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Show 8KU1013 RAILWAY COLLISION. The news of a terrible railway accident acci-dent on the Gilroy road threw the whole community into ioten:-o excitement. excite-ment. It seems that the train (special) from Gdroy which was to oji-et the San Joso treiirht train nar tho San Pedro siraet dcuot. with tbo remains of Martin J. C. Murphy, when this side of tho Twelve-Mile house, in the curvo and cut, met tho gravel train and a frightful collision at once took place. Both trains were going at the rate of thirty miles an hour, and the shock was tremendous, completely telescoping tel-escoping tbo locomotives and wounding a nuiD oor of persona on both trains. Tho special train consisted ot two passenger pas-senger cars and a burgage car, the f;ravel train of several flat cars. Tbe atter wcru thrown upon tho on Pines ! and transformed into a total wreck. There were about sixty-five passengers on tho special train, twenty-five of whom were ladies. None of the latter were injured. The list of wounded as near as wo could learn is as follows fol-lows : Mr. White, engineer of the prav. train; severrly iijind in te h-ad. He was taken to the Nuw York Exchange Ex-change aud attended to by Dr. Spencer. Spen-cer. Samuel Sawyer, engineer of the sp -oi'd train; tiigbtiy bruistd on ihu he id and hat ds. Miobaol CullcD, paeiiiror fr-m Gilroy ; aukio sprained ani do ag well- Mr. Dougherty of Gilroy ; jaw-bone broken. Mr. Derby, condm-tor of tho rdvc' train; slightly injured. Several oibers rcm-ived slight injur jos. Tho wounded men were (akcu to Sao Joea and Gilroy. Tbo eaurt of -he accident is attributable to gross oirele-.'-n-'s on tho part of tbe ageiit-it'the ageiit-it'the railroad company, who pave no iQ-"ruer:niH to entiir train, so that I nei her aware of the other's pre Hence. We are informed tho gravel j train had no right to tbo track, and ihe j i inductor t-h-mld have boon notified ot I tbe state of isfl'.iirp. I LATER. I Sinw I ho above was written, we have ii cu put in poM-cssion of lurther par icn ars regarding the catastrophe: The urn vol train had recuived orders: o run bIopk the roue mat it wa. clour Irum head Uarters in San Francisco; ! oid suljscqucuily tho sjiecial train m I Gilroy was telegraphed to move to thi-;t!inetfry, thi-;t!inetfry, San Jj.-e, where it would ijettt lliu freight tntiQ With the remalus if Martin J. C. ilurphy. A'-cordiug ii order the speeiil iruiu left Gilroy at o p. m., without the slightest intiuiu inn that tho gravel train wa3 on iht-road. iht-road. Tho latter was unaware of the oiesence of the former, tho authorities t San Francisco, through tho musi Tiuiiiml m-gligenee, having tailed to lOtily them. At the tune iho tearful jolbsion took piaet! tho pjiecial train -vita moving at a rapid rate, it was u imle behind time and going on a down rade, wfii;o the gravel train was coui- ng up tho grade at the rate of about fourteen miles an hour. 0ing to the nend in the mad this side of th Twelve-.Mile houe the special failed io notice tho appruaoi ot the gravel tram, and with tearful velocity the -pecial went crushing into the other, aud of the tuo fine euginos nothing remained re-mained but a ma-s ot ruins, 'i'tie on juicer ol tho speciul, Samuel Sawyer, juuipi-d when uo saw his peril, aus .-.trikiog thu rocks, cut his head badly, jnd sealded uuo of his arms. Mr. A hite, engineer of the gravel tralu, made aware by his fireman of the ap preach of danger, but whether ho jumped or was thrown to the ground, m not known, lie was discovered alter al-ter tho accident lying near tho large driving-wheel in an insensible condition, condi-tion, ihs head was cut in several places and his body bruised considerably. consider-ably. Ono of the workmen on the t'lavel train had his hip broken. C. Derhy, conductor of the gravel traiu, had lua ankle sprained aud his doso broken. A search among tbo ruins was instituted but nobody was Jbuud dead. No blame whatever is attached to tho employes on the two trains, but there seems to be an intense feoling against the railroad company lbr their gross aud iuexcusabio carelessness. Mr. Tii-dail, Tii-dail, the San Jose agent, was not instructed in-structed as to the state of affairs. A train came down from San Tuncieco last night, io remove tho ebris aud clear itie track. It is a matter of surprise, sur-prise, in view of all the oircumetanoes, that the casualties were not nioie nu'uerous &in J -te Alurcery, 6. |