TIIE NORWALK CATASTROPHE—MEETING OF THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
A meeting of delegates to the late Medical Convention, still remaining
in New York, was held yesterday morning at the Bleecker Street Church,
corner of Bleecker and Crosby Streets, for the purpose of expressing the
feelings of the Association on the loss of several members of that body
by the railway catastrophe at Norwalk. Dr. Joseph M. Smith was ap-
pointed President of the meeting, and Dr. E. L. Beadle officiated as
Secretary. On motion of Dr. Rockwell, a Committee was appointed to
prepare suitable resolutions for the occasion. The following gentlemen
formed the Committee : J. H. Griscom, N. Y.; S. Ilanbury Smith,
Ohio; P. Claiborne Gooch, Va.; L. A. Smith, N. J.; Theodore Goodloe,
Ala.; R. La Roche, Pa.; John Watson, N. Y.
The following preamble and resolutions were read by J. H. Griscom,
M. D.
Whereas, amid the wide-spread affliction caused by the recent catas-
trophe at Norwalk, the members of the American Medical Association,
recognizing in this mournful event the hand of an all-wise Providence,
feel called upon to express their grief at the sudden removal from life
of Abel L. Pierson, M. D., of Salem, Mass; Alexander Welch, M. D.,
of Hartford, Conn.; Josiah Bartlett, M. D., of Stratham, N. FI.; Samuel
Beach, M. D., of Bridgeport, Conn.; James M. Smith, M. D., and J.
H. Gray, M. D., of Springfield, Mass., late members of the Association:*
And, whereas, it is the earnest desire of the members, still present in
the City of New York, to record a suitable expression of their feelings
upon an occasion equally unprecedented and distressing; therefore,
Resolved,^ That the members have received with profound sorrow the
lamentable intelligence of the loss which the community, as well as the
profession, have sustained, by the death of so large a number of the
American Medical Association.
* Among the killed was Dr. Wm. C. Dwight, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who was
probably not a member of the As>©ciation—Ed. N. J. Medical Reporter.
Resolved, That as a suitable, though inadequate, external mark of
their grief at the sudden demise of friends from whom they had so re-
cently parted, the members of the Association in general are recom-
mended to wear the usual badge of mourning for the space of thirty
days.	J
Resolved, That a Committee of five be appointed to devise some suit-
able method of commemorating the event, and the worth and professional
character of our lamented associates, and recommend their plan at the
next meeting of the Association.
Resolved, That the members of the Association deeply sympathize
with the relatives of the deceased, and that a copy of these resolutions
duly authenticated, be transmitted to their respective families.
The resolutions were adopted by the meeting, and a Committee was
appointed to consider the best method of providing some memorial in
commemoration of the terrible disaster. The names of this Committee
were Joseph M. Smith, M. D., F. C. Stewart, M. D., J. W. G. Cle-
ments, M. D., W. Rockwell, M. D., Isaac E. Taylor, M. D., E. L.
Beadle, M. I), and John Watson, M. D.
The report of this Committee will be delivered at the next meetins
of the Medical Association, which will take place next year, in St. Louis.
—N. J. Med. Reporter.