Delaware Gazette And Peninsula Advertiser

From the N. Y. Commercial Adv.
Unfortunate Occurrence.--On Thursday evening last, about nine o'clock, the Post Chaise, on its way from White Hall to Albany, was upset about a mile and a half from Lansingburgh; and four passengers out of seven, were considerably, but not dangerously injured. The passengers, finding that the driver, who had then driven only a mile and a half, was intoxicated, refused to enter the Coach again, and proceeded to Troy in a wagon, where they took lodgings for the night. At Troy a Mr. Lattin a tavern keeper at Gibbonville, placed himself on the box of the post chaise. When the carriage passed the bridge below Gibbonville, it is supposed that one of the wheels must have struck some large stone or other obstruction in the road, and the carriage being in full speed, threw the driver from his seat; at which time he recollects that Mr. Lattin was still sitting beside him, but supposes he also was soon after thrown from the carriage, and became entangled in the harness, in which manner he must have been drawn for several rods. The horses still ran for some distance, when one of the wheels getting into a gully on the margin of the river, stuck fast--the pole of the carriage separated from it, and the horses stood still. About 4 hours afterwards both the driver and Mr. Lattin were found in the road 8 or 10 rods apart, and the latter dead, and the former very severely injured.