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 is a 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
nassengers 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

frog at the switch, and being j
the next to the last ear of the train struck an iron
was dragged over the ties nearly to the bridge before
erked from the track,
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 feht and destitute of
parapets or rails. During the plunging a few of the
passengers at the forward end 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
minutes sufficed to complete a tragedy which has
rarely been equalled in horror.
A young man from St. Catherines, P. 0., was
taken from the rear car in a dreadful state; his
legs were flayed, and his breast and stomach
were nearly roasted.
Ile was alive at last ac-
counts, but there was little hope of his recovery.
While the car was burning a pistol in the pocket
of some one of the unfortunate occupants ex-
ploded from the heat which was burning its owner,
and the bullet, which came through the car window,
narrowly missed another passenger. William Green,
a lad of 17, had occupied a seat in the last car, but
was accidentally left behind at Dunkirk, and escaped.
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 from
beneath the second car, and was found to be wholly
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
dja.tAsit.atSetlrionneg,
so far as yet ascertained :
'N.Y. ; Jasper Fuller
agent
tlloedf —th:lrrosa. 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. Catharines, P.O. ;
and Frank Walker, of Buffalo. Among the addi-
tional dead recognised is S. E. Thompson, of
Massachusetts. John W. Chapman, of the firm
of Manning, Glover and Co., of o,Boston, was among
the number burned to death. He —e 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---r 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. H.
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
Princeton, 111. ; Daniel Carr, of Brooklyn, N.Y. ;
; Robert and Ann M'Carthy, of
Lydia Strong, of Buffalo, N.Y. ; Ira Woodcock and
wife, of Syracuse, N.Y.;
Mrs. Furbus.h, of Buffalo,
N.Y. ; Robert Stewart and wife, of Oneida, N.Y. ;
Mrs. Hamlin, of Buffalo, N.Y. ; Winnie M'Carthy,
of Lowell; W. IL Moore, of Brooklyn, N.Y. ;
Albert Rivenberg, of Albion, N.Y. ; J. C. Cribb,
of Salem, Mass.
; H. Thomas and W. 11.
Fuller, of Utica,
M. Copely, of Minnea-
polis, Minn. ; Mrs.
L. H. Thomas, of Kenosha,
Wis. ; Garret Hurley, of Corry, I'a. ; 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. ; 1V . C. Patterson, of Oil Creek, Pa. ; Mrs.
Fisher, of Minnesota ; Charles P. Wood, of Buffalo,
N.Y. ; and A. B. 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.