The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-02

natsly they were enabled TO recover him with soms
TO have with him. and which he placed in Mr. MeagherB
hands Tor the Of the suffering Upon excavsng The
man they found that the thigh was badly crushed.
The left side Of his face and forehead were also
i,ssrsted but apparently no other or mortal
and laid in one Of the uninjured cars, which
had been meanwhile fitted up for the reception Of the
that e the % the
they found nearly all the injured lying in two rows on
either side Of the cars from end to end The children
were placed underneath upon the seats. Tho havoc
among the children drcadful-several Of them being
killed outright, some in their mothers arms whilst
As instance Of this it may be mentioned that four
children had their legs amputated. One beautiful gin
about six years DID, with black hair and eyes was found
with her right leg broken about three inches above the
ancle-the little foot being connected to the limb only
PREVIOUS to the arrival Of the surgeons the
generally were busted on all hands attending to the
wants Of the wounded, carrying them water, bathing
terng such other relief as lay in their power One old
gentleman had discovered package Of tea in the rub
gagged the whole morning in making and Distributing &c
TO the sufferers His name not known Others Of the
passengers assisted by several workmen occupied
In laying out the bodies the dead and covering them
with the torn canvass Of the cars
Surgeons arrived in the Of the forenoon from
Chatham and Detroit and having examined the wound
ed and temporarily relieved them directed the in
which they were laid out to BE- taken to Chathan Ts
done BY the passenger train from the East which
arrived at the spot about A. NJ The wounded con-
sisted Of twenty four men eleven women and sixteen
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not injured. He was brakeman the gravel train.
The conductor baggage MASTER Mr. Skeele MrMeagher,
and two other gentlemen, unknown accompanied
he train and assisted in dressing the wounds in such
manner they were able. Mr.. Meaghcr speaks in the
o; St. Louis. He worked necessarily and couragsously
he whole time He also mentions Conductor Nutter
ion. Nothing he said, could exceed their caution pre
vous to the accident and their noble efforts in extrca
ting the passengers and administering to their wants.
We reached the spot special train yesterday after
noon but do not propose to go into any further de-
tails Of the character narrated above Enough has been
given TO make the heart sicken and the More
q the same terrible and narrowing incidents gather
cd from the lips of passengers but there has been sum-
worst accident BY railroad collision that has Occurred ON
this continent and 1t Is to be hoped that the day il far
distant that will witness its like Most Of the killed and
grants. We should say that, except the Bodash and
Oake's family, there was not an American among tho
were horribly gashed, besmeared with blood and be-
grimed with the sand and gravel of the embankment
a on
those beyond the reach Of mortal aid and the endurance
of lingering pain The dead bodies taken to Chat
morning to investigate st farther this matter 1t win
be by the list which secured from tho Coroner,
informed by Dr. Brodie of this city, who at Chat
ham nearly al day yesterday in attendance upon The
a one h. srs n
This makes the total thus far fortyeight There
exactly Atty taken to Chatham badly Wounded and say
thirty others more or less scratched.
The engineer and fireman Of the passenger train hade
wonderful escape. They went down the embankment
with their engine and rescued from under tho
unhurt. We will relate OF the many touching Incl
dents with which our paper might be Aled attendant
upon this disaster "A German woman and her child,
between three and four years DID, their way to
Chicago to meet her husband who already there.
After while she dug out from the ruins compare
lively unnjured; but she separated from her child,
and began searching for it, Conductor Nutter before
this had taken several children, less hurt but
all alive back to of the the track and safely
deposited them there The mother found the shoes Of
her little one among the rubbish and began moaning
and crying over them in peous manner. When asked
by Conductor N. what was the matter she could only
reply in her dialect Bobby, bobby" signfying that
she had lost her baby. Mr. N went back to the car,
examined the children already there One of them had
Shoes they probably having been torn off In the coll
lision and ne immediately made up his mind that this
the lost one.
car where with mothers quick eye made keen to per-
ceive by the intensity of love- she recognised her
little boy whom she had mourned dead. Conductor
n described the meeting OF the two with shake Of the
imagine the rest
As to the of this terrible calamity there il NO
doubt any hand but that the managers Of the gravel
train were entirely and solely at fault We were told
and main tracks informed the gravel train conductor
that the train had passed. and he went But the
engineer expressed great doubts to the truth Of the
story, declaring that he would have probably heard
were positive, and he obeyed, he bound to do.
The gravel train was backing down the line Had tho
engine been ahead the result cannot conjecture It
would have probably been far more awful rigid in
vcstgaton is demanded by the public into the conduct
Of this train and punishment should be melted
out to the guilty person or persons.