The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-15

RAILWAY AccIDENrs-AuBuRr AND Roc HESTER Rail.
RoAp-On Saturday night last, Of reporters
returning from the Buffalo Convention Of the
rails Of the Auburn and Rochester Railroad which from
continual friction almost reduced scrap iron,
started from its place. about ten miles this side Of
Rochester, and the snakes head, it is commonly
termed ran into the rack Of the engine The engine
was consequently thrown of the line and several feet
rail- with few Of the sleepers were torn up BY It In
its course, with great violence 1t happened most for
tunay that the part of the line where this occurred
dead level, for had IL been otherwise had there
been, for instance, an embankment there similar to
those few miles further on the most dreadful catas
tropbe must have happened. In all probability, every
passenger would have met With premature DEATH As
1t was, the passengers partic uarly the ladies'
thrown into state Of great excitement but person
injured; and with the exception Of the
the delay of four hours in the middle Of the night
eypoed the moisture and dew Of forest atmosphere,
every felt r,joiced at the escape they had There
was However universal burst Of indig natou poured
out upon the heads Of the directors in Of
the 1icent state Of the road and the remissness
which they had shown in repairing 1t. This feeling
considerably increased when 10 ascerta al ned
that another accident had occurred the line.
the afternoon, occasoned by the formal Of
axle in another having broken. The wheel which
thus up the bottoms Of several
tearing them to pieces in its and dreAdfuly
sceatJg the foot and ANGLE Of one Of the
No however could describe the general con-
| sternation and alright when it became known that
the eastern train, which up shortly afterwards,
Of the carriages also went of the line thus making
in the space Of ten hours three accidents any Of
~bicb might have occasoned the death Of numbers Of
people Many Of the passep felt reluctant to pro-
furtt and had there been any place to repair
TO except the forest, which skred both sides of the
rt ad, there be no doubt but several would not
again have the risk Of eudsDgering their lives
this line II Is bat justice, however to the proprietors
to FAY that they at present substituting what is
called the rail for the fat at present laid down.
But this ought to have been done long since. The
present rail was laid down, We understand, in 1889,
and hat be so, need wonder that accidents
NUT occur upon it, considering the grinding It has
since received from the immense passenger and goods
tIsfc constantly ming upon It, well as ts
psrstive nepority in point Of safety II s the great
high way to the far West and the transt not only for
the produce Of that quarter but for the lakes and oca
Titles through which IL runs. II the surprising,
therefore, that the directors Of such ourishing
Germ should have permitted this line TO become 80 nef
hcent for small annual appropriation Of their great
profts would accomplish all that Is necessary In the
mean time, We them that IL will be long
they win back the public confidence; and the pre-
rent scrapron rails and rotten seepers permitted
TO remain to endaDger the public safety. IL must and
ought to operate very sensiby upon their Dividends