The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-15
IMo~tAs. No. Of .aceidens. Killed Wounded.

July. ...u q ~
August. ........ % 10
Total to Aug. IL .65 l76 333
'sSirty-iue casualties, hundred and seventy-sir
deaths, and three hundred and skirtyhree persons
injured! There is a total which should put our
civilization to the blush, and almost make men
forswear the progress of the age. And yet this
table does not comprise those numerous casual
ties which have been wholly or partly owing to
the carelessness of the victims 1t only contains
those disasters which might have been avoided
by the proper management of tho roads and by
the attention of the officials We leave the
above synopsis to preach its own eloquent story,
trusting that it will arouse, not managers and
directors to proper performance of their duty
to society--of that we have no hope-but legis-
lators to devise and enact such coercive measures
as shall be sufficient, 10 far as human wisdom
can effect, to protect the community from those
terrific daily disasters which, in their consequences,
are hardly less fatal to life and limb than would
be the existence of state of civil war"
The LATEST RAILROAD MunDER.-As tele-
graphed from Providence the following are the
names of the
Killed.-Rev. Mr.. Penney, Episcopal clergy
man, officiating at Grace church, Providence /;
w. w. Wood, Northbridge; John HI. Perkins,
Uxbridge; Mrs. Plant, wife Of George Plant, Of
Whitnsville Peter Plant, son of the above H.
Charlesworth, Whitinsville; Thomas Brown, do. |;
William Fullerbee, do; Mrs. Caroline Richmond,
wife of Jonathan Richmond; Peter Rogers, North
Uxbridgc. bs
Wounded.-Francis Reed Whitinsvllc; Geo.
Plant, do; Hosea Ballou, Woonsosket Edward
Green, engineer Of the up train, badly--sevcral
ribs broken; Stewart Winslow, Whitnsville, bad
ly; Daniel Canty, do, slightly; Martin G. Jeffer-
son, brakeman, leg and arm broken; John Brown,
Whitinsvillc, four ribs broken; Moses Bolton,
badly; Mrs. Gladding, wife Of Charles Gladding,
D., 80 Ill 1v LII, ,~Ne
bridge, leg broken George Bolton, Whitinsville,
leg broken John Crane, do, badly bruised |;
Schuyler White, do. do.
The collision was terrible. On the Uxbridgc
train the third passenger car caped over the second
and killed three persons who were attempting to
escape by the windows.
MI. Southwick, superintendent of tile Provi-
dence and Worcester road, was injured on the head
by jumping from the cars. MIR. Taft, president of
the road, was slightly injured.
- One poor boy had his arm torn from the socket.
The dead were horribly mangled; nine of them
were taken from the wreck and deposited side by
side at Valley Falls.
The spectacle was horrible ono. The broken
cars the crushed engines, the groans of the dying,
and appearance of the dead, presented scene
never before witnessed in this region.
Mr.. Hoppin, cigar maker, of Providence,
crawled out from beneath the Worcester train but
little injured, though two men were killed by his
side.
Mrs. Caroline Richmond was taken to the house
of Mr.. George jerks, where she lived about two
hours in great agony.
The dead and dying were principally conveyed
to Valley Falls, and the wounded to Pawtucket.
The collision was the result of the reckless
careessness of the conductor of the Uxbridge
train, who, being late at Valley Falls, should have
waited But having the excursion party on board,
who were afraid of losing the steamboat, and hav-
ing but half mile to run to reach the junction,
hoped to accomplish the distance before the ar
rival of the Providence train.
The Providence train, which had the track,
waited moment or two beyond its time when it
reached the junction, to give ample time for the
down train, and then proceeded The collision
occurred ut a curve, short distance above the
junction, the up train not having attained full
speed. The down train was going at high
speed.
STILL ANOTHER RAILRoD ACCIDENT, Wheel
ing, AUGUST l2th.-The express passenger train
from Baltimore, on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, yesterday afternoon, was thrown off the
track when passing through switch at Cameron.
twenty-seven miles from this city. The ball OF
lever fell down, which by changing the track
threw three of the cars, crowded with passengers,
entirely off, They were upset, but strange to say,
out of over one hundred ladies and gentlemen, not
one was killed or seriously wounded. Some twenty
or thirty are slightly bruised and scratched. John
w. l.. Mcmahon, of Baltimore, who was in the
train, buried IN coal OuSL DuI HOt III lhc iodst
degree injured An investigation into the cause
ofthe disaster by the officers of the road establishes
that the switch had not been used that day, and
had been properly placed and secured after being
last used, but that at about an hour previous to
the accident, two men, lately discharged from the
company's service, had been seen handling the
ball, and it is supposed they designed to run the
train off as a matter of revenge. They will be
arrested on the charge tonight.
The passengers afterwards held meeting and
acquitted the company ofall blame. Much alarm
was felt at first, which gave way to Indignation
against the offenders.
The travel on the road is rapidly increasing
and passengers are loud in its praise.
HERE IS THE TRUrH.-The New York Cotrie,
says ga reasonable security in travelling can ne
yer be attained, except by making the present in
security palpably costlier to companies than the
most liberal expenditure in measures Of safety.
GREAT SpEcuLArIoN.--Th New York Sunday
Atlas publishes tho following: "We are told that
during the pendency of the Railroad Consolida-
ton bill in the Legislature, Hon. E. D. Morgan,
Senator from this city, bought, on his own ac-