The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-24
ANOTHER COLLISION
FOURTEEN PERSONS KILLED-THII
TY OR FORTY WOUNDED.

Providence, r. l., Aug, IL.
frghtfu railroad collision took place on he
Providence and Worcester Railroad about eight
0 clock this morning, near Pawtucket.
1t occurred between the regular up train from
this city and an excursions train from Writings
The excursion train was out of time, and met
the up train at Valley Falls.
The collision was terrific. The train coming
down suffered most the cars being driven D.
gether, two of them being completely intet-
locked. The engines were totally demolished.
The number of persons killed is twelve, as
far as ascertained, and probably three times that
number are seriously injured, besides a very
large number bruised aud slightly wounded.-
The up train received but little damage, and 10
person was injured to speak Of
The excursion train consisted of six long pas
scnger cars densely crowded
The collision occurred at sharp curve, te-
yond Central Falls the down train was behind
time, and proceeding at the rate of forty miles
an hour, to reach the switch, from which there
is double track to Providence.
In one minute the train would have reached
the switch, the up train waited the usual time at
Pawtucket. and then, having The right TO the
road, proceeded at Il slow rate around the curve
The cause of the accident is said TO have been
owing to variation of two minutes in the
watches of the engineers.
The greater portion Of the killed and
wounded belonged to Uxbridge and whitens-
vile.
The following are the names of the
Rev Mr. Penny, Episcopal clergyman, Off
ciating at Grace Church, Providence; Mr.
Wood, of Northbridge; John I'll. Perkins, fire.
man, of Uxbridge. lie leaves a wife and two
children Mrs. Plant, wife of Geo. Plant, o.
Whitensville; Peter Plant, son Of Geo. Plant
Mrs. Mallory, wife of S. S Mallory, of Centn
Falls; A. Charlesworth, of Whitensvile
Thomas Brown, of do; William Fullerlove, o
do; Mrs. Caroline Richmond, wife of Johr
Richmond Peter Rogers of Milford MIR. Ro.
gers, brother of the above.
WOUNDED.
Francis, Reed, of WhitensvilIe Georg'
Plant, of do, Hosea Ballou, Of Woonsocket
Edward Green, engineer Of the up train, badly
several ribs broken; Stewart Wnslow, .
Whitensvile, badly; Daniel Ganty, of do
slightly; Martin G.. Jefferson, brakeman, LEI
and arm broken John Brown, of Whitensville
four ribs broken; Moses Bolton, badly; Mis-
Gladding, wife of Charles Gladdng, Of Paw
tucket, slightly; John Marshall, of North U1
bridge, leg broken George Bolton, of Whitens
VIlIc3 w JUilu SIduC, VI w Uduly
Schuyler White, of do /; Mr.. Southwick, Super
iniendent of the road and others, whose name
have not been ascertained yet.
A frs, car Of the excursion train was smash
ed to pieces, the tender having been driver
through it. Most, if not all, of the passenger
| in this were either badly wounded or killed
A large number who escaped serious injury wer
cut by the splinters. s
The second car was not much injured, bu
was driven through into the third car, abou
| halt its length the five rear cars were only par
tally damaged. In the first passenger car thr
were only twelve or fifteen passengers, three o
| four Of whom were killed outright, Will
nearly all the remainder were more or less IN
jured.
In the third car the effects of the collsDl
were frightful, some of the passengers were xii
| led instantly, and others received serious if no
fatal injuries. The car leaped over the second
| and killed three persons who were attemptingt
escape by the windows
| Mr. J. P. Butts, of Mllville width hi
grandson, boy of ten years, were in the frs
car, and escaped most miraculously. III
car totally demolished, but he and the Boz
were thrown, in the most inexplicable manmI
out at the side of the car, and rolled down al
enbankinent, Mr.. Butts experienced no injury
| put dC Jouth "no oCSCICiy Cut VII Tic Hcdu =
Another passenger was thrown out in the san
way, and fortunately escaped without injury.
Mr.. Southwick, Superintendent of the Prev
idence and Worcester road, was injured on b.
head, he jumped from the cars, and was mime,
mostly by splinters and blocks from the cars
Dr. Maurau dressed his wounds, and he is don!
we'll.
Mr.. Taft, the President Of the Worcese
road, was in the cars at the time of the accida
but escaped with slight injury.
| The train from Providence consisted Of ony
two cars-being one first and one second cla
car-nearly all the seats in which were b oks
up. None OF the passengers, however, wei
dangerously injured, although about half oflhel
were badly cut and bruised. There were, in al
about fifty passengers in the train.
The dead were horribly mangled. Nine 4
them were deposited side by side at Valls
Falls, and presented melancholy spectacle.
! The spectacle was most horrid one. III
broken cars, the crushed engine, the dead All
dying are said to have furnished scene new
before witnessed in these regions.
Mr. Hoppin, a segar maker in this cit
crawled out from beneath the Worcester tral
but little injured. Two men were killed by h
side.
| Mr.. Clark manager of the coal mine of Va
L " vl
Penny, escaped uninjured.
Mrs. Caroline r. L. Dixie, who was take
to the house Of Mr. George jerks, died in gre
agony.
One poor boy had his arm torn out from d,
socket. The dead and dying were prncipall
conveyed to the Valley Falls, and the wounds
to Pawtucket. The body of Mr. Penny VA
taken to the house of Rev. Mr.. Talt at Pay
tucket.
Assistance was rendered to the sufferers !,
those on board the 7,30 trains for Boston fr a
Providence, which left the latter place after n
train which came in collision with the Uxbrig
train, and arrived at the junction about five mn
utes after the collision. Those on board hi
car assisted in placing the wounded in the IA
which was not injured, and took them back t
Pawtucket to obtain medical assistance
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
| BosroN, Aug. l:
| We have further details of the diaster to- a,
on the Worcester road
| At last accounts two brothers named Batn
were dying. A Mrs. Mallory and a man ia
med Rogers, both Of Whitensville, were ded
The coroner's jury had adjourned their invs
tigation until Tomorrow morning.
| The dead bodies have all been placed in ma
collins and sent to their various homes for inter
ment. With the exception of two or three, b,
killed were all factory operatives.
The rest Of the wounded, it is thought, vii
recover, though some of them will lose an am
or leg, or be otherwise crippled
| Thousands fpersons visited the scene D.
day, to see the bodies and the ruins of the cas-
| The accident occurred near a curve, whrt
the embankment was thirty feet high. Dow
this bank an old man and his grandson wut
precpitated, but both miraculously escaped n
jury.
| The first passenger car, which was nextt'
the engine, contained about sixty passengas
nearly all from Whitensvile, and many of " h,n
were either killed or wounded
| The third car on the downward train val
driven over and into the one preceding it, sont
twenty feet, and crushing every thing hunan
and The killed and wounded had to be dragged
| from beneath it.
Mr.. Putnam, conductor of the downwsrt
train, was in the rear car, and escaped uninu
| red
The engineer escaped by jumping off, but IL
fireman as already stated, was killed.
Very few on the upward train sustained ma
terial injury.
SHOCKING CAsUALTY.-A friend at Syn-
more, under date of the 18th inst, gives us III
particulars of sad affair in that vicinity:
Oh oto l.. e.