Litchfield enquirer., 1853-05-12
LIToHFIELD ENQUIRER.
LIrCHFTMD-MAY I2, 1858.
Inc Lato Disaster.


 the terrible accident at Chicago, that so soon we should have occasion to announce the occurrence of another, in our imme- diatc vicinity, doubly fatal in the destruc- ton of human life and property, and the result of even more culpabIe carelessness. Before our paper shall reach it's readers all will have heard of the dreadful calsm- i,y at Norwalk. which 80 suddenly and fcarfully closed the earthly career of scores of human beings. and carried des- olation and sorrow to hundreds of happy families throughout the land. The inst report of the number killed and wounded has proved exaggerated. as up to the present time, (on authority of one of the Jury.) but .torty:ta"r bodies have been recovered, though the number is stated by daily papers to be somewhat larger. The only person believed to be killed or seriously injured from this county is Mr. Norman Parker. a merchant of Wood- bury; Mr. P. had seat in one of the rear cars, but just before reaching the fatal bridge had started for the baggage car, when the accident occurred which terminated his existence. The accounts given by those who were unwilling wit nesses of the horrible scene are affecting in the extreme the grooming of the wounded and tine wall of others over the dead bodies of their friends and relatives exceeded in horror anything ever witt messed in No. walk before. Wives mourn. ing the loss of their husbands, and hus- bands their wives, and children their parents-the whole scene was one which could not but melt and suhdne the proud. est t'heart, and lead all to bow in humble resignation to that All-Wiss Being, in whose inscru.able providence this awful calamity has occurred.
 The convention of medical gentlemen assembled in New Yolk closed its session the preceding evening. and many of it's members were passengers by the fatal train the profession has suffered an irreparable loss by the death of some of it's brightest members-Drs. Archibald Welch of Hartford, Beach of Bridgeport. Smith and Jas. H. Gray of Springfield, Pierson ofSalem, and D wight of Geneva.
 One of the most affecting incidents connected wi:h the tragedy was related us by friend who was near the bridge at the time of the accident. A young man wDo succeeded in extricating him. self from one of the submerged cars, vas seen, with his face covered with blood from deep wounds, and clothes torn from him. working with such desperate energy as to attract the attention of all. That morning he had been married in N. Y. 10 his lovely bride, and she was in the wreck. Her corpse was found, arrayed in the bridal dress, and none could lock upon the heart. broken husband bending over the inssnsible form of his wife, and the tear of sympathy.
 The coffins arranged side by side, and piles of fragments of cars, with blood, stained splinters, was a more terrible 'pectacls than we ever before witnessed. eminding one more of the csrnage of the 'attle~6eld than anything which can be imagined. The people of Norwalk seem o be deeply impressed wiu, the calam> ty which has taken place in their midst, md justly indignant at those officers of he company by whose negligence the catastrophe occurred. The matter was made the subject of remark or sermon ir he several churches of the town and elsewhere on Sunday. and on Monday afternoon a meeting Of the citizens was held to take such measures and pass res. olutions as should be thought proper, end also to d.aw up memorial to be pre-. scented to the Legislature at it's present session. The matter wlll be most thor. oughly investigated. and it is believed the guilty officers of the train will suffer to the extent of the law, should they recover from their injuries i; the engineer expresses his regret that be did not share the fate of his victims. and well he may, for bis suffering of mind mus. be infinitely greater than that of the body.
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