The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-11-10
RAILROAD COLLISION IN IRELAND.

From the following statement OF the par
ticulars of the late catastrophe on the great
Southern and Western Railroad, near Dub
| lin, it will be seen that they can turn out
quite as murderous an accident in Ireland
as in the United States. Capt. Collins,
commander of Thames steamer, VINO had
got out of the train before the COLLISION
gives the following recital Of particuiars IN
the Dublin Freeman's Journal:
! The first sight came on was the bodies
of two women quite dead. They lay on tne
bank as if they had been shot out OF the
door. Near them was priest, or frlar, OF
monk He was quite dead, lying close 10
the rails, as if he had been thrown against
the embankment and had rebounded back.
| next saw man, both Of whose thighs
were broken across. Messrs Kelly, Con-
nor and pulled him from under the ruins OF
the carriages. He was living, and we lad
him upon the bank. We were then attract
ed by the cries Of lady, whose hand was
iammed between the carriages. Her sister
| Law near her, either dead or insenslble. Al.
ter laboring very hard for sometime, we iailed
to extricate them, and had to turn to others
while more assistance could be procured.
From heap Of ruins, where we saw
shawls, hats and handkercheifs, we next got
out lady, greatly disfgured, but still alive.
We next came to the body Of MI Jelly.
which could hardly be recognized, his head
being torn and smashed of-his body torn
all UP, his clothes torn all off of him. ad-
iusted his clothes, and we put the body aside,
and from near him we got out the bodies OF
the English gentleman's wife and sister
Poor fellow! He threw himself madly up
on the body of his wife and kissed her fran
tically, and then we got the little baby IRON
under her and the aunt's clothes, alive. we
then went to the first class carriage that
had been first struck by the engine, ana
there we saw the bodies of two ladies', appa-
rently cut in two at the waist. They were
\ SO iammed in that we could not get at them.
Near them was the body of another lady,
whose dress only we could see, she was 50
bruised in the ruins The cries of little
boy then attracted me. He was about
eight wears old. He was lying under the
axletree of a carriage, which had broken
both his legs, and was lying across Them
with great difficulty we got him out by rais-
ing the axle with crowbar. then return
ed with more help to the two ladies', one OF
whose hands was jammed and we got them
out.
don't know whether the insensible lady
was dead or not, but think she was. We
| laid her on he bank. The other was not
much hurt. We next discovered the body
of very large man under the train his
mead was cut off and gone, we could find no
trace of it. Both his legs were cut of also,
from the thighs down. We got out the re-
mains and placed them on the bank. was
at this time good deal exhausted having
worked very hard Sir Edward Kennedy
now came up. He had been a passenger IN
the carriage next the engine, which had
been shot on by the collision past Sratian
Station He had escaped unhurt, and he'd
rendered every assistance to the passengers
i ia those two carriages, which, with the efl-
CINE had been sent on by the concussion.-
In the station room eight or nine persons
were laying side by side. One Of them
seemed dead. placed my hand upon his
forehead, and found that he was dead. He
was Mr. Egan of Birr. A priest was hear
| ing the confession of another, who evident
! lv had very few moments to live. The
dead bodies were removed from the room
Mrs. Darlington was lying in another room
in the Station, very badly hurt heard
/ One of the ladies' I saw at the station had
her chest broken in. don't think she
could live till morning. Several had their
legs broken. Neither the driver nor stocker
of the cattle train was injured