Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1854-11-09
DREADFUL Railroad Accident.

One Of the most horrible railroad accidents
that ever occurred, took place a day or W
since, thirty miles rom Detroit, on the Great
Western Railroad, Canada. We are indebted
IL the Detroit Free Press for the particulars
we publish in addition 10 those conveyed by
Telegraph;
"a few minutes after FIVE O'clock, when
near Baptist Creek, the passenger train, which
was proceeding al The rate oftwenty miles an
hour, came in collision with a gravel train
which was backing toward the enst at The
rate OF Ten or twelve miles an honr. The
gravel train was composed Of fifteen cars, heav-
iy loaded with gravel. The shock produced
by the collision was tremendous. The sec
ond- class cars we're smashed into atoms and
nearly every person in them killed or dread
fully injured. The firSt-claSs car was also
badly smashed, and most Of the passengers in
the front part of il, met the same fate as the
passengers in the seconded cars.
The scene presented after the collision was
a horrible one. Iniermixed with the frag-
menis Of the broken cars, dead bodies lay in
plofuSion, many OF them mangled IN the most
dreadful manner, while from out the heap OF
ruins proceeded the groans and Shrelks of the
wounded.
Our reporter has just nrrivedu2P. NJ from
the scene of the casualty. He reports the
number OF persons killed as foTty.Seven. The
following is a list Of the killed, as token from
the minutes of the CoroGers:
]. B. Bodfsh, of Batavia, N. Y, gong 10
Gnlesburgh, Michigan had on his person
S27,29; P. Gallagher; young woman name
unknown-had on fur gauntleiS, gloves, and
black silk bonnet, with arifcials; man, name
unknown; woman, with dead infant and child
had on person two keys-s id to be wife of
do; F. Robinson, per receipt in pocket-had
Sl07, so in gold, and 5000 in silver; John
Martin, brakeman on passenger train-had 80
and key in pocket; Robert Thornton, This wife
badly injured;) Henry Mason, brakeman on
gravel train-S2,40 in pocket; 7. P. Swain
had watch or perSon-had lived IA years in
Chatham; female, unknown-had on red dress
lace collar, and gloves; young girl, lame Mary
Kingston, per papers on her person ;iemale I'M
known-middle aged-had ear rings; young
man, supposed 10 be John Davis; boy about
item years old, unknown; boy about eleven
years old, unknown; Irving Leslie, brakeman
on gravel train; middle-aged woman, un-
knoan nj; Chas. Robinson, per name i'll Bible on
his person--had S56 in gold, and 35 cents in
silver; female child, about two years old, ua-
known; female, ~unknown-had q ring on fin
ger; man, unknown. Jacob Luscher, had o
due-bill from Marshall, Michigan, and 500 in
money; HOLSTER Brace, elderly map-had Sl3
in bills and $3.50 in coin; Nathaniel 0akes,
Of Batavia, N. Y. going to GaIesburg, Mich,
gan; Cornelius. Cakes, son of do; urilla
0akrs, wife of do; Phillip Barron, per pa
perS, found on his person; female infant, un,
known; male child, Lnknown;-O'Gli =
den, had % dollars on his person.; female in
FAINT, unknown; unknown woman-had straw
bonnet and snuff.box; Ephraim C. Moore,
blind man; unknown man-had $50, 90 on his
person; unknown female, with cuffs; unknown
man; female child, about three years old, un.
known; Michael Fly-had Sl2 on his person:
unknown man; female-hnd 1914 on her per-
son unknown girl, about fifteen years OF age:
Martha Bodfsh; Daniel Cakes.
The Coroner's jury will meet this morning
at Chatham, whittier the bodies were convey
ed last evening.
Twenty-(our men, eleven women, and six,
teen children are badly wounded, and were
taken TO Chatham. A large number Of the
passengers are more or less bruised. A mar
by the name Of Irvine r. Beech, OF Dundee
Yates county, New York, is badly bruised
but it is thought will get well.