Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-01-04
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The Cincinnati Commercial gives account
m nFeolIision at Milford, Miami road. The race of
locomotive, &C., on last Tuesday. There had been
nm unusually heavy fall Of snow Monday night by
which the track became heavy, and all the trains
fell behind time. The mail train coming into Gin
cinnati was some thirty-fye minutes behind time
at the Milford station, where it is due at 9:35.-
Conductor Osgood was on the platform helping
ladies' to aud from the cars, when the whistle of
the Hillsboro freight train heard, and the To-
comotiye seen coming around the sharp curve
above Milford at full speed. The Conductor of
the freight train was on the engine, and told his
engineer to check up. The sign was given, but
Ehe brakes were insufficient to hold the wheels,
and the cars came booming down the slippery track
with abated but dangerous speed. The wheels
were reversed. and the conductor and engineer
jumbed from the engine. brakeman on the
mail train shouted to the passengers in the near
car to get out; but before they could escape, the
descending locomotive came into the car with
terrible crash, and went nearly through, splinter
ing wood and iron, but--and there's the marvel
killing not one Of the twenty passengers, the most
of whom had well forward before the iron horse
came thundering over their seats.
Messrs. Tense, Il. q. Corwin, of Lebanon, f.
R. Howley aud wife. and Geo. Ross received
slight bruises, but all are doing well. -
But very soon another sight was seen. The
Commercial says;
aiVhen Mr.zWAMT, engineer on the mail train,
heard the crash OF the COLLISION, ne supposed his
own train would be driven over him, and, 18th his
ASSISTANTS, sprang Oh. The furnace had just been
crammed with wood and there was full head of
steam on. Theforce ofthe blow unncoupied the
locomotive and tender from the baggage car and
at the same instant Jerking the leuer and Aroping
TIE throttle rafue irite open! Away sped the loco
motive lice an arrow, or if we might SO say, like
fat Of omnipotence, sweeping down the track at
seventy miles an hour! God help any hapless
train met or overtaken-hels the city, but full
fourteen miles below, for that distance will be de-
spuycd in fifteen minutes! 81
Harness me down with your iron bands!
BE sure of your curb and your rein;
For seorif the strength of your Puny hands,
AS the tempest scorns the chain.
4.ha escaped engine came bowling by Plainville
--Yisihle for an instant to the appalled, villagers
switched off into the double track, as lightning
sfop one stell rod to another divergent, and thun-
dered on to the city whose spires might now have
been seen from the iron disc of this fiery comet
bst there none to see, for rider, or driver, or
living human soul, had the engine none. On,
etraight on, the city! the city.!
HAPPY the furnace door few open, the draught
ceased, and a little way above the upper Engine
House, on heavy up grade, the locomotives
breafh was spent; it came TO dead stand and
skoed there silent and cold, forming much part
OF the stfl wintry landscape as the whitened rock
and seronded trees on the hin side aboye.-For-
81 C3cy Democrat.