Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1850-09-19


EnN RAILRoAD.--Three Passengers
Killed and number Woundcd-Thc
Springfield Republican of yesterday
Tuesday morning, contains the fol-
lowing account of a painful accident
which occurred between Pittsheld and
that town on the evening previous
" Last nights passenger train from
Albany did not arrive till after 10 o.
cock-two hours behind its usual hour
in consequence Of n sad disaster, which
beftl it when about two miles West of
the Washington summit.
While going al the rate of26 miles
the hour, the forward axle of the Sec
ond passenger car broke, letting it
down upon the Il ack and in this con-
dition it was dragged along at rapid
rate of speed Tor a, least three hundred
yards-the broken axle, truck, &c,
breaking through the floor and flying
up among the crowded passengers the
car at the same time bounding and
grinding along, partly on its remaining
wheels and partly on the track and
sleepers.
The scene that was witnessed in the
cars, among the passengers, it is I'M
possible to describe. Al was the most
terrible confGsion.-Scarcely any es-
capped injury in some degree, and three
were killed outright.
The killed were Col. S. g. Mount
ford, lawyer of New York city Miss
Roessle of Albany, daughter of the
proprietor of the Delevalr House and
Mr.. Whi,temors Of Leicester, Mass.
James Hagcrman was badly injured
one leg broken-and taken away on
litter; Amasa Richardson of North Ad-
ans was much hurt by tie handle of
one of the seats being thrust into the
heshy part of his leg. Three ladies'
we're seriously injured, and RENDERED
unable to proceed but they were well
cared for at the place of the accident.
A number OF others were in lured,
but it is hoped, and believed, as yet,
but slightly. Among these was Mrs.
Col. Dwight Of Stockbridge.
Col Moun;ford, one ortl osc killed,
was accompanied by ayoung daughter,
whose bodily injuries were not serious,
but whose mental agony at finding her
beloved parent and only present friend
striken down in horrid death, who
can tell Her conduct is described
as most hcart-rendlng on seeing the
mangled aud liielcss corpse ofher faith
er drawn from the ruins Of the car.
When the train was finally stopped,
the car to which the accident occurred
was almost an entire wreck. The
wheels were all tore off, the bottom
brokea through, and the seats smashed
up. The bodies of the killed we're
mixed up with the wreck, and it was
some time before they could be ex-
trica,ed. When they were found,
they proved to be dreadluIly mangled
and torn.
The third car was detached from
the second just bef re the train was
brought to stand, and stopped short
Of the latter. But for this, it with its
passengers might have shared in part,
the fate of those before them.
TIE whole scene may be well i'm
agined to be as described--irlghtful,
appalling, ,errible!---The disfgu;ed bo-
dies of the dead, the groans and cries
of the wounded, the shrieks of fright
ened AID bereayed females, the per-
feet wreck which the car presented,
constitute the leading features of
picture, which those who witnessed 1t
can never forget, and which those who
were spared its sigh; may well pray
never to have presented to their vision.
IYThe New York Herald, speak
ing of Jenny Lind's voice, as heard at
a rehearsal on Tuesday last week,
says: $50 soft, so exquisitely sweet
was it, that those who heard it, could
not, at some moments, distinguish be-
tween il and tho flutes" The Her
aid alds-"We have heard that large
bets have been lost in Eurole, by gen.
tlemen who mistook her beautiful
tones Cor those Of a flute" IL this is
the fact, why do not some Of these
running mad New Workers, engage a
good hu,e-player an evening or two,
aud CRAFTY their curiosity a. some
thing less than 8 25 for single tick