The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-01 00:00:00

CAVALRY.

sth Hussars (The King's Light Dragoons)—regi.
ment.
7th Hussars (The Queen's Own Light Dragoons)--de
tachment.
11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)—detachment.
Ist Dragoons (King's Dragoon Guards)—detachment.
Ist Regiment Cavalry (British German Legion).
2d Regiment Cavalry (British German Legion).
INFANTRY.
Ist Battalion Grenadier Guards—in huts.
2d Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards—in huts.
Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade—in huts.
2d Battalion Rifle Brigade—in huts.
Depot of Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade—under canvas.
4th Foot (King's Own)—under canvas.
7th Foot (Royal Fusiliers)—in huts.
19th Foot (Ist York—North Riding)—part in huts
and part under canvas,
20th Foot (East Devonshire)—in huts.
23d Foot (Royal Welsh Fusiliers)—in huts.
33,1 Foot (the Dukeof Wellington's regiment)—under
canvas.
38th Foot (let Staffordshire)—under canvas.
41st Foot (The Welch) —in huts.
42d Foot (Royal Highlanders)—in huts.
44th Foot (East Essex)—in huts.
49th Foot (The Princess Charlotte of Wales's or
Hertfordshire Regiment)—in huts.
72d Foot (Duke of Albany's own Highlanders)—un-
der canvas.
77th Foot (East Middlesex)—in huts.
88th Foot (Connaught Rangers)—part in huts and
part under canvas.
95th Foot (The Derbyshire)—in huts.

THE APPALLING ACCIDENT TO AN
AMERICAN EXCURSION TRAIN.

The details given by the American journals of the
collision upon the North Pennsylvania Railroad (briefly
described in yesterday's Sun,) are frightful beyond exag-
geration. _

- Some of the bodies of the victims were entirely con-
sumed. One gentleman, in searching among the ashes
under some portion of the machinery, found a few calcined
human bones in two places. They were, without doubt,
all that was left of two human beings. The remains of
both could readily be held in the palm of the hand.
Three of the cars of the excursion train caught fire likea
flash, .4nd in a very few moments nothing was left of them
but the wheels, the other iron work, and a few charred
timbers and smouldering pieces of the human frame.
There are two hotels, one dwelling house, a blacksmith's
shop, and a small shed, within about three hundred
yards of the scene, and to these places the wounded were
first carried. Not a tree is to be seen for a considerable
distance on any side, and the glaring sun beat down
upon the dead, the wounded, their rescuers, and their
half-crazed friends, who were flocking to the scene, all
running on foot, in waggons, and every species of vehicle
that could be procured in the city. As most of the
victims, or a greater portion, were Irish, of course the
demonstration of grief which met the ears were of the
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ost violent character. "They surpassed anything,"
says one journal, " within the range of the reportorial
experience."
The wounded were placed on the seats of the train that
came to assist as comfortably as circumstances would
permit, and every attention possible was shown by the
physicians, the employes of the road, the police in
charge of the train, and by the friends of the victims.
Every conceivable kind and degree of wound was to be
seen, and nothing save agony from the wounded or their
afflicted friends and relatives met one's eyes at every
turn. The train was run to town quite slowly and care•
fully, and, as it passed along, crowds of persons from
the road sides and windows of dwellings on the line of
the road gazed mournfully on the cars and their freight.
Eleven bodies of men and women, and twe children,
were burned to death in one car. The names are un-
known. They were caught under the side of one of the
cars and roasted alive. When we saw the remains they
presented a horrible spectacle. The mutilated remains
of four men and women and a child were dug from be-
neath the engine and tender.
The Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. D. Sheridan, was
crushed in a dreadful manner between two cars.

The farmers in the vicinity rendered every assistance
in their power, except one man, who demanded 10 dole.
for a waggon to go a mile for a physician.
The track is single, and when the locomotives rushed
together they reared up on end, dashing each other to
pieces, and becoming amalgamated, as it were, in an
apparently inextricable mass of iron and brass. The
bottoms of the two engines struck together, and the
entire mass fell over upon their side up )n the western
slope of the embankment. Two or three trains ran to
and fro between the city and the scene of the disaster
during the afternoon. The friends of the sufferers
crowded upon the up•trains despite the exertions of the
police to prevent a rush, and some of the more daring
ones actually rode upon the cow-catcher in front of the
locomotive.