The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-06 00:00:00

711 E ERIE RAILWAY DISASTER.

Another railway disaster has occurred in the
United States, due, as usual, to defective, worn-out
rails. An Erie Railway passenger train left Buf-
falo at twenty minutes past 2 p.m., April 15, con-
sisting of a locomotive, a luggage car, a postal car,
and six passenger cars, three of which were sleep-
ing cars, with some 200 passengers, for New York.
Up to Narrowsburg 100 more were taken in, and
the 120 sleeping berths were all occupied. Time had
been lost, as the train had stopped and backed to
pick up the body of a man over whom it had passed
near Corry, Pennsylvania. The driver, anxious to
make up the three-quarters of an hour he was be-
hind, increased his speed to some 40 miles an hour,
although ordered by the regulations not to exceed
30. The roadway beyond Port Jervis has been cut
out of the mountain side, and to the left of the
train, at a depth of above 200 feet, flowed the Dela-
ware River, there, in a body of water, no more than
a Scottish stream. The scenery is Alpine in abrupt-
ness of outline ; everywhere craggy rocks stand
out, giving it a wild, and savage character, the pecu-
liar appearance earning for this portion of the
Delaware the saying " that to live there is to
see the sun but at noon." When 16 miles from
Port Jervis, at a place called Carr's Rock, Sullivan
County, New Yoik, about a quarter past three on
the morning of the 16,h, the rear car got off
the track, three others quickly followed, and on the
giddy precipice danced along while the couplings
lasted, propelled by their own impetus and dragged
by the engine. But the links gnapped one by one,
and the last car, reaching the edge, plunged down
the precipice, rapidly fUllowed by the three before
it. A sufferer thus describes the descent :—" The
car I was in crushed up as it rolled like a long
paper box, and when it had ceased rolling it was a
complete wreck. The sides had folded open, as it
were, and lay level with tile floor of the coach, and

the narrow section of the roof, in which the sky-
light and ventilation are placed, lay diagonally

across the broken body of the car. Mr. James P.
Bigler, who was a passenger, gives the following

account :—"As soon as the motion of the train

out beyond all precedent, until there is scarce a
mile cf your road, except that laid with steel rail,
between Jersey City and Salamanca or Buffalo,
where it is safe to run a train at the ordinary pas-
senger train speed, and many portions of the road
can only be traversed safely by reducing the speed
of all trains to twelve or fifteen miles an hour, solely
on account of the worn-out and rotten condition of
the rails." The verdict of the coroner's Inquest
held at Port Jervis sustains this evidence, showing
the accident to have been the result of the defective
state of the road :—" From the evidence before us
we have arrived at the conclusion that the deceased
Tobias Elrich came to his death from injuries re-
ceived by the cars of the Erie Railroad being
thrown from the track at Carr's Rock, Pennsyl-
vania, the accident' being caused by a broken rail.
The occurrence, in our opinion, might have been
avoided had the train run at less speed, owing to
the unsafe condition of the road."

THE KU-KLUX KLAN.

At Memphis, Tennessee, a lodge of the Ku-Klux
Klan was broken into, and the constitution and
other documents captured, from which some de-
tails respecting the order have been gathered. The
Chapter was named the Supreme Cyclopean Coun-
cil. The constitution says: —" The object 'of this
organization is for the purpose of protecting the
people of the South from the band of murderers and
robbers now preying upon them, even to the last
resort, assassination, and we pledge ourselves one
to the other that nothing shall be allowed to divert
us from this noble object." When a candidate is
admitted the constitution further says :—" h e
members of the lodge, all shrouded, will rise ar.€l
receive him, and conduct him into the middle of the
room. Each member of the order shall have a
drawn dagger or other weapon iu his hand, pointed
toward the candidate, and each member will be re-
quired, in the presence of the candidate, to swear
that should said candidate prove recreant to the
oath which he is about to take, that he will kill hint
and make it his especial duty to do so on the first
safe opportunity." After being admitted the can-
didate is compelled to subscribe to a long oath, of
which the following is the closing part I far-
ther-swear that all Radicals and negroes who have
placed themselves opposite to the interests of the
owners of the soil of Tennessee shall for ever be
my enemy, and that under no circumstances will
I have other connection with them if I can help
it than to ' welcome them with bloody hands to
hospitable graves.' That my family and the
family of a Radical shall never interchange visits.
And I further pray that the God of the Southland,
whom I now invoke, shall strike me dead should I
ever, either in letter or in spirit, infringe upon the
things sot forth in this oath. To all of which
swear in honesty of heart and sincerity of purpose.
So help me God." The grip, pass words, sign, B:e.,
were likewise ferreted out by the authorities. The
klau was organized at New York by Tennessee
Conservatives, and first put into operation in the
town of Pulaski, in the latter State. On the centre
table a human skull was found, used in administer-
ing the oath to members. From Georgia has been
sent fac-similes of the documents ; the order circu-
lates for the intimidation of their political opPo-
nents. They are handbills printed on pink paper,
and adorned with such symbols as a cannon/ a
coffin with a white cross, a skull and cross bones'
a dagger, a chain, a coiled snake, a sword, a heart,
two crescent moons, a black flag with K. K.. N.
upon it, a hound, a bugle-horn with inscriptions 4
" Klansmen, the deed without a name is done.
"Many thanks, 0 Ghenghis Khan, thou whose crown
is" (device of skull and cross .bones), " A ttend the
Cabala and the curse of Nemesis upon him that
speeds not the foot at its m)stic summons." -under
such devices as the above, the following is the fae"
simile of one of the documents, the name of Or
person to whom it is sent being written on the
coffin :

vvW
HEADQUARTERS, GRAND CIRCLE/
DIVISION 187, S.
THE AVENGER COMETH !
THE GREAT CYCLOPS TO SACHEMS !
REMEMBER THE HOUR RIPENS !
FUNERAL ALONE!
YOU KNOW THE PATH--PURSUE IT !
TO TRAITORS—A BLOODY SEPULCHRE!
WE COME!
OHELCOHE, G. 0. IC. IC'
it is now more than two months since the first
notice of the existence of the Ku-Klux Klan appeared
in the papers of Tennessee. Latterly their cabalistic.
letters and signs have been seen in several cities of
the South. In Columbus, Georgia, shortly before
the murder of Colonel Ashburn, these
intimations were marked on the.doors and vlllll3
throughout the city; placards were posted up at thes
doors of Union men, containing their mystic letter,
cross'
and signs, -with skulls, coffins, skeletons,
bones, deadly weapons, and written sentence:
breathing out most terrible threateniugs
them. They were warned that their time was short'
mysteron,s
that their days were numbered, that they must pre-
pare for sudden and awful death. They were re;
minded that the time had come when the blood e,rl
the- Confederate dead would be required at the 10.
hands, that the spirits of the slain were swarnao);
through the atmosphere, and calling for vengeaccd.
Secret assassinations were hinted at in various waY'
No less than three of these mysterious placards
were hung up at the door of the Assessor of later..
_
nal Revenue, Mr. Joseph Webster. On one of die':
he was warned to prepare for sudden death. ne
of them contained a coffin, with Ashburn's 13,5.7,
.written near it, and the picture of a skeleton 1111;g
init. Among other things a bundle of bonSs sy„o
hung up at Mr. Webster's door. Several 1.)°,1n".g
men had received anonymous missives tivarn
them that they must prepare to die.

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