Daily National Intelligencer

Richmond, July 1.—Shocking Accident.—On Thursday evening last, as Doctor M'Clurg's carriage was descending Governor's Hill, the horses suddenly took fright.—In attempting to check them. the reins gave way, which precipitated the driver from his seat into the street, leaving the unhappy victims whom it contained entirely to the power of the ungovernable horses. They now moved with the rapidity of lightning, until their course was stopped by the wheels of the carriage running against a post at the corner of E and 13th streets, which dashed it against the store of Crawford & Dunn with such violence as to bring the horses to the ground. As soon as possible they were cut loose, and the shattered remains of the carriage being uplifted, discovered Mrs. M'Clurg, Mrs. Robert Gamble, and Mrs. Wickham, with one of her young children. Those who witnessed the dreadful fury of the horses, and the still more dreadful crash of the carriage (which was shivered to pieces) dared not to breathe a hope that either of the ladies could survive. Mrs. M'Clurg, it pains us to state, expired in a few minutes. Mrs. Wickham, though considerably injured, yet lives, and is likely to recover. Mrs. Gamble sustained less injury, and the child escaped apparently unhurt.