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Show The Richmond Switch Disaster. A day or two iiuoe, the telegraph informed us that several persons were missing at the Richmond switch railway rail-way disaster, and that it was supposed their bodies were either at the bottom of tho fctrcam, where the accident occurred, oc-curred, or else had been oonsumed entirely en-tirely during tho burning of the aoiohes. The Richmond switch is the vUco where the late terrible accident upon tho StoniDgton and Providenco railroad happened to the train bearing passengers from a Long Island Sound 1 steamer, en route for Boston. The latest explanation in regard to this horrible wholesale killing and roastiDg of human beings, states that tho mill dam was biokcn down by persona bearing enmity towards to-wards its owner, one Mr. EuniH, who had bad several liquor suits, the defendants io which aro known to havo made throats of retaliation. It is said that tho dam was strongly built and that the water was not so high nor the current so heavy as thoy had frequently boon before. If this proves to be the true explanation of the giving away of tho dam and oonscquont undermining of tho railway bridge, it ia to bo hoped that prompt punishment will be ensured en-sured to tho guilty parsons. Yet thiB should not excuso the employes of the road from their proper responsibly io tho affair. Tho New Haven papers, in considering the matter, aay that tho bridge foundations wore known to be insecure and improperly laid, and it 1b known that tho train was running at an extra hazardous rate of Bpeod daring the prevalanoe of freshets throughout New England. |