ave been and he not know ii, full speed over ail the bridges, ‘The inquest was then adjourned until 90 P. Mf. DURING THB AFTERNOON SHPS: 4D. Scolt, the conductor of the slaeping car, testified to a poritive knowledge of the fuck that the passengers of uli the cars, except tho Orat sleeping (rain was ruoniog t forcompleting Stewart's rail urday, oud tho road Ww ex) Daihed by duly & ‘Vhe Eatt River Porry Company are about to build ats, elmbar to vue Southampton, and beri sommer will Fun betwee J Amee a Potut every 13 minute L INTELLIGENCE, A resolution censuring Gen. 0 ih Now York, wae defeated La Vena, 14; Baye, 17. Tho bar of the United State Urdar morning With referent ‘Trains run at iy the Ohio Senate 5e ‘The Montreal Gazette of y Authorized bo contraaic ja York Herald With respect \o the Aslery three new trou t decided by the Committee of the flay morning says ‘or inthe delay eet and Penueyivavia ph state of oor trade with Canade ny. 8 DalAnoe TY 941,000,000. appeuria ‘tistics of the last sal Toa A special to the Commercial says the Presid ALod {0 a SOUALOL yerlerday thal & Proposicl lau tur wn tmmied na, aud that b wee wooly ame we Watt of Stevhentown, Renasolaer county, Charles W. Jay has lef the Trenton Sentinel Edwin Adams, the actor, can turn « and Dan Biyaot oan sia Mr. Charles T. McCtenac’ Department of Public Works, was yesterday appointed seomunoute, peoding Mr ved, and that about thirty milos au hour, Hammond V, Grout, conductor of @ sleeping cur, Weolided (hat directly alter the ret ehock le saw the ow Zealand, leaves chief clerk of the few Incldents to ada to such as bi been already published, Mention should be made matters, he w | been received (rou bi seyee wiiillon | meat of the Alabama atherte rasa we: couads sarileg (or radroade ie N.