The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

SENSATIONAL ITEMS.

One of the most horrible railway accidents ever
recorded occurred on the Lake Shore line, between
Cleveland and Buffalo on the 18th December. The
New York express train due in Buffalo at 12.45
p.m., when at Big Sister's-bridge, one quarter of a
mile east of Angola, New York, either from a de-
fect in the rails or from their frosty condition, had
two of its rear passenger cars thrown from the
track, which rolled down an embankment fifty feet
high. The train was heavily loaded, and was run-
ning very rapidly to make up for lost time. The
rear car went over the embankment, was set on fire,
and out of fifty of the passengers only two escaped.
The rest were burned to death, and all left isa mass of
blackened and charred remains, which were brought
to Angola the next morning, and 23 buried with-
out recognition. It is thought that there were 50
passengers in the rear car, of 30 or 40 of whom
nothing is left but ashes, and the number killed
and wounded is not less than 80. It appears that
the next to the last car of the train struck an iron
frog at the switch, and being jerked from the track,
was dragged over the ties nearly to the bridge before
the end car got off the rails. The bridge is a
" truss" 200 feet in length, spanning a creek at a
height between 40 and 50 feet and destitute of
parapets or rails. During the plunging a few of the
passengers at the forward cud ran into the car
ahead. Just as the train reached the bridge the
last car was jerked from the track, and both ran
so far across as almost to reach the bank, when
they turned over and went with a fearful crash,
rear car foremost, down an icy slope, fifty feet to
the flat below. On that car which first struck the
frozen creek the other was precipitated. Thus the
passengers were first flung violently to the bottom,
where there was a large stove, and on the mass
fell the other stove, there being one at each end,
while on the top of all crashed the other car. In
a moment the wreck was in flames, and a few
complete a tragedy which has
horror.
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taken from the rear car in a dreadful state; his
legs were flayed, and his breast and stomach
were nearly roasted. He was alive at last ac-
counts, but there was little hope of his recovery.
'e unfortunate occupants ex-
While the car was burning a pistol in the pocket
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which was burning its owner,
and the bullet, which came through the car window,
narrowly missed another passenger. William Green,
alad o f l7,had
occupied a seat in the last q.t., but
wasleft behind at Dunkirk, and escaped.
accidentally
A woman called Mary Freeman was found dead,
with a handkerchief by her side, bearing the name
by which she is designated. A lady was taken fromwholly
uninjured, the second car, and was found to be
uninjured, there happening to be a slight hill where
she lay, but how she came there is a mystery.
The following is a list of the killed and wounded
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of Buffalo, N.Y. ;
Mary Freeman, residence unknown J. P. Hayward,
and wife, of Spartansburg, Pa.; Mr. Graves, residence
unknown; W. H. Ross, of North Bend, Pa.; E.
B. Forbush, of Buffalo ; Mrs. W. Freeman, of Nor-
wich, Pa. ; Mrs. Hubbard, of St. Cath • armes, P.O. ;
and Frank Walker, of Buffalo. Among the addi-
tional dead recognised is S. E. Thompson, of
Massachusetts. John IV. Chapman,of
the firm
of Manning, Glover and Co., of Boston, was among
the number burned to death. He was one of the
most esteemed citizens of Malden, and a man of
much business influence. His
life was insured to
the amount of $25,000.

Wounded—Anna Maria Sales and Mary Sales,
of Corfu, N.Y. ; Mary Moore, of Brooklyn, N.Y. ;
Mary Sheldon and child, of Corfu, N.Y. ; Mrs. IL
A. Thomas, Utica, N.Y.. R. M. Russell, of Frank-
lin, Tenn. ; W. L. Pelton, of New York ; James
Brown, of Buffalo, N.Y. ; Mrs. Laing and two
children, of Groton
; Robert and Ann M'Carthy, of
Princeton, 111. ; Daniel Carr, of Brooklyn, N.Y. ;
Lydia Strong, of Buffalo, N.Y. ; Ira Woodcock and
wife, of Syracuse, N.Y. ; Mrs. Furbush, of Buffalo,
N.Y. ; Robert Stewart and wife, of Oneida, N.Y. ;
Mrs. Hamlin, of Buffalo, N.Y. ; Wiunie M'Carthy,
of Lowell;
W. H. Moore, of Brooklyn, N.Y. ;
Albert Rivenberg, of Albion, N.Y. ; J. C. Cribb,
of Salem, Mass. ; w. H. Thomas and W. H.
Fuller, of Utica, N.Y. ; M, Copely, of Minnea-
polis, Minn. ; Mrs. L. H. Thomas, of Kenosha,
Wis. ; Garret Hurley, of Corry, Pa. ; J. Mayer, of
New York ; Charles W. Layne, of Utica, N.Y.
Missing—Stephen Stewart, president of the Oil
Creek Railroad ; Henry Jackson, of Illinois ; S. P.
Howard, of New York ; James Walsh, of Brooklyn,
N.Y. ; 1‘ . C. Patterson, of Oil Creek, Pa. ; Mrs.
Fisher, of Minnesota ; Charles P. Wood, of Bu ffalo,
N.Y. ; and A. E. Fisher, of Owatonna, Minn.
The Passenger Insurance Company of Hartford
loses $14,000 by the accident.
On the 19th December ten cars of a freight train,
on the Cleveland and Ohio Railroad, went through
instead of over a bridge into a river, and the con-
ductor was killed. A few days before on the
Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania Railroad, a train ran
off the track and killed an engineer.
Joseph Marshall, a negro, murdered a German
farmer, his wife, and two children, near Alton,
Illinois, on Sunday week, and on Thursday he was
taken from gaol and hung by a mob.
A gang composed as follows—Quartus D. Kings-
ley, Edward L. Lewis, Patrick J. Kelley, Henry
Pratt, James Mahar, and one or two others, have
been arrested on suspicion of being incendiaries.